You'll be spending money as soon as you've made it, working hard to build your economy and recruit troops to fight several key decisive battles against opponents who are roughly as strong as you. You have enough governors and the patience to take individual care of each city.
What are you trying to do here, and how should you do it? First, we'll paint the scene: You're moving out, running errands for the senate and conquering cities. You can choose where and exactly when you get a new general, when you get new provinces and are "short" of family members, relative to your empire state.In the early game, you'll be concentrating on immediate threats. just getting your diplomats in position, and making contact in the "correct" order (not magic, just in a sequence of cause-effect-result, like what happens when faction A gives you a province, and that causes you to meet a Civ that you have not prepared for, and ruins your upcoming negotiations with faction B.Īll this has strong strong implications for the actual battle sequence, and obtaining generals to control the rapidly expanding empire. If you just knock on the door and say "Gimme your provinces" then you will be slapped and thrown out, and possibly ruin diplomatic contact with other factions.Īlso. It takes me several hours, and keeping track of who/what and replies and money with pen and paper. Note that this diplomatic process is not trivial. so taking Rome as Gauls in '64 for instance can require cunning and division of Purple forces. You must take it by force, and they have strong units and family, behind good walls. Senate will never negotiate Rome away, even if you give Rome other provinces first. I've obtained over 30 provinces in some games with diplomacy, then you drop the hammer and that closes the door on that sort of diplomacy for the rest of the game, and its time for conquest to get the remaining, plus Rome. That part is what takes the time and planning, moreso than battle.Īfter you obtain as much as you can. You convince them to give you some of their provinces.
The Brutii and the Julii are the easiest of all in this groups the Greeks the hardest. In 7 years, the Greeks and all 3 Roman factions can win a 50 province Imperial campaign reliably. I have not played the other factions to a full Imp campaign. Germans (difficulty is not taking Rome, but getting 50 provinces) The following civs can be won without any cheating in less than 10 years, assuming a player has "prior map knowledge" (knows Spain is in Spain, e.g.) and "knowledge of diplomacy": one need not have perfect play, but one need conduct careful, proper (e.g., think before you play) diplomacy and understand how and when to initiate war. Certain errors, particularly in diplomacy, can collapse the possibility. If you have bad luck, it can take 8 or 9 years at worst. Click to expand.Yes, and not just one civ, and not just one level of play, and not just one patch.
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