Funny how you can get attached

**tynnmahn** · 05-24-2007, 15:01

My plan was to take as much coastal land as possible at the start to increase sea trade because it seems to bring the most wealth.

But I wanted to restrict my land acquasitions to the Eleuthori because they are the only faction that you can't establish trade rights or anything with.

In accordance with my plan, I had raised a "real" army (armies consisting of a mixture of the more expensive units, cavalry, and some accensi and rorarii), put it under the comand of a family member and sent it west with my standing central army under the control of another general to conquer Tolosa and Emporion.

After those two towns were under SPQR control, I conscripted a "garrison" army (a slightly cheaper army consisting of only Leves, Accensi and Rorarii) to garrison at Emporion and Tolosa so I could free up an army to deal with any threat that far away from Roma.

After that garrison army was completed, I put it under the command of a young family member and sent it west. Before it made it as far as Massalia, the Arverni, for whatever reason, decided to break peace and laid seige to Massalia. Because I had just started conscripting a new Central army in Roma, and the Western army was still stuck in Tolosa and Emporion maintaing public order in those new provinces, and the garrison army was within striking distance of Massalia, I ordered it to break the seige.

Using a combinitaion of pinning down infantry with my rorarri and with the body guard cavalry units I would protect my accensii and Leves units so that they could get in good positions to shower the enemy infantry with spears. This tactic worked really well and I annhilited the besieging army.

This garrison army got stuck in the field dealing with intruding Arverni armies. This ended up being a campaign that lasted over two years. At one point it was attacked by a small Arverni army and a really large Arverni army at the same time and I scored an heroic victory out of it.

During this time my new Central army was complete so in retaliation I put it under the command of a family member general and ordered it to take Gregovia from the Arverni. While it was besieging that town, I sent the garrison army to provide back up.

During the seige, both armies were beset by one large Arveni army, one small Arverni army and the town's own rather large army at the same time.

I thought that I unchecked the "computer controlled" tick before the battle, but I must not have because teh computer had control over the garrison army.

During th battle I was pretty focused on dealling with a pretty massive battle feild. I was doing rather well when I noticed some of my garrison army was routing, so I was worried about how many of my men the stupid computer was getting killed.

As I was wrapping up the battle I noticed that the computer was skirmishing, freaking skirmishing, with a unit of Arverni infantry using a unit of Acesnii and Leves. I had to take my body guard unit and a unit of equites romani and with all haste cross the entire battle field to save my Acensi and Leves.

I was able to save them and I defeated the three armies and took control of the town, but not before the stupid computer lost me several unecessary lives and caused my body guard unit and two other units to rout in my garrison army.

I was pissed. My heroic, storied garrison army was beat down because the stupid computer didn't use them properly.

All that said to say that it is funny how I got so attached to that army that I was truely pissed at the waisted lives. Usually, if I win, I don't care how many men it cost (just less wages I have to pay in the end) but this time I was pissed.

TynMan

**I of the Storm** · 05-24-2007, 15:31

Condolences. I can feel your pain...

**Sakkura** · 05-24-2007, 15:46

Slingers are for melee. Didn't you get the memo?

**bovi** · 05-24-2007, 16:10

If you set the army to own control and then view the enemy army, it switches back to AI control without updating the checkbox. Always click the checkbox once or twice (depending on desired outcome) right before going to battle.

**atheotes** · 05-24-2007, 19:14

Actually it is a little finicky... sometimes even after i make sure that i have selected the computer to control my second army (when there is no general in command, usually a garrison army), they still come out as reinforcements one by one depending on the number of units in my main stack...
I have also seen the reverse (General in command of second army and i choose to control the army as reinformcements) happen.

**kalkwerk** · 05-24-2007, 21:17

Originally Posted by atheotes

Actually it is a little finicky... sometimes even after i make sure that i have selected the computer to control my second army (when there is no general in command, usually a garrison army), they still come out as reinforcements one by one depending on the number of units in my main stack...
I have also seen the reverse (General in command of second army and i choose to control the army as reinformcements) happen.

If you dont control the army yourself, it will enter as a whole. If you control it, its dependent on how many units you got.

**Pharnakes** · 05-24-2007, 21:42

You can't control more than a full stack at once.

**atheotes** · 05-25-2007, 15:12

I think i did not make my point clear...
I understand that i can control only 20 units at a time.
I was trying to say how the reinforcement control option (the checkbox next to your second army in the pre-battle information screen) did not always work the way we expect it to...

**pockettank** · 05-25-2007, 21:18

i deffinitly understand u i did the same thing one time as KH attacking the arche and had 2 full stacks VS. 1 full stack of archyies and the reinforcement army who i 4got to control myself got obliterated but in the end the area was rich w/ merc. so the army was replenished and i got a victory