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[Alexanderofmacedon]

Show us your achievements. Whether it be a great battle, a great campaign or anything you thought sort of funny. Show us your screenshots!

(There you go Dutch_Guy! )

[Diurpaneus]

This is my actualy Julii campaign.I'm waiting for the people's symphaty to take Rome...then the rest of the Italy including Sicilia....and after that i will march against the rest of the world

As you can see some of the factions are doing very well

Now i'm at War with Germania,Numidia,Egypt
I have allied with the Greeks Cities to help them against Brutii

Germania in every turn are attacking me with large numerous armies but i'm good enough to resist them though they have the best units (chosen axemen,night raiders,chosen archers)

Parthia too is well developed...with huge and epic stone walls...cataphracts,elephants..etc

However what can I do to have the people's sumphaty sooner ? I ignored all senates's missions and still no approval from the plebes ?

[YAKOBU]

Hi Diurpaneus

I think your problem is that you have not expanded enough. Start taking and occupying some more settlements and you will gain approval from the plebs. From your screenshot it appears that you have just taken a few settlements then settled down to build up your small empire until the Marius reforms.

[Diurpaneus]

Yes.That's right...those settlements are strategic ones....I want to build there many strong legions wich I can begin conquering

All my settlements have army baracks,catapult ranges and hippodroms
As you can see in Carthage I will train 2-3 full stack legions wich I will march against Numidia and Egypt

In Mediolanum I will train 3-4 full stack legions and I will march in the west to conquer Spain and Britannia

In Patavium I will also train 2-3 legions to conquer Greek Cities

And In Arretium I will train the legions needed for the civil wars.

But I won't do any of these moves until I will have the approval of the plebes..I want to take Itlay first and then the rest

Anyway...Almost all settlements on the map have advanced army baracks level in wich i can retrain units

[Alexanderofmacedon]

The only problem with building up large armies before invasions is that you have no new settlements income to fund these operations. Don't let it get too large without attacking settlements, or else you'll have some money troubles. Instead of making so many new units, maybe make a peasant unit for each settlement and bring all garrison units to the front?

[YAKOBU]

I think you misunderstand, you will not get approval from the plebs until you start expanding. You cannot wait for this approval before expanding.

[Diurpaneus]

Too bad....I wanted to take Italy first and then to march against other factions...It seems this Is not possible...Then I have no choice and I must begin expanding.
Thanks!

[Telys]

Too bad....I wanted to take Italy first and then to march against other factions...It seems this Is not possible...Then I have no choice and I must begin expanding.
Thanks!

I felt the same way, always wanting to control the italian peninsula before expanding. The only way to do this is force the civil war by attempting multiple assassinations on senate family members. Usually after the second attempt they will outlaw you.

[Diurpaneus]

I tryed that many times...Ive sended loads of assassins against roman factions...some succeded and some were killed but they dont declare war to me!!!!! I dont quite understand...If the assassin was cought and killed...why the romans dont declared war ?

[Telys]

I tryed that many times...Ive sended loads of assassins against roman factions...some succeded and some were killed but they dont declare war to me!!!!! I dont quite understand...If the assassin was cought and killed...why the romans dont declared war ?

Hmm, Im not sure, it always works for me. What version of the game are you using?

[Diurpaneus]

i patched 1.2 , 1.3, 1.5 ...but I'm not sure that is 1.5....because in the main menu...in the right corner says Vers.1.3

[Telys]

i patched 1.2 , 1.3, 1.5 ...but I'm not sure that is 1.5....because in the main menu...in the right corner says Vers.1.3

You must have not installed it at after extracting it, or something along those lines. I pretty much stuck with 1.2, I've tried 1.3 and 1.5 but I never liked BI and those patches were trying to change rtw into it, or atleast thats how I felt. That may be the reason why you cant force the civil war.

[Avicenna]

Try to assassinate family members instead of low ranking members of the faction (ie everything else). If you get caught trying to assassinate a low ranking SPQR captain, you won't be outlawed, but you probably would if you got caught trying to get rid of the Pontifex Maximus.

[Viking]

A successfull Saxon campaign, and odd Berber AI behaviour.

[Garvanko]

Nice work, Viking! Saxons are a great faction to play. Might go back to BI once I finish my Brutii campaign.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

A successfull Saxon campaign, and odd Berber AI behaviour.

What the heck? The Berbers have one and a half stacks way over there? That's very strange.

My last BI campaign was a Saxon campaign and it looked about like yours does when I ended. Go Saxony!

[Dutch_guy]

Yeah the Berbers like to do that, they once had something like 3 stacks roaming through my Sassanid lands, freaky... but I did let them stay there - as they didn't ..well do anything at all.

Good to see one of these threads in the Colosseum, good job Alexanderofmacedon

[Glaucus]

I felt the same way, always wanting to control the italian peninsula before expanding. The only way to do this is force the civil war by attempting multiple assassinations on senate family members. Usually after the second attempt they will outlaw you.

you can play as SQPR, then you can attack the other romans, since your not bound the same way as the romans are to the SPQR. I played as them once for that reason, I liked controling all of italia and attacking gaul, carthage, and greece at the same time.

[Barbarossa82]

I couldn't help myself...

[Zalmoxis]

It's good but maybe something like "Let him go, I hate that guy." from one of the soldiers would be better, at least for me.

[Goalie]

this is probably my favorite screen shot. I love spartans, notice the imposing row of onager in the background

[Cras]

i hate the onagers.... they always seem to fire a round or 2-3 in your own ranks...
having 10 there would be a dissaster.
I wonder.. I see your general icon is a man on a horse, I only see faces there in my game!

[Coldfish]

that's an officer...the army is not being leaded by an general.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

i hate the onagers.... they always seem to fire a round or 2-3 in your own ranks...
having 10 there would be a dissaster.
I wonder.. I see your general icon is a man on a horse, I only see faces there in my game!

If you dont have a general, it gives you a captain to lead. It usually picks a good unit to do that.

[Telys]

It looks like a custom battle. That is an armoured general unit. I only say this because when I play custom battles and pick a general unit the unit card shows the unit and not the general.

[Drusus Magnus]

I think it's online, look at the name of the "owner" of the troops.

[Barbarossa82]

I think it's online, look at the name of the "owner" of the troops.

That would explain how he ended up fighting a Senate/Armenia alliance - rare in campaigns!
Great screenshot by the way

[professorspatula]

I call this:

A GREEK TRAGEDY

My army of Julii march upon the last of the Greeks armies. I've drawn them out of their last remaining city, and although I expect victory to be assured, I'm prepared to face a defiant and desparate foe. However, what I was not expecting was for the Greeks to just sulk and refuse to fight. The Greeks, annoyed at having run out of plates to smash prior to the battle, turned their back on my fast approaching army and decided war wasn't for them and rather oddly awaited death to greet them. I don't know if this was a cunning ruse by the last of the Greek commanders: perhaps he thought that us being honourable Romans, wouldn't fight a defenceless foe, and that we'd perhaps just go home and come back another day when the Greeks had restocked on plates or something. Anyway, there was something good on the TV that my army wanted to get back to, so we wanted the battle out of the way and the Greeks would just have to die like the wimps they proved to be in the campaign. And so I gave the order to open fire with all the missiles I had and the Greeks fell one by one without raising a sword in further defiance. I'm thinking of removing all weapons from the Greeks in a future campaign so they die like this all the time.






This is the kind of AI that puts RTW up there with the best games of all time.

[Viking]

Haha. That`s awesome professorspatula. I`ve never experienced something like that before.

[Goalie]

yea that was an online battle, and your general in multiplayer is the first unit that you choose, even if they are peasants