Can't conquer the whole map, need advice.

[Shieldmaiden]

I've just done a Briton Campaign, and using a Temple of Britannia (Trade bonus) in coastal Cities helped my income a lot.

About Barbarian Factions being difficult - Britannia is easier than Gaul and Germania for me.

Don't Autoresolve, practice your tactics.

Try using Light Chariots to flank and whittle down the enemy Infantry. Use Cavalry Mercs or any spare Light Chariots (with Skirmish off) against enemy Archers.

Prepare a battle line of Chosen Swordsmen, put Head Hurlers (perhaps Druids too) behind them and Warhounds just in front.

The enemy will be frightened by the Light Chariots and casualties. Once they're close, Warcry and use Warhounds to attack, followed by the Chosen Swordsmen and Head Hurlers.

It'll reduce Morale quickly, and usually Routs the enemy. I use Heavy Chariots (or Generals) to flank the enemy and charge into their backs too.

Note: I use Medium Battle Difficulty, I believe in a level playing field with no "cheating".

Hopefully that'll be useful for ideas at least

[guineawolf]

if you want to be simple,then just sent all your troops charge into city's center plaza after you bring down enemy city walls with sappers.Or you can just place your troops under the command of your captain,let him in charge of the assault of the city after you bring down the walss with sappers,still the same,make sure your general always behind your troops that engage enemy(so they won"t rout,and if the general have any traits or retinue with + morale for all troops in battlefield is better)

just make sure you always keep your general behind your troops when they engage enemy.That is what i do....you dun need to order your troops to engage any enemy at city streets,just charge into center plaza(Governer villa)i never lost a battle with this tactic yet.

economy problem huh...hmmm...what is your garrison troop type(unit type)?i recommend you to place peasant as garrison at cities not at the frontline.

As Omanes said:It also may be a good idea to wipe your existing temples and build law boosting ones, if the Britains have them - they reduce corruption in your settlements providing you with a much higher income! Moving the capital to a centralised position does the same too.

Britons does not have law temple,forget it,but you can move your capitol to center of the map to reduce the penalty of distance to capital,it will increase the Public order of most of your cities,so that you can reduce your upkeep of garrisons and reduce corruptions too,i dunno RTW version 1.5 got different map or not,coz mine one is 1.1,but i suggest you move your capital to Bylazora or Thessalonica,both of these cities very near the greece,most profitable area of the map.


hope it helps!

[JeromeGrasdyke]

Law buildings are important - they give you public order and also reduce the amount of money you loose to corruption far away from your capital. But in general, minimising distance-to-capital is a good thing... The same thing is also true for governors with Law virtues, by the way.

I'd stay away from peasants for garrisoning towns, since peasant units have half the public order effect per soldier of 'proper' military units. Militia units - if you have them - are the sweet spot for garrisons, giving you the most public order per income... large, cheap, non-peasant units are best.

Culture penalties is something else which you might want to look at. This is down to the proportion of buildings built by your culture (Barbarian for the British I think) compared to what was built by other cultures. Knocking down stuff built by other factions and then rebuilding the buildings lessens the culture penalty, which feeds back into the amount of troops you need to garrison places, allowing you to keep more troops in the field.

And watch out for grain resources, which add growth for all cities which are in the same faction and connected to them through a trade network. Sometimes it's better not to take regions with these resources in them, and just leave them to the end.

But if you are already in major debt you may just be screwed... you could try and recover by shrinking and expanding again later - picking a number of cities on your frontiers that you are going to sacrifice, destroying all the buildings, letting them rebel, then letting the AI build them up again while you reorganise.

[Shieldmaiden]

I'd stay away from peasants for garrisoning towns, since peasant units have half the public order effect per soldier of 'proper' military units.

Isn't that in BI only?

[Rhand]

Thanks everyone for your responses.

Perhaps I wasn't clear in my initial post, but I'm already in the year 135 BC. That's more than 300 turns being played already. I have built everything there is to built at the moment (besides those stupid farms). I have conquered almost the whole world and there is only 1 faction left who I'm trying to conquer (The Brutii) and they have 3 settlements left, and those are Rhodos, Tarsus and Antioch (so all around Turkey).

Anyways, it seems I'm just repeating myself ;-p
I just wanted to tell you that I started all over again, this time with the Scipii, but it seems I didn't save properly before I quit my Brittisch game and I think I 'm some 10 turns back (so still with a positive cashflow and stuff like that, so I might try it again soon).

[Third spearman from the left]

You do know that fighting battles is very much like managing...except everyone has a weapon!!!!

Don't put yourself down, if you can manage to conquer most of the world you can pick up the basics of fighting your own battles.

Go on son you can do it!


If time is a bit of a problem here is my advice. Play a campaign using small unit size, this will allow you to fight quicker battles while still allowing you to learn the basics of fighting. I found that this tactic let me play a really fast campaign while still fighting my own battles.

Good Luck

[bedlam28]

This may need confirming, but in my personal exp of the later game;

when I've taken a complete region I generally keep only 1 city exclusively for horse, 1 city exclusively for soldiers and 1 exclusively for archers, every other city has all their fighting buildings destroyed and used only for trade.
I can then move any growing cities population to the war cities, which are then trained up, and any other city that rebels finds itself only able to train peasants.
Also if one of my war cities rebels, they can only train 1 type of fighter which is easier to fight against. ( unless they have a city of wardogs; which happened before - oh my )

( note: I have found if a city rebels quickly after being taken it will manage to recruit full stacks of all types regardless of if you've destroyed the training buildings. I can only assume they were hiding in the peasants houses, shields and swords used for coathangers )

Each region ( eg. Spain or Africa or Europe etc) has its own 1 full stack to move around killing rebels and to besiege any city I allow to rebel.
then all the rest of my armies are on my front line, and I have a regular train of recruits travelling the map to the front line.
Each city only has peasants to garrison and if it requires more than 5 peasent units - let it burn.
I also use Best capital Map which always shows the best placement of my Capital to keep down the dist. to cap penalty.

hope this helps.

[Aradan]

Isn't that in BI only?

Edited. The 'is_peasant' attribute is exclusive to BI.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

My sincere apologies for disagreeing Aradan, but I do believe that it is a BI exclusive feature which cannot be integrated into R:TW. Sorry.

[Aradan]

My bad, you're perfectly correct. That's what happens when you're thinking 8 things at the same time...

I'll edit my previous post. Thx, Omanes! :)