Rebulding an empire

[Barbarossa82]

Good story, Bob!

Still playing my first WRE campaign, and got off to a terrible start due to some poor early decisions - attempting to force Christianity on reluctant provincials, failing to disband expensive military units and getting into the vicious cycle of having no money, not being able to build any loyalty-imcreasing buildings, having cities revolt and therefore income reduced. Eventually about 60% of the empire broke away under its own self-proclaimed emperor leaving me with just Italy, Britain and North Africa. By disbanding troops and concentrating the remainder into attacking forces I was able to restore control of Spain, but at this point the Vandals arrived. Fortunately they bypassed the heavily defended Ravenna and Mediolanum and settled in South-Western Gaul, owned at the time by the "usurper".

Next a tiny remant of the Goths, consiting of their faction leader and his cavalry bodyguard, galloped over the Pyrenees, so I sent a small task force after him. I was more concerned about the five stacks of Ostrogoths who had just materialised outside Ravenna. They laid siege to the city and assaulted it, but fortunately my main field army showed up just in time and ran through the city's back gate just as the Ostrogoths assailed the main entrance. When the nomads got to the city square they were slaughtered by the disciplined Comitatenses and their faction was wiped out.

However, there were bigger problems - Gaul was almost completely overrun by the Franks, while the Gothic faction leader had hired loads of mercenaries in Spain and had managed to take Corduba, settling his people there. Soon the Goths had absorbed all of Spain while the Romans were desperately battling against the Franks.

Currently things have improved somewhat - Western Roman armies have eradicated the Franks and annexed their homelands. Celtic attacks in Britain have been repelled, and the Goths driven out of Spain. Now all I have to worry about are those pesky Berbers and the constant Eastern Roman attempts to seize my territory...

[Craterus]

If you eliminate the Ostrogoths, Eastern Roman Rebels and the WRER, can they come back if another "civil war" happens?

[TinCow]

If you eliminate the Ostrogoths, Eastern Roman Rebels and the WRER, can they come back if another "civil war" happens?

I believe so. In my game, I keep getting notices that the ERE has split, the Rebels arise and then they are defeated. Rinse, repeat three times now.

[Bob the Insane]

I continued this campaign a little further...

The Southern Legion spent the next couple of years chasing the Vandals around the province before pinning them against the Danube and defeating them in a pitched battle where the horde was slaughtered like the animal they once were. There are none left, the name Vandal is resigned to the history books. But is was a bitter and empty victory, routine tactics, chasing and cutting down broken units. More of a chore than a glorious victory, but vengence is always this way in the end...

The city was taken back from the local warlords that had taken up residence, quickly and without fuss. The General should have order the city wiped clean of the vermin that had taken up residence but with the death and destruction all around it seemed like a petty gesture and a self defeating one at that. The population is so small already it would have turned the city into the tome. No they must look to the future and rebuild. Rebuild the magnificant structures, the population and the economy.

In Britain a large Celtic army has desended from the north and has captured the northern most city of the Empire, puting the garrison and a menber of the imperial household to the sword. This is a very worrying development as the bulk of the Roman forces in Britain where stationed there and defeated in battle. With the Soutern Legion garrsioning and recovering in Aquincum this leaves only the Northern Legion to defend the rest of the frontier with the germanic lands. Sending them to Britain would impossible at the moment due to a recent attack by the Franks. While the northern legion defeated them in battle and drove them from the field a significant number survived to reach safety. Considering them to be a real and definite threat the Northern Legion was dispatched into Frankish lands and is currently besieging their capital.

ERE attacks continue but they are still thwarted by our valiant garrsion in Salona (spelling?). The construction of a North African Legion continues apace. The situation in Britain is our highest concern...

[Grifman]

Good story, Bob!

Still playing my first WRE campaign, and got off to a terrible start due to some poor early decisions - attempting to force Christianity on reluctant provincials, failing to disband expensive military units and getting into the vicious cycle of having no money, not being able to build any loyalty-imcreasing buildings, having cities revolt and therefore income reduced. Eventually about 60% of the empire broke away under its own self-proclaimed emperor leaving me with just Italy, Britain and North Africa. By disbanding troops and concentrating the remainder into attacking forces I was able to restore control of Spain, but at this point the Vandals arrived. Fortunately they bypassed the heavily defended Ravenna and Mediolanum and settled in South-Western Gaul, owned at the time by the "usurper".

Next a tiny remant of the Goths, consiting of their faction leader and his cavalry bodyguard, galloped over the Pyrenees, so I sent a small task force after him. I was more concerned about the five stacks of Ostrogoths who had just materialised outside Ravenna. They laid siege to the city and assaulted it, but fortunately my main field army showed up just in time and ran through the city's back gate just as the Ostrogoths assailed the main entrance. When the nomads got to the city square they were slaughtered by the disciplined Comitatenses and their faction was wiped out.

However, there were bigger problems - Gaul was almost completely overrun by the Franks, while the Gothic faction leader had hired loads of mercenaries in Spain and had managed to take Corduba, settling his people there. Soon the Goths had absorbed all of Spain while the Romans were desperately battling against the Franks.

Currently things have improved somewhat - Western Roman armies have eradicated the Franks and annexed their homelands. Celtic attacks in Britain have been repelled, and the Goths driven out of Spain. Now all I have to worry about are those pesky Berbers and the constant Eastern Roman attempts to seize my territory...

Cool campaign, thanks for sharing!