Rome II

[GDS_Starfury]

are any of you playing on a Mac?  and if so are you using a pc dual boot to you can play online?

[GDS_Starfury]

Turn 50 as Armenia and Parthia is all but dead with 1 city left.  its allies are pretty much in the same boat.  all of my non-aggression treaties have held and Antony is pissing me off with small stacks running around my territory.  I expect to start dealing with that in about 10 turns after the east areas are wrapped up.

[Gusington]

Ucg my stacks have axemen, hoplites, slingers, spears, hillmen, armored horse archers and some melee cavalry. The roster is not as deep as I hoped yet but I just teched up to heavy armored cataphracts in one eastern city so I am excited to get to use them while smacking around Bactria.

[undercovergeek]

gotcha - i found the general, 3 cavalry, 8 axemen and 8 spears was undefeatable

[Gusington]

Surprised you guys aren't using more cavalry...cataphracts!!

Hillmen and axemen are surprisingly effective and resilient too.

[GDS_Starfury]

axemen work very well.  Ive not been using much cavalry to keep the army costs down while I build infrastructure.  I also havent been wedded to my towns because the buildings themselves have been giving me pretty great garrison forces.

[undercovergeek]

Surprised you guys aren't using more cavalry...cataphracts!!

Hillmen and axemen are surprisingly effective and resilient too.

whilst awesome, i found the cataphracts to be realllllly slow - once they get going theyre great but if a mob catches them theyre in trouble

[Rayfer]

I might be getting the hang of this one....I had to set aside old habits from Rome TW I.  Finally won a major battle and crushed a faction playing a new campaign in Britain. Question...got a quest to recruit a Champion, which I have done. But I'm clear on how to utilize her? Can't seem to place her in an army...are they like spies?

[Gusington]

Champions are good at spreading your faction's gospel in your own provinces and for undermining the enemy in their provinces. They can also be used as assassins and saboteurs and can be leveled up to gain different skill sets.

[Rayfer]

Champions are good at spreading your faction's gospel in your own provinces and for undermining the enemy in their provinces. They can also be used as assassins and saboteurs and can be leveled up to gain different skill sets.

Sort of like my spy.....got it!

[undercovergeek]

or add to an army and they will boost stats

[GDS_Starfury]

but you have to use a button and assign them to a town.  its the left one that you use for edicts IIRC.

[GDS_Starfury]

I still cant get the damn screenshot shit working.  turn 72 and Ive got the whole south east region of the map.

[Staggerwing]

No luck with the usual Steam-bound F12 key for screenies?

[GDS_Starfury]

Nope  >:(  ive re-bound it and reset the folder.