where the final charge needed to take place, What distance would that be? I imagine pretty close range if they wanted a coherent front on contact. I really don't know but I assumed infantry advanced at a walk up to about 10-15 meters. Then perhaps short dashes by individuals or small groups in an a...

Pity that players of Lysimachids and Seleucids seem to be not reliable. RufusTFirefly, actually I have not dropped out of any of my 5 games until now. And I wouldn't have dropped out of this game if it weren't for a major bug introduced in 1.04 which requires a restart to fix. The bug significantly...

Now here is a screenshot showing Media with the preceptor house in the building slot. Note that it shows Papyrus as Trading Required but then does not show Babylonia as a region within trading range for Papyrus. It also shows a negative monetary cost for the preceptor house. Is this a bug or am I mi...

I want to build a preceptor house in Media which needs papyrus. Looking at Babylonia with Papyrus, it has a trade range of 5. Looking at the jpeg, we can see that Media is within the trade range of Babylonia and should be able to receive papyrus as a trade good.

Thanks Pocus!

As for compatibility, the changes to the setup will obviously not be added dynamically to an ongoing game, for the rest everything but the fix to population cap will be dynamic. Thanks for the quick fix! On the steam forum, I noticed the above comment by Pocus. I am confused as to what exactly it m...

My conclusion is you need to be very careful with alliances. You may end up at war with someone that you have no interest or intention of fighting yet receive objectives related to that war. As the Dacians, I was allied with the Dardarni. The Romans attacked the Dardarni and I was at war with the Ro...

Each side is either defending or attacking. The defender in a battle is the side with the biggest number of units not having moved this impulse (the only exception to this is if the defenders have sortied from a besieged city). I think this is not working as intended. As far as I can tell whoever o...

Screen_00000046.jpg In the above screenshot, I have a Roman force under siege. The unit is composed of 8 units/14 power. The Celticii are besieging with 12 units/56 power. Neither have moved this turn. According to the manual, The defender in a battle is the side with the biggest number of units no...

As for a plain terrain bonus I am less sure about that. Plain terrain is regarded as the "default" when combat ratings are applied so in giving a Phalanx (or most other HI) a higher rating than med infantry that "bonus" is already accounted for. My thoughts are adding a defensive bonus to heavies i...

I have played a couple of PBEMs and AI games as Seleucids and Ptolomy. I have noticed and developed some strange tactics to compensate for the attack/defense ratings difference of phalanx combined with the lack of terrain defense benefit when playing in Middle Eastern open terrain. Basically the dri...

Playing Rome against the AI, I just noticed that Roman Legions and Alae infantry both have money cost increases with each additional active unit built.... in the same manner as provincial units. Then I checked out the Macedonians and Ptolomy to see if they had the same money cost penalty for heavy a...

In MP, if you take one of the remote tier III nations (such as the Picts) then you are never going to win by any measure. So you are playing for fun and to be irritating to the real powers in the game. I am playing 2 small nations, Dacia and Cheruscii. And yes, I really don't expect to win. I am ju...

Devoncop, I thought your middle name was U. S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant?

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I know harsh weather prevents movement into certain types of regions. Is it also suppose to reduce troop effectiveness when moving? If so, should troop effectiveness be reduced in all terrain types if moving during harsh weather or only in certain types of terrain?

So if that's already implemented, then maybe there needs to be another way to manage the dynamic balance between rich powerful factions with doomstacks and smaller powers. It is implemented for elites. Why not increase the maintenance costs of regulars and vets as well? Also large armies maintained...

I'm saying exactly what I wrote - the maintenance costs for elite units are higher. This only applies at that level and of course you can't 'buy' an elite unit (in terms of experience) Clear as mud to this pleb but I went to the manual and with some searching, figured it out myself. Every unit has ...

this is actually in the game, elite units cost more to maintain than others. So are you saying the maintenance costs go up with each increase of experience or are you saying if you buy an elite unit, the maintenance costs are higher? As Geffalrus states, having maintenance costs go up with each exp...

Pike and Shot is a really good game and a lot of fun but it is starting to get dated. And FOG2 is a better simulation. Myself, I hope they don't stop at P&S but cover the P&S period as well. I would absolutely buy it.