Vae victis

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So now I've tried the expansion VV for a while, and I must say I'm a bit confused.

First, it looked good with senate and all, but granting titles and moving around people in the administration just to get generals gets boring and repetitive very very fast. There should be some kind of automatization for this stuff.

Secondly, colonization seems impossible. Playing as Rome, I can't even get Bononia or Liguria colonized. I could put small units there and leave them for 10 years without any possibility to fight barbarians to be able to expand. Where is the possibility to attack them with my own units? Shouldn't be that difficult to fix with modding, but I can't find the files to change the colonization requisites.

So, my conclusion is that Rome was a playable game, and that VV is not.

 

[CJL78]

You must just be getting very unlucky not being able to fight barbs. I actually find it incredibly too easy to colonize and expand, especially with Rome. I can colonize Liguria in the first year.

I usually build a mercenary hypaspists and send them to the target colony to cause the barbs to rise up, destroying the mercs and opening up the area for colonization.

 

[Anthropoid]

Provoking the Barbs does seem a little bit hit-and-miss but patience and persistence will get them to riseup so you can crush them. I also find it rather easy to colonize. I always seem to have more colonization options than my economy and military size can really support.

 

[Olaus Petrus]

I have never found colonization that hard either. As Rome I have sometimes colonized all the way to the Ireland and Sweden.

 

[nachinus]

IMHO there should be different issues that should make colonizing harder and more expensive. There should be a noticeable gold investment linked to colonization. Distance from capitol and different religion/culture groups should make it more expensive and slower.

 

[CJL78]

imho there should be different issues that should make colonizing harder and more expensive. There should be a noticeable gold investment linked to colonization. Distance from capitol and different religion/culture groups should make it more expensive and slower.

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