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    Why would I restart? I still have two top notch armies, the Iberians are almost as battered as I am, and I think I can still pull it off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kekailoa View Post
    Why would I restart? I still have two top notch armies, the Iberians are almost as battered as I am, and I think I can still pull it off.
    That sounds like a fun challenge. As the romans would say 'ad triarios redisse', or 'it has come to the triarii'. Truly a fitting moment for that expression.

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    There are those who do not understand the flavour that some defeats adds to the gameplay experience!!!
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    as frustrating as auto_calc is, the heavy casualties and occasional losses I take add a lot to the game, and keep me honest... If I truly need to win, I'd better command the battle myself! What fun would it be to have an undefeated army after 200 years?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kekailoa View Post
    Why would I restart? I still have two top notch armies, the Iberians are almost as battered as I am, and I think I can still pull it off.
    I mind not a loss, but a loss of a highly veteran army that one is fond of is not something I would let go without reloading. I am surprised you would not reload. If you want things to be more difficult, just take that army away to some other place, either by ship or by foot.

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    I would be really pissed that I lost a veteran army too normally, but, the turn after I was defeated, the Polybian reforms came through and it seemed a waste to retrain anyway, because I was going to have build new armies in the first place. The army was really good, but I needed to get rid of them somehow and at least they died fighting.

    Update on campaign: The Luso's besieged Emporion, assaulted in one turn and I just barely beat them off by the skin of my teeth, totally eradicating their army to the last man as the AI is stupid. I alos bribed a large army of Samnite rebels, combined them with other Samnites that I had bribed earlier, shipped them to Iberia and they're now swatting the Luso's like flies. Back in Italy, a new manipular army is being trained and will be ready in about five turns. I also beat back assaults on the two northern Iberian towns I took.

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    I once lost my best legionary army and leader, silver chevrons the works, to Pirates of all things, I did not reload accepted it as one of those twists of fate the Gods send to annoy us. Made the campaign a lot more interesting as I had to really fight out of the mess.
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    I'd laugh if they tried and (obviously) failed




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