Field of Glory Empires-Kolchis Ep 30, 134-123 BCE, "Reign of Meherdotes the Unifier"

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

"King Meherdotes retakes the lost coast regions and repels raiders and pillagers. Internal cultural improvements continue to unify the land. Due to ill health he is replaced by Surenas".

[@ComradeReptiloid]

The best part about this game is that you have major nation that play completely unique with their own mechanics, buildings, units, regional relationships, resources, etc. And then you have offshoot groups that belong to a different cultures with their very defined buildings and shared mechanics, that are still differentiate them from the other groups.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

Yeah that's why I love this game. The replayability is off the charts with this one. 🙂

[@ComradeReptiloid]

1:04:48 Perfect time to use the exploit on a 3rd side logic. If you go into war with Pontus, but still neutral to Bospor, then the temporarily occupied by Pontus Bosphor regions will instantly become permanently yours, no need for peace negotiations.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

Oh its going to be crazy time up near Phangaria....stay tuned! ⚔

[@ComradeReptiloid]

Interesting to see Pontus thrive in this game, usually they are wrecked by Antigonids very early. Hope to see some fights against pirates and chariots. Surprising that Media can't comeback from Civil War.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

Pontus is going to be a great power and a difficult neighbor to manage. Lots of conflict, intrigue and scull-duggery is coming dealing with them. Look to King Surenas who turns out to have a devious mind with schemes to handle Pontus. So the oracles say. 💃🏼✨✨✨

[@ComradeReptiloid]

Insults might not improve relationships if they are bad already. Gotta use gifts to bring them higher first.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

I'm finding a combination of the two helps....

[@ComradeReptiloid]

Should look into region garrisons after breaking the wall. You might assault right away, And as I said before archers allow you to Assault most default cities without breaching the walls.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

I will get better at this. Thanks!

[@ComradeReptiloid]

You have slightly wrong approach to micromanagment. What you do is: go to the province screen and pick a single building for 1 of the regions. Throw enough pop on infrastructure to gather their forces from all regions and pull into a single project. Overflow from shuffle will be saved for the subsequent buildings. The rest of pop evenly distributed between food, gold and culture. Typically you don't need much on Culture if you have your priorities right since you will have a lot of purple buildings.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

Yeah I do not know how to even use the Province panel. Didn't know thats how I could concentrate pops into one regional building in said province. I will practice this before I record my next episode (Ep 42) Weirdly or coincidentally, I opened my YT logbook and see a post-it note saying 'check pops region-province panel'. Man the universe works in strange and mysterious ways haha

[@ComradeReptiloid]

The provincial panel has pop management options for the lazy players. Unfortunately devs haven't figure out at the time that province specialization is not a way to go, and it's all about regional development, but pop managment can be useful to save a lot of time. Your goal is to queue up building in one of the regions and keep an eye on which region specializes in what field.

[@BalthazorsStrategicArcana]

I prefer going region by region actually. Maybe that makes me not lazy haha.