Prologue / Sons of Mars Campaign

[Severous]

Hi

Welcome to the game.

I played the prologue through to the end and didnt find it particulary hard. It doesnt teach you everything. I look back at my first Imperial campaign as Julii and realise how much I still had to learn despite having completed the prologue. I hadnt learnt about Brit chariots, and german spearbands for instance.

One of the most important learnings from the Prologue was financial management. I recall being flush with cash. So kept building new units...soon I was broke every turn and couldnt afford anything. That taught me about financial management and the need to keep expanding in order to keep growing the army.

Good luck and enjoy..whatever you decide to do.

[Cantabriensis]

Thanks for the various replies. I think I'm getting the hang of it more now. The difficulty I've been having is that at first, in the tutorial, you are told exactly what to do. You don't want to do anything else in case you disrupt the tutorial scripts. But you tend to carry on a bit blinkered after that - and don't realise you've largely been left to yourself.

Also, it's easy to carry on regarding the Senate as your tutor - and do everything they tell you in the order they tell you. This may not always be a good thing! Although they do seem to pay pretty well.

Severous says he played to the end of the prologue: 50 provinces? Are there really that many on that small map?

Any specific hints/strategies/reminiscences of the prologue campaign would still be most welcome.

[Severous]

Hi

The prologue map is not the standard RTW campaign map.

You are spot on....It doesnt have 50 regions. The victory conditions published in the prologue campaign are not therefore strictly correct. There are not 50 provinces to capture.

You win when you have captured all the provinces. (Sicily is one province). That was the last one I captured.

[Comrade Alexeo]

Actually, one should note that it is impossible to actually conquer the entire map in the Prologue, as there are more territories than you need for victory condition. You can, however, actually have your very own "dress rehearsal" of the Civil War - you can attack the Scipii and Senate !

Personally, I enjoyed playing the Prologue, and have redone it on several occassions; it just seems more personal, probably because it's a bit more story-driven because the Senate is actually somewhat involved this time.

Keep in mind that you don't actually have to listen to the Senate; you won't break anything by ignoring them if you decide to, say, invade Thrace instead of bother with southern Italy

And it still teaches you stuff, oddly... I redid the Prologue a few days ago because I was bored, and I realized that if, after taking Tarquinii, I built myself a ship, then when the Senate ordered me to take that southern Greek city I could just put my army in the boat, sail down there in two turns, and be able to reach the city in time to lay a longer siege and let starvation kill off a few more foul Greeks