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Post by Adkenpachi on Sept 17, 2013 3:09:32 GMT -5
What did Hannibal ever see on it, eh?
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Post by vegna on Sept 17, 2013 6:56:10 GMT -5
I'm not doing too bad as carthage, it's vulnerable but it's not terrible. I find the size of it's client states to be a pain. I'm tempted to wipe out Nova myself now.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Sept 17, 2013 15:11:48 GMT -5
Do you get war elephants early on?
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Post by vegna on Sept 18, 2013 6:15:06 GMT -5
only as a general unit. I trained 2 groups of them, never used them and disbanded them 5 turn later. don't see a use for them any more.
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Post by Lord General Armstrong on Sept 18, 2013 8:26:51 GMT -5
I'm enjoying it immensely, though the teething troubles at launch were a pain, save games corrupting, crashes, frame rate drops, made Rome 2 almost unplayable for me. If I recall I'm on my 6th campaign solely because I've had to restart thanks to one of the more serious issues, but after the patches, it's now very satisfying. I will have to agree with Reds on his prior post regarding archers, or just range units in general, their range is exceptionally small and rarely get to fire a single volley before charged or skirmisher mod has triggered. Originally I had 1 hastati/legionary to 1 velites, the velites would move first, equip with flaming javelins and harass until out of ammunition. Against enemy skirmishers, siege defense or offense it generally worked, (I think there maybe something wrong with the AI during their own siege defense, they chase my skirmishers after being hit by a missile volley, then seem to hit an invisible wall in which they turn around and go back to their original position) then the heavy infantry would move in for mopping up. After awhile, I just switched to entire armies of legionaries, which seems to actually proven to be better, thanks to the AIs love of slingers and levy infantry. (Then during battles I'd just wait until it started to rain or fog, so they couldn't use flaming projectiles or have complete line of sight)
My overall empire tends to be working quite well, smaller towns will have a Grove of Nypmts, a farm of varying size, (generally maximum, or just below depends on region public order) a merchant port/fishing port (primarily merchant ports, than converted into fishing ports when additional food is required) and the town centre itself. My capital cities also have a Grove of Nypmts, a Circus, Forum Cuppedinis, Manipular Barracks (my armies are just veteran legionaries now and this military building is the highest you get before suffering a negative public order penalty), a merchant port/fishing port (primarily merchant ports, than converted into fishing ports when additional food is required) and the city centre itself. With this set up everyone of my regions is happy, with a majority of them having a positive food production.
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