For Those That Play As Romans

[cmacq]

Don't follow the bad men into the forest! And...
don't put all your eggs into one basket!

OUCH

[NeoSpartan]

[Maeran]

I've never thought about it before, but is Red Riding Hood all about Varus?

[cmacq]

I use spies a lot, but form now on will make much more extensive use of spies! It was worse than Custer....

[Treverer]

Don't follow the bad men into the forest! And...
don't put all your eggs into one basket!

OUCH

Just of curiosity: which forest (= in which province) & what faction played Varrus & Arminius with you?

T.

[cmacq]

You want details?

[Tellos Athenaios]

If it's about 250 BC in your campaign, basically everything to the North of the Alps towards the Baltic is very unsafe. It got some nice hidden 'features'...

[Treverer]

That's an underestimation, I'd guess ...
better:

basically everything to the North of the Alps towards the Baltic is very unsafe

... and I who thought this was common knowledge among us players.

[Tellos Athenaios]

That's an underestimation, I'd guess ...
better:



... and I who thought this was common knowledge among us players.

If you want to know what hurts: ask the AI... I believe Diazelmis & Sautes are about to bury yet another two core legions of the Romani under the piles of skulls of previous Roman legions...

[cmacq]

I may have found one! I had sent a spy ahead and it seemed only a small army was holding the town with another small army nearby. But apparently....

there was a much larger army hiding somewhere close by. I organize my up-armed Roman armies with about 1/3 missile troops, lots of light infantry, with some medium-heavy infantry and horse. Like an early Roman army. Works very good in open country. Not so much in the woods.

This time I had sent a column ahead with most of the infantry, and a second column with most of the missile troops in trail. Trying to start the seige before winter. I lay seige to the town with the first column, not really concerned about a counter attack, as the second collum would have arrived the next turn. Well apparently....

all three of the enemy armies counter-attacked and forced my first army into the second, that at the time was moving through a very dense forest.

I was overpowered...
wwwwaaaaan

It was like Aliens....
it was a massacre!

some got away, but not many...


We should all hear more stories of mega-defeat, no?

[Thaatu]

I was overpowered...

cmacq is overpowered. He hasn't been nerfed yet, so he must still be. Will cmacq be nerfed for 1.1?


Edit:

I think your line of posts like this is no longer any fun. You've made a lot of them.

The family muscle Bovi the Fish enforcing the law. If I were Pharnakes, I'd skip town.

[TWFanatic]

If it's about 250 BC in your campaign, basically everything to the North of the Alps towards the Baltic is very unsafe. It got some nice hidden 'features'...

Awesome! I can't wait to start a Romani campaign.