Description[]
Crossing the Rubicon is the fifth scenario of the Roman Campaign in Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. It serves as a reenactment of the Battle of Pharsalus.
Briefing[]
For nearly ten years, Caesar was sole master of Gaul and its riches swelled his coffers to bursting. Unfortunately, there was a growing faction in Rome that was jealous of his success and fearful of his power. His enemies were eventually able to get control of the Senate after Crassus died in the Parthian war, and soon they made it clear that by the end of the following year, Caesar would have to step down from public office, surrender Gaul, and disband his legions. Considering the brutality of the power politics of Rome's recent history, Caesar saw obeying this declaration as simple suicide. With no legions to protect him, he would be an easy target for any assassin charged with making sure he never rose to power again.
Thus, on January 11th, 49 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River into Roman Italy and uttered the immortal words "the die is cast." Pompey, Caesars' political ally during the days that Crassus was alive, decided to support the Senate and agreed to lead Rome's armies against the would-be dictator.
- From "Chronicles of the Republic"
By Flavius Posthumous
Objectives[]
° Caesar must survive.
° Bribe the cities under Pompey's control by using senators to meet each city's senator, or conquer the cities outright to gain their resources.
° Destroy ALL of Ganeus Pompey's (blue player's units) to win.
° Move south and destroy the forces guarding the road north of Mediolanum before crossing into Italy.
° Bring Caesar to Mediolanum's town center and select it to gain its allegiance.
° Cross the Rubicon and begin your conquest of Italia.
° Ravenna's new bribe amount is 100 food, 100 wood, and 100 iron.
° Move Caesar next to the Senator from Ravenna and select him to agree to the bribe of 400 food, 400 wood, 200 gold, and 200 iron.
° Move Caesar next to the Senator from Pisae and select him to agree to the bribe of 200 gold, 100 food, and 50 stone.
° Bring Caesar to Rome's capitol building or defeat Pompey's main army in Italy to have the city submit. Unlike other cities, Rome cannot be razed.
° Move Caesar next to the Senator from Asculum and select him to agree to the bribe of 250 gold, 250 wood, and 750 food.
° Bring 4 citizens to Asculum's farms if you wish to help them.
° Move Caesar next to the Senator from Neapolis and select him to agree to the bribe of 500 food, 500 wood, 300 iron, and 300 gold - or, eliminate the pirates on Sicily to gain the allegiance of Neapolis.
° Brundisium will immediately submit once Pompey's forces have left Italy.
° Greek naval patrols and raids can be stopped by finding and destroying their naval bases.
° Pompey and Titus and the rest of their forces must be destroyed. Take either the overland route to the north, or attempt to have a amphibious landing in Greece.
° Do not let more than three Egyptian grain shipments be destroyed.
° Capture Greek towns by destroying their fortresses.
° Destroy the barracks and archery range of the fortified outpost on the hill to stop Greek raiding patrols.
° Build a fortress, granary and university within the walls of Serdica to establish a stable supply base.
° Be sure to keep your new supply buildings safe! If any of them get destroyed, your troops will slowly lose health until the buildings are rebuilt.
History[]
Caesar's incredible successes in Gaul made him very popular with the Roman citizenry, but had the opposite effect on the Roman nobility. Fearful of his newfound wealth and newly conscripted legions, the Senate conspired to force his early retirement. They sent him an ultimatum to disband his armies and return immediately to Rome without so much as a bodyguard. Caesar knew that if he did as he was told, he would never again find the opportunity to rise to power and in all likelihood would be assassinated very soon after he arrived. Without the political influences of his friend Crassus, who had died a few years earlier in the Parthian War, Caesar decided his only real solution would be a military one.
Pompey, who had once shared power with Caesar, was asked by the Senate to defend the Republic. Although he was able to raise enough troops to outnumber Caesar, Pompey knew he could not match the ability of Julius' veteran legions. After a skirmish in Italy, Pompey embarked from Brundisium to Greece, where he had allies and supporters who could even the odds. Caesar, without a fleet, could not immediately follow, but was eventually able to land in Greece without incident.
The battle of Pharsalus was actually the second battle between the two forces in Greece. The first came at Dyrrhachium, where Pompey almost managed to break Caesar's army. Julius fell back to Pharsalus and Pompey gave chase, only to be decisively defeated by Caesar's tactical genius. The Republic's defender fled to Egypt in the hopes of finding new allies and raising new troops. What he actually received was something else entirely.
Hints[]
~Some cities can be forced to capitulate by more than one tactic.
~Use conscription to avoid spending precious food.
~Out right destruction of a whole city can result in huge immediate resource gains, but could prove unwise in the long run.
~Each city that voluntarily joins you raises your population capacity by a little.
~If you decide to bribe a city to join you, remember to gather its idle citizenry to conscript or assign them.
~While you are in Italy, you will always need a diplomat to negotiate with cities, so don't forget to build another one if your first one dies.
~Keep the dock areas in Rome clear for the grain shipments from Egypt.
~Italia has poor farmland, so although you can build granaries at existing farm plots, you cannot plant new farms.
~Do not leave Caesar unattended. Pompey has money and has friends who have money - and money can buy assassins.
~It may be possible to recruit Gallic and Celtic warriors to aid in your fight against Pompey. The Gallic warrior is a little tougher than the Legionary, but not as deadly. The Celtic warrior can move quickly through trees and has a good sword attack, but has little armor.
~Although Caesar can force his way into Rome to claim the city, the defenders their will not lay down their arms until Titus and Pompey are driven from Italia.
Walkthrough[]
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