What the hell is wrong with Ceasar's Challenge? None of the videos or strategy tips work.

The boss ALWAYS goes for my Gaul and Britain, eliminating me everywhere.

The Parthian AI uses all it's income on chasing my stack.

By the time I kill the Parthian commander, the boss has all the map and 300 income.

This is unbeatable. Fizzer, please fix it so the boss doesn't go after Gaul each time and/or the Parthian AI at least TRIES to fight the boss's armies...

Actually you have to be patient and try again as the boss is NOT always coming soon in the game in France. so you have time to conquer territories and get good incoming armies.
Then of course, the partian army is getting strong but you also do,so kkep on going to him.
You have to enter Asia by turn 15 or 16, and about the boss just do as everyone already said by putting some armies around him so he Doesnt gain territory

Hello Pooh
In order to beat this level and get a gold star you ned to attack the boss by turn 22 (32 to get a gold star).
Normally at this moment you are already in asia and the Parthian army is getting weak so he doesnt may armies in reinforcement.

Then of course you need luck as you may attack the boss but He can move before you - it made me shout more than one time

I'm also desperate with this level.

Scandinavian AI is trivial to deal with. Most of you wipe him as soon as possible (maybe it's better to leave him alive for a while?) I also do it that way but the Italian AI gets usually very strong and I can't keep Central Europe and/or have lots of problems to even get Spain while I also use my armies to clean a way to the Black Sea through the north coast. Of course, I use the 3-armies trick on the boss he usually is under control that way but somehow the manages to drop pretty nice armies elsewhere where I'm fighting (Spain, Central Europe...)

I manage to arrive to Asia by turn 16-17 but at that time I haven't been able to control the west so when the huge Asian army come to Europe things get even worse to me.

I give up, it's not worth the 2500 points. Pure luck, absolutely ZERO strategy. I'm extremely disappointed with the Single Player levels. Obviously someone was out of good ideas and was just coming up with totally random stuff.

Wow, I did it!

In my 15th or 16th try, I thought it was impossible, and in this game the boss went straight into Great Britain so I lost my often-secure bonus there...

What I did different this time was to give full priority to break/avoid the boss superbonuses as soon as possible: Spain, Italy and Africa. I never broke into Africa so soon, I waited until I had advanced in Spain so this time I tried something different.

So, while I went step by step towards Asia with my relatively small army, I just went straight to Baleares (Coriallum-Vindana-Bundigala-Elusa-Emporion-Tarraco-Baleares) and broke the two superbonuses from there taking Caralis and Cesarea. With both superbonuses out, the boss didn't replenish as strong as he used to do in the previous games and I could take almost all of Europe while the boss was single-squared in Britania. For me, this was the real key to success (surely for many of you this was trivial, but I'm somewhat a newbie here).

After that, I could just pass by the northern army in my way to Paphalgonia in Asia. Behind this army, in central europe, my commander with a smaller army could also pass by a weak point and I sent him to rejoin my army in Mysia while I tried to fight all the bonuses in Central and Eastern Europe, despite an 150-170 army the Parthian AI left behind in the Macedonian area...

I could conquer Asia with little effort attacking with 10s first, 5s later. Since I was obsessed with the AI I packed a very big army (too much) to join him in the southeastern corner. I could kill him in turn 28 with my 343 army.

I got strong in the Carthago area so I could more less defend incursions from there and when the big army (two over 100 packs) started to conquer Italy from below, I was ready to retake it through Sicilia.

I couldn't defend the boss during the peak point of the battle against the Parthian AI (he suddenly dropped 15 armies there) and I lost almost all Britain and Scandinavia to him but I was just about to take the far AI down, so it was not going to be a big deal.

When the big army reached Baleares and broke my Spanish bonus, the AI was eliminated and the danger was over. I was just enjoying the moment and even wait to retake Britain and Scandinavia before dealing with the boss. I don't play for stars at all.

I don't know, I'm not a very good player but maybe this can help any of you who haven't succeded yet.

Edited 2/22/2017 16:28:40

NIIIIIIIICE.




I'M GOING TO SAY-- CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!