Ok, thanks Loki. I've been playing the game like crazy lately. Love everything about it....except maybe the AI. I'm still struggling to find just the right settings.

One of the problems is that Hanno's army begins the game already in Sicily, albeit locked for 10 turns. I assume the reason for this is that the AI had a hard time moving this army from Africa. A better solution would be to just start the scenario a couple years later, with Syracuse and Rome already...

Well, with only the initial garrison holding Munster, the AI French finally took the city in late November. I just kept hitting the "next turn" button until they took it. Historically, Munster was serving as a HQ for the French by late May. So there may be an issue with Siege Resolution.

I was playing as the Prussians with the normal AI Aggressiveness setting. As the Austrian player, the AI attacked in blitzkrieg fashion without any regard to supply at all. The French hadn't captured a single city and when last seen had units all the way to Magdeburg. The Austrians were in Torgau. A...

Let me first say that I love the game. All the elements are here for a great wargame and indeed it is a great wargame, one of the best I've played. That said, here are my ideas for improving Birth of Rome. TITLE: First, since it is a stand-alone game, I think you should eliminate all instances of th...

The Second Punic War is a no-brainer. An expansion for this war can't be too far down the pike!

Thanks for the help! (There are a few places where the rulebook could use a little updating...)

Birth of Rome. Regarding rule "9.2.2 Naval Transport of Supplies." The rule states that "Naval Transport Units may be used" ... to supply "friendly land units located in adjacent coastal regions." I've never been able to make this happen. Do you just park your ships off the coast and the supplies ar...

This was extensively discussed during beta, indeed a proposal was made for no siege weapons at all (IMHO turning the game very boring... :) ) versus a probability of 25-50%. It ended in 15%, but this is easily moddable - go to GameData\Abilities, and find 120-abiSiegeWeapons_SPQ . Thanks, Franciscu...

I just got the game and have played through a couple scenarios. As the Romans, I find that the spawning of siege engines seems to occur pretty regularly. If I recall my history, a case could be made for disallowing siege engines to Rome at all (at least in BOR). I think they were significantly behin...

Ah, now I get it. Thanks, Ebbingford!

Not to pile on here, but the wiki article isn't very clear either. It would be nice to simply have a comprehensive explanation of the game's Replacement rules. As stated above, it may be that the system is not working correctly. But as currently documented it's hard to tell.

I don't think the rulebook adequately explains how replacements work. At least I can't figure it out. On the production screen there are three numbers for every replacement unit type per nationality. Top=Numbers of elements/hits that need replacing. (Sometimes in Red with exclamation points, sometim...