Ave Caesar Walkthrough (Hardest)

Ave Caesar Campaign, last two most difficult missions

Pirate

Britain

Alesia

This mission looks hard as you have to face three enemies from three fronts. However, this mission's hint is quite enlightening. Two major bullets. We have to avoid multi-front battles and we have to build up our defense.

At the very start, we have four Roman legions and Caesar himself near our initial town center. Don't make them idle but order them to attack the orange because it's the closest faction. Produce the villagers and order the existing villagers to work. Two villagers far away from the TC is close to the quarry, which is very needed. Use the initial wood to build a Storage Pit and start to accumulate our stone. The rest of the villagers can chop the wood or farm. Balance the wood and food anyway. Don't forget order one villager to build tower incessantly around the initial TC.

When our "legion" with its Dux Caesar arrive at the base of the orange, which is to the northeast of the Roman town center, we will find that it's quite underdeveloped. Target the orange villagers and then their TC. After that, three orange watch towers. The orange will ultimately resign under the attack of mighty Roman legion(with only four soldiers). Now we have a very good start. The orange base has two gold mines and one quarry, which is more than enough for the later game. Now we can order our villagers to go to the orange base to build a new TC, new storage pit to collect wood, gold and stone. However, one critical thing, we don't want the remaining enemies to attack our new base, especially the yellow one, right? Yes, we have to make the new base safe. The best way is to make a line of walls, from the Roman existed walsl to the woods, to the north of our new base, build several towers if there are more stones to spare.

Then the game becomes quite easy. Red and yellow will attack, for sure. If we block the northern entrance to the TC by a series of towers, and keep the road open in the south, they may only come from the south, where they will meet my multiple towers too. What we need to do is to upgrade our technology, reach to the maximum population and then strike the yellow with bunch of long sword men and chariots(Sorry, we can't make legions in this mission. The four legions is all we have, I wish they are still alive now). After that go for red in the middle and finally, Vercingetorix.

Pharsalus

The battle protracted very long in my playthrough. The critical thing is gold. At the start, you will have very limited gold resource on your bank. Another closest gold mine is down the map across the river. The Red enemy, Metellus Scipio, with large probability, will not eagerly grab this gold mine(They later will if you leave it free for him). The best strategy to consolidate the condition, which I choose, is to wall the two river crossings,and dispatch one villager early to cross the river and build a town center near the gold mine down the map.

So first, order the initial four villagers to build one town center and three houses respectively near the start point. Also build a granary and order the villagers to start to pick berries. Continue build houses and pop villagers and order a few to chop wood. At this time, use Caesar to clear the river crossing with two crocodiles and the gold mines with eight(!) lions. Don't worry, Caesar alone will survive these battles. Then dispatch one villager to build the walls blocking the crossing route, then a new town center. Pop 2-3 villagers to mine the gold. At the same time, build two or more docks. The most generous resource on this map is wood, popping Trireme to defend the new town center will not hamper our economy and tech update. Besides the trireme, in order to destroy the numerous enemy's catapults and ballistae, the viable unit I think is chariot alone.

After few minutes, the red will attack the wall with siege weapons. However, after they destroy a few walls, the enemy will be attracted by the new town center. Mainly use your triremes to defend, and don't forget to use your Hero.

With enough gold, we can fully upgrade the technology and build our army to strike. We can either build a large fleet to destroy the buildings along the river, or spam chariot to strike inland. The red can spam many ballistae and catapults. It's more efficient to micromanage each chariot to attack one siege weapon. Of course, we need four or five stables in production to compensate our losses. Once the red siege weapon is weakened, we have to decisively strike the enemy's buildings, military or economic ones, to weaken him. This battle could be very long and tedious, however, we need the patience and confidence. Once the red economy is totally destroyed(in my playthrough, he didn't surrender. Perhaps because I didn't destroy all red towers), cross the river to attack the yellow, our arch-enemy Pompey. There's another large gold mine across the river with a piece of quarry. Seize it and now you can build quite a few siege weapons yourself. Do what you did to the red. After there are only yellow towers left(Pay attention. There's a yellow dock), take your time to destroy them one by one and waiting for the victory to pop.