BELLI AD VICTORIUM - Tips and Tricks

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**UPDATES TO THIS GUIDE ARE ONGOING** Patch 1.3.0 Changes : Work is in progress to include the overhaul of the legion warfare system to this guide. Until then, the legion warfare section may contain inaccurate information. Ave, legate. The information within this guide will range from basic information for new players to advanced tips for those looking to sharpen the edges of their well worn gladius. I intend for updates to be regular, but they are at the mercy of my free time and you may come across unfinished content within the guide. Feedback and requests are always welcome. Hopefully you will find it useful in your campaign! Got some unique weapons/armor collecting dust in your inventory because your new loot was better? PUT THEM TO USE! Dismantle unique equipment you are not using Apply their unique abilities to your ordinary gear via the Modify option at the smithy This allows you to swap powerful item abilities between your gear, resulting in RIDICULOUSLY effective combinations. Notably, you can swap some equipment abilities between different equipment types as well. Want that sword / spear ability on a bow instead? You got it. NOTE: You can always dismantle any item to refund the unique material and re-forge the original item or modify a different item with it's ability. Don't be stingy with that hoard of crafting materials! Craft new equipment for new stat rolls (and potential upgrades) Modify your gear to customize your equipment or boost the current stats You can potentially turn that [+1 Health] into a much beefier [+3 health] or swap useless resistances for ones you actually need . As you unlock Modification Blueprints , remember to check your smithy! I really wish I had realized this sooner but praetorians you hire keep the equipment you give them even when the campaign ends and you transition between Acts. Any equipment your recruited praetorians may have had, including unique gear , can be potentially inaccessible. This includes when you return to Rome , if you dismiss them from your praetorian guard before un-equipping the items, or if you do not re-hire them on your next campaign. Be sure to unequip unique items from your praetorians BEFORE dismissing them or transitioning back to Rome. To recover any of these items, you can simply re-hire them into your praetorian guard and THEN unequip the items, but if you are in Rome then you are out of luck. " PULLO! FORMATION! " Patch 1.3.0 Changes : Commander/Centurion TRAITS are no longer used in contested checks, but now stack cumulatively as a type of "stat pool" to determine the effects of your legion during battle. Each TRAIT type will contribute specific effects. Confused about what's happening during an army battle? Fear not, you are not alone. Legion battles consist of PHASES during which you will choose a STRATAGEM card for each phase. After selecting a STRATAGEM , each phase will play out with multiple ATTRITION checks which are determined by your centurions combined traits and aggression / defense values . NOTE : Your team of centurions, led by a commander of your choosing from among your centurions for each battle, will determine the total number of TRAITS in the pool available to your legion as their "stats". You can track the total number of TRAITS covered by your 4-man team of centurions on the "Party" tab of the Barracks Tent in camp. ***You will want to have as many traits covered evenly by your 4 centurions as possible*** This will prevent trait deficits that can be very NEGATIVE during battle with unlucky strategem card rolls. Centurions unlock more traits by participating in battles and earning a type of "trait experience" that can be seen as grayed-out trait icons fill. Once filled, that trait will be unlocked for the owning centurion and added to the stat pool. During the battle, your TRAIT POOL will be calculated with deductions from the enemy's traits. What about AGGRESSION and DEFENSE ? AGGRESSION will increase the effects against your enemy during attrition checks in each phase of battle. DEFENSE will reduce the effects against your legion during attrition checks in each phase of battle. LEGION EXPERIENCE You may find yourself struggling to build your legion's experience. Experience is a great power modifier that can allow you to wipe out armies much larger than your own. The solution I found was fairly simple and could help you as well: Choose a centurion that will have high "Manpower Retained" score. Choose a centurion with the "Medicus" specialization. Select stratagems that reduce casualties during the battle. Experience is earned for your legion by a threshold of killing more enemy troops than the number of your own troops that are killed , so when trying to build an experienced legion you will want to minimize casualties and do everything you can to end the battle with as many troops as possible. LEGION MORALE Your legion's morale will have a direct effect on it's fighting strength, and getting your morale to a minimum of 25 when low can easily be achieved early in your campaign by doing the following: Build the " Baths " upgrade to your legion's camp Recruit a praetorian with the " Social " trait Assign your social praetorian to the baths until your legion's morale is at least 25 A praetorian with the social trait will regularly increase your legion's morale while assigned to the baths on a revolving 32-hour increment during your campaigns until the limit of 25 morale is reached . If none of the available praetorians for recruitment have the social trait, assign a praetorian to the Barracks Tent to refresh available recruits. NOTE : Other ways to improve legion morale include the use of certain stratagems during army battles and successful attacks during army battles. *Building and upgrading your legion's Workshop will allow you to unlock and upgrade your strategems, respectively. Many early stratagems come with penalties to morale, so upgrading your workshop is a recommended as a priority for preserving morale as you wage war. STRATAGEMS Arguably, the single greatest factor to your legion's success on the battlefield will be your STRATAGEMS : the tactics chosen during a battle. You will only start the game with a few level 1 stratagems, but more can be unlocked by building and manning a Workshop . This makes the workshop a fairly high priority item when considering which buildings to build / upgrade at your legion's outpost. Once your workshop is up and running, you will want to almost ALWAYS have a praetorian assigned to it. Early in the game, this will allow you to unlock the remainder of the level 1 stratagems as well as start stocking up on one-time-use stratagems (identified by their red color). Hire a praetorian with the "Architect" trait Assign your architect praetorian to the workshop and leave them there Return to camp and visit the workshop occasionally to check your stratagem unlocks After each time you upgrade your workshop (typically only once per campaign depending on how you utilize your resources) you will be able to unlock improved versions of your stratagems with reduced (or sometimes REMOVED) penalties or improved benefits. PILLAGE YOUR WAY TO WEALTH There is no time limit during campaigns, and although you will want to prioritize defending your captured territory when enemy attack notices happen, you should otherwise take the time to repeatedly farm resource nodes. Choose a garrison territory near lots of resource nodes to reduce your legion's travel time. Defend Your Territory (Legion Assignments can be cancelled if needed) Send Legion to Resource Nodes whenever they're available Visit Observatories to Discover Loot for Salvage Visit Your Camp or a Town to refill water / sell resources REPEAT UNTIL SATISFIED Having a large amount of denarii is highly recommended as it makes many options available both during and after a campaign. Havi