Rome II

[undercovergeek]

if you give him a target in the strategy map, he has in my game sent a massive stack and all kinds of agents after the army i pointed him at

i told you they were a pain in the ass - i sealed up the west and north with non aggression pacts so i could concentrate solely on them - theyre evil

[undercovergeek]

Random question:  Anyone know if the Four Seasons mod (or whatever it's called) has been updated to be compatible with the latest patch?  I've kinda been waiting for that before I got back into the game (much as I've wanted to play it).

vanilla has its own 4 seasons now Martok

[Gusington]

Yeah I was just going to type that about the seasons.

I looked through my options with Antony and I did not have the option to give him a target, ucg...is the diplomatic screen thr wrong place to do that?

[undercovergeek]

Yeah I was just going to type that about the seasons.

I looked through my options with Antony and I did not have the option to give him a target, ucg...is the diplomatic screen thr wrong place to do that?

just had a look, open the diplo screen, in the bottom left youll see 'set war coordination' target - you need to be at war, and have an ally who can help, on clicking that itll be a little bulls eye job to pick the army you need him to attack - takes about 2 turns for him to get his shit together and then hes on his way

[MengJiao]

if you give him a target in the strategy map, he has in my game sent a massive stack and all kinds of agents after the army i pointed him at

i told you they were a pain in the ass - i sealed up the west and north with non aggression pacts so i could concentrate solely on them - theyre evil

  I just took the other option -- I was the Parthenians.  They are huge and pretty hard-hitting and yet you can concentrate the pretty fast if you give up some stuff to the savages to the NE and let your satraps handle that stuff.  Then you face the treacherous and dangerous Judeans and Armenians backed up rather fitfully by Marc Anthony.  The thing is that MA is too busy and has too many enemies to consistantly back up his allies.  So eventually I wiped out Judea and the Armenians.  Cleopatra took the hint and Egypt stayed neutral and I went after MA.  I was allied with Rome (Octavius?) and cleaning things up by the time I moved on to MiG21.  "Here," I said magnanimously, "you take the known world -- I have to go fly my jet."   

[Nefaro]

Random question:  Anyone know if the Four Seasons mod (or whatever it's called) has been updated to be compatible with the latest patch?  I've kinda been waiting for that before I got back into the game (much as I've wanted to play it).

vanilla has its own 4 seasons now Martok

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Yeah but the time still progresses by a whole year as opposed to four turns per year.  Right?  ???

You need the mod to actually adjust the time scale.

[undercovergeek]

not as far as i know - ive had a general since the start of the game and hes epic, and my two spies they dont appear to get a year older older with every turn, only every 4 turns

[Gusington]

Yeah AFAIK the vanilla game basically absorbed the functionality of the 4 turns per year mod.

Thanks for the above, ucg, you may have just saved ancient Armenia.

And Meng, I was thunking if doing the same thing (playing as Parthia) but I never really enjoy playing the huge behemoth factions (no big surprise).

Can't wait to ask Antony to pop open a can of antiquity whup ass. I still wonder if he woukd have without me asking...

[Gusington]

Uh oh...Antony got his ass whupped...by the Parthians. Pontus saw how girly he was and has begun smacking him around too...and Parthia is now really pissed at me. UCG what did you do??

[MengJiao]

Yeah AFAIK the vanilla game basically absorbed the functionality of the 4 turns per year mod.

Thanks for the above, ucg, you may have just saved ancient Armenia.

And Meng, I was thunking if doing the same thing (playing as Parthia) but I never really enjoy playing the huge behemoth factions (no big surprise).

  The Parthinians were my first normal faction and I played them first when the AI was really aggressive (too aggressive to survive, really).
I'd been smashed by the Selucides as Easy Pontus and managed to Crush the Selucides as Easy Egypt so Parthia was very memorable and surprising.  When I played Parthia more recently, I worked to concentrate on getting Antioch and knocking out Judea and Armenia.  I gave up territory in the far east and traded with as much of the east as I could.  I managed to get truces with Armenia while I knocked out Judea and impressed the Egyptians.  Then I finally (and it wasn't easy) wiped out Armenia.  During all this MA kept sending forces to assist his allies but his main armies seem to have been busy in the Balkans and sometimes I had to retreat from regions to avoid MA's bigger armies.  After I wiped out Armenia and took Antioch, the rest was relatively easy.

[Gusington]

Well in my current game Antony is a big puss and Parthia is getting ready to issue it's coup de grace to me...

[MengJiao]

Well in my current game Antony is a big puss and Parthia is getting ready to issue it's coup de grace to me...

  Well, MA has a lot on his mind and Parthia is HUGE and has no lack of satraps.  For me the surprises were how powerful the
Judeans and Armenians were and how Egypt stayed neutral.  Once all of that resolved it was just the usual big Empire.  I lose interest
when my Empire is gets to a certain tedious size.

[Yskonyn]

Little question; do you guys always try to keep your armies as large as the command allows you?

[Gusington]

I do if economically viable.

Despite my impending smackdown, I may actually try again with Armenia. Very interesting faction, culturally, etc. Feels like a whole new game.

But Antony has got to help us...help me Marc Antony, you're my only hope!

[Sir Slash]

I like to keep a slot or two open in case there's some really good mercs to hire. Other than early game, I try to use 2 armies supporting each other with at least 1 with a Hero agent to boost combat abilities.