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Wow, I recognize that scroll from Rome Total War. I loved that game. Well, except for the stupid squalor bug that made large cities a pain in the mid to late game.
Wait, was that a bug? I always figured it was just based on how insanely difficult it is to keep cities clean as they grow massive. You can still easily hold on to those cities, even very distant ones, by recruiting lots of peasant units to garrison the cities. The security bonus is based on the number of men you have garrisoned versus the number of civilians, and since peasants are the largest units by manpower, they grant the biggest bonus. You wind up with two rows of peasants that are only useful as bait in an actual battle, but give plenty of security bonus to offset the max squalor penalty.
Edit, actually it gets even easier if you keep recruiting peasants as a sort of population control even after the garrison is full. Send excess peasant units to your most recently conquered cities to maintain control and free up militarily useful units from just standing guard, and for certain cities with super slow population growth you can disband the units as they arrive in order to boost the civilian numbers. It’s a makeshift, but effective way to transfer population from overcrowded cities to the empty ones.
Yup, it was a bug that (to my knowledge) was never patched out of the game. I didn’t discover until much later that there was a mod that rectified it. It only affected truly gigantic cities, but by late-game especially if you were playing as someone like Egypt it was easy to have a bunch of those. Petra and its ilk were always going to be a one-horse town, but Alexandria, Thebes, Tyre, Sidon, etc… all wallowing in excess squalor to the point where I had to station full peasant armies in each to keep them content.
I never thought about mass-recruiting as population control though, that’s clever.
Gods, I hate Gauls.
Heh, I mostly played Egypt and stuff in that part of the world so I rarely had to deal with the Gaul or Germania, but same. Stupid war dogs.
That’s the Julii opening line when starting a new campaign. But I wholeheartedly agree.
Ahh.
Anyone here played amateur poker?
What game is this? Feels like CivIII?
Rome: Total War
Ahh yes! Thank you.
