I could easily spend a lot of time going over every faction and planning out the early game moves.Īlthough beyond the early game it would be hard to predict cause you just dont know how your relations with others will end up, and we dont know how many armies you can raise at a given point in the campaign. Rome (Rise of the Republic) Faction : A hundred years have passed since the expulsion of the last king from Rome, heralding the birth of the Roman Republic. With the greek states, if you're epirus, you start out at war with sparta, who are macedonian allies, so as epirus, in order to expand at all, you have to pretty much immediately go to war with macedon, athens and sparta all at once.Īnyway this is an awesome tool, i hope they do more like it in the future, and if it had some kind of dynaimc simulation built in that would be awesome. So if you're parthia you definitely have your work cut out for you. Way out east it looks like the domminant influence is actually the seleucids, with a ton of client states. I also really find central europe on the map very interesting, there are so many different tribes, and with in these areas there are a bunch of small alliances of tribes and small individual wars going on, so playing as suebi or averni is definitely going to be interesting. its clear though that as rome, your first goal is gonna be to take out the etruscans. Definitely adds a ton of info that can guide your plans, we get a much better picture of precisely the time frame the start of the campaign is set in.Īs rome the campaign map is obviously both pre punic and pyhrric wars, which is kind of interesting in the fact that if you wanted to you could actually become allies with carthage, which did happen during the pyhrric war, and make that a long term alliance instead of seek total mediterranean domination, and seek instead to expand into central europe, or to take on the greek states.