The second time through CCR

[Keith Heitmann]

I've already started replaying CCR in the economic campaign as of Tuesday evening and as of Wednesday morning with the night off, I have already reached the last mission in Lodninium.

The game is so much easier this time around. I'm building smarter working cities, and this time I'm using research to boost food production and income. Research makes a huge difference.

In my first playthrough of the game I didn't use research at all except for wonders to reach the civilization goal requirements of a mission or not until the last mission in the military campaign to boost the fighting strength of my legions.

[Phil Walker]

Now Keith ;D !!!

NO research unless an absolute necessity or requirement?! No wonder you had problems as in any game I play that is top priority as there is so much to gain. Just sometimes it is not apparent at first. Of course this is providing there is research within the game as not all game have it. So, my best, good luck and let us know your impression after the 2nd time through.


Sincerely,
Phil

[Keith Heitmann]

So far so good. I'm trying a different build strategy in the last economic mission of the campaign and so far I haven't found the balance. I keep running out of money.

[Keith Heitmann]

I just completed Londinium, the last mission in the economic campaign for the second time. This time my city was smaller, with less population and it took me less time to build it than it did the first time. This one looks a little nicer too.

Once you get the right kinds of research done it's almost all downhill to the end after that.

On to the military campaign for the second time!

[Keith Heitmann]

All done...again. Much much easier this time. Colonia was much better organized this time and even though I did'n't have to I started building things for the second mission in Colonia that I didn't need i the first. That made the second mission so much simpler to win. I converted my early all-velites legions to all-legionnairy legions. So I was immediately ready to go forth and conquer both enemy garrison cities right at the start. This left only intercepting the occaissional invasions from the enemy rally point to easily deal with for the remainder of the mission. I had plenty of money, so I could put in may beautification items as I built this time. I was able to research nearly every thing on the tech tree this time and that made building extremely easy.

So for now that's going to be it for a while with CCR. I've got another project I'm taking part in due to start this week so I'll be busy with that for a while.