Cheating

[Spoofa]

I give money cheats and use Auto_win when I'm in debt and have no way out and when theres a random rebel army not even worth messing with respectively.

[KARTLOS]

it can be useful to check what certain buildings will give you when completed. eg in the last build, playing as the haysadan there was no point in building elite level barracks in many cities in the middle east as you would only ever be able to build one levy spearmen at most. if i had spent my own money to test thyis out i would have been very annoyed.

[sgsandor]

Let me clear my postion by saying this....
I cheat so i can enjoy every part of the game from the camalian to fighting as Epiros for my life
20 turn campaigns are not fun winning or losing. Belive it or not I like losing too, and i learned that from this game which is trulyt awesome in eveyway

[pseudocaesar]

I use the auto_win cheat on rebel armies, they are pointless and annoying so i just send a slinger or something and autowin it.

[Dram]

set your descr_strat.txt file in the imperial campaign folder to 99999999999999999 value for brigands/pirates and you'll never have any more spawns, besides the rebels that are on the map at the start of the game. for some reason you still get heaps of pirates in the britain/germania region though.

i will cheat with money if i feel that things are unrealistic. like for example, when playing as the suaromatae, i expanded from 3 territories to about 10 using my starting armies, yet i still was losing money each turn (and was 90k in debt). i had no field army at all, they were just garrisoning the towns to keep order. it just seemed really stupid.

oh and i know not having rebels is unrealistic in itself, but it just so annoying to get them so often even if i set taxes to low in every city and do everything i can to improve the lives of my people. i just keep some small armies in each region to make up for the money i'd otherwise save from not having to fight them.

[pezhetairoi]

I usually add money to like a loan. After bringing myself back into the black, I build stuff with it, and deduct the exact same amount again. So I'm sort of mortagaging my present for the future. Debts get bigger though. As a result on my spending on mining centres for the Hayasdan, I was 160k in debt and have been crawling slowly back up to 120k in debt. I was stuck at 130k for a long while because I needed to keep taking small loans to build or replenish troops.

But yeah. I don't know if that's a cheat, but I DO know I would've been ground under by the AS 10 years ago if I hadn't added the money to build me an army worthy of my name.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Hey pez, I thought I was the only one who took out loans on EB. I'll do that too. When I'm in the negative, I'll sometimes use 'add_money 40000' to get me in the green, then build some stuff and use 'add_money -40000'. I'll only do it for certain things, though. Such as retraining depleted units and building governments, also occationally building a market or port to help get me out of debt. I won't build units, mines, or infrastructure buildings wit it, though. And I'll never take out a loan more then $40,000. On my last campaign, I removed an additional $20,000 once I had money to represent interest.