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Dis
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:35
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a lot of people do it seems.
I just got done with another rise of rome. I've been meaning to finish all the conquest scenarios when I got my new computer. I thought I transferred all my old save games, but I forgot the conquests save games are in a different folder from vanilla civ save games. I just don't feel complete, not having all my scenarios completed.  . I've been putting it off, because I knew I'd have to do Rise of Rome.
Amazingly the time only took 8 hours and 40 minutes. It did seem longer than this though. I wonder how that in game timer works...
This time as the Macedonians, which amazingly is easier than the Romans. Hoplites are a damn good unit (I had the misfortune of finding this out when playing rome). And unlike the first game, I had no trouble keeping peace with every other Civ. Though initially persia got Rome to declare war on me. And they sent over a pretty scary looking stack of units. They could have hurt me pretty bad at that early stage. But I gave them enough gold for a peace treaty, and I never went to war with them again. My friends the Scythians (whome were gracious to me  ) declared war on me with the urging of Persia. They destroyed one city, and took another. But I got it back. We made peace, and they never attacked me again.
Because at this point I had Persia on the ropes. they probably didn't have enough gold, or technology to trade to get people to attack me. I think the Celts, goths declacred war on me, but they weren't nearly the nuisance as they were with Rome. The problem I had when playing Rome was I was struggling against weak units with a 3 attack and 3 defense, when my units were clearly superior. Hoplites and the Celtic sworsmen were a major nuisance. I did not have any of these problems as the Macedonians. Immortals only have a 2 defense, so I didn't have too much trouble rooting them out.
The only problem I ran into was when I thought I could wipe out the Carthagians as easily as I wiped out the Egyptians. I was wrong. I still took out more units than I lost, but I can't consider that a success. I couldn't take any cities. I had to evacuate my armies to prevent them from being destroyed. I killed his army, and he killed one of my armies  . I had to retreat. The problem with the Carthagians, is they were saving units the entire game. They never really warred much with Rome.
Instead I just finished the game by building a bunch of settlers and filling in the gaps and achieving 20% land area 50% population with 19 turns to go.
I was unable to achieve domination victory as Rome. I had to win on points when the scenario ended. Perhaps I should have relied less on the roman legionaire units and more on heavy cavalry as I did with Macedon. With Macedon, as soon as heavy cavs became available I used them, and did not use hoplites on the attack. There is no way I could have conquered the necessary territory in time without them.
Last edited by Dis on 02-08-2005 at 13:09
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23-07-2005 00:38
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