It took Byblos to unify the known world about 40 years. After that it took 2 (easy) years of starvation & ~30 years to finally unlock the last city tech.
First with suicide squads of peasants, then wagons that did all the work. Now its cataphracts in shining armor that guards the cities. Knightly ...

ikki wrote:Cannot start game.

Windows 7, acer (new hd, used to be vista that broke)

And continued with mss32.dll problems. Not happy if i install it, and nort happy if i dont.

Cannot start game.

Windows 7, acer (new hd, used to be vista that broke)

And I don't understand at all the comment about a food-to-silver converter. Is the person saying this under the impression that he/she is getting silver back upon disbanding Peasant units? Because that's not true, AFAIK...


I meant that overpopulation would be a good thing, rather than a bad one ...

Look at the map.

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2493/judaeans7fb3.jpg

Some of those cities are at content. And taxes are 0. I give max food possible to every worker. I demand 75% effective working. But still...

And no! I'm not talking about towns I recently captured!

Hmm... got a bigger ...

Okay, maybe not trouble. But, I find this structure extremely annoying in regards to the number of citizens created to the point I'm constantly having to build peasants and disband them. The herbalist works well until I've got enough workers in all my cities, then it becomes an issue of ...

This iron age thinking looks weird :P

Back in the good old days (chariots of war) when the men were hard bronze.. and not this common ore .. soft, weak and degrading iron...

Anyway, ahem.

Most cities:
3 resource+stable+health+temple+education+1 last resource if and when great cities became ...

but all ones really needs early on its a TON of food production to get those peasant armies flowing and growing the army from one citystate to ~7
Then you might already have access to some technology, some auxillia, which allows a bit harder bite into the enemies still 8-peasant armies.

Eventually ...

aha...that explains a lot

i have noticed that they cant be harmed with misiles....damn...i lost more men than i could afford beacouse of that :?

Not true at all, had a squad of 8 take on some wandering enemies.. 1 archer & 1 skirmisher.
Figured this would be the easiest ever :D ... except 3 ...

very similar.. i have the whole northern anatolia, not too much of caucasus.. and the mesopotamian cities are my eastern border atm.
Also havetn taken southern arabian peninsula yet.

But i do have way more diplomats... almost all the 15? remaining nations have diplomats.
Otoh ive been civilised in ...

Yeah, they nerfed the teutonic knight big time in their patch.

Check downloads, second page.
There is a link to the COW patch there.

I got rid of taxes and maximised foodeating.. but demand 125% effort.
The population is jubilant.. looks like a all win solution.
Especially as food consumption ...

heh.. a classic case of that "fox and the berries"... if i cannot have it, i never really wanted it at all in the first place

That is, didnt even get to see those skeletons
Let alone cities or many of those other advanced buoldings or troops..

Any way to change the victory conditions?
Im assuming it is tweakable.. or maybe a mod somewhere..

Well i just bought it!

Found it at a cash store.. and well, legion i didnt like that much... got too much into building toptech praetors and throwing them into suicide against the enemy.... endlessly repetitive. Here, its a bit easier to conquer and economy is fun... but then i dont remember what ...

ohwell just got ink and makeup.. paving way for temple complexes and guilds.
Well atleast that leaves me with something else to do while im wiping out all competing life in greater egypt ;)

Played Knights Of Honor?
Its very similar... but a bit different still.
Anyway there the teutonic knights ...

...and lots of rambling, lol



Playing byblos, liberally building temples, doctors and libraries inyto every town.
In the beginning i had bronze, animals.. ie getting to build stables.. organisation etc..

But when can i build cities?
I have a dozen large towns built out (almost) to the max, and ...