Scipii in Egypt vh/vh

**Severous** · 10-06-2007, 07:18

Hi

A small update. Not a great deal happening as my house rules are slowing my progress, as intended.

Here a rare assassination mission is ordered by the Senate. An Armenian region is soon without a governor. Also occuring here is single region Macedon faction besiege Sparta. A sally will remove the threat. Hopefully the Senate will soon order me to capture the last regions of Macedon, Pontus and Thrace.

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Bother. This mission will seriously slow me down. Gaining protectorates is really hard. Ive offerred 30K cash plus 10k per turn for 100 years. No joy. I may fail this mission.

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An unusual event. A spy, alone in the countryside, catches the plague.

No towns or units in the area have plague. I dont know how he caught it. Not seen a spontaneuos outbreak like this before. Would be a shame if plague breaks out in neighbouring faction towns. The spy had better go warn them.

**Severous** · 10-07-2007, 07:27

This is a tip I learnt a few days ago on this forum.

Recruit units that take two turns in just one turn.

Combine enough ancillaries together to make 50% reduction in training costs and it not only reduces cost but also time. I speculate that if you had units that took 30 turns to build that you would see reductions in training time even with 10% training ancillaries.

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Strategically the campaign has gone on hold for 5 years. I cannot win my current mission of make the last Pontus region a protectorate. I am at war with no one.

The only action has been with plague infested spies and mopping up a few rebels...well quite a lot of rebels.

AI Rebel militia cavalry usually plays quite well. But not here. Seemed to be following and targeting my retreating unit and overlooks line of hoplites in the way. A dramatic jump will not save horse nor rider. But it looks good.

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Lots of camel recruits in the deserts of Arabia and the middle east. Camels have a morale effect on horses. Thats seldom been decisive. Camels are often targetted by AI cavalary that knows it can catch them. Here its my horse cavalry running down AI camels.

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Strategically the five years of relative peace has allowed
- both Maceodon and Pontus to build reasonable armies
- Armenia has gained an edge over Perthia
- Scythia is making inroads into Dacia.
- Britannia is destroying Germany.
- Carthage is beating Numidia.
- Julii has destroyed Gaul.
- Brutii went to war with Britannia...ive sent an agent to take a look at that unusual match up

Hopefully the senate wont punish me too much for not completing the Pontic protectorate mission. I want a new mission to go capture something. Something Dacian or Scythian perhaps.

Sev

**Incontineta Buttox** · 10-16-2007, 13:24

Hi Severous.

I am enjoying your latest AAR, as always. I like the house rules. They appear to allow the AI factions the chance to axpand and become powerful.

Would be interested to see you do a Carthage AAR in some form or other next time out.