Difficulty at later stages?

**Fondor_Yards** · 08-09-2006, 18:11

Well for parthia anyways, their armies were basicly only cavalry with some foot archer back up IIRC. As for the steamroller, it matters who you play. A good player with all the agean sea ports can basicly be unstopable. In my macedonian campain, I quit cause it was too easy by 240 BC. But with the same number of cities in germania or dacia, it's not so easy. Even owning greece as a barabrian it isn't so rich, as you don't get access of those nice "civilized" buildings to boost trade and such. I know in my averni campain, the epriotes have huge stacks of all very high exp units sitting around doing nothing. The germans sent huge stacks of all 3 exp units at me *cause they have some temple that lets them pump out 3 chevon units*. The britions in my first invasion made me return after only 2 battles *in which I took 2 cities*. And to make it worse, the bribed them after I left. Had to retake the same dam cities again...

**Musopticon?** · 08-09-2006, 23:19

It's definetly harder than in vanilla. That's why I always do a horrible blitz with the starting armies in order to quell any nearby opposition, to get a kingdom fast and to prevent my neighbours from teching up to better units. Facing Macedonian stacks full of psiloi and taxeis isn't nearly as challenging than kicking back a huge invasion of pezhetaroi and pheraspidai.

Historicality aside, I want a campaign that I can succeed in and enjoy.

Then again, once the initial opposition seazes, I start building and paying back that huge mnai dept. :P

Edit: Out of interest, what is that lantern icon-thingie that's alighted in the very left lower corner of this post? Warning level? 'Cos, if it is warning level, I'd really like to know what I did to deserve it. Unless it was that occultus-slip thing.
Nevermind, it just shows that I'm online. Shows what I know.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 08-09-2006, 23:34

Lamp light on means you are currently online.
Warning sign is a way for you to report troublesome posts.

That's all.

**Musopticon?** · 08-09-2006, 23:37

Yeah, I noticed. *ahem*

Just a brief question here: Are you guys going to further script the campaigns on 0.8 to provide more later stage difficulty, in the form of historical invasions perhaps?

**Conqueror** · 08-10-2006, 10:58

Speaking of invasions, could the migrations of the Yuezhi be represented by making strong Eleutheroi stacks appear in the eastern provinces? Not a good solution I know but at least it'd be better than nothing, and might make things more interesting to Baktrians/Pahlavas/Sakas/whoever lives there at the time.

**eadingas** · 08-10-2006, 11:23

We can't "spawn" troops, unfortunately.

**Ludens** · 08-10-2006, 13:16

Originally Posted by eadingas

We can't "spawn" troops, unfortunately.

You can't? I recall having read some where that R:TR planned to include Hannibal in their campaign by having him spawn at the correct date in the alps. Or am I confusing things?