"Today is a good day to die."
As a Noble/Prince player, who likes to play with barbarians turned off, I was facing a defeat anyway, so I figured that I might as well take the unassisted start.
As I never ventured much beyond my homeland, I believe that it does not pay to set up a website with all the screenshots, so I can make the tale herein.
I settled in place. Mistake here, I know. A first warrior was sent out to the north, to explore the land, further warriors were built in Rome. The idea was to have a strong defense at home, and also send a few units to the borders to clear the fog. Expansion was not on my agenda.
![[Image: 1.jpg]](http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~phlucas/RB/E04/1.jpg)
Researchwise, I went BW/IW (without archery), to immediately get access to iron; I was expecting that Sirian would provide a source of iron almost, but not quite, in Rome's cultural borders, and hey, I was right.
It was a struggle to get warriors to the outside, so that they can clear the fog; I had to wait for brief spaces in the Barbarian waves to have time to get someone out on a hill. It felt a little bit like playing Frogger.
![[Image: 2.jpg]](http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~phlucas/RB/E04/2.jpg)
When I had IW, I did not have iron, and without archery, I had very little hope to get to the iron site. In fact, I got archery as late as -1450, and because of this, it took me until 260 to build my first settler, and in 290, Antium was built.
![[Image: 3.jpg]](http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~phlucas/RB/E04/3.jpg)
Note that I did not settle on the iron in order to have access to cows in my 3x3 cross.
Of course, ultimately I just had not the resources to counter the increasing waves of axemen. Antium falls in 665, and I hold on until 755.
![[Image: 4.jpg]](http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~phlucas/RB/E04/4.jpg)
It was an interesting game, and I might play it again, this time settling on the hill and going for archery earlier. Maybe this would help me to get the second city up earlier, and then fight with praetorians...
As a Noble/Prince player, who likes to play with barbarians turned off, I was facing a defeat anyway, so I figured that I might as well take the unassisted start.
As I never ventured much beyond my homeland, I believe that it does not pay to set up a website with all the screenshots, so I can make the tale herein.
I settled in place. Mistake here, I know. A first warrior was sent out to the north, to explore the land, further warriors were built in Rome. The idea was to have a strong defense at home, and also send a few units to the borders to clear the fog. Expansion was not on my agenda.
Researchwise, I went BW/IW (without archery), to immediately get access to iron; I was expecting that Sirian would provide a source of iron almost, but not quite, in Rome's cultural borders, and hey, I was right.
It was a struggle to get warriors to the outside, so that they can clear the fog; I had to wait for brief spaces in the Barbarian waves to have time to get someone out on a hill. It felt a little bit like playing Frogger.
When I had IW, I did not have iron, and without archery, I had very little hope to get to the iron site. In fact, I got archery as late as -1450, and because of this, it took me until 260 to build my first settler, and in 290, Antium was built.
Note that I did not settle on the iron in order to have access to cows in my 3x3 cross.
Of course, ultimately I just had not the resources to counter the increasing waves of axemen. Antium falls in 665, and I hold on until 755.
It was an interesting game, and I might play it again, this time settling on the hill and going for archery earlier. Maybe this would help me to get the second city up earlier, and then fight with praetorians...