After getting the patch, I'm well underway with my Celtic campaign. Driving the Romans off of the island was no problem, but I was well aware that the Roman-British would have an army both larger and better trained than my own. My army contained a good 700 men, and I knew that a straight up, open field battle would be too costly against thoes grall knights. I left a force of less than 200 men inside Londinium and the rest was just outside the city. The RB laid siege to the city, and assaulted it the next turn. Funnily enough, my 500 reinforcements came exactly at the enemy's rear. They were able to break through the city's walls before I took out their general with my cavalry. The RB was caught right between my small garison and main army, and quickly routed.

Having secured the British Isle, I built all of the money making buildings I could in order to generate some cash for an invasion force. The Romans were pushovers, simply put. My single stack was able to take all of France. A massive pirate incursion cost me some cash, but I was able to defeat the pirates through sheer numbers of my crappy boats. I took all of the provinces bordering the sea (North of Spain) without much incident.

My second real chalenge to my power came from a simultanious invasion from the Sarmations and the Goths. Talk about crazy. I had since then trained two field armies: one in southern france, and the other in western france. I allied myself with the Alemanii, and was able to trap the entire Goth horde between the Alemanii capitol (from the west) and my field army (from the east). Several incredible battles left my field army severely weakened, but I was sucessful in halting the Goth's advance further west and dwindling their forces down from over 5 full stacks to only a couple very small ones.

The Sarmations attacked sounthern france and laid seige to the city several times, each time failing to take the city or being driven away from sallying from the walls. They were much more of a challenge. Their troops were overall better, and their horse archers gave my slower units hell. I still managed to convince them that my land wasn't worth the cost. I now have France, England, and Norther Germany secured. I have my eye on Italy, but my spies tell me that the Huns are alreay duking it out with the Romans. Both sides aren't friendly, and both look extremely formitable at the moment. Right now I'm content with going for Spain with the hopes of opening a back door to Italy.