Numidian Campaign: those pesky Egyptians!!

[ReluctantSamurai]

ReluctantSamurai, what's your ZPG strategy?

Start with this discussion:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...-game%21%21%21

More screenies here:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...em-like-Tanais

There is no A-->B-->C to the method. You need to understand the effects of garrison, distance-to-capital penalties, effects of squalor, and how to best use the temples available to a particular faction.

These should help:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...rder-Penalties

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...rrison-Effects

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...?37586-Squalor

And the best available Guide to Temples that I know of:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...do=file&id=107

ZPG isn't attainable 100% of the time (but almost) and is much more difficult with barbarian factions. If you check my screenies (and unfortunately I lost the ones with Germania, Dacia, and Scythia), you'll see that even cities with grain-driven population growth can be brought to ZPG (that little orange population indicator that becomes your best friend).