Any game changes in Birth of Rome?

[mariandavid]

Caveat: I am greatly enjoying BOR - happily reading background material from an SPQR board game while I take on the Samnites. However I note that the manual that downloaded with BOR is that of AJE (which I obviously already have). Are there any changes - other than those in the .2 upgrade - asking as the situation v options and troops is very different in the new period.

[jimwinsor2]

One thing that I have noticed is that the "supply production in besieged ports rule" is finally working as advertised. IOW, you cannot starve out a port city during a siege UNLESS you are also blockading it by sea. Only when you add a sea blockade to the siege will the supply production in a city stop, and you can slowly starve them out (and begin to get breaches more often).

Trying to take a port city is a real pain in the butt now (as it should be). Trying to reduce a 3 or 4 port w/o a fleet will take a year or more, most likely. If you are able to at all.

And yeah, this is not so much a "rule change" but rather a rule-finally-implemented. But it is a very noticeable change from the game play in AJE. So, be aware of it.

[vaalen]

One thing that I have noticed is that the "supply production in besieged ports rule" is finally working as advertised. IOW, you cannot starve out a port city during a siege UNLESS you are also blockading it by sea. Only when you add a sea blockade to the siege will the supply production in a city stop, and you can slowly starve them out (and begin to get breaches more often).

Trying to take a port city is a real pain in the butt now (as it should be). Trying to reduce a 3 or 4 port w/o a fleet will take a year or more, most likely. If you are able to at all.

And yeah, this is not so much a "rule change" but rather a rule-finally-implemented. But it is a very noticeable change from the game play in AJE. So, be aware of it.

I can confirm this. I had the garrison of Volsini starve when I added a naval blockade to the siege. After a few months, their garrisons fighting power had gone down from approximately six hundred to fourteen, and it was easy to storm the city once the walls were breached.

[Soulstrider]

One thing that I have noticed is that the "supply production in besieged ports rule" is finally working as advertised. IOW, you cannot starve out a port city during a siege UNLESS you are also blockading it by sea. Only when you add a sea blockade to the siege will the supply production in a city stop, and you can slowly starve them out (and begin to get breaches more often).

Are you sure this didn't work already? When I sieged I always noticed their army getting out of supply quickly when I block the ports.

[bob.]

I think it was fixed with the very first AJE patch. Only the AJE release version had that bug.

[jimwinsor2]

It might have been fixed in AJE with 1.02, I'm not sure.