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    It's your first campaign so you're obviously playing as Rome. Here's what you do:

    *Disband one unit of cavalry.
    *Disband one unit of Triarii.
    *Disband one unit or Rorari and Accensi.
    *Set taxes to as high as possible without the face turning yellow.
    *Merge the two armies EB gave you to start with.
    *Pick a general to lead them, replace him in the city with the unit of Leves you didn't disband.
    *Conquer Taras and Rhegion with army.
    *Watch the money flow into your treasury.
    *Build your buildings, conquer more cities.

    And a good time was had by all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayve
    It's your first campaign so you're obviously playing as Rome. Here's what you do:

    *Disband one unit of cavalry.
    *Disband one unit of Triarii.
    *Disband one unit or Rorari and Accensi.
    *Set taxes to as high as possible without the face turning yellow.
    *Merge the two armies EB gave you to start with.
    *Pick a general to lead them, replace him in the city with the unit of Leves you didn't disband.
    *Conquer Taras and Rhegion with army.
    *Watch the money flow into your treasury.
    *Build your buildings, conquer more cities.

    And a good time was had by all.
    a firm starting plan.

    interesting to note that the assumption is all new players start with romani. my first two campaigns were epeiros and sweboz. but i think that was because before that i'd been playing a "scipii" (as rtw called it) campaign on rtw and was sick of it.

    only came on here once i tried the romani later on, and got all the troubles with their weird arrangement for building MICs.
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    I've still never played as Romani for longer than it takes to capture Taras and I've been playing EB since january last year.
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    First thing any Roman player should do is disband the fleet!

    You won't need it for several years and its 1k mnai per turn, 3 or 4 inf units worth.
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    Usually, I disband all ships and cavalry that I have at the beginning of a campaign because I generally don't need them. I find myself not to be a large cavalry person anyhow and only use, at most, 4 units per stack. They cost too much to be used this early in a campaign anyhow. The Romani has a relatively good economy as far as economy goes; I believe at the beginning they're actually earning money! This is in contrast to some barbarian factions where they have at ton of money in the hole if you don't move fast or the smaller factions in the eastern part of the map.

    Anyways, just try out what you can. Generally you won't find yourself being able to blitz like RTW or as fast anyhow. Some factions you may need to disband all units and wait out a couple dozen turns so you can get a good amount of cash to start conquering. I did this in my Casse and Hayasdan campaigns for example. After you conquer a couple towns, your economy will get better. In no time, you'll be building buildings in all your towns. That's one of the things I also aim to achieve. I don't want to waste any sort of time as I want my cities upgraded quick and fast. So I generally always have less than 50,000 mnai, except for this one Koinon Hellenon campaign where the money was just rolling in and I couldn't build fast enough to counteract it. The economy in EB is generally like that. First you're dead broke, then after a while, rich as hell.
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    As romani I never seem to have money problems starting out, I like to maintain my 2 starting legions and other garrisons and the fleet 2. I just raise taxes and capture taras and rhegion. Main problems seem to occur with smaller, or landlocked factions.

    I've finally got an economy section in the WIP manual, might check it out, I could always use some feedback as well. Public comments should be enabled on the wiki:

    http://ebmanual.wikispaces.com/Economy
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