How to make money!

[bovi]

Ports and mines are important sources of income. But if you want a "softer" introduction to EB, you should try Rome or Carthage, they're a lot easier.

[Sarkiss]

Ports and mines are important sources of income. But if you want a "softer" introduction to EB, you should try Rome or Carthage, they're a lot easier.

definately. forget barbarians and easterners, thay are for player that are more or less used to EB and can get very though at the beginning. Epiros, KH is an easy option too btw.

[Arzeal]

Hi! I'm new to EB too ::)
I played a Lustonia as a start, suprisingly look at my only starting town and my starting big and elite army w. their upkeeps. I ran into debt problems but I have less hostile factions expect 2 weak and nearly non-garrioned Cartharge towns. I conquered until the army itself depleted and gain good income over times - by the time my army is deplepted, I got 7 or 8 towns ^^

[PershsNhpios]

I am currently retrying the Casse.
I thought not having to manage a large empire from the beginning would be the way to start off.

I am playing on Medium campaign difficulty.. I am on my 6th turn, and those northern tribes are sitting right on the border...

Thank you for the advice, I was going to play Lusotania at first, however I got sidetracked with the western tribes.
If I fail in the north I will move south!

I was wondering if some might help by writing here their strategies in general for making money, their priorities and how they deal with the great threat of the Independents?

[bovi]

Casse are the ones with the most threat from the independents ;).

[Bootsiuv]

definately. forget barbarians and easterners, thay are for player that are more or less used to EB and can get very though at the beginning. Epiros, KH is an easy option too btw.

I've been playing EB every waking minute (that I wasn't working or being a dad, which, granted, isn't more than 2 hours a day) for months, and Baktria still gives me a hell of a time. I fear my aar may be the shortest in EB history.

That's why I love this mod....no matter how much you play, it never really gets easy (unless you play on easy/easy of course).

[Ice]

Ports and mines are important sources of income. But if you want a "softer" introduction to EB, you should try Rome or Carthage, they're a lot easier.

Yes, I agree.

You are playing 3 extremely hard factions to begin with. Try something like Rome, Carthage, or even say a Greek Faction. You will have a much easier time making money via the lucrative sea routes.

As Casse though, you won't to pretty much disband every unit you have, and build your economy. Stay at peace with the independent kingdoms, they are a good source of trade. Build roads, trade buildings, etc. When you can support a decent army and are ready, go on the offensive.

EB is a difficult game to learn at first. It is very unforgiving and you have to know what you are doing, or you will go bankrupt very fast. Just give it some trial and error.

[PershsNhpios]

Ha ha ha,
I was following that very strategy as the Casse, when two full stack Independents besieged me!

[bovi]

If you want to play a Casse game successfully, you should use your starting troops, either take the SW settlement, or possibly better search out one of the freemen stacks before they get the chance to merge. Attack it even if you have inferior troops, and withdraw as soon as you run out of javelins or you can no longer stay out of melee. Your faction leader may be a good asset if used well, but be careful with him, he's not suited for melee. If you can get a unit to rout, he can massacre that one while your army retreats. Attack incessantly, and in the end you will be able to beat that stack. Hopefully the other stack will decide to leave you alone so you can rebuild . Any losses are okay, the men are better spent than disbanded .

[skuzzy]

I just started a campaign using Lustotannion (sp?) and accumulated 3 settlements with homeland as early as possible and also killed off Hasdrubal (effectively breaking the alliance so Carthage can't merc rape me) and then began to disband (namely that really expensive cavalry). With no threat other than rebels at the time and no troops to support I went from 30k in debt to + and built a mine in every settlement possible. Rome is just approaching me now but it's about 250BC (not on my computer so not positive as to the date). But even debt ridden it is possible to come out of it with no immediate threats. That is why Pontus etc are so difficult because massive debt and no matter what you have to worry about Arche Seleukids.

[Parkev]

I found the beginning of my Casse campaign on VH very easy, or I might just have been lucky. I disbanded all troops, built port, market and good a nice surplus of about 10k. After 3 years had elapsed I trained 1 x Iaosatae (slingers), 2 x Botroas (swords) and 1 x Gaeroas (spears) and took Barae and Magorix and knocked of all of Britain except Caledonia in under 10 years with only one non-siege altercation with the Rebels.

[Beefy187]

Im having a nice Casse campeign

Trick is to disband your starting armies and get those nasty celtic slingers. Wait till you get sieged by the skirmisher stack. Just keep sallying. Then start building your army. Celtic slingers are your friend! Use them to take out the enemy general (Most of them are on chariot. Shouldnt be too hard). Charge your chariot through the enemy. Finish them off with infantry

[Arzeal]

The Lustonian had 1 of interesting script (I wonder that others faction had it ) when I nearly completed conquered Ilberia pennisuala, I left 1 of the last settlement who had around 500 troops left (basically because I had exhauted my troops in conquering every others settlements in the pennisuala) after awhile I regained my debt and build a decent army, deciding to united the whole Ilberia to go against others factions w. my half full stacks, the script actived, and Boom! got a full stack of hostile army after me . I lost 3-4 battles w. heavy lost, but luckily my earning was like 5k per turn so I used all the money to hire mercs, gather 3/4 of my nobles and beat that hordes, close-death exp though - because most of my settlements got one 1 levy garrisoning - after that I'm on my way conquering teh Europe, half way to Rome now ^^

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

I find it extremely difficult to lose a Casse campaign, or even a Sweboz campaign. You just need to be willing to sit on yer arse for quite a while and just build income structures. I'm playing Sweboz and I'm rolling in cash. I have two full stack armies easily, both full of good units and I just have an ovular domain of the territories directly surrounding the 3 you capture in the first 5 turns.

The only thing I can tell you is don't overextend your economy. You just have to be patient and willing to sit for a while, build up money, buy an income building, save some more, etc. It looks like you save up a bunch of money, buy an army and go off until your up to your arse in debt and unable to pay it off without leaving you excruciatingly vulnerable. Sitting a while lets you build up an economy so you can afford that army and a defense for your new exploits.

Or, like mentioned earlier, just pick a faction that makes a shitload of money with little coersion, like the Carthaginians.