Campaigning outside your territory

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Wondering if folks have had any notable success or any more notable disasters when campaigning outside their own territory now. I tend to be much more conservative with the changes we've made on the patch and I was wondering if it was very noticeable to other folks now too.

[Trithemius]

Wondering if folks have had any notable success or any more notable disasters when campaigning outside their own territory now. I tend to be much more conservative with the changes we've made on the patch and I was wondering if it was very noticeable to other folks now too.

I've had my own little "Social War" a few centuries early so my expansion has been slowed a bit. I've also only recently got the finances and the right commander to support a second field force, which I assume will make my rate of expansion increase.

Now that Italy is mine I am going to move into Sicily, start a (hopefully) short war with Carthage and pick up Lilbeo + Sardinia and Corsica, then replenish my field forces and move against the Hellenes, then the Epeirotes, then the Makedonians.

However! I figure my Princeps might have different ideas now that he has become a Vanquisher of Gauls in taking Medilanum; he might hare off across the Alps in search of Imperatorial acclaim. :)

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I was thinking more along the lines of finding the right commanders to campaign in enemy territory. Namely those guys who have the skills to keep supply lines moving and understand things like logistics. They make a really big difference if you are going to campaign outside your lands. Otherwise your troops will moan and groan and not fight very well if you have someone leading them who's not capable of taking care of them far from home.

[Trithemius]

I was thinking more along the lines of finding the right commanders to campaign in enemy territory.

I've been fighting 'quick' wars, and then returning to a depot-province to replenish my losses which means this is not too much of a problem for me. I have been trying to train my commanders to be fast, rather than to be good at logistics although I have been thinking I should see if stretching their supply lines a bit more 'exercises' their capacity for logistical organisation.

The main change for me is that I tend to try and fill a city with spies before I attack it so that I can have the gates just swing open for me.

[Dooz]

Is there a way to actually 'train' generals to be logistically sound? In my first 20 years so far, I've had supply lines cut every time I wandered into enemy territory. Didn't know there was even a trait to make that not happen. (Not to mention I didn't know there was an "exterminated own people" trait... God that set my leader back... nice surprise though )

[Malrubius]

Is there a way to actually 'train' generals to be logistically sound? In my first 20 years so far, I've had supply lines cut every time I wandered into enemy territory. Didn't know there was even a trait to make that not happen. (Not to mention I didn't know there was an "exterminated own people" trait... God that set my leader back... nice surprise though )

You're "liberating" these allied cities from oppressors, you're not supposed to be slaughtering them yourself!

To "train" your general to be better at logistics, there are several ways:
- If he has 3 scrolls or better in Management, just moving a lot can teach him logistics (using up nearly all his movement points).
- training in a settlement with a Ludus Magnus building or better (the 2nd level of the academy)
- certain ancillaries teach the general, like the desert scout, geographer, or carnute.