Quote Originally Posted by Uriel
My gosh - that was fast. That's in 1.3 and a fresh campaign? Are you autoresolving all the time or do you just have a lot more time to play than me?
I autoresolve battles against rebels, but play all the others. I may have put in as much as 30 hours in this campaign in the past 7 days. I would estimate I fight between 1 and 1.5 battles per hour of play not counting autoresolved battles. My total record, which includes naval battles, is 60 wins and 19 losses, at difficulty level M/M. Right now I control 18 provinces with 49,000 denari income, 46,000 expenses and 30,000 in the bank. I got the Marian reforms in 221 BC.


Quote Originally Posted by Jambo
One of the things that puzzled me was that in the descr_sm_factions text file there's a code line "prefers_naval_invasions" which is either "yes" or "no" for each faction.

Now, this is selected as "yes" for the Saxons in BI and yet none of the factions in RTW 1.3 have the same. Assuming this line actually has some effect on the AI, one might have argued that this should be "yes" for the Scipii faction and also potentially Carthage, Numidia and possibly Brutii...

Any ideas if this would make a difference?
I'm playing with fog of war off so I can see the whole map. Scippi might have used sea transport to help take Sicily, but I'm not sure. They did have some troops on ships after taking Sicily, but I don't know what happened to those troops. After taking Sicily, Scippi just built up 5 full stacks at Capua, and around 240 BC it moved one of these full armies all the way up to just north west of the city Vicus Venedae which is owned by Germainia. They then subsequently moved another small stack to the same spot, and there both armies have stayed. Scippi is at war with Carthage, Spain (probably due to naval contact), Britannia (in sympathy with Julii), Thrace (in sympathy with Julii who recently attacked Byzantium) and against the Rebels.

Brutii attacked Appolonia in 266 BC, and I believe that was by sea. After taking that city, they fought Greece for a while, and then went after Macedon who they defeated. I saw Brutii troops on ships during this time. I had a mission to take Bylazora (owned by Macedon) during this time which helped Brutii.

Carthage took Scallabis and Cartho Nova from Spain, but has done nothing else, and they have lost Cordoba to a rebellion.