I am very pogged for this idea.

I'm having trouble getting use out of the chariots, medium Babylonian infantry, and their cavalry units, mostly against Egypt. Any advice for the military side of things, playing as Babylon?

When Rome gave me Italia Superior, I had offered them 6 times their total assets on hand, AND, 700 manpower, AND 500 metal AND 4 warbands. Rome was bleeding money, manpower and metal, they were Tier II and had one aging token. However, Pocus said he will make this more difficult, so thanks for your...

Ancient autocracies allowed a few individuals/families/groups to control whole nations. Foreign money only had to influence these to win that control. What you are describing sounds great, but that's not quite what happens in-game right now. There are no mechanic for winning over local nobles and t...

Well played. I do think it's a major weakness of the game's diplomacy that you can so easily buy key regions off of the AI, often for merely two or three times that region's per turn income. In my first campaign, I destroyed Macedonia by gradually buying all of their cities. I do this too, so no sha...

Looking at the faction ledger, it's always struck me that number of pops tends to correlate closely with number of regions. In other words, you don't tend to see countries with many regions having few pops, or countries with many pops having few regions. Moreover, most of the map is pretty uniform i...

I recently finished my first game as Achaia, playing on the second difficulty. I won the game with around 96K legacy points around turn 380. My empire included Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, plus North Africa and Spain as client states. I had tons of fun. But I did not enjoy the late game as much as ...

Thanks for the advice in this thread. It's been quite useful, and I'm now making it through the end of the North Africa campaign with about 3000-5000 prestige in the bank after each mission. Having a lot of fun with this game.

For sure, the Poland campaign should be easier, but it shouldn't teach you to play in a way that won't work at all in other missions. I like the idea of adding objectives about avoiding losses. For my campaign, going into Battle Axe with a fully upgraded and reinforced army and about 1,000 prestige ...

Excellent advice! I paid more attention to how I approached entrenched infantry and that alone allowed me to enter the next battle with about 2,000 more prestige

So playing on difficulty 2, I went through the Poland/France campaign merrily spamming the "elite replacements" button through each battle and at the end of every battle, and still managed to upgrade my units and have like 500 left over at the start of each new scenario. So far so good. Bu...