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[ninjasan8]

In my opinion, you should play through the game on the easiest difficulty once, and then make your way up, increasing the difficulty by one level every time you beat the game. That way, you know where you feel comfortable.

I just beat the game, and the easiest difficulty is way too easy, but if you're a beginner like me, then it's a good idea so you can learn the basics. I'll be sticking around here in case anyone needs any help.

[ninjasan8]

Well, recently I finished a complete translation of Rodrigo's excellent Centurion site from Spanish to English. There's a lot of great info there, so be sure to check it out here.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tiberius @ Jun 20 2007, 07:57 PM) [snapback]295357[/snapback]</div>

Fun game, but what is a decent difficulty to play on? I only lost two battles, the first was when I foolishly marched into Gaul right at the start of the game and the other when I was late in the game when I was up north and forgot to upgrade my first army to cavalry before moving into a territory that had a huge cavalry army. Not long after the game froze. :tai:
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The faster way to win a battle is to make a troop line and then make it "Stand". Always enemy lines is gonna crush over your troop and suffer loss before they start to fight, giving you an advantage on them

[another_guest]

Another way to play the game is to go on easiest setting (though of course you can try on other settings if you want) and try to conquer the whole world as early as possible.

Don't remember my best years but usually it took me longest to build a decent fleet to invade Britain, then several years of organizing games to get the Brits to get into a calmer mood...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tiberius @ Jun 20 2007, 06:57 PM) [snapback]295357[/snapback]</div>

Fun game, but what is a decent difficulty to play on? I only lost two battles, the first was when I foolishly marched into Gaul right at the start of the game and the other when I was late in the game when I was up north and forgot to upgrade my first army to cavalry before moving into a territory that had a huge cavalry army. Not long after the game froze. :tai:
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beginner and legionaire is simply crap - if you play the game on this mode you are a wimp
and wimps always strat playing on easy and then say foolish crap like - i was never beaten, the game is too easy -...

start play the game on OVERALL difficulty senator and i promise you some trouble, on beginner or legionaire you cannot lose a battle - that simple

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alex Cold @ Aug 7 2007, 10:46 AM) [snapback]303334[/snapback]</div>

The faster way to win a battle is to make a troop line and then make it "Stand". Always enemy lines is gonna crush over your troop and suffer loss before they start to fight, giving you an advantage on them
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on wimp mode perhaps.

on senator mode enemy arnies often roll over you, and you have to use tactics to win

and i dont mean just set land battles to senator, overall difficulty, than enemies will have bigger armies and overall more trouble, more aenemy army walk around and stuff

I could never get an alliance although I finished the game a couple of times on easiest, I thought you just couldn't do it so after a while I didn't bother with the dialogue anymore - just make them pay for wasting precious time

[Japo]

It's been long since I played it but I think that what you needed to get an alliance was to convince them that you could easily kick their behind if they didn't come to terms on their own accord. So you need to be very powerful. But yay for your approach, "just make them pay for wasting precious time", that's basically all you need in this game.

[another_guest]

Well, that works on easier difficulty levels; on higher difficulties you'll want to avoid battles and casualties.
Though for quite some time I used to think the diplomatic talks were just there for flavour, that they never worked :P

[Mabuse]

alliances do work. but countries need to have different approaches.

there are lists on the net that describe what to do exactly to convince each country.
(but i did not read them to much, just skimmed over them, as i thought its boring when to know, often it is also that you cannot wait until you have the requirements (army size etc))


often "diplo - diplo - offer allience" work

sometimes you have to scare therm -

"diplo - agressive - offer alliance"


some countries will just never agree to ally.

sometimes it depends also which army you bring. some countries will be impressed by a big army (and see a small army as sign of weakness), other will see it as a sign of hostile (and so negotiations will always fail)

also the third answer should be "offer alliance" because if you talk more th epeople wil also get bored


however, on higher difficulty levels (senator and emperor) it is a gift to avoid a battle

but when i played the game first i also thought they dont work. however, when i played last time i could get two allies. thats always a good thing and help so much



in general:
germans and gaul are impressed by really big armies (consular), and maybe you need to be a bit aggressive (but i usually conquer them beofre i get consular armies, because they are an excellent recruiting ground)
some of the "weak" nations feel uncomfortable if you go into them with a too big army
be nice to cleopatra .. good-good-offer-alliance (but dont talk too long, else she get bored - so good-good-good will not get you anywhere)
in general stick with "diplo-diplo-offer alliance" that may work sometimes
some contries (especially the historical enemies of rome (chartage, siciyl, partha and whatnot)) will never ally with rome