Playing past 14 AD...

[Moros]

I also realize the dam punic wars took so dam long.. really make a difference when Carthage isnt a AI.

huh?

[Hannibal Khan the Great]

I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!

[Marcus Darkstar]

I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!

correct. Carhage ingame doesnt even get any Q (... long name) ships ingame when playing against it. ingame it feel more like a second punic war without hannibal. Carthage totally striped of its navy edge and a purely militia/light infantry army. I know it would require additional scripting and starting stats but Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.

and of course after you take Silicy and its islands of Sardinia/Alatia Carthage AI goes bankrupt from Gisgo stack, and the Iberia stacks. So it barely does anything until you kill.

[Nobo]

t Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.

I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...(Redux-for-EB)

[Marcus Darkstar]

I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...(Redux-for-EB)

meh i doubt ill try to stay historical in conquests but the legion sizes interest me. My main consular army had 4 units of each line (leves, hasti, princeps, etc). His at least calls for drastic reduction in this. ( lol i guess my army would be like a Roman Cannae army in comparison in size)

[anubis88]

Question still having loads of fun at 93 BC is what i aim for... How do you do it?

longest lasting game i had was like 190 BC

Well, i guess you just have to be that sort a guy... The Romans are especially suited for playing this long, since you get 3 reforms that drasticaly change your game. After the Marians you get like 10 new units, which is incredible for someone like me, who played with every unit available from the start. To get new units in 110BC is really awesome.

Try limit yourself what you conquer. The game is much more challenging if you don't blitz everyone...

p.s. My former question still stands.. Does anyone know how to trick the AI to make the script last 100 more years?

[Marcus Darkstar]

Well, i guess you just have to be that sort a guy... The Romans are especially suited for playing this long, since you get 3 reforms that drasticaly change your game. After the Marians you get like 10 new units, which is incredible for someone like me, who played with every unit available from the start. To get new units in 110BC is really awesome.

Try limit yourself what you conquer. The game is much more challenging if you don't blitz everyone...

p.s. My former question still stands.. Does anyone know how to trick the AI to make the script last 100 more years?

I guess the only real option would be to change the ingame date (though never tried it before). I'm fairly sure theres a cheat for that.