Big, big, big froggy grin here! Weee!! Take a look at this, turn number 4 from my new Saxon campaign:


Here's the WRE, attacking in force the settlement I captured just last turn with a small, dashed together army scraped out of my starting units. I'm outnumbered roughly 3:1, and half of that army is hunters, and so a bit crap in a stand up fight. By the way, the Roman general is far better than mine.


And here are my lazy, good for nothing, never attacks or tries to expand neighbours, beating me to the siege of the other rebel town. No idea what troops they have, because my spy is now trapped inside that city. That second army of mine consists of 3 levy spearmen and my faction leader, i.e. every unit I've just built and my only other general.

I think I'm in trouble My medium and short term plans just went down the toilet Oh, goodie, goodie, goodie!

I didn't get a screenshot because I had no chance, but while I was besieging that rebel town I was attacked by a second rebel army I didn't even know was there. I survived that only because I managed to kill one and turn about to face the second army, fighting them individually. That's why there is a famous battle marker next to the town.

Now this is more like it! I've saved the game (sadly out of time to play it now) but I'm going to continue this one. My other Saxon game has gone in the bin, saved deleted so I can't confuse them. This is all I wanted I hope it continues this way.

So now I must abandon that second rebel province to the purple people, and go and try to stop WRE before they take my second town. If that fails, I'm going to be doing last ditch defences of my starting city. Erm, I find myself wondering if the Saxons can horde ...

Why a second Saxon game? Bored curiosity to see if it would be any different. What did I do differently in this game? Er ... nothing much. I've built levy spears instead of keels, which makes my armies marginally bigger in terms of men. I think I am going after Campus Chattii a turn earlier, maybe. The only big difference really is that I haven't had to attack the AI non-rebel factions, because they beat me to it.

Now if only I had got this on my first game, not my second.



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