This is by far the hardest challenge i had on this game
I advise pausing a lot, and setting the time speed to low
My tips and method
- your ally AIs may act completely dumb. If they do, just restart
Teal needs to destroy the gate and kill the units in front of the gate
Yellow needs to clean nearly everything on the east side of the map (you need to help him with your starting army and a few monks (for healing and converting the cataphracts)
- destroy the tower sout west that attack your units on the shores (send 6 huskarls, 5 for the tower, and 1 to trigger teal)
Build 3 TC and pump around 60-70 vills. mostly food and gold. completely ignore stone and sell your excedent.
Build a castle right in front of the closest gate (in range on the towers not the ennemy castle) and get out 3 trebs.
the first one has to destroy the castle that teal wants to destroy but from the outside (usually a skirm or 2 will attack it, just ignore them) then the one at the far west, again from the outside
the second one has to take down the one on the far east, from the outside again. Then after yellow has kill some units, it has to raze the one on the "middle" of the east district
the third one is to kill the one in front of your castle, and will back up in case the second one is destroyed, if not, just send it at teal. At the end you'll need at least 5 trebs by teal base.
After all this set up, you'll have a clean entry to Rome by teal base. all castles will be mostly accessible by trebs and huskarl push
You'll need 1 army (2 trebs, 2 monks and 30-40 huskarls) to go to the far north west by the west "road"
The other army (3 trebs, and everything else you have ) goes south (from the teals gate)
When you destroy the castle right in the center of rome, you'll gain access to a lot of military buildings. Pump a shitload of pikes, huskarls and cavaliers so stall purple and kill some blue units
- Dont research halbs. pikes are decent enough
- Keep 4-5 monks with your armies and try to convert as much cataphracts as possible
- Dont be afraid to pause (especially to convert optimally)
- Pray