R:TW Challenge-BLITZ!!!

**Askthepizzaguy** · 03-07-2008, 01:51

hint on playing as the rebels:

Amass as many troops as possible, and have them all rendezvous at some central point.

Your actual territories suck. Abandon them completely, as you don't NEED public order.

Amass all your armies from Spain, France, and Germany around Gaul, and pick off their weaker settlements, exterminate their larger stacks by surrounding them, and take Gaul. Amass all your armies from the east and take Dacia and Thrace and Illyria. Have them all meet in the middle, wipe out the Germans, and then retake Gaul and Dacia, so your actual established territory is Gaul, Germania, and Dacia. Now, disband any irrelevant troops and begin as the Pan-Germanian Rebel faction. Try to build some good quality troops and spread into Italy and Spain. Britania will always be a bother, because their mainland has some very decent troops and yours will never be as good as theirs.

Leave any temples standing, as they will grant you possibly recruitment or armour, trade bonuses, etc.

If you can manage to take Rome as the rebels, consider yourself a master of this strategy.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 03-07-2008, 08:20

There is one little minus in this ... I played a long time ago with rebels and looks like the barbarian rebels cannot recruit any units from their towns

.. so they have to wait those brigands ....
Greeks and eastern rebels can recruit some put mostly some light troops .. greek rebels can recruit hoplites who can be the backbone of your army .. so if you want to play with rebels then you should free those greek cities ...
But the biggest downside playng with rebels is that you can not lose any large battles cause you will lose the entire army .. you can not withdraw either

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 03-07-2008, 17:49

So I have started this challenge..
Playng ..
..RTW v1.5 (Gold Edition)
.. faction Carthage

The only change to this game was in the descr_strat.txt file where I changed the rebel spawning values to this ...

brigand_spawn_value 75
pirate_spawn_value 75

The Year at the moment is -267 summer .. turn 7(?)
Brutii will be crushed on this turn ..

have Messina and after Brutii gone I will get rid of Scipii ..
in Spain I have Garthago Nova and besieging Osca ..
in Africa I took Lepcis Magna(sp?) and moving to take out the numidians now ..
small army is moving towards Kyrene .. darn this desert is BIG!!

I have right now 10 (soon 11) setlements
just a little update ...

P.S I have to say that in RTW it is much harder to blitz cause there is now crusade option to use

**Paradox** · 03-07-2008, 19:27

What do you think is easier to use the blitz strategy with? The RS mod or vanilla? What's better, having a much much larger map with 0 turn recruitment or a rather small map with +1 turn recruitment? Since the topic starter didn't forbid mods, I think I'm going to do it with RS, I'll have legions swarming over the whole world by the end of the week.

I couldn't do this with M2TW since my computer was too weak to run the battles, so I had to auto-calc everything. But if it's okay with askthepizzaguy, I'm going to try to beat him as soon as the Rome: M2TW mod releases.