{"id":327,"date":"2014-03-01T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalle-online.net\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2016-02-09T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:21:40","slug":"i-missed-that-day-in-history-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/i-missed-that-day-in-history-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall of Rome – I Missed That Day in History Class Steam Achievement Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I started playing the Civilization 5 Scenario “The Fall of Rome”. As all Civ 5 Scenarios this scenarios comes with a lot of customizations and unique units and leader-abilities.<\/p>\n

One Steam-Achievement that particularly drew my attention was “I Missed That Day in History Class” – Capture any Sassanid city as the Celts in the Fall of Rome scenario.<\/p>\n

Emperor difficulty attempts<\/h1>\n

As I usually play scenarios on emperor difficulty I also tried this achievement on this level. And miserably failed.<\/p>\n

First try: The land route<\/h2>\n

That meant passing the territory of the Franks. Using the unique ability of the Celts to only need 1 movement point to disembark, I conquered and razed Betuwe. I continued, embarked my troops again only to head for Duisburg right after that. I figured time was essential, so I retreated and headed east (Duisburg falling to the Franks again). I stayed closed to (but not crossed!) the Goth border until Olbia, which I razed. That was already turn 44-48. I boarded my troops and crossed the Black Sea. Unfortunately the Mongols didn’t give me a warm welcome on the east coast:<\/p>\n

\"Mongol<\/a>
Mongol units destroying Celtic troops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seeing that and the fact that I had only 14 turns remaining, I abandoned this strategy.
\nIf the land route doesn’t work, there’s only one other way to get this Steam Achievement with the Celts:<\/p>\n

Second try: The sea route<\/h2>\n

The sea route is a much more straight-forward approach considering the unique ability of the Celts to disembark using only 1 movement point. If you place your troops next to the coast and disembark the next turn, you can have catapults (and other units) with 5 movement points! This means you disembark, move your catapult in city-range, set up for ranged attack and fire! Using this strategy, you can conquer cities without your ranged units even get damaged.<\/p>\n

So I used this strategy, to conquer the Roman Atlantic coast of todays France and Spain and captured Caput Vada. Then I wasted time capturing the 2nd starting city and the continental city of the Vandals. Continuing east towards Carthage I realized: The Vandals had not taken the Roman-African cities! This is a major set-back for this strategy, as the Romans now still controlled the sea between Carthage and Sicily.\"Celtic<\/a><\/p>\n

With the Roman triremes attacking my units, only one Pictish warrior made it to Kyrene:
\n\"One<\/a><\/p>\n

Conclusion: The sea route is NOT the way to go if you want to make the “I Missed That Day in History Class” Steam Achievement.<\/p>\n

No more experiments: Settler difficulty<\/h1>\n

Using the above described strategy, but playing on settler difficulty I managed to capture 2 Sassanid cities as the Celts within the 100 turns. Here are the main milestones:<\/p>\n