The trait system is really beginning to grate on my nerves!

[LadyAnn]

Maybe it should be realized that the game's true gem is in its battles. The Single player strategic game is lame, even compared to many other games, both in depth and in details.

Annie

[Mount Suribachi]

Although I find the battles in MTW & STW far, far superior to RTW. Whereas Romes strategic map beats them into a cocked hat.

However, you are correct, the likes of EU2 is lightyears ahead of the TW strategic game, but then again, its a pure strategy game with auto-resolve battles (and very simplistic ones at that).

[Sir Chauncy]

Part of the reason that you are suffering from the "autocannon balistae" on siege towers is of course because you have unlimited ammunition on though.

They are powerful but counted by the fact that they don't fire all that much normally...

[Celt Centurion]

I wish someone would just make a mod to strip out all the bad traits. It'd be so much more pleasant to play. Sadly, I have about 100,000 denarii or so I think. I just haven't had much to spend it on.

Yeah, and the riots too. I've taken Artaxarta 3 times just tonight, and the people are rioting so badly that they kill more of my soldiers than they have got people! So there I am with an Army of just under 1700, and the next turn each infantry unit is reduced by about 15 men, and cavalry by about 8. What I wound up doing is destroyed all of the buildings, and withdrew my Army to Kotais to retrain them.

I've noticed that on average, I lose a lot more soldiers to rioting than I do to combat. Same with buildings. The idiots rioting damage more than any besieging army.

I put forth an idea about a year ago, for these riots that go nonstop for 3-4 turns, be able to go into "Battle Map" mode, cruise around the city, and where we find the rioters, "kill them all." Surely this would save a lot of buildings being damaged, and would prevent revolts by getting rid of the people committing them.

One thing I could not understand was in the last revolt I had in Artaxarta. The town population was only 420 just before I was thrown out. They then had an army of 1300 or so when I re-besieged it. When I took it back, they had 520 citizens, 120 of which I exterminated. The place is more trouble than it's worth. I'll probably continue to besiege and exterminate it until I win, although it's hardly worth the effort. I'd expected it to revolt and have the light blue Sassanid color, but thus far, it has been coming up as ERE Rebels.

Somehow, all of my enemies except the Rebels and ERE Rebels have achieved a Neutral status with me, but I don't remember accepting any cease fire.

Strength and Honor

Celt Centurion

[x-dANGEr]

Get a high influence general around, along with an enough garrison to take the full bonus, make sure it is under Sass' religion, and make temples your first priority with taxes set to low.