Playing as the Romans to easy??

[alatar]

Wait till you hit the AS or figh and the easterners...

[Sdragon]

As Romans I had 500,000 gold before I left Italy. Greece feels balanced but Italy has money trees.

[alatar]

So did I but I did wait 40 turns so .
By the 250's carthage can put up a fight in scillily, although a full consular army will wipe them out. I'd wait untill carthage owns most of scillily before expanding that way. But feel free to move slowly north.
Before .81a I had a roman game when I'd done this and shipped a army to greese where it wrecked havoc untill the polbians hit. Back to the mainland.
By that time it the AI was very strong, on vh, h (vh,vh is insanely hard).

[Birka Viking]

As Romans I had 500,000 gold before I left Italy. Greece feels balanced but Italy has money trees.

Yes I think its way to easy to earn money as the Romans. It feels like the Roman army is little overpowered in the game also. And Yes I play with BI:EXE also.

[CaesarAugustus]

Yes I think its way to easy to earn money as the Romans. It feels like the Roman army is little overpowered in the game also. And Yes I play with BI:EXE also.

I'd have to disagree with that, I'm in the 230's BC and can't seem to make more than 23 000 mnai a turn (though I do have a high mercenary payroll and non-profitable Gallic and African provinces). The Roman army is overpowered because EB is historically accurate, the Romans are supposed to have an edge over their barbaric foes, as they did in history. And I don't find it ridiculously overpowered either, I have suffered my (small) share of humliating, Cannae-level defeats.

[alatar]

Nice greek invasion!
What units are in the stacks?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, that's an interesting map. Surprising Germanic coastal conquests and Parthia is doing as good as can be hoped for given the Seleukid monster.

[Kralizec]

Casse and Averni are doing extremely well in that game...

[LordCurlyton]

I agree. Playing as the Romans isn't too easy, but its definitely not as difficult as, say, Pontus. Yes you have a nice, strong starting economy (as Rome should), but in part that is due to the fact that you have a smaller army than several of your neighbors (due to Pyrrhos' recent invasion, as stated in the preview description). And you should originally expand quickly, as well, since the 270 BC "Year in History" is Rome completeing her hegemony over central and southern Italia. That gives you 24 turns until the 1st Punic War historically breaks out if you try and play by the books. The N Italy settlements are no pushovers and if you play BI exe Epeiros or others will most likely assault you by sea early, further complicating things. But all said, they SHOULD be just a little bit better than most (if not all) of their opponents. I mean, history DOES bear that out, no?
Income-wise, the highest I've hit is around 75k per turn, but I have 87 provinces atm fueling that economy. I once had 60k earlier, but even then I think I had near 50, including most of Iberia and Gallia. I would say you are doing just spiffy to maintain around a 100k balance while making 20-25k per turn as Romani until you really begin to hit empire stage.
BTW I also concur that that is one VERY interetsing map. Though I think mine has been quite fun as well.

[Janius]

I wouldn't say easy, this is a screenshot made in my current Romani campaign (VH-H BI-exe First Cohort mod)

For the occasion I also turned of the fog of war to let you notice the Arche Seleukeia expansion in Egypt (They are even sending armies to sack Lepki ) and deep into Greek territories, they are holding both Epeiros' and Macedonia's capital. The Sabeans and Saka Rauka got destroyed in 213BC and in 212BC.

"Invasion 212BC"


So far this has been one kick-ass campaign, with great victories and crushing defeats. For the moment I got 4 campaigning legions in Iberia, 1 in Africa and 2 in Italy. Expansion in Iberia is very slow as the Lusotannan field considerable armies, full stacks filled with mercenaries and led by top notch generals.

I already spend many hours on this campaign and will be spending many more... thx EB-team for this awesome game