There men are of the same quality as yours.Ĩ. Remember most enemy stacks will copy the army compositions you already have. (the ai may be dumb, but even with the sheer weight of numbers it can quickly surround you and crush your men. Never get outnumbered on an open battlefield (this seems like a no brainer but if the AI conducts siege battles the way its suppose to, then u will have a high chance of defeating them at the gate. Along with 3, you always want to keep them contained to a certain area.

My navy would crush them and they would retreat to the mainland. It will probably be different for sea capitals but for the most part, everytime the AI's transport ships tried to get to Carthage and lilybaeum. (The civil war I had was in rome, and the AI had no naval units. Raid your towns to get income and for flavor burn them down to show the rebellion you mean business.) (Once you lose a large amount of cities in the beginning you will more than likely be faced with bankruptcy at least once. (when you retake them you have a chance to shorten the massive hordes food supply and they will keep shifting their forces to meet you) Retake towns whenever theyre left unguarded The garrison left behind is pitiful to say the least)ģ. (using small elite armies will cut down cost and will allow you to retake a town after the giant stack moves on to the next city. Poison food rations is your best friend in a civil war) (The rebellious loyalists wont make agents themselves until a couple of turns in and when they do you veteran agents can kill them easily.

Such as non aggression pacts, defensive alliances, and military alliances.ġ.Use your agents Every turn against the enemy stacks

To begin its helpful to say that your civil war experience will go much smoother if you have GREAT diplomatic relations with your nations and other powerful nations. Here are my tips on how to beat civil war. But its the AI's predictable ability on what it does with these stacks that makes it beatable and YOU the player the winner in a civil war. Now the 9 to 12 stacks that come in can seem a bit scary and a bit game breaking. Ive remade a new video on it being actually quite awesome. I made a video the other day on the civil war mechanic being crazy broken.

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