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.
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.
There are those who do not understand the flavour that some defeats adds to the gameplay experience!!!
From the markets of Lilibeo to the Sacred Band in the halls of Astarte, from those halls to the Senate of Safot Softin BiKarthadast as Lilibeo representative
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?
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.
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.
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.
Remember the senate couldn't reload after Cannae!
"Tell them I said something......"
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Completed; Rome AD14!
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