Kays
10-20-2006, 03:31 PM
I've finished playing all of the economic maps in the Republic campaign and now am working though the military ones. I'm doing pretty good in setting things up and thought I had the hang the the military side having successfully beaten back a number of invasions.
In looking at the landscape, I decided that I'm going to try to really looking city and evolve it as far as I could since it's nice and flat with plenty of room.
Since I will be required to fulfill military request and iron had to be imported I quirky set that up and managed to have a number of cohorts available for the first request. Although the chances of winning were excellent, they did come back pretty beat up and it took a while to build them backup to strength, And this only boasted my favour by a little bit. The next request for troops required me to make a number of additional cohorts in order to have an excellent chance of winning and still they came back very beat up requiring time and weapons to rebuild.
Fortunately I manged to get a wall around the city before the local attacks started but these again took a strain on my troops and as well I tried to meet the requests from for for which I got very little favour.
Finally got things into a rhythm and started the final stages of building the city up by adding a patrician block when I got hit with a massive invasion. They came in from an unexpected direction and caught me unprepared.
Ok, loaded a saved game and got my troops in place and fared better in the battle. Took a lot of damage but finally managed to defeat them.
And then the fires began...
I've been having a problem with fires on this map and had to double my prefects to keep them under control. Although they were beaten back, the enemy did mange to torch a number of buildings in my city and the lack of prefects in other areas whole areas of buildings started to catch fire until almost the entire city was enguffed.
I was so involved in damage control that I didn't get any screenshots, but it was a spectacuar sight. :D
Anyways, during all of this I go badly into debt and Rome decides to remove me. Sent the biggest bride I could, but the troops showed up anyways. Had my troops in place before hand and it looks like they were making a good fight of it, when the game crashed......
Oh well it was 2:30 am so i went to bed instead of retrying a lost cause. Think I'll restart the land from scratch and see if I can do better.
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-The first shot is my city just before the invasion.
-The next one is of skirmishing outside the city walls.
-The start of my city on fire with just a couple of building. Although the minimap shows enemy toops in other parts of the city I couldn't find them . But in the end, almost all of the city was engulfed in flame.
-The last shot is one of my cohorts skirmishing with a Roman cohort. Not doing too well by the looks of it.
In looking at the landscape, I decided that I'm going to try to really looking city and evolve it as far as I could since it's nice and flat with plenty of room.
Since I will be required to fulfill military request and iron had to be imported I quirky set that up and managed to have a number of cohorts available for the first request. Although the chances of winning were excellent, they did come back pretty beat up and it took a while to build them backup to strength, And this only boasted my favour by a little bit. The next request for troops required me to make a number of additional cohorts in order to have an excellent chance of winning and still they came back very beat up requiring time and weapons to rebuild.
Fortunately I manged to get a wall around the city before the local attacks started but these again took a strain on my troops and as well I tried to meet the requests from for for which I got very little favour.
Finally got things into a rhythm and started the final stages of building the city up by adding a patrician block when I got hit with a massive invasion. They came in from an unexpected direction and caught me unprepared.
Ok, loaded a saved game and got my troops in place and fared better in the battle. Took a lot of damage but finally managed to defeat them.
And then the fires began...
I've been having a problem with fires on this map and had to double my prefects to keep them under control. Although they were beaten back, the enemy did mange to torch a number of buildings in my city and the lack of prefects in other areas whole areas of buildings started to catch fire until almost the entire city was enguffed.
I was so involved in damage control that I didn't get any screenshots, but it was a spectacuar sight. :D
Anyways, during all of this I go badly into debt and Rome decides to remove me. Sent the biggest bride I could, but the troops showed up anyways. Had my troops in place before hand and it looks like they were making a good fight of it, when the game crashed......
Oh well it was 2:30 am so i went to bed instead of retrying a lost cause. Think I'll restart the land from scratch and see if I can do better.
==
-The first shot is my city just before the invasion.
-The next one is of skirmishing outside the city walls.
-The start of my city on fire with just a couple of building. Although the minimap shows enemy toops in other parts of the city I couldn't find them . But in the end, almost all of the city was engulfed in flame.
-The last shot is one of my cohorts skirmishing with a Roman cohort. Not doing too well by the looks of it.