![]() ![]() I had to go through disarmament and cut down half of my military and fight back. I once recruited multiple full-sized armies and marched out, only to be sneaked attacked in the back at Rome and lose half of my income. Always keep an eye out on the income balance. Faction income determines your armies and fleets size.I seldom use agents to counter other agents or use skills on other factions, because it is often more trouble than joy to me.Spies have many useful skills but I mostly use them for scouting.I never choose skills upgrades other than those related to the usage above.I usually put them in provinces controlled by other houses after they rank up just for the loyalty. They also increase provincial loyalty when they have a certain high-rank skill. Champions train your army or increase provincial public order.In the late game I use them only for increasing loyalty from generals. Dignitaries decrease army upkeep or increase provincial tax rate.Except for those with global benefits, I didn’t even bother to put them on. Hire candidates from your house and arrange marriage for them as soon as possible.Just make them generals or admirals and let them do transport or patrol work. Don’t hire idle politician for other houses.One way to manage loyalty is to engineer some deaths for those with bad traits and are becoming house leaders.But it really depends on your play style, if you like beating the hell out of other houses, only use your own generals. Personally I think avoiding civil war is much more important than those buffs from influence. Use the generals from other houses to increase their loyalties.Sanitation buildings are really not that useful to me.I decide not to build any other type of Basilica because it hurts my brain to do all the calculation and I don’t see anything amazing happens. It increases wealth from all sources, helps with public order, and boosts Tax Harvesting Edict. Basilica of Jupiter have all good buffs.The rest Forums are really not that useful in my way of play. Cattle Trader/Slaughterhouse/Forum Boarium provides a good commerce output and Library/Archives/Scriptorium helps with technology development.Exempt tax for high negative food supply province when your faction is low on food. Additional Latifundiums (Farms) in minor settlements are also needed. Besides Circus, Delicatessen/Taberna/Forum Cuppedinis is a top prioity to keep food abundant.Circus is a must because it brings most public order and allows me to maximize tax rate. Forums can only be built in the provincial capital region and they are more powerful than other buildings, I always try to build them as many as possible.If you are playing Rome, pick provinces with good auxiliary units for military buildings, like Hellas with Cretan archers, Aquitania and Celtica with Noble Horse, Phazania with African Elephants ( African forest elephant, smallest of the three elephant species on the planet.) and Numidian Cavalry (ranged Cav).Also build corresponding Practice Fileds even though I don’t think it’s that useful. Build as many Basilica of Mars as possible. When playing Rome, I usually pick a few provinces with good local auxillary units to put all my military buildings.Build Forum Piscarium (Fishing Port) and Latifundiums (Farms) as many as possible. Because the food supply applies at the factional level, so I dedicated provinces with only one port or only two regions to food supply.For provinces with at least three ports or three regions, especially those with Wine resource, I built as many Market Colonias, Trading Ports and Shops as possible.You can build duplicate buildings in the same province but not in the same region.I don’t think slaves, industry, culture and even technology are that useful in this game. That is to maximize commerce while keeping the public order and food supply afloat. The way I played provincial management is the same as how I played Shogun 2.Some of these are based on playing Rome in the Grand Campaign but the philosophy of playing any faction should be similar. Though it’s unlikely that I will play through the whole campaign again, I still want to write down these tips that I wish I knew earlier. ![]()
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