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PSYCHO V
03-20-2006, 06:35
As yall know, I'm not much of an 'eastern' fan, but i have to admit, this has both got me laughing and wanting to have a go at the East.
AAR (http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=0) by Artaserse.
Very nice work Artaserse!
my2bob
Haha, that's awesome!
He needs to add "All your base are belong to us" somewhere, though.
HAIL KARL MARX! :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:
The_White_Knight
03-20-2006, 17:17
Thanks for posting. It's really funny. :laugh4:
hei people, only now i noticed this post by PsikoV and i must thanks him, very pleased to see this.
Thanks also to EB, I started my AAR without knowing nothing on EB (i just wanted to try a different mod), but the more i play it the more i love, so many thanks EB!
Obelics/Artaserse (a recently addicted fan)
EDITED to add a copy and paste of table 3 and 4 (damn i have not any free "obelics" posts anymore, to add table 1 and 2, just for completeness)
This is a copy and paste of Table 3 (it was the first update after the patch 0.74??? or 72something dont remember anymore...
ok this is a minor update, I consider this a very transition Table, from the old EB version to the new patch. So take it as it is, I had also few time cause duties, so in future i will add a more exhaustive one.
I played as the first few turns of the first two table, so nothing has changed. Pharotes Astianax Kribio and Cyruzzus conquered Mazsakat, The King has flee as usually and our treasury is even worst than before, anyway im very happy cause i can continue the Aar. Thanks to the guys who read this and feedbacked, i hope you like.
Remember to press F11 on your keyboard for better viewing
TAVOLA III
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/fronte.jpg
The Phartians, the myghty Phartians, so they are attempting to survive in this hostile word, we can not but appreciate this fierce people in their quest to an expansion. God! be mercyfull with those people!
Anyway we left Pharotes and his braves settled in mazsakat, now we will follow king Arsace in his return to the Capital...but here's the good Otanes who will continue the story...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/000.jpg
Oh tender Boy!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bak0.jpg
Finally a young man who was born from the blood of the King, He is Strong, He is Beautifull, he will want to prove himself! And infact, he will follow Pharotes in the new colony of Mazsakat, but the town is far away and the journey is full of dangers!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bak1.jpg
What a miserable Start for this man, all we here, expected some think more from a so nooble blood, a so nice body, His sweet face is covered by shame, but here's the King, Oh my Lord, The King in person is coming, to finish the work his young fellow hadn't attended!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar1.jpg
And so the battle...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar2.jpg
The King give the orders to reach the nasty folks, who had the courage of humiliate His belowed nephew!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar3.jpg
We are Victorious, Arsace the Great is proud of his skills as general, He cant believe It's True, The Blood is not Water...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar4.jpg
Achaemens that nice boy haven't the courage to present himself! He was just a Child! Now that He sow the corpse of the enemyes, and the blood of his own comrades, he can say a Man is grown, but the shame of see his Grandfhater, to finish the job he had to attend, was too stroong. Cry Boy, you will cry even more in your dangerous journey in the Waste Lands, along the shrine of the Unknown..
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar5.jpg
So Arsace the Imalegendarywarrior, can now reach his so dreamed capital, to say the truth he was away for not to long, but a journey for an old uncle, is always a long journey, no matter how long, neither how ridicule His fights. But here! The Capital seems near! He can see the houses and the Palace even from this place, be fast our King, your time is coming to and end...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar5b.jpg
Now the town! the Palace! His nose is tasting the sweet fragrance of His young little girls!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar6.jpg
Yes, the king is Dead! But he left our Kingdom in a truly miserable state... oh Arsace The Polite, why you had to enjoy every, but every day, the precious gifts, that a life of flesh and bones, gave us as a reward, for our sweet attempts to have a fullstack of descendants? You was a goodman and you won't be forgotten!
Anyway after the dead of the King, thinks begun to go better...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/clessi.jpg
...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/clessi.jpg
...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/clessi.jpg
...
...
...
the years passed, and finally some really good news deliciated our thirsty eyes...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/end.jpg
The Land is Waste, the World is Vast, no more dust in our the future, no more pain, oh Holy Money, finally i can pay one of those sweet...(Ehm my wine is finished, so the End for now...)
TBC
hope enjoyed
And this is a copy and paste of table 4
Well, as usually a warm arzarakawaraz to alls who read this, hope you like this one as far as the previous. I would have add some more info on the World economy of my campaign, but cause i had ctd, i cant understan what are the right economical screen shots of the actual campaign, and what are the ones related to ctd savegame. So, can't add a full overview now. But since i ve no more ctd now, cause i fixed the mod, i will update a very comprensive overview of the other powers economy in the next update.
As usually remember to press F11 key on your keyboard cause i like vertical screen shoots. Now i will post the fourth table:
TAVOLA IV
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/parthian_cataphracts.jpg
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, strirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warn, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Thomas S. Eliot - The Waste land
[http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/map45gj2.jpg
Oh for the dried bones of the Mighty Zarathustra, a sad Time is coming from this lands of desolation, We Parthian were too poor to establish a strong domain on the lands of our Ancestors the Akemenids, others, more powered Kingdom are expanding around our few province, blocking our path to Expansion and forcing our men to march up and down along the Waste Lands searching for a Virgin Ground were to settle, avoiding as far as we can, to offend our dangerous neighbours...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot1.jpg
The Armies of our greek alleys, marh along our provinces, conquering every single piece of soil out of our frontiers, our economy dont allow us to do the same, so how sad is to see every land falling under the Ellenic Flag...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot10.jpg
what a shame we have to fight only miserable brigands, our army deserves a better fight, a day where our warriors can dye in a honorable way
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot3.jpg
and so, ashamed and humiliated, Arses's army has to afford its duties...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot4.jpg
The enemy are few and outnumbered, they are scared by us, and we are scared by Seleucids, so, we have to do the job...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot5.jpg
Finally our new troops of horsearcher, can have the opportunity to show how deadly are the parthian arrows, falling from the sky, coming from an undefined place... at last, so we tought...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot6.jpg
Ah... what an inutile massacre this will be...some of our old veterans, seems to dislike such a useless task...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot7.jpg
...and here's the results
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot8.jpg
A black bird fly in the sky, it is the Shunxa's messanger, he came to us from the Western Sky, to warn us the Seleukia is become an huge power, so scared as they are, the Parthian, sent Otanes in a diplomatic mission to have an update map of the greek domains...our alley will give us for sure the infos we need to sleep well in the night...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot9.jpg
Oh Hole Parthin Heaven, Oh you King of the Sky, please listen to our prayers, send a plague in the in the greek unfaithfull lands, destroy their Gods, diminish their arrogance, those nasty men could have invented what they call Philosophy, but they lost The Wisdom...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot10.jpg
A goud challenge at last, the proud warriors of the steppes can finally prove as worthy they are...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot11.jpg
Enemy General Tallis, seems an optimus leader, will he show us, he deserves his command star?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot12a.jpg
The infantry of Tallis, try to pursue our flying knights, while the arrows, storm the sky from a side to another...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot12b.jpg
Go Astianax, you are The Tender, Go Krybio, you are The Brutal...and you Kuna The Barbarian, let your bloodied axe gently pose on the nice bodyes of our worthy enemies...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot13.jpg
The weather is warm and dried, the dust is covering our corpse so far as the corpse of the brigands, poor men, we understand you... we know what you call to be free, we also are searching for a place, were the Parthian dragon could fly safe and free...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot14.jpg
the time to end this battle is come...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot15.jpg
meny men are dyed, a lot of them lay on the ground while their souls reach the Sky...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot15b.jpg
A victory that we pay almost as much as our enemy, but a victory...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot16.jpg
Some time when all seems lost, The Supreme King of the Sky seems to pose a pitifull hand on your head, we lost an alley, but we gain another as powerfull as the previous one...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot16b.jpg
Our old friend Phraotes, the latter apprentice of king Arsace, is waiting to join Arses Army, and to lead with Him the Great Expediture in the Northern Lands
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot17.jpg
Oh Ahura Mazda, the Holy Lord of the Waste lands, you make two Tender Hearts to rejoin, as anxious is the young and tender Astianax to be made a man, by the old and experienced veteran Phraotes...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot18.jpg
And so, the longest day is come... a bloody day for sure...if this battle is lost, no more hope for Parthian to expand their lands, a great opportunity for our enemies to subdue the dragon...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot19.jpg
The enemy general is the greatest we encontered, his worth will be sufficient to stop our heros?
Arses, you are the leader now, fight well and show to enemy how strong is the nomad heart of the Parthian horseman...
Phraotes, you have become aged now, but we trust in your experience for keep away the young Akemenes, and Astianax the boy, from the enemy pikes..
Krybyo, you are a barbarian, and you dont care for your life, but make you alive, we need to hear your brutal howl again and again...
Kuna the axeman, you come from the same barbarian lands, make your axe to pose on the enemies as gently as ever...
And you Cyruzzus, the mighty archer... well you dont need advice, you are too smart boy to risk your life...but use well your tricks to gain us a fine day...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot20.jpg
The Land is Waste, Winter has come from the Easterns Caves, A Bloody Wind is blowing from the Northern Seas, a Day of Sadness and Dust is coming from the Wilde and Obscure Earldoms of the Night....
Ehm...more black of the midnight it cant arrive...eheh
TBC
hope enjoied
antiochus epiphanes
03-20-2006, 19:50
omg the best aar ever!
Spendios
03-20-2006, 20:47
The best and funniest AAR ever read !
Trithemius
03-21-2006, 00:51
This is pretty neat, I have only one question: what does AAR mean?
*thought this was some kind of pirate thread initially* :sweatdrop:
PSYCHO V
03-21-2006, 02:12
Welcome and great job Obelics
This is pretty neat, I have only one question: what does AAR mean?
*thought this was some kind of pirate thread initially* :sweatdrop:
After Action Report. Pretty standard gaming terminology for developing a story line using the gameplay of some game, usually strategy.
my2bob
Trithemius
03-21-2006, 03:37
Welcome and great job Obelics
After Action Report. Pretty standard gaming terminology for developing a story line using the gameplay of some game, usually strategy.
my2bob
But not in the communities I've been in, evidently. ;)
It is a military term, and as such it usually was found in wargaming areas, but it is apparently making its way into other areas as well. Though I guess RTW can sort of be seen as a wargame, at least from the tactical sense.
pezhetairoi
03-26-2006, 01:17
gods, that was funny! For some reason I just collapsed when the thanvabara yelled 'Proton Missile!'
GodEmperorLeto
03-28-2006, 05:38
Dude, we should seriously start putting together some of our own "After Action Reports" like this one. Kind of like this (http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60222) thread, but instead of just a single thread, have a section for it. More screenshots, more detail, and maybe even some photoshopping, just like this guy did with his Parthian campaign.
Mad Guitar Murphy
03-28-2006, 16:59
This stuff is awesome, I never expected parthians to be very eloquent
Teleklos Archelaou
03-29-2006, 17:23
New installments of it up now too - as are those of the KH campaign by Demetrious over on the EB twcenter.net forum.
It just gets better and better! :2thumbsup:
Teleklos Archelaou
04-13-2006, 19:35
MARAKANA ZARAWA AMARAKAZARA!!!
Artaserse is back with another installment:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=120&#
Spendios
04-14-2006, 15:02
Yes ! This AAR becomes more and more funny each time
Teleklos Archelaou
04-18-2006, 17:40
Artaserse battles the Yuezhi and Seleukids in his newest installment:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=140#
I've never seen a siege tower catch fire and a collapse at the walls before. That was awesome. EB has inspired some great AARs.
The_White_Knight
04-18-2006, 18:46
Artaserse battles the Yuezhi and Seleukids in his newest installment:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=140#
Hahaaha, great. I'm usually put off by steppe-warfaire, but it seems so fun in his campaign I might even try one in the next bèta! :2thumbsup:
Teleklos Archelaou
04-30-2006, 19:09
There is a new update to the story now:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=160
(moderators: could someone move this thread to the "Gameplay Guides" subforum here, and then also retitle it something appropriate, like "AAR - The Waste Land - A EB Parthian Story". That way we can just keep 'bumping' it whenever there are new updates over there so the fans can know about it and go take a look. Thanks)
Mad Guitar Murphy
05-01-2006, 02:21
This is f**** poetry man, it should be mandatory for everyone interested in history.
Rodion Romanovich
05-03-2006, 21:25
Really cool AAR, I especially like what the generals say to each other before the battles :2thumbsup: and many of the screenshots are really good! Btw is "Arzarakarakazz" a real word??!!
Justiciar
05-05-2006, 21:36
He's updated it btw.
Avicenna
05-06-2006, 09:19
Great writing! Gotta love Kuna :tongue:
CHAAARGE!!!
I can't decide between Kuna and Cyruzzus as to who is the most hilarious myself.
The bit with Ted made me crack up though, "Oh yes you will Ted!"
the next table is online:2thumbsup:
since the forum where i was posting it (rtr) are down... here's a little think to remember some of the nasty guys:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/teagy0.jpg
ive done it just for a sort of "nostalgia" and despite what Otanes says, im not sure i will continue this, im a bit out of training as you can see.
Anyway i profit of this, to thanks also all that people who was following it on the rtr forum and on this thread
arzarakarawak!
Artaserse
EDITED to add a copy and paste of Table 5 and Table 6:
This is a copy of Table 5:
Thanks guys for your really encouraging comments, here in Parthia THINKS GO BETTER THAN YOU THINK! :crazy: i forgot to give as usually a warmy Arzarakarakazz! to all you, and now i will post the fifth table:
(remember to press F11 for a larger view)
TAVOLA V
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/000Parthian_Cavalry.jpg
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of a man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
Aheap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief
And the dry stone no sound of water
Thomas S. Eliot - The Waste Land / The Burial of the Dead
Well and so the Battle for Gava-Alanna is going to begin...hope the Gods will be with us...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb1a.jpg
The men are worried about a so decisive time, some of them really feel the load of the events...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb1b.jpg
and here's the bloody ground, no grain will grow here anymore, after the Parthian have passed, no grain has never grown here cause the climate is too cold for cereals in general...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb1c.jpg
Our brave archers, as usually are the firsts to engage with the enemy, their holy mission is to skirmish at them and to make as many casualties they can...the rest of the army is waiting in silence, a strange noise raise from the ground, it is the noise of the hoofs of the enemy horses knocking the ground...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb2.jpg
And so, a first danger is avoided, but one after another, new waves of terror break the silence of this Winter Day...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb3.jpg
The enemies seem to have no rest, their furor has somethink of ancestral, their eyes sparkles in the snowy land as vain fires raising from the dark...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb4.jpg
Our warriors stand on the battleground waiting for an examotage to force the wolfs to break out of the burrow...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb5.jpg
Oh Tender Astianax, you have so few men, your brother Cribyo wait for a gesture of your noble hand...go now and keep to come back safe, cause Phraotes could not to stand your loss.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb6.jpg
thanks to our heros, the enemies is becoming to suffer some losses, a light of hope seems to enlight the eyes of our Generals...Are the Gods prolonging our pain? Or are They keeping a good time in store for us?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb7.jpg
and You, Usafer, who deserves our mercy, why your Fate has sadly crossed the path for victory of the Parthian horse-mounted warriors?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb8.jpg
Sometime the death for a man can bee a good think, hope only to find a worthy enemy that can give it to him...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb9.jpg
And so the Death has come...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb10.jpg
Yes Usafer will be remembered, but now the Knights of the steppes have to finish their job, it is time to enter the town and to take what we have so ardently desired...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb11.jpg
And here's the results
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb12a.jpg
Another town to add to our provinces, another conquest that cost us so much blood...other enemies were destroyed, their gosts will continue to persecute our nights...more money (we hope), will gladden our days...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/conq.jpg
and make us to watch now, oh King of the Spheres, at how the Pink Parthians colors ar spreading long the words...no matter if here in the Waste Lands, the provinces are so large, to make our color to seems so predominant...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb12b.jpg
And so the numbers (for this i had to rent a personal book-keeper). No one knows if there is somebody out there, who will really read those thinks...but how is varied the world, and how many powers there... and what a shame we are always the last in those kind of thinks, but we know our worth is not matched with the cold-hearted numbers!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/overview.jpg
And now this is the time for Farewells, someone will stay, someothers will go, how short is the life and how long are the good-bye...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb13.jpg
But here! Our family is expanding in some manner...Oh King Arsace the Founder, your soul can be proud of how your life was spent...now we have a full stack of descents, alls are ready to continue your exploits...
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The Waste is lands, ehm no The Lands are Waste, the the World is Vast (as usually), Winter is dying under the Eastern Sun, hope the coming days will be even more fruitfull than the past ones...
TBC
hope enjoied
and this is a copy & paste of Table 6:
Well, it seems no one is interested in my gameplay, speculations etc... <_< eh, so now i will post the sixth table. Please take present i had less time than table IV and V, so this will be a shorter one, hope anyway you like it.
Remember as usually to press F11 to enlarge the screen to view my vertical style shots.
TAVOLA VI
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The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days
Tomas S. Eliott - Preludes
And here the story continue, The Waste lands are more Waste than ever, the towns in the north are let alone, Pharotes is getting old, he choose to stay on that Winter Grounds, waiting for his last day to come...
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But the last day is already come for someone, whose name we have never spelled again... He was King Arsace successor, and he passed his time in Kiat hidden in his rooms, away from men, masked by a bronze face, fearing the view of human being...
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But what...? The Time we all fear has come, the Greek have decided to completely forget the ancient friendship that joined our two kingdom a time when no people threatened their power...
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And so a new politic situation is traced...
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And so, after have left our nice Astianax and his brother Crybio there in Kiat, and have reinforced the army, Arses, Akemened, Cyrus and Kuna, our brave heros, try to reach the besieged town. Oh poor King Barabigna, How can you afford alone a so dangeous foe? Your supply are going to an end, and your table is becoming to be empty of that delicious thinks you were used to enjoy...
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The Great God of the Sky has smiled one time more upon you, Parthian People, could you deserve his prize one time again, fight brave and He will smile upon you again and again...
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Our warriors face the battlefield with a bit of fear, it is the first time we face some civilized kingdom as ours, we can expect a fierce battle...the enemy are strong though unworthy.
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we can trust in our force, we have the strongest and virile men on the face of the Earth...
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...so the battlefield spreading from afar
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Our archers give a warmy welcome to the foes...but what kind of enemied are we going to face?
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What is this threath approaching from the horizon? Those spears facing the sky are a so horrible sight for our dusty eyes...
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but, for our warriors, the spectacle doesn't seem to worth the sight...no matter this is an unknown treath, we will fight as we know and as we ever done...
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Thanks the Gods, King Barabigna is arrived just in time to break with his cavalry in the enemy lines...
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Time has come to close our ranks around the enemy and to end their pain...
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The greek soldiers were strong and well armored, but they are too slow for our horses
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And here's the results
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The battle wasn't of our more difficult one, but it was the first time we fought against that Kingdom of Seleukia that keeped our people as servants for a so long time...
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AH! Now they fear us, but it is too late, we cant forgive your mistake, now, we have one of the strongest general under this Eastern Skys, Arses will continue to pursue you till the end of the world!
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No! We are not used to so miserable tricks! He wished to become a great conqueror, he fell as a cow under the knife of an assassin! The greeks must be punished for this, we will never forget this insult!
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Oh young Akemenes! Now you are alone in this wretched world! Will you be capable to face your heavy duties? Will you be so strong to punish them?
Our lands are waste as far as wasted are our moneys, make them wasted their lands too...
TBC
hope enjoyed
CountArach
08-17-2006, 06:23
Stop it if you want Atraserse, but I personally have enjoyed it form the beginning, and any more updates you ahve will be greatly appreciated.
hallo Count, too nice to see you're still around too, as i sayd im a bit out of training, but i must admit the wastlander "fièvre" is slowly taking me, so pheraphs i could post some small update in some days (we had still to take that damned town of Antiocheia-Margiane, and im becoming to think this thread [thanks a lot PsichoV, TA and others :bow: ] is very well fitted to host some new table)
Cheers pal
EDITED to add a copy of Table 7 and Tab 8
this is a copy and paste of table 7:
Ok, just a minor update this time, I hadn't the time to play EB, so i have just edited the screen shots i had taken 4 days ago, but i edited it to make them more interesting i hope, since the battle was a minor one. Hope the next update i can have more time, anyway i hope you like it. For all Astianax fans, i must excuse, cause ive not the money to buy the mercs unit to merge with Astianax and Cribyo units. Now they are 1 men unit there in Kiat, but i promise in the next update you will see again those boys, they are well and safe for now. Remember as usually to press F11 and take present that i had just this morning to edit the images. Now i will post the 7th table (the front image is Anahit the Goddess):
TAVOLA VII
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Parthia, Third Century B.C. Who could have imagined that a little State faraway, whose childs are born from the Waste Steppes, a day of Fire as the Mighty Phoenix, could raise from the dried dust bringing their winded sceptre, fallen from the sky as a gift by the Holy Mithra, The Guardian of the Eastern Heaven, against those greek people who have slammed in a recent past, the Great Persians our Ancestors!
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So a day of Spring, We have to do what can bring us, as far as we never could have imagined, the day to face the Seleucids enemy, the same enemys, whose exploits gained the The Ancient Akemenid Kingdom to that Alexander their young Macedonian general....
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So time has come to make the holy ruines of Persepolis reborn! There were a time when ambassadors from the farest places, even from the East Country of the Silk, came to prostrate themselves under the Akemenid Throne there in the Capital...but now we could be happy if won this battle, those greeks will let us free to continue our expension, along those Lands of Desolation...
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And so the battle is going to begin...the first wall we face, a woden one for luck! We're not used to those trucks there in the lost steppes, what a luck we can afford to rent a pair of them from a greek leech carpenter, who live near the town...
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The town spreading under a dark night sky, is a strange and charming spectacle for our brave warriors of the steppes, what misterious and enchanting secrets are hidden behind that wall of wood and iron?
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and so it is time to enter the town and discover by ourselves what are the sweet enchanting treasures, hidden there inside, those greeks are renowned people for lasciviousness and lust, even more then we Eastern ones...eh
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while breaking throw the streets of Antiocheia, the fierce Parthians cant just avoid to look ecstasied, to the white marble embellishing the greek town...but time to fight is not time to be amazed...
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The End is near, we can hear to the desperate weepings of the people there, behind the walls of their locked houses...just too early now to cry! cray even more after this battle will end...
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And here's the results as expected...
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A sad day for this town, how many people will be forced to leave their houses, how many husbands will never see their wifes anymore...
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good news never come alone! Our Man is now a Great one! Lets pray the God of the Sky Ahura Mazda the Watchfull you can become even more great as a general!
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but now that we can rest a bit in this town of lust and perdition, we can read some news from the Western Lands...who are thos people and what do they think to accomplish in this world of War and Ruins? A day will come you can rest in peace, the Parthian come, will take you Peace and Prosperity!
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Our quest can stop for now, we will settle here trying to organize the new province, and trying to persuade those peoples, we are good people who olny desire to enjoy their stay in this exotic place as far as our finances will allow us.
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The World is Waste the Town if Vast, lets hope to have a sweet good time there in Antiocheia, waiting for a long night to pass...
TBC
hope enjoied
And this is a copy and paste of Table 8:
Ok, first of all a warmy arsarakaracazz as usually to all people who have read/liked/unliked etc. this, a thanks also to Omorphos, Sarkis and Salvor Hardin for their suggestion, thanks people, i have very appreciated your interest in this to continue. Anyway i will continue to play in my way for now, i can survive again, so im enjoying this, every turn i still can afford to upkeep my army is very funny...now i will post table eight (remember to press F11 on your keyboard for a better viewing)
TAVOLA VIII
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"You Madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute -"
And - "Are we then so serious?".
T. S. Eliot "Conversation Galante"
An horse riding from afar, your shields can cover you, calm and cold blood...arrows storming from everywere, horses fleeing, it's a mortal flee, we are with the wind and our Lord is the supreme Master of The Sky...we are the Parthian and we will storm the four direction, and as the wind bring us to you, the wind can take us away...
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How beautyfull is the norhtern sky, we like cold and wind, we like our extended frontiers, our waste steppes, we like so many thinks, but we hate those people here who wants to make us become their servants...
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We have to defend our people and our towns, they consider us as barbarian, cause we dont speeck their strange language, but we consider ourselves as Persian, the biggest and civilized empire we have known, we want this empire reborn a day, but this day is so far away...for now we have to face those spear-lover people to keep our freedom safe away...
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And so the battle begin...we hope our men can afford their task successfully, we have so many nice people in our army, here's Cysuz, the mighty archer, and Kuna the fierce knight, and Astianax, Cribyo, and Theophilattos who love to fights as far as he hates to speak...
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How hight are the walls of Kiat and how far they seems the enemy, but from this heights they are so easy to aim at them...
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The Greeks figure they cant afford the fights with no siege weapons, and decide to leave the walls, it is time to break-out our Gates of Wood and Iron and try to kill as much of them we can...
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How dusty is the day and how fast they run, go Akemenes, you have Theophilattos at your flank,make this day, a day they will remember for longtime...
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Sometimes, the war can be ejoyable for whom has passed his life on an horse here in the vast steppes, some time it can be a sad affair even for the fiercest warrior...
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and here's the results...
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no time to stay, the war is endless, they are rich and powerfull, and they want to erase us from the face of the Earth...
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Another battle is going to begin, an harder one, helpfully, Barabigna, our King, is come from Nisa to join his forces with the ours, now we are strong, and we can face this threat with all the violence and the anger we deserve for our pains...
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The Waste Lands are a perfect place to manouvre our horse-mounted warriors, nice are those climates for our mood, and how far are that mountains there at the end of the horizon...
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And here's the battle has begun, as a storm from the sky the Parthian arrows will penetrate the enemy armour...
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Those Greek have a better technology than Pathians so far, their horsemen are better armored and their spears can easily penetrate Parthians wooden shields, oh money wretched money, they can afford a better armour, a finest steel for their blades, but we have the wind and the dust with us, and Mithra the Arcangel, with his fireblade in his right-hands, will guide our arrows throw the wind and the dust, poor greeks, your eyes are blind while our arrows find their path throw your armour...
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Time for this fight is going to an end...some flee, other stay, but the knocking of our horses-hoofs, is the signal you will stay forever...
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and here's the results...
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now it is time for punishment, our money are wasted as usually, and we need to raid some town to gain a loot can pay our fees...we are poor and our economy is weak, our nature is to raid cause we are nomads, and if we dont raid, we can remain nomad for a long long time again...
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A fight? A skirmish we could say, anyway path to the town is short and easy...
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And this is the prey we were searching for, a big town full of riches, the only problem are that wall, they are the first we face out of our lands....
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Here's the Parhian army lead by General Akemenes under the walls of Asaak, there are some enemy on the walls, their are waiting for us, but we have a different plan...
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Oh the Mighty Archer, you served well under Phraotes your distant causin, you are serving even better under Akemenes, the latter apprentice of Phraotes...hope those time of misery and desperation dont bring away you and all Parthia with the winds from the East...
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The Parthian are inside the walls of Asaak, is there somebody waiting for them? The warriors of the steppes are not used to fight in a so restricted space, we hope we will not suffer many losses even if the enemy is weack...
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Now to the center plaza! There is waiting the enemy general Erakleiades and his last men...
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Ah! This unlucky man is dead! His Cavalry seemed could keep the defence of the town, but his force were to small, and at the end, he fell to the ground under a soft caress of Kuna the Mad Axe...
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What seemed an easy fight, revealed as a dangerous one! Those men seems invincibles, what is the secret power hidden under their armour?
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And here's the results for last:
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Now we have the choice...what to do? No one say a word, everyone knows what to do, some of us are hesitant, others (a certain barbarian who loves to fan his gentle axe to the wind) cant stand, they just want to rush in the houses, open the doars and do whatever they want with this people who have instigated their anger...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i019.jpg
Another town conquered, a sad destiny for its people, another province to enlarge our Kingdom, is the southern sky our new frontier? We will see...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i020.jpg
But now it is time to rest, the lands are Wast as waste are the street of this town of ghosts, no matter if we have pushed our army so far away it is so easy for one of our inner provinces to be lost...
TBC
hope enjoyed
I follow it on the rtr forum but I think I don't have an account there so I can't post.
I really LOVE :smitten: the story, the characters, the pictures. You really should continue if you want to. Thanks for all the laughs anyway. :laugh4: :2thumbsup:
[thanks man, anyway cause ive almost finished a sort of update this afternoon (but i have to complete it adding the useless comments by Otanes The Teller...), i will post the last table (chapter) i uploaded in the in the RTR aar forums, just to give the new one a sort of continuity. Anyway i will post the new table tomorrow in then night (i have to add some small thinks as i sayd), so for now here's the last past table to start on (notice that the text is the same as on that forums)]:
EDITED to add a copy & paste of Table 9 and Table 10
This is a copy of Table 9
ok here's the nineth table, hope you like, i would have updated it on another page, cause too much picture on the same page could be create some trouble for slow connections, anyway if there is someone who have some problem to see it, let me know, anyway as usually a warmy arzarakarawaz to all people who read this and remember to press F11 on your keyboard cause the vertical screen shots. Im enjoing to do this, so i will post another table when i have the time to assembly it.
TAVOLA IX
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of a man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
T.S.Heliot - The Waste Land
And so what are we going to become? Can we be called nomads anymore? Are we became a band of wild beasts eager fot blood? Could the Sky enlight our way and show us the path to Wisdom and Mercy
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Oh Gods! We are trying to make you forgive our mistakes, could we rebuild from ruins and misery, and gain the love of people that suffered pain under our flowing steel?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/00par01.jpg
But yes, how can we talk of mercy in the Lands where no man would live, the Waste Lands are the place were the iron raise from dust, and claim his time as a bloody beast!
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The walls of Gerico and Babilon, could not stop our horde of wind and fog, the clouds seems to flee upon our raised spears...
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some man are searching for to dye...other men are waiting their destiny to comply...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1002.jpg
The Celestial Spheres can hide a jewel-case under their secret inner ice-cap, wisemen say, we will never know, what is the hidden bark of our deeper soul...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1003.jpg
ghost can flee from human beings, men can't stand, before such presences, from the afterlife...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1004.jpg
and here's the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1005.jpg
Pheraps we crossed a little bridge we had never to cross again...some men have lost their first candour, their hands are red of a worthy blood...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/batr00.jpg
And so those are the outlines, there in the Waste Lands...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/batr01.jpg
people is dead, people is still alive,
it could be fine to find a man that could be worth one of this nasty folks!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/batr002.jpg
Here's Akemenes and Gaubarauva of Misene, they are leading the Parthian forces over the Eastern steppes, trying to catch some juicy prey...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/batr004.jpg
And there's Pharotes, an holy man! all his soldiers love him as a father...and he love them as an husband... and how to forget Tuxtra, a man we haven't met before...well we will never meet again cause his fate is to settle there, and fight against his nomadic soul...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/batr004bUnified.jpg
The kingdom of Parthia..Pahvl...call it as you want..is stronger than ever, money flow form our leather pokets, or better, money flew and went away... but more warriors the wretched money, can gain to our Cause...a better army is ready to prove their indisputable faith...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats00aa.jpg
But a day of cold and wind, the time is come, to prove ourselfs, our riches hadn't make us so lascivious, as those freakish greeks...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats00ab.jpg
A strange noise raise from the ground, it is the eternal litany of the trembling souls
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats00b.jpg
those are the chants of the fallen corpses, who are warning the alives, to do not follow, their ancient Fate..
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats01.jpg
Poor you Man, who enter here, could have chanted the
old wise man, leading wistling his slowy boat, over the eternal red river...Here are the hills, and there will be a wasted champ, covered by tombs...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats02.jpg
Enemy are worthyless and cowards, but they are a lot, and this can bring us some trouble...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats03.jpg
and so the knocking of the horse's hoofs, a well-known sound for the steppes horse-mounted warriors, a noise that this time, is coming from the other side...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats04.jpg
Time to charge Dionisios! Your name is the name of a God! Ah, a lazy one for sure, this could be a luck for us...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats5.jpg
Time to hunt for little hearty pawing souls...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats06.jpg
But luck can be blind sometimes, and a spear could not worth another one, a finest steel and a deeper armour could change the way, this day was going to be...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats07.jpg
Have we offended the Gods with our quest for money and lust? If we have done, this could have be the right reward
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats08.jpg
and here's the results
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats09g.jpg
When the luck abandon you, every think can be good to calm your anger!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats10.jpg
some time the innocent one have to pay for the faults of the guilty ones...how can be cruel the crowd when aiming at single one!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats11.jpg
The World is Vast, the places are much, will you be able to find a good place to stay, oh good Otanes, the teller of this strange story of wind and dust?
TBC
hope enjoied
and this is a copy of Table 10
Ok here we are, as usually a warmy arzarakawaz to all people who have read this, and now i will post table ten. Hope you like as previous ones (with this table i consider closed the first cycle of this Campaign, i will call it the "Inner Cycle" or Yin, the next one from the table eleven, will be Yang, i hope...)
TAVOLA X
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You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles' heel.
You will go on, and when you have prevailed
You can say: at this point many a one has failed.
T.S Eliot - Portrait of a Lady
Well, April is the cruellest month, that's what the Poet sayd, but an even more cruel month it was for Parthians who suffered the pains of the defeat...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa00.jpg
Lands are spreading under the Dark Skys of the East, Fog is hiding us the real threath from the Western Heaven, A fog that will fade-out a day, when our Horsemen Horde will gallop towards the Lands where the Sun is used to fall...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa01.jpg
Yes, The Parthian Grounds are spreading-up, Arsace is Dead but how He would be Proud of Us if He could see how larges His Lands are becoming to be
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa02.jpg
Our troops there in Marakanda have found a fine place to rest, they had to recharge their force, it's time for vengeance...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa03.jpg
The nobles of our Kingdom have decided to join our Quest, some of them has left their ruiined lands, to lend their rennowned combat skills to the Parthian Cause...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa04.jpg
And so Time to revenge our blood is come...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat000start.jpg
Will We be capable to send that General who smiled upon the abandoned corpse of many of our warriors, in a better place where to stay?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat001.jpg
War bloody war, we are nomads, and nomads are good hearted peoples, but they never forget...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat002.jpg
The ground is going to be dark of the fighting deadmen, rivers of blood will flow to calm down our thirst...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat03.jpg
Oh noble people! How were you pityfull, to grace us with your aid!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat004.jpg
The night is near and a deeper dark is going to cover your eyes, Oh Seleucid General!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat05.jpg
and here's the results
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat06result.jpg
Old news.. and more fresh ones!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat06result2.jpg
Time to move towards Nisa, there's people who's waiting us
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat06result3.jpg
The Towers were ready, the Rams were finished, but as they were to begin the exploit, a Parthian Chant raised by the back...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats000start.jpg
And so it's Time to fight again
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats001a.jpg
The Blue Sky that cover the Lands of Nisa, seems to invite us to a friendly meeting with our greek mates, but the shinig steel of their blades is going to excite our bows to be raisen...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats001b.jpg
Waste Landed Warriors, are calm and cold, they know this time no Parthian Blood have to be shed..
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats002.jpg
and these are the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats003results.jpg
Holy Moneys! Now we can afford to give our Beloved Astianax, an unit of men who will be lead by this Tender Apprentice of the never blessed enough Phraotes!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/cont01.jpg
But Cribyo his younger brother had to ramain in Kiat... But time will come we will have the money to give this gentle boy, a well suited unit of archers who will fight at his flank. Pacience Cribyo! You are young and you can wait again...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/cont01b.jpg
The Lands seem a bit less Waste now that Akemenes joined our Tender Astianax. The Sun is brighter and the Clouds more White...will our warriors be able to find a path who deserves their glory? Reins are loosened and horses are pawing, the dust dispersed and dice's cast...
TBC
hope enjoied
EDITED this post to add copies of Table 11A and 11B
This is a copy & paste of Table 11A
ehm he could be fine here in the Waste Lands, there are so nice people to talk with... anyway thanks you all who supported this even if i didn't updated for a week, yes it was the election day here, but i were also very busy, so this will be a shorter update, i had very few time but i tryed to make it interesting, so hope you like. now i will post the eleven table (had no time for the appendix i promised):
ah, remember to press F11 for a better view since i like vertican screen shots
TAVOLA XI
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And so we feel better now, Parthia is becoming to be a great Kingdom, and our neighbours are becoming to do not threat us anymore, well pheraphs this could be sayd about the Seleucids, but their allies, some nomad people from the far East, have decided to expand in our Lands...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aa001.jpg
The Horses-Archer from the East-Side of the Waste Lands, are well known as the best out there, those men are grown on their horses, and are used to not have an enemy that can afford to face their wildness...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aa001b.jpg
But as far as, War is the most important occupation here in Parthia, we have to begin to considerate to build some new place where our people can manage their new interest here in the Waste Lands, well the most popular hobby here seems to make money nowadays, are the ancient heroic times lost forever?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aaa002.jpg
Our Gods as far as our people seems to enjoy a lot the new habits there in our metropolis...Oh holy Mithra! There were a time when you were a Warrior God, how is it possible now you become the God of Merchants? Is our People going to be corrupted?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aaa003.jpg
Well, we can be corrupted desormais, but there are some even more rich people who are doing well it seems...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aaa004.jpg
The Fate pretend we continue to fight, but our enemys continue to flee...are they hidden in that town out of the frontiers of our Kingdom? Or are they ambushed in some place after our army, our warriors are thinking to settle down in that nice village without a fight...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/aaa05.jpg
Ah! Here they are the cunning ones! They were waiting for us, those Eastern have thought they can fight even better in their own lands, but our heros have no fear to be lost on the grounds of the Unknown, Akemenes and Vaianix have kuna as Guide, he is a member of the Daha, a tribe that knows everythinks abaut the vast steppes...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat00.jpg
Another day of sand and wind, another sky that will see some blood spreading towards his hights...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat01.jpg
Nomads that fight against nomads, what a shame, if those people hadn't chosen to stay under the greek protection, we could have become an invincible league here in these forgotten lands of desolation...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat02.jpg
Those warrior are strong and used to war, but we have Astianax at our side and Kuna at the other, Those two man are enough to face the worst threat that could happen...go Waste Landed Riders and do your sad job who deserve the subside of your forged steel...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat03.jpg
The enemy are tired and lost, some unit of theirs, try to charge desperatly our spear armoured-warriors, but what is the force that allows that three strange heros to raise from the bloodyground and to fight even more cruelly?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat3b.jpg
Time to end this, who can be better than our Daha warrior, the axe-weaponed Kuna, the man who like to send people to the Lord of the Sky under the soft blows of his shining blade...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat04.jpg
and here's the results
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat05.jpg
Finally the path to Gava-saka is opened under our feet, this could be a fine opportunity to discourage that Easterns to bother at us anymore...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat06.jpg
As usually the lands are Waste and the World is Vast...but the path to East is only a provvisory event in our holy quest for a new place to blast...
TBC
hope enjoied
and this is a copy of Table 11B
Well, i dont know if this is becoming too big, so that people cant read anymore all the tables, and the new ones just give it a look to see the pictures, anyway i hope it worths again to update this, and as usually a warmy arzarakawak to alls who have read/liked/unliked this. Hope with this table to have finished the East part of our quest...
remember to press F11 on your keyboard for a better view
TAVOLA XI B
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Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I toghether
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
T.S. Eliott - The Waste land
And so the YuèZhe, the forgotten nomads of the Eastern lands, have decided to face the Parthian horde in an attempt to abetting their greek allies...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats00a.jpg
But here...after have defeated Gobuzan The General, an easy path is open for us towards the town of Gawa-Saka, time to gain that town to the Parthian Cause and to enlarge our Eastern Frontiers...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats00b.jpg
The Sky is clear and the wind is calm, our horse cant stand waiting to lead our brave warriors down the streets of the town...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats01.jpg
Poor the man that will face the anger of our Daha warrior, an enemy for sure, but a friend has to be carefull too...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats02.jpg
This is an easy day for our army, Gobuzan is dead and Kusuluk cant stand his master cavalry skill, this apprentice is going to end his life after his master's Fate...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats03.jpg
Time to enter the town and to give an end to this unworthy day...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats04.jpg
And here's the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats05.jpg
So a new territory is gained to the Parthian crown, A cold Wind from the remote lands of the Eastern dominions is blowing today upon the gloomy grounds of the Waste Lands...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats05a.jpg
Now it's time to finish our bloody job beyond the frontier of our southern enclaves...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats05b.jpg
But sad news are coming form Nisa our Capital, after the death of King Barabigna, Phraotes the Pious was designed King, but he was too old, oh our hero of Gava-Alanna! and time has come also for this holy man, to reach the farest grounds of the Parthian Heaven...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats05c.jpg
Now we feel strong, and we have money to face a punitive expedition against that Alexandria-Eschate, where the most part of the seleucids attacks are coming from
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats05d.jpg
the towers are built-up, and our infantry is ready to engage on the height of that walls...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss00.jpg
and so the battle...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss01.jpg
How sad is to see some braves to dye in that horrible manner... no guilty for our enemy, they are doing their job as well as we are doing ours
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss02.jpg
but as far as the walls are fallen under Parthian control, the fight is becoming to be an easier task for our warriors...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss03.jpg
and here's the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss04.jpg
The town is conquered... but lets have a look now at our expanding provinces:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss05.jpg
and here's the North...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss06.jpg
the core lands are growing well under the influence of our expansion...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss07.jpg
and the Eastern provinces too...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss08.jpg
Now, as our kingdom is enlarging its frontiers, we're receiving messangers from every corner of the world, giving us news on the situation of that lands outside our borders...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss09.jpg
but the day is come to an end, time is wasted, lets hope our armies will enjoy a further journey through a world so dangerous and vast...
TBC
hope enjoied
it was under the vacancies:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/gh.jpg
and someone just mispelled his name:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/tf.jpg
Justiciar
08-22-2006, 23:46
The brilliance of the AAR itself aside, those are some sexy screenshots.
I've always loved your AAR Obelics, I've just never said so since I'm only a lurker over at the RTR forum(R.I.P). Hope to see more of these, glad it’s running again. I'm wondering, are you planning on staying here or going back to RTR once their forums come back to life? Quite strange place to have an EB ARR now that I think of it.
first of all thanks a lot!:2thumbsup:
@Sdragon
regarding the the question of the rtr forums, you have perfectly centered my actual drama....:embarassed:
I still have the secret hope i will see my thread back with all 20 past installements, i must say, I know this aars are a very futile form of writing, if a forum die all the thinks you have done die with it and adieu... but as a scholar of chinese, i should like every futile form of (i dont know how to define it...) expression? Now, even if i know it is a very futile form of writing (and a very strange one, cause you make a sort of story on your progress in a game...), i will be very happy when (and if...) i will have back my thread... im become fond of my strange charachters, and i hope i will have back their stories too, as i sayd (excluding the last new installement and the 2 past tables i posted here) there are the previous 17 installement id like to see back.
regarding the question of an EB aar in a RTR forum, well, this aar was posted in the AAR Subforum of the rtr forums, and that subforum was thought for every RTW AAR infact there was also a NOT RTW subforum there). And i must say it was really exciting (for me) to share my stuff with other people's stuff, there were a lot of aars (some of them were just started and never finished, others were some very long sagas), so all this (if you like this kind of thinks) was very exciting and stimulating for me... i can remember some of them: the precise and rigorous aars by the Bard and Zorromorph (I guess they were german people), the pompous roman aar by Mcm (it had somethink of american), the light and fast Omorphos aars (it should be DemetriousII in the TWcenterforum), they had somethink of comicstyle, and i must say his sassanid BI aar has inspired me a bit for the Waste Land. Again i remember the endless Lichgod Pontic aar, and the Belisarius Armenian one (these last 2 also fastpacked and easy to read), the aars by Theta (who also tryed to be rigorous, but who was open to some experimentation) also the funny Caiveira attempt (what a pity he didn't continued it), and the funny germanic aar (based on a single general named Ario) by... ah i cant get the nickname now... but i liked it a lot (expecially the few last installements)
Even if i didnt read all the stuff, i just was following a pair of them (the more fastpacked ones), it was nice to have all them there...as i sayd there were really a lot of stuff..., and i remember too all the people who commented it or just spam it (dominos? no just joking), it was very funny to have all that comments...
Again i remember the infinite fights:furious3: about House-Rules, (the Theta and Bard crusade against Doctor and Herbalists, and the problem to swap them to another family member, anyway i was in the party of the people who had no problem with those retinues, Ah! I rember the "cheese tactics" thread become a sort of theological debate on the real essence of Life... and I was one of the people that took itself very seriously i must admit:oops: )
anyway all this to say that the aar subforum was a very exciting place for me and i miss it, and i really hope to have it back again...
mammamia this seems a sort of remembrance...
Ok if we have back the forums with all the stuff still there (but i dont swear on it) i will continue for sure there (cause my aar started there, and as i sayd there were all the 20 installements, and i will add this last table 16B too)
But i still dont know as i will manage, i could post here and there, or i could find some other manner, i dont know...
Sorry if this moring im so verbose (generally im not so "romantic"), but you have just given me the "LA" for some remembrance...
cheers
Artaserse
Musopticon?
08-23-2006, 16:52
I will always support you Artas, no matter what "path" you choose to take.
You could keep posting Waste Land here for a while. I'd appreciate it and I have no doubt that everyne else would too. RTR.net will be open soon and then you can transfer if you want.
Go Acha-emen-es! Go Acha! Go Acha! You can make it....Strato is outta Ur waaaay!!!!!
:cheerleader: :cheerleader:
RESPEKT out to Obelics, I am enjoying this so much...do you write comics?
You gotta a hell of a good humor!!!!!
Cheers Subedei!!!!
@Musopticon? really happy to have you back here mate! we will see how it will go with the forums matter, for now ive no idea... Arzarakarawak!
@Subudei ah so pleased of this, anyway i do not write comics, ive just learned somethink about mspaint and photoshop on progressing in the aar, thanks a lot man, a warmy arzarakarawak! also to you!
now a bad new (not so bad hopefully): Ive just joined the party of the reinforcement CTD bug, it is strange, cause some chapter ago, we had a maior battle near Hekarompylos (Parthyaia) with Seleucid Reinforcement, and all went well... It is the first time it happen in my Pahlava campaign since i had 0.74 (but i must admit it happened a few time in my Aedui one). Tomorrow i will go to install the Fix by Kull, but now im a bit frustrated cause i have to replay the battle AAAARRGH!:wall: (uff! I took some good screenshoots), anyway hopefully nothing of definitive (i think the fix should go well), but I fear a bit the side-effect of this fix, i didn't understand what does it means the fact that the fix will bypass the post-battle traits... Im going to check better the fix-thread just now... as the wiseman sayd: "if you know you do not fear..."
cheers
Artaserse
EDIT: Ok all resolved i think
EDIT 28/08/2006:shame:
sorry people to not have updated it in a week desormais (someone can traslete me this french word in english please...), too nice feedbacks bytheway, thanks all! but i have some real life matter, and i have also a bit of "inertia" due to the weather, im a really lazy guy... anyway i will spend some hours tomorrow on it, cause im eager to continue the campaign, and i cant if i dont update the aar...:hippie:
PS just an anticipation: Akemenes at the tender age of about 60 is still alive and eager to fight! (i know now 60 is not too old, but in the ancient time you were a sort of matusalemm, and in RTW it often happen that you see a general more than 60yo disappear suddendly...), also Kuna the dahe robber, the mad singer, have managed to form an army, we hope he will rejoin the party soon (but im not sure in the next update)
EDITED THIS POST to add copy & paste of Tables 12 and Table 13-A
This is copy of Table 12
ok, too much days without an update, so i decided to make a smaller one, the good thinks are that i was almoast finishing to assembly my screen shots, so i hope the next update will be faster. Hope anyway you will like this as previous, and i hope this spring time (i hate spring) dont make me too lazy to let the Waste Lands forgotten... (be pityfull with this update cause my soul feel so strange in this mating season...)
A last think, the results of the battle are from the main save, while the screen shots are from a replay, cause i didn't planned to show that battle (just planned to show the results), so i have to replay it just to take the screen shots
anyway as usually a warmy arzarakarakaz to all you nice people and remember to press F11 on your keyboard to have a better view
TAVOLA XII
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We'll gather hibiscus flowers
For it won't be minutes but hours
For it won't be hours but years...
T.S.Eliot - Fragment of an Agon
When Mithra The Arcangel posed his knife to kill the Sacred Taurus, its blood made the ground to flourish, the life to spread...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start00.jpg
Time is passing upon our unworthy lifes as the flowing water of an endless river, how could we spent our wasted time now that money are not wasted anmymore?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start01.jpg
War is not the only duty here in the Wastelands, the work is the hidden part of our long quest, what a pleasure is to work if you have a renowned job like this...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start02.jpg
But lets have a look to the lands where the Westerns have posed their dominions...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start03.jpg
The lands of the Desolation, are plenty of Brigands armies walking around as strange parassites suking the honey of the Parthian riches...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start03b.jpg
Oh the Greeks they never give-up, can we reach that town in time before it fall under the silver banners of the Seleucids armies?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start03c.jpg
The northern lands aren't as Waste as we tought, they are plenty of reaches instead...a small avanguard was sent to report...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/00start04.jpg
A town is going to see its worst time, hope that men worth the name of Braves Parthians warriors...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bimmagine0.jpg
And this is the winter time under the stones of those Parthian Walls...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine1.jpg
Yes, Akemenes didn't reached the town in time...but we expected this and tried to reinforce the garrison there in that strange town...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bimmagine2.jpg
An unworthy end for a worthy enemy, hope some pityfull god will raise his lost soul from the dusty ground...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine3.jpg
but time to fight is going to an end...will we be capable to make this end as favourable to us, as favourable are the omens?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine4.jpg
and here's the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine5.jpg
well, our garrison has gained the respect of the Parthian Lords, that Captain will deserve to fight under the Parthian Flag, togheter with our renowned heros... Could someone we know, be as patient as deserve this promoted captain...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine6.jpg
Go Akemenes, The town of Asaak is waiting your arrive, your brave men will meet a worthy mate to enlarge your circle of acolytes...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine6b.jpg
Another cunnig spy was trained there in the town, his report will be usefull to plan a further quest...will we be so capable to attempt to the Big Shot? Well, we will see...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine6c.jpg
But so, time was wasted even more this day, following this strange story of a land so Waste...
TBC
hope enjoied
This is a copy of Table 13-A
Ok as promised here's a bigger update for my 13th table, this cabal strange number...hope you like as previous, and lets say that im much glad to see some new people is being interested in this, so hope that the readers of the first time are still there as far as this latter ones. It was quite a fatigue this time pheraps it is this spring strange atmosphere that is going to get me so lazy :lazy: (that is even for real life)
As usually a warmy Arzarakarakazz to all you and remember to press F11 for a better view. Also if some new people want to see the previous table, there is an updated index in the first post of this thread
TAVOLA XIII
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her departed lover;
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over."
T. S. Eliot The Waste Land - The Fire Sermon
What it could happen if we were not the only one in this wasted Kosmos, yes our Gods could be pleased to have some more nice people who celebrate them with sacrifices, but what if this kind of people is so powerfull as much as them are, so dangerous as well as the supreme god of the underground?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed00a.jpg
the time seem to pass slover than ever in this day of indubitable incertainty, the omens are strange and impenetrables, will these be the days of the Redemption...?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed00b.jpg
Let's take that town and hope the Sky has a nice plan for its parthian fellows...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed01.jpg
The two towers of Doom...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed02.jpg
Some people feel even more strange in these days so nebulous, so dark...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed03.jpg
and well, there is someone that will never see the upcoming days, is this a luck? Could be...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed04.jpg
The forgotten lands of the Northern side of the desolation grounds are spreading untauched under the trembling feet of the pilgrim fathers...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar00a.jpg
Could you resist, Oh the pilgrim passing there, to the rotten temptation of obtaining more than you deserve...?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar00b.jpg
But sometime the thinks go in an unexpected manner we see...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar01.jpg
and an unexpected hand can make our ambition even more miserable...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar02.jpg
so restless, your obsessions just can't find their peace...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar03.jpg
But here, those walls seem to call our march...that Spring fields under the unfolded line of the lying stones will never see, a flower to blossom, a stalk to raise...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/sar004.jpg
War seems to have no rest between such crushing grounds, of those Kingdoms raising from the dust...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat000.jpg
The Sun is blessing Us... The grain bends under our horses hoofs
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat001.jpg
the fight is next to begin...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat002.jpg
that's nice to fight one after one... the next will be more difficult we could say
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat003.jpg
Dreaming back thru life, Your time - and mine accelerating toward Apocalypse
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat004.jpg
Those Seleucids have some Parthians acholites around them, but well, they will be treated as the worst of the greeks...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat005.jpg
No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat006.jpg
That parthian warriors submitted by seleucids, seems to fear our angry eyes while running towards the hills...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat007.jpg
what a shame for that men, who are of our own blood, to be killed under the watchfull sight of the Parthian God
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat008.jpg
And how Death is that remedy all singers dream of, sing, remember, prophesy as in the hebrew Anthem, or the Buddhist Book of Answers - and my own imagination of a withered leaf - at dawn -
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat009.jpg
So Time is lost under a Sky so vast, and everybody can chose his fate according to his own, so lets wait for the next fragment of this hazy story to be raisen from the dust...
TBC
hope enjoied
Spendios
08-23-2006, 21:50
Awesome ! Can't wait the next episode !
Arzarakarakaz !!!!!!!!
Musopticon?
08-24-2006, 09:04
Hey Artas, remember to remove the fix(there should be a backup file in the rar archive) after you have fought a reinforcement battle. Because the "fix" removes all post-battle traits. You can just apply it again when you face a new reinforcement battle.
Good to hear all's working fine. That fix saved my Epeiros campaign too. Although I uninstalled regular RTW for Gold Edition and BI mods just yesterday.
CountArach
08-24-2006, 09:33
Great work Artaserse! Those ones were great. You seemed to fight a huge number of battles vs Strato. He was becoming a favourite character of mine.
How long before Kuna? I'm missing him...
Musopticon?
08-24-2006, 09:52
I seem to remember this chracter with a doctor Zoidberg-avatar from rtr.org.
I wonder why I remembered him right now. :P
CountArach
08-25-2006, 07:42
Could it be me??? :wink:
Musopticon?
08-25-2006, 13:11
Hehheh, feels like home.
Salvor Hardin
08-30-2006, 20:19
And thanks again Musopticon, for addressing me here. I had missed Arta's work a lot. There is nothing better than starting the day with a lot of laughs.
EDITED THIS POST to add copies of Tables 13B, 13C-Overview, and Table 14
this is copy and past of Table 13B
ok, this is just to prove myself i can continue this... so dont expect a full-complete table with statistics, overview etc. i just found some time to assembly my remaining screenshoots, and tryied to make a continue... hope it can go. Im pretty satisfacted until now, since this is a unusual aar with a different mod than rtr, and a not roman, not spartan, not barbarian.
as usually remember to press F11 for a better view and there is an updated index on the first page if you want to read some of the past tables. Arzarakawaz
TAVOLA XIIIB
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To make a rather lengthy story shorter,
He left no wise precaution incomplete,
He doused the room in which they were to dine,
And watered everything except the wine.
T.S. Eliot - A Fable fo Feasters
The battle for Herakompylos was near an end, just need to give it a boost thanks some brave people who can stand the fight until the night...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat001.jpg
The Parthians are the Masters of Horses, fight with the light at their flank, while the wind opens under their arrows to fall... but some men fight well even with a shield and a spear...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat002.jpg
the end approach in a strange manner, some men are tired others are sad...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat003.jpg
and here's the results...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat004.jpg
the fight, could it see an end? the enemy are unworthy, or have they some plan... they flee the few survivors, looking for their town... not an endless path, a blind alley...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat201a.jpg
time again for a siege...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat201b.jpg
and so, while the most part of the steppe warriors, is waiting out of the town walls, two units will try to untie the bond...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat201c.jpg
some times the voices persecute your mind...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat202.jpg
never alone... she can seek for your thoughts...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat203.jpg
you can be called back, you can chose... is that home... the place where you were before?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat204.jpg
end here's the results for this day...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat204b.jpg
a fact that we could regret...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat204c.jpg
A day so fast is passed-away, hope other days that were lost, can be called-back from past.
TBC
hope enjoied
This is copy and past of Table 13C - Overview
Ok i planned to insert this screen shoots in table 14, but thinks went bad, if i were using titles for tables, i could call table 14 "the collapse"...
so i decided to link these informations to the previous table, so table 13 is in 3 parts. From now on thinks will change as i sayd... so consider this little appendix as the largest dominions gained by parthians, i know in history they pheraphs were the first world power toghether with Rome (China Han excluded), but in this aar i think they will do worst... btw here thinks seems to go well again
as usually remember to press F11 on your keyboard and a warmy arzarakarakazz to all you
TAVOLA XIII - C (OVERVIEW)
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So many waiting, how many waiting? what did it matter, on such a day?
T.S. Eliot - Triunphal March
and here's an old friend...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/000ot.jpg
and an anxious brother...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/001ot1.jpg
the day for a triumph could be the way to turn back home...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/001ot2.jpg
spreading dominions...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/002bigmap.jpg
and numbers, we are nomads, just not Pithagorians, but well... they can go:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/003overview.jpg
A friend, an enemy what a difference in such a wretched world?
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/004overview.jpg
a murch towards the icelands...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/005overview.jpg
and peace could be a storm prelude...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/006overview.jpg
what other to say, nothing to say but ask the dust... blast, cast, past... ehm waste, vast, bost, croz... ok this time ive some problem with the rhyme, but i will do better the next
TBC
hope enjoied
This is copy & paste of Table 14
well, as usually a warmy arzarakarakazz to all who read/like/unlike this and here's a small new table, hope you like
remember to press F11 for better view and there's an updated index in the first post of this thread if you are so strange to want to read some of the past tables...
TAVOLA XIV
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When we came home across the hill
no leaves were fallen from the trees;
The gentle fingers of the breeze
had torn no quivering cobweb down
T.S. Eliot - Song
time to know if we are become too corrupt... if gods will bless us furthermore...
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we have to maintain the line, if we do not want to deviate... but a sage cant see the line... all is calm and silent...
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a calm sea where philosophers cannot trace their furrows...
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so much friends to keep quiet...
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so much friends to give them the welcome...
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but try again... hope is restless
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and than the Parthians have to face some enemys we never considered before... well we did not consider so much thinks in the last few days...
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a town that will see some sad time if some pityfull god wont help us...
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some hunters like sparrows and birds, others love mankind so much...
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and here's the results for this day to forget...
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where can we find some help... warriors are few... all people seems to think about money and riches... who want to dye?
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but then! a sad day has seen its end, and a sunday afternoon digestion need a clean bed where to rest, so another day we will see how will it end this hopeless quest...
TBC
hope enjoied
:balloon2: :coffeenews: :balloon2: Great job Obelics, I love your story; hopefully "Le Capitain" will become a General some day , marry a Parthian Princess & become ruler of the Wasteland. "Yuppidoooooo!!!!" ...can´t wait for the next part....:2thumbsup:
thanks Subedei, anyway there were some small errors in the pics i tryied to correct now :sweatdrop:
Teleklos Archelaou
09-08-2006, 20:06
Table C was a good one O!
I've been dealing with a really slow internet connection, and it took me ages to get this whole page loaded up, but it was worth it. :2thumbsup: I liked that you snuck one of the new resources in there too I see. :grin:
Wherever you decide to keep posting these, a lot of people have enjoyed them! Hopefully you'll do a grand one for us all when 0.8 is out too.
I'm impressed at how quick you've bounced back from the brink of disaster. Looking forward to the next bit.
Do you ever intend to retain the Nizag Gund? Those guys must be getting lonely with so few troops. Seems the unit is just taking up a unit card slot that could be used for something less useless, 15 Nizag Gund just doesn't make an impact, even when being lead by 'The Invincible Champion Ted.'
Thanks Teleklos, I have some problem too to see all the stuff, pheraphs about 5 installements on one only page are a bit too much... anyway that pic with the resources was taken in the 224 BC after have finished the installements, it is very satisfating to see the gold mine there, as i sayd they give a very new feeling to all the map, in there province we got even a mounts market and a texile too, so it was a very good acquisition in the pahlava domain (before i didnt look very often to the resources of a province), ah i forgot to mention a pair of those round circles....
Sdragon, regarding the poor Ted, ive done all my best to keep that surviving unit of 15 nizag gund alive... it was hard especially in the first battle (that of Antiokeia) cause there were enemy reinforcement from the other side of the battlefield, and it was kaotic cause the woods, i was lucky to not have lost them (there were a lot of enemy skirmishers...). You know, one of the rules in this AAR, is that if i loose one unit with a charachter inside, i consider the charachter as dead... (this can be seen with Astianax and Kribyo that in table V or VI was reducted to 1 men unit, but i keep them alive cause i didn't loose all the unit). Anyway i can retrain Ted's nizag gunds in Bactra (im settled a IV Gov. Type, 2 turns for now). My actually strategy for infantry is to have just 2 units of pantodapoi phalangitai and 2 of nizag gund, i should revise it anyway, but i like the hearted(?) hats of the white nizag gunds, they are really tender so i dont want to kill Ted. Again i think a pair of nizag gund should always be in a (not 100% cavalry) Parhtian Army... (what a pity in VH they seems useless, but in some battle i must say they were great, like in the Battle for Hecarompylos... it was some installements ago). Regarding our reprise, i must say that the town of Asaak (Astauene province) is an inesaurible resource of men, and i can train fresh troops, there is in that town a previous seleucid built barraks that allow me to train Kataphract and H-archers, I usually do not destroy enemy barraks, but always destroy enemy Governement-Type buildings as i conquer a town).
In the end i hope we will not have too much woodland battle anymoore, while i repute them very interesting on the strategical side, they are an evil problem when you come to assembly the screen shoots, cause you have almost all first-plane pictures... i hope it was not too confused in this table)
last think: now in Bactra we cant retrain our best troops, so i think i will leave there a garrison of nizag gund (but not Ted who is in the main army) and return in Asaak (I want to get back Hyrkania, an historical Arii province, vital to face seleucids). There are currently menaces from everywhere, only the Western Frontier (Sarmatians Allies) seems quite, the yuèZhe, after the conquest of Binkat and Gava-Saka, seemed tranquilized, but they are newly walking around, so to be sincere i haven't planned again a strategy for these menaces yet, must think on... I could post a campaign map with all the current enemy armies walking around in some next post.
PS: as you can see the Zadhra pahlavans unit (cap. Gaston) is becoming to be effective only now that have a 2 or 3 silver chevrons, this is due to the bad choice of difficulty settings i started, anyway what is done is done and cant turn back (and i have to admit i like it in this way so far...)
cheers
CountArach
09-09-2006, 02:37
Yet another great installment Artaserse! That Russel Crowe line was brilliant!
I would consider having continuing the war against Baktria for the moment, then going back to conquer the lost province. I would take out Baktria before they become a major threat again. You have probably pushed them into India and south of their start, so they are less likely to have many recruitment options.
Oh - and how long before Kuna gets to see some action do you think?
I would consider having continuing the war against Baktria for the moment, then going back to conquer the lost province. I would take out Baktria before they become a major threat again. You have probably pushed them into India and south of their start, so they are less likely to have many recruitment options.
thanks Count, I think you are right, but the only problem is that i cant retrain HA and Cavalry in Bactria, if I had a replacing second army, i could have sent Akemenes to retrain, and the second army to continue the Quest, this is what im trying to do with the Kuna raised army... but it is still too weak, ok we will see, pheraphs that Cincix (strange name...) family member could be good...
Oh - and how long before Kuna gets to see some action do you think?
well, I could sent Kuna to rejoin the Akemenes' army, and leave the command of the second army to Cincix or to another family member, i still haven't continue the Campaign, so i will see as i will play it, anyway the solution of destroying the Eastern Treats is the Best as you sayd, so i can concentrate in the ovest more tranquille...
greets
PS: im having some cash now, so i can train a third army (Mad Asabara and Pahlava Shivatir in Asaak, and keep Seleucids away for some time, while pursuing Bactrians and YuèZhe...
[EDIT: here's a copy and paste of Table 15 and 16A]
This is a copy of Table 15
well, so sorry for more than ten days with no updates, here's a long one to make me forgive... hope you like. As usually a warmy arzarakarakazz to all you, i really enjoy your feedback, and hope there still will be interest in this... (salvor cant promise you nothing abaut a steppes army destroying the bactrians)
it's first time i photoshopped a bit the picture to make them cleaner (i hope) but still use paint to assembly it. Now i want my official historian to make a summary of every table and a title :lol: ok im joking, anyway remember to press F11 on your keyboard for a better view (since i like vertical style pics) and there is an updated index on the first post, if there is some new one who want to read some older tables.
TAVOLA XV
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Unguent, powdered, or liquid - troubled, coonfused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
So, the year is 227 B.C. but then, an year to not forget, for a long time at last...
The magnificient Rampart of the mighty towns are waiting for the sweet sound of our horses hoofs knocking the ground...
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a destination far away... a journey to the end of the night... our old Destouches the foot walker healer of the western-front, keep alive! from castle to castle...
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but far from a so much aspired wall... there's a place where to prove your will...
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a battle begin, a battle we must win...
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iron artifact will clash intact... men will lie... their bones picked in wishpers...
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here's the greeks there's the dahae, a schytian horde will come soon, the pahlava clans are so different so varied... so much tribes fighting under the griffon banner, an ancient assirian mad-man dreamed it, in a night to forget...
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there were Babel, then Assur and Ninive the capital, t