Roma - Fledgling State to Mighty Empire

[thelord]

Hey following the collapse of my 1.0 Romani save I have decided to start a 1.1 AAR. Starting in 272 BC and I plan to play all the way down to 14 AD. (Hopefully this time I can manage it!)

Here are the house rules I have when I play :

- Destroy every building in a settlement when I take it over. This makes expansion much slower and the game lasts much longer and is more challenging.
- Stick roughly to historical expansion. Not exactly to the date though as this ruins the fun of the game IMO.
- I don't micromanage my generals with a set lifestyle for them or anything.

I have also changed the minimap so the Ptolemaioi are a golden colour as I find it hard to differentiate between them and the rebels once they are built up a bit.

POST ONE - THE BEGINNING

I know everyone hates the beginning with the whole expansion into Italy thing, so I won't go into lots of details. I besieged Taras and then assaulted, which resulted in a close battle for the city,



I am not a big fan of the Camillan troops, their morale isn't the best. Some of my Principes broke in this battle when the odds were even. The Epirots phalanxes were making short work of them.



So I sent my cavalry in to take charge their flanks repeatedly.



Which turned the battle into my favour and I captured the city.



Once Taras was in my hands I changed the name to Tarentum. I plan to do this with the settlements that have a different name under the Romans when I take them.

Thanks for reading.

[Chirurgeon]

looks good. Good luck and I hope you can get a Caesar like you did last time. Destroy every building? Does that cause alot of discontent?

[QuintusSertorius]

Change names? How do you change settlement names?

[Reverend Joe]

You know that means you will have to change the names in the script too, right?

Edit: sorry, third person to comment on that...

[thelord]

looks good. Good luck and I hope you can get a Caesar like you did last time. Destroy every building? Does that cause alot of discontent?

Yes, it certainly does later on when they are further away. But it is relatively simple to keep them under control with a governor.

[CaesarAugustus]

Good luck with this, I will be starting a new Romani campaign 1.1 shortly, it will be interesting to have something to compare it to.

[Horst Nordfink]

I enjoyed your last Romani AAR, good luck with this one.

[Frodge]

ooh, if you play this til the end you may just take the King of AAR's title of MAA's civil war toting makedonian riot.
No offence to any other writers of course.

[Tyrfingr]

Renaming the cities will interfer with the reforms...or am I wrong?

[Chaotix]

Yeah, it will interfere with reforms. You can just change the name back to the original once your reforms come around to build the new barracks. You might want to avoid changing names of cities that have hard-to-spell names or names with weird accents. Good luck with your new AAR!

[thelord]

I haven't edited any of the files, You can turn on change settlement names in the preferences file. Then click on the name in the settlement scroll. Will it still effect the reforms?