The Will of the Senate - out of character thread II

[econ21]

This thread is for out of character comments, questions and general interactions about the Will of the Senate PBM.

Please only post in the other more specialised threads if you are sure it belongs there. If in doubt, post here.

Thanks!

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Good on ya, econ21 :)

[Dutch_guy]

lol well at least my character has a pretty distinct personality

I guess this character picked up some traits in opposition to those of his father.

Judging by the fact I have a trait called Not Like His Father, I'd say you're right!

A restrained, tedious, political animal?

I find the combination of young, student, former legate and Military service - 8 years - even better !

PS: I tried posting this at the exact same time that Simon closed the other thread, so if you're wondering what I'm talking about, check the last page of the first out of character thread !

[shifty157]

X-danger's post in the last thread:
The reason we play with battle difficulty on Medium is because there is some kind of glitch or other in the AI causing the Hard and Very Hard settings to be easier than Medium.

Also realise that you were controlling a very veteran high quality roman legion in that battle that was guarding a very defensible position against lesser quality troops.

That said. Its still pretty easy.

I only took 8 casualties in that battle.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

The reason we play with battle difficulty on Medium is because there is some kind of glitch or other in the AI causing the Hard and Very Hard settings to be easier than Medium.

I've heard that a billion times, but it's a myth in my opinon.

[x-dANGEr]

Well. On my carthage campaign on VH/VH, I think it is harder than VH/M. Because at the first, the enemy greek general could beat my 6 Iberian Infantry units easily in a charge head on. While on VH/M, I doubt that would happen.

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you assign me a character now, econ21.

[econ21]

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you assign me a character now, econ21.

OK, it's done - check the FAQ for the name. You can download saves as they are posted to keep track of his progress.

BTW, TinCow, please keep an eye out for the upper/lower house distinction. For example, TrickyLady's avatar looks like a good general with all the command stars, but as she is in the Upper House, any battles under his command would have to be autoresolved. So a Lower House member with much less stars would probably do better in a battle.

Generally speaking, Upper House members should be students (in Academies), tribunes (ie second generals in a stack) or governors. Only Lower House members should given command of any troops likely to have to fight, probably including ferrying reinforcements to the front (troops with generals move faster in this mod than alone).

[shifty157]

I've heard that a billion times, but it's a myth in my opinon.

Well dont ask me. This is just what ive heard from people and I dont have the time or desire to test it out myself.

[econ21]

I've heard that a billion times, but it's a myth in my opinon.

I think there was a well documented bug with the battle difficulty levels, but IIRC, it only affected custom battles, not ones in campaigns, and I think it was fixed with a patch.

The reason I like medium battles is that the game stats are balanced to be historical on that difficulty level. Raise the difficulty level and you get weird outcomes from unit match ups. Also a higher difficulty level, by affecting the AI's attack and not defence also can change the balance of arms to favour offensive arms like cavalry and missiles rather than solid infantry.
I guess its a realism vs gameplay thing.

In vanilla, it was often argued that a high battle difficulty level was good because the player tended to have more command stars. That is less obvious with this mod, as the AI generals get significant boosts to their command and Quintus with his 10 stars in attack has typically fought generals just as formiddable.

We also tend to go with M battles in PBMs to encourage less experienced players to take part.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

I agree with the settings and your motivations econ21. But perhaps H/M would have been even better. The 10K bonus for the AI can get tiresome as so have to defeat stack after stack and diplomacy works a little bit better (i.e. you are not treated like you were Hitler of something by everyone you encounter). I did a VH/VH RTR campaign once and Macedon became a superpower. I must have killed 60000 of them and slaughtered 30000 civilians before they finally lost. The only way to crush them was to use a scorched earth policy on them. I was rather embarressed about my general having the exterminator trait.
By the way, in RTR it is much harder to gain command stars than in vanilla.