RTW: Roman Factions

**Al Khalifah** · 09-28-2006, 12:21

Personally I'd advocate Brother Mark's strategy of going it alone. The other Roman factions are generally rubbish and too hesitant. It really is for the best to try and take the best settlements for yourself rather than let the AI waste them.

AFAIK it doesn't advance the story line if you take other factions target settlements. Only moving along in your own does - so the civil war is postponed which is handy for getting plenty of reward units.

**doc_bean** · 09-28-2006, 12:31

Don't worry about the Roman factions, they tend to start slow but often get quite good after a while, I assume this is a feature.

As for what to do, get rid of Egypt ! They're the hardest nut to crack in vanilla RTW. You could take Numidia to avoid being stabbed in the back, but they usually don't have the (man)power to become a serious threat.

EDIT: and take as many islands as you can, the AI almost never attacks them so you can have peasants or town militia guard them while you turn the town into cash cows.

**Brother Mark** · 09-28-2006, 12:46

EDIT: and take as many islands as you can, the AI almost never attacks them so you can have peasants or town militia guard them while you turn the town into cash cows.

Except Sardinia when you're Carthage. The Julii will not stop attacking until this is theirs for some reason. The high woodland density makes it perfect for ambushes too.

Once it has been theirs they seem to lose interest in it though.

**Arciel** · 09-29-2006, 12:51

Hey, thanks to all the replies! I guess that I really don't have a very good choice right now as Numidia just backstabbed me and Carthage still won't give up and agree to a ceasefire even though they're just limited to a single province in the Iberian Peninsula(with the Spanish also breathing down their necks, I might add). My faction leader(an eight star and eight influence, but zero management) right now is leading a single stack charge against the Numidians on the Western side of Africa while I'm thinking of letting one of the bribed Numidian family members to lead an attack on their eastern empire. Plus, I think that I should just finish Carthage once and for all, and gain a foothold in Spanish Iberia. As for the other Roman factions, I might just let them take care of their own problems so that I might get a somewhat challenging endgame. The Brutii won't be able to expand further into Greece anytime soon as I'm allied with the Macedonians and they've just blocked the only way in. As for the Julii, well, they really aren't doing anything noteworthy. They have huge stacks wandering around the Alps, but not being able to take the nearest two Gaul cities, though they did take Caralis from Carthage...

Sorry for the long reply..

P.S. just noticed that I've been promoted to member..Yay!!

**Brother Mark** · 09-29-2006, 14:10

There's no real advantage to leaving factions in the game this time unlike MTW. Unless they're willing to accept unfavourable agreements, it may be better just to squash them as there's no danger of reappareance.

**professorspatula** · 09-29-2006, 15:43

Originally Posted by Brother Mark

Except Sardinia when you're Carthage. The Julii will not stop attacking until this is theirs for some reason. The high woodland density makes it perfect for ambushes too.

Once it has been theirs they seem to lose interest in it though.

Even in Barbarian Invasion, Sardinia is about the only island provence the AI seems to care about. Although Rhodes is sometimes a target too.