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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

khelvan
03-20-2006, 09:30
Haha, that's awesome!

He needs to add "All your base are belong to us" somewhere, though.

Zero1
03-20-2006, 14:45
HAIL KARL MARX! :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

The_White_Knight
03-20-2006, 17:17
Thanks for posting. It's really funny. :laugh4:

Obelics
03-20-2006, 19:29
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

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/000.jpg

Oh tender Boy!

https://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!

https://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!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/bar1.jpg

And so the battle...

https://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!

https://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...

https://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..

https://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...

https://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!

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/clessi.jpg
...
https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/tavola3/clessi.jpg
...
https://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...

https://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

https://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

[https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://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...


https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot7.jpg

...and here's the results

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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?

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola4/ot14.jpg

the time to end this battle is come...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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. ;)

khelvan
03-21-2006, 04:21
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.

Kull
03-25-2006, 23:29
He's baaaaaack!

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 (https://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.

Kull
04-08-2006, 05:53
It just gets better and better! :2thumbsup:

Teleklos Archelaou
04-13-2006, 18:35
MARAKANA ZARAWA AMARAKAZARA!!!

Artaserse is back with another installment:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=120&#

Spendios
04-14-2006, 14:02
Yes ! This AAR becomes more and more funny each time

Teleklos Archelaou
04-18-2006, 16:40
Artaserse battles the Yuezhi and Seleukids in his newest installment:
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=140#

paullus
04-18-2006, 17:11
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, 17:46
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, 18:09
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, 01:21
This is f**** poetry man, it should be mandatory for everyone interested in history.

Rodion Romanovich
05-03-2006, 20:25
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, 20:36
He's updated it btw.

Avicenna
05-06-2006, 08:19
Great writing! Gotta love Kuna :tongue:

CHAAARGE!!!

Zero1
05-06-2006, 20:54
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!"

Bonny
05-28-2006, 13:35
the next table is online:2thumbsup:

Obelics
08-16-2006, 23:26
since the forum where i was posting it (rtr) are down... here's a little think to remember some of the nasty guys:

https://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

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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.

https://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?

https://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?

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb9.jpg

And so the Death has come...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola5/bb11.jpg

And here's the results

https://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...

https://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...

https://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!

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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...

https://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!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola6/ba7.jpg

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, 05:23
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.

Obelics
08-17-2006, 09:42
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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i000.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i006.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i006b.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i009.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i010.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i011b.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola8/i016.jpg

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...

https://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...

https://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

Wardo
08-19-2006, 17:46
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:

Obelics
08-20-2006, 22:44
[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

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/00par00.jpg

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?

https://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!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1000.jpg

The walls of Gerico and Babilon, could not stop our horde of wind and fog, the clouds seems to flee upon our raised spears...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1001.jpg

some man are searching for to dye...other men are waiting their destiny to comply...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bat1004.jpg

and here's the results...

https://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...


https://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...

https://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!


https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://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..

https://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...


https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats5.jpg

Time to hunt for little hearty pawing souls...

https://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...

https://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

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola9/bats08.jpg

and here's the results

https://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!

https://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!

https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/000mappa04.jpg

And so Time to revenge our blood is come...

https://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?

https://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...

https://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...

https://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!

https://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!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat05.jpg

and here's the results

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bat06result.jpg

Old news.. and more fresh ones!

https://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

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats000start.jpg

And so it's Time to fight again

https://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...

https://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..

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola10/bats002.jpg

and these are the results...

https://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!

https://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...

https://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

Obelics
08-22-2006, 20:45
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...

https://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...

https://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?

https://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?

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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?

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11A/bat04.jpg

and here's the results

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/bats04.jpg

And here's the results...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss00.jpg

and so the battle...

https://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

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss03.jpg

and here's the results...

https://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:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss05.jpg

and here's the North...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/batss07.jpg

and the Eastern provinces too...

https://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...

https://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:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/gh.jpg

and someone just mispelled his name:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola11/tf.jpg

paullus
08-22-2006, 22:28
woohoo! these are great!

Justiciar
08-22-2006, 22:46
The brilliance of the AAR itself aside, those are some sexy screenshots.

Sdragon
08-22-2006, 23:58
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.

Obelics
08-23-2006, 12:04
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, 15:52
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.

Subedei
08-23-2006, 16:28
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!!!!

Obelics
08-23-2006, 19:35
@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...

https://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?

https://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...

https://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...

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The lands of the Desolation, are plenty of Brigands armies walking around as strange parassites suking the honey of the Parthian riches...

https://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?

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola12/bImmagine4.jpg

and here's the results...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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?

https://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...?

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/assed01.jpg

The two towers of Doom...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...?

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://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

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13A/zbat001.jpg

the fight is next to begin...

https://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

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Dreaming back thru life, Your time - and mine accelerating toward Apocalypse
https://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...

https://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
https://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...

https://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

https://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 -

https://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, 20:50
Awesome ! Can't wait the next episode !


Arzarakarakaz !!!!!!!!

Musopticon?
08-24-2006, 08:04
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, 08:33
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, 08:52
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, 06:42
Could it be me??? :wink:

Musopticon?
08-25-2006, 12:11
Hehheh, feels like home.

Salvor Hardin
08-30-2006, 19:19
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.

Obelics
08-30-2006, 21:49
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...

https://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...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat003.jpg

and here's the results...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat201a.jpg

time again for a siege...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat201c.jpg

some times the voices persecute your mind...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat202.jpg

never alone... she can seek for your thoughts...

https://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?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat204.jpg

end here's the results for this day...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13B/bat204b.jpg

a fact that we could regret...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/000ot.jpg

and an anxious brother...

https://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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/001ot2.jpg

spreading dominions...

https://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:

https://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?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/004overview.jpg

a murch towards the icelands...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola13C/005overview.jpg

and peace could be a storm prelude...

https://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

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/000frttav14.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa00.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa01.jpg

a calm sea where philosophers cannot trace their furrows...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa02.jpg

so much friends to keep quiet...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa03.jpg

so much friends to give them the welcome...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa04.jpg

but try again... hope is restless

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/aaa05.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/bat00.jpg

a town that will see some sad time if some pityfull god wont help us...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/bat01.jpg

some hunters like sparrows and birds, others love mankind so much...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/bat02.jpg

and here's the results for this day to forget...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/bat03.jpg

where can we find some help... warriors are few... all people seems to think about money and riches... who want to dye?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola14/bat04.jpg

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

Subedei
09-08-2006, 15:30
: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&#180;t wait for the next part....:2thumbsup:

Obelics
09-08-2006, 17:37
thanks Subedei, anyway there were some small errors in the pics i tryied to correct now :sweatdrop:

Teleklos Archelaou
09-08-2006, 19:06
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.

Sdragon
09-08-2006, 19:17
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.'

Obelics
09-08-2006, 20:41
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, 01:37
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?

Obelics
09-09-2006, 13:54
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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/baa01.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/baa02.jpg

but far from a so much aspired wall... there's a place where to prove your will...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat00.jpg

a battle begin, a battle we must win...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat01.jpg

iron artifact will clash intact... men will lie... their bones picked in wishpers...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat02.jpg

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...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat03.jpg

there were Babel, then Assur and Ninive the capital, then the Medes, the Persians, Persepoli and Pasargade... there were the palace, a so ancient heritage can not be wasted, we will stand, we will rebuild...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat04.jpg

we are arii, our blood is old, and a day our lands will be called in this name... we master the horses and the iron

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat05.jpg

a day we hadn't to fight, we fear now the day we will do...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat06.jpg

but then, while our army where far from the southern frontier, these greeks who claim themselves as descents of a man who died so young, tryed to retake what they believe is their own...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat07a.jpg

There is a young governor, a man who could have been a greet one, if only he hadn't followed his fate in this town so far away...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat07b.jpg

and so the defeat, a sadly end...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat07c.jpg

but well, lets have a look to this... there are the names of brave people, of coward one, of great generals and crying widows...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat07doverview.jpg

and a map of the world, the lost provinces will not stand too much, under the greek dominions...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat07emap.jpg

and yes, they've embarked in a journey with no come back... it seems they will not allow, the greeks of baktria, our soldiers to march on the streets of Antiocheia-Margiane...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat20.jpg

and so the battle...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat21.jpg

they sent their elites, in our lands to conquer... they just want to drain-out our better blood...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat22.jpg

our men are strong and proven on the field, but can they stand this heavy armored spearmen?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat23.jpg

so suddendly somethink is going wrong...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat24.jpg

a man who were a lord in his land, has now nothing but to fight, nothink to look back

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat25.jpg

and here's the results...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat26.jpg

so ashamed so sad, a routing army try to reach a safety place...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat27.jpg

and here's a memorial compiled by our teller

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15/bat28.jpg

as usually the World is vast, but our lands are not so vast as before, but even more wasted for sure...

TBC

hope enjoied






here's the "intermezzo" between this two old tables

ok, thank you as usually for your feedback (really give me the will to continue this), i had not tauched the computer for a couple of days, so just to be sure Waste Land still lives, ive done this little think yesterday in the night (so i think it should be read in the night...)
this is not an official table (a full update) but is just a filler i made to enjoy myself, so as you can see there are a few screen shots from a custom battle, remember that i never use custom battles in the main updates (cause this is an aar after all and if i wanted to write the masterpiece of the century i should have tryed the club of the anonimous writers...), so i used a custom battle just this time, cause as i sayd this is a filler (or a teaser if my english is correct). Every main Table is 100% report of my game.
So i will call this little think "Intermezzo" (a think that links two other thinks).
So here we go and as usally remember to press f11 and i updated the index too.






INTERMEZZO

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15B/Dreaming.jpg

and so... is there an hope? well as far as you are still alive there's an hope...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15B/TEA0.jpg

time to rest, and yes, sleep well, just sleep, tomorrow you will be awake for sure...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15B/TEA1b.jpg

tender is the night...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola15B/TEA2.jpg

TBC

hope enjoied







and here's a copy of Table 16A

ok, since the table was being too long and i haven't finished it, i splitted it in two parts, and sorry (musopticon?) if there is no Kuna yet, the picture in my previous post was Astianax. But we have so much time again... anyway i was planning to refine it a bit more, but you know this night there is the match and a lot of people are coming here to see it, so i had to make the thinks faster, but i hope not to fast to make them too approximate. Regarding Capitan Gaston, dont worry i was just joking, and you know my hero charachters can dye only if i loose their entire unit in the fight, or if i decide so. The fact that he has a minor part in this installement is only due to the Azad Asavaran new units that deserve to be presented, the leader of these cavalry unit is Sacripans, and i hope i can fit it better in the storyline in the next updates...(for now i can say his name was taken from one of my preferred charachters in a famous poem from the Rinassaince)
if you are interested i wrote this table listening "au bois de mon coeur" of brassens.

As usually remember to press F11 on your keyboard and I have updated the index on the first page adding some titles for the Tables (but not for all since i have few time now). I was forgetting to give a warmy Arzarakarakaz to all you and here's this uncomplete table:















TAVOLA XVI

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Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown
To us of restless brain and weary feet,
Forever hurrying, up and down the street,
She stands at evening in the room alone.

T. S. Eliot - A Portrait

and so here we are one time more, lets have a look, 400 shots, comrades lets shoot the 400 shots...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat000astart.jpg

and so the battle...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat000battab.jpg

the woodlands! the dark sourrounding us, no place for our sights to get trough the closed trees...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat001.jpg

tasting the ground, pointing a finger in to the emptiness, remember me (do not forget) what happened after all this had an End...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat002.jpg

for all the selfish happy imbeciles, here we are to send you to a happier place where to stay...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat003.jpg

Astianax, Shin, Krybio, may sons, my friends! do not hurt your tender flesh your nice bodies fitted so well...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat004.jpg

Ah the climbers, no need to tire yout bones, we can just fly... as a strange bird born from the dirty womb of an ancient griphon we plough through the skys looking for a prey to peck in...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat005.jpg

Sacripans, a noble warrior... his mother a whore, his father had a blood too feeble to do not give him a name...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat006.jpg

and this is from a different perspective...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat007.jpg

a postcard from the hell

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat007b.jpg

take him! Take him! Lets free his soul before he can use even better his anger against human being...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat008.jpg

and then you have to turn your head and look at what they can do while you was giving them your back

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat009.jpg

and here's the results...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat010res.jpg

and well, the road seems straight and clean, come to see how nice can be to walk side by side along the desolate routs of this Lands of lassitude...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/bat011.jpg

ah, that's all for now, but not enough thought, the World is vast but finite, not th'same for time, we perished roots, and as far as there will be a need we still have a quiver fulfilled of the 400 shots...

TBC

hope enjoied

Between Tab 16A and Tab16B...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16/teas.jpg

Musopticon?
09-14-2006, 15:26
I'm slowly and surely getting assimilated back to totalrealism-net, but I'll come back here from time to time. Waste Land is as good as ever.

CountArach
09-16-2006, 04:08
Pity about the Bandwidth recurring problem they seem to be having...

Musopticon?
09-16-2006, 11:15
Yeah, it's a pity.

Byzantine Emperor
09-16-2006, 12:05
Your AAR rules Artaserse. Pity there aren't many AARs outside RTR forums.

Musopticon?
09-16-2006, 15:04
Arsaces?

Obelics
09-17-2006, 09:02
oh well, arsace, artaserse, obelics, borg, cyruz etc... there's no problem mates:2thumbsup:

anyway this has just reminded me of the origin of the name Artaserse, it is from the ancient persian Artakhshathra (Olmstead - "Hystory of the Persian Empire" - 1948 - University of Chicago Press)
It means: "The Kingdom of Arta" id est: "the Kingdom of Rectitude" - Arta=Rectitude (ok i think it is not so well fitted to me...ehm)
The Rectitude (Arta) was one of the main Principles of the Zhoroastrism (or Mazdeism)
Artaserse was the Six (VI) Persian Emperor, to not confond with is father Serse (Khshayarsha), who was the son of Darius the Usurper (so pheraphs there was not so much "arta" in their blood...:laugh4: )
even if the latin or greek traslitteration is the same "-serse" or "-xerxes" in persian they should be two different names without arta-
Khshathra and Khshayarsha (the first referring to Artaserse and the second referring to his father Serse)

ok why im saying all this? well i dont know:oops:

anyway thanks to all you nice people, im really fond of you, i have played my campaign enough to make some update, so i need to assembly the screen shoots now i guess, so, sorry for my infinite lazyness and sloweliness, i will post an update as soon as i have finished it, but as usually i need some time to do it...

Salut a tous!
Arzarakarakaz!

Artaserse/Artaxerxes/Artakhshathra etcetera etcetera:sweatdrop: :sweatdrop: :sweatdrop:






[EDIT: here's the copies of tables 16B and 16C]
This is the copy of the post of table 16B

here's an update, it is about a small battle, but i hope it's ok... it is some time i didn't occupy of this thinks, so it took me more time, cause i had to retake mspaint and photoshop.
A warmy arzarakarakaz to all people (very few, i imagine, cause i post it in a new forum for this aar) people who like/unlike/read it.
Press F11 on keyboard cause i like vertical style sshoots and here we are:














TAVOLA XVI - B

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/000frontha.jpg

This music is succcessful with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying -
And should I have the right to smile?

T. S. Eliot - Portrait of a Lady

we are trying to have back our past of strange glory... we started from a world who was so hostile, so dark, we are slowly spreading the light and the shine in the Waste Land, ok Ok! this was our first priority we know, but it is not our fault if it is so difficult...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti000a.jpg

some good news some time are not so welcome...
have already become an Empire? some of the farest provinces, some of what were the smallest outpost, are becoming to demand more and more, towns grown cities, people who come there from the rural villages searching for luck, it's the long-lasting inurbation matter! ah the gods! have we to elaborate a Quinquennal Plane for Economy and Industry so to give this underproletariate some work to keep quite? Or have we just to make a sort of a "pass" to avoid who is born in the wild country to enter the main towns, so to give an end to this extremely fast growth...?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti000b.jpg

We tend for a "Lasting Five years" big Plan, according to our original social being... that is very questionable, but so he want our ancestor...
but... where is Strato the crippled, the greek leader who fleed the blade of Sacripans?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti000c.jpg

it seems we've got him, just a minor work for our fierce, so noble knights... some of them have a so noble birth, that their fathers are still asking themselves if they had to give them their name...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti001a.jpg

here we see how the skirmish will be fought...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti001b.jpg

Ah the ancient art of the words, the greeks are the masters in these kind of thinks, and it can be one of the finest instruments to win a war... especially in the hands of a rhetorician so fine, a so expert orator...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti001c.jpg

lets see how He will solve the matter, with what so refined verse he will close its solemn hymns...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti001d.jpg

an unworthy end for ehm... ok, a worthy soul...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti002.jpg

ah not a bad result for that battle, but it could have be much better...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti003.jpg

here's some new acquisitions to the parthian cause... we will have soon to manage what role to give them, what place among the cells of the parthian society...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti004.jpg

and then... ah ok, but there are a lot of blu banners walking around...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16B/hti005.jpg

as usually the world is vast and the land is waste, we have the secret hope that with two or three more provinces, we could finally afford to have a larger expense in the military side of our desperate quest for an empire to raise from the past...

TBC

hope enjoied






This is the copy of table 16C

[thanks for the great support friends :rolleyes: , cant say how it is nice to have the whole think back....
ah, so I must do all my best to make Kuna return i guess... i will try it in the next installement, regarding Aristocrat III aaargh you brilliant people! :P
anyway here's the third part of the Woodlands trylogy, ive also updated the "table of contents" on the first post of this thread]

Here's an update, sorry, as usually im not very fast on updating, so this is a large one. Thanks for Eadingas and another nice guy (???), for some small (not so small to say the truth) changes. Remember to press F11 for better viewing:














TAVOLA XVI - C

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/000tab16cparthiancavalry.jpg

Around her funtain wich flows
With the voice of men in pain,
Are flowers that no man knows.
Their petals are fanged and red
Whit ideous streak and stain;
They sprang from the limbs of the dead. -
We shall not come here again.

T. S. Eliot - Circe's Palace

So, there could be a threat against our way to see the relations between peoples... we could leave them to rest, a given peace, even letting them trading in some way, they had a strange will to keep awaken our nomadic soul, some of us were robbers used to keep their existences around what was once upon a time the extint Akemenid empire, some others of us descent from noble Persian Heritage (there's even somebody who dare to say he descent in direct line from the mighty Hakhamanish... a name that should not be prononced, too feble his souvenir among the Time), others again are just half-breed nasty people born from the anarchy raised by the fall of that empire so vast, and to the crude age followed after... and some of this anarchic blood still flowing fiery... people whose ancestors were used to live on the uncertainty, and if they need to recall some roots, we can not leave out the seeds of our common past of arii plunderers, as far as a nomadic blood...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat000b.jpg

Teleas (do you remember?) almost destroyed our army under the walls of the town... we survived, and now we've returned to try it again... we could succed this time...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat000b.jpg

and so the battle...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat001.jpg

the Parhian are not used to fight in the closed spaces, they hate the forests, they need open lands where to move their cavalry... our archers who have a deep sight need a perspective beetween them and their enemies...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat002.jpg

the old uncle waiting for his last exploits...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat003.jpg

some one dye without a guilt with no praises

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat004.jpg

and here a small place where to move

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat005.jpg

We had to profit of very few small places were to have our manoeuvres, there where three of these places as you know, we had to put there the three limbs of our army...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat006.jpg

Artavardya is young but could He be the Successor?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat007.jpg

A duel, have a pity for the older one...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat008.jpg

an end

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat009.jpg

and the reinforcement too late arrived...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat010.jpg

here they are...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat0011.jpg

the results:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat012res.jpg

a man who is trying to find a role in the quest...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marbat013.jpg

ah the capital, we knew that if we had got the strategic town of Antiocheia Margiane, we could have had an open corridor in the core of the Bactrian dominions...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat000.jpg

and a false start...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat001.jpg

but we have to find a way to destroy their phalanx with not too much losses...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat002.jpg

Ah! we cant manage to fight against their spearmen without to loose some of our better warriors...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat003res.jpg

but here!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat004.jpg

as usually the State have a place for every one to employ...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat004b.jpg

the magnificent temples of the mighty towns!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat005b_map.jpg

our world so vast in our current vision...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat005c.jpg

and other peoples...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola16C/marcbat005rat.jpg

and new places, we have managed to conquer their capital, let's see if we will be able to keep what we toke and if we can got back now the lost province of Hyrkania, the seleucids bands are swarming around... we will try to drive them back until the end of the night (from castle to castle as the old Destouche...), if we can keep alive...

TBC

hope enjoyed

CountArach
09-17-2006, 09:19
Interesting read.

Musopticon?
09-17-2006, 14:39
Agreed. Artas you hold up a rich cultural heritage with your AAR!

Discoskull
09-17-2006, 17:57
That's it. When .8 comes out, I'm doing a Casse AAR. The Waste Land is just too frickin entertaining...I must compete...
edit - IF I even have the time to do it justice...may have to be a mini...

Foot
09-17-2006, 18:53
That's it. When .8 comes out, I'm doing a Casse AAR. The Waste Land is just too frickin entertaining...I must compete...

I reckon we are going to see a lot more AARs when 0.8 comes out. I know I'm going to start one for Hayasdan - I'm looking forward to that.

Foot

CountArach
09-18-2006, 02:54
...I must compete...

Blasphemer! Though shalt not compete with the Greatest AAR of all time!

Discoskull
09-18-2006, 04:43
I could compete! That's not the same as saying I could win...not that these things are a contest or anything...

Ower
09-18-2006, 18:33
I reckon we are going to see a lot more AARs when 0.8 comes out. I know I'm going to start one for Hayasdan - I'm looking forward to that.

Foot

Well there will be some competition whit this faction:2thumbsup: , i want to try an AAR for Hayasdan as well (sory for my terible speling:sweatdrop: )

Ower
09-18-2006, 18:38
I forgot to snay, this is the best ARR I have read:2thumbsup:.
I´m looking forward too the next chapter:book:

Foot
09-19-2006, 01:06
Well there will be some competition whit this faction:2thumbsup: , i want to try an AAR for Hayasdan as well (sory for my terible speling:sweatdrop: )

Bring it on, my friend, bring it on. The more the merrier.

Foot

Musopticon?
09-19-2006, 16:44
Suddenly I wish I had a faster internet. I'd do a Pontic AAR this minute.

Byzantine Emperor
09-19-2006, 20:29
Sorry Artaserse, all names like that sound the same to me :P.

Your AAR is still great, arsace, artaserse, obelics, borg, cyruz etc or whatever your name is :lol:

kambiz
09-19-2006, 22:44
Hi guys;
May I ask you to use another imagehosting to host the images of your AARs.Imageshake has been blocked ,so i can't see the pics.(I can't read and enjoy your AAR Obelics~:mecry:

I know a few others :
http://www.pictiger.com/

http://www.imgfree.net/
and
http://www.tinypic.com/

Thank you so mutch
-Kambiz

Trithemius
09-20-2006, 10:57
Hi guys;
May I ask you to use another imagehosting to host the images of your AARs.Imageshake has been blocked ,so i can't see the pics.(I can't read and enjoy your AAR Obelics~:mecry:

If your ISP is doing some funky you should tell them to sort it out!

kambiz
09-20-2006, 13:55
@Trithemius
NO way, Its order of the goverment Not the decision of ISP itself:embarassed:

But thanks for the direction
-Kambiz

Trithemius
09-24-2006, 11:28
@Trithemius
NO way, Its order of the goverment Not the decision of ISP itself:embarassed:

Wow! What government is that, if I may ask?

kambiz
09-24-2006, 14:10
Hi;

Wow! What government is that, if I may ask?
No ,Its OK.It is "Islamic Republic of Iran" of course.:embarassed: Although I assure you that it is neither Republic nor even Islamic.

NeoSpartan
09-24-2006, 22:15
Well.... give them a little bit of time. After a while they should start paying less attention, or be more lenient. (in the mean time try to find out another way, like people say in Cuba, "Find the 5th leg of the cat")

Trithemius
09-25-2006, 00:30
Hi;

No ,Its OK.It is "Islamic Republic of Iran" of course.:embarassed: Although I assure you that it is neither Republic nor even Islamic.

That's a real pain, since the EB guys make use of ImageShack for all their previews and things as well. :(

Is there no way of using technical wizardry to get access to it?

Obelics
09-25-2006, 11:39
ah, Im having some life-iussues, so i cant update it for a while... Im also having very few online access in this period, so sorry if i dont post too much in this period... it is just a matter of time, but as i will have some, i will take it back.
So thanks to all you have feedbacked here, and i hope you will still be here when i will have the time to update.

Thanks (in alphabetical order): Count, Bizantine Emp, Bonny, Diskokull, Foot, Justiciar, Kambitz, Musopticon?, Neospartan, Ower, Paullus, Salvor, Sdragon, Spendios, Subedei, TA, Thritemius, Wardo (excuse me if i forget some one)


@Count, ive saw your signature in the rtr forums... it's an honour for me.

Sorry again if i will not update for a while.

PS: Ive read all the post here, and im sorry for Kambitz for the IShack problem, but it is too hard to re-upload all the pics on another IHoster. Again, I read the Diskokull mini aar on Casse and it is really good, there is no aar competition, Owner and Foot, im sure your Armenian aar will be great, the most important think is to follow its own style, and to have fun on doing it.

greets
Artaserse



[EDIT: here's some further ones i got from the backup, at last i want to remember the 18, it was one i liked]
This is the copy of the post of table 17

ok, here's a small update, sorry to not have the time to make more for now. Anyway i must admit that i feel a strange weariness in the rtw world after the m2tw demo was relased, so im a bit sad for this, there seem to not be more the same activity as before... ah, i think this is just natural... (or pheraphs it is just dominus's gone that seems there is not so much activity, praises to him) so i dont want to be defeatist... hope you like this little think as you liked the previous. as usually a warmy arzarakarakaz to all who liked/unliked/read this and press F11 on your keyboard for a better view since i like vertical screen shoots, there is an updated table of contents in the first post of this thread, and dont forget to feedback even if you have very negative feedback, here it is:














TAVOLA XVII

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/0afront.jpg

But let us live while yet we may,
While love and life are free,
For time is time, and runs away,
Though sages disagree.

T.S. Eliot - A Lyric

So we thought our enemies were weakened, we left some units in Bactra, the former Capital of our actual enemies (now under our control) and we followed them in the inner core of the Eastern lands... but here! some people still come back from somewhere...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/0aprol1.jpg

...back in a friendly place...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/0aprol2.jpg

we proceeded further in the East to seek the Bactrian remaining armies, but it seems their power is not near to an end, we found ourselves alone in an enemy province, sourrounded by the foes...the way for the retreat is cutted down, Teleas, so you remember? the Greek captain who has almost destroyed our army near Antiocheia Margiane is marching toward us between Kophen and Bactra, so our march back in our territories is blocked down... we cant turn back if we dont want to meet him, and as usually cant set a siege that suddendly an enemy army appear from nowhere...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/0aprol3.jpg

a battle so glorious to fight...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0000a.jpg

and here's the battlefield in a sunny afternon:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0000b.jpg

well, this is the situation, there is a small garrison in the town, while an huge army is approaching fast... what to do? could we risk?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0001.jpg

some time the wise choice is not the more glorious one...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0002.jpg

just a quick end...close that gates in some manner and keep ready for a ride...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0003.jpg

and here's the results...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0004.jpg

here's a memorial to remember this man, we dont know how much time is left to fight at our side again...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0005.jpg

so shameless so fast...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/bactbatt0005b.jpg

I know you all were there hoping to see we lying on the ground in a blood puddle...but this time Akemenes was wise listening to the appreciated suggestion of Shin... no more to say for now, the world is vast as usually, wasted are the grounds as well as the sun is pale... the sky is grey... lets have a ride back in a less wasted and more friendly land where to stay... (and my rimes are becoming even worst than before...)

TBC

hope enjoyed






This is the copy of a "what if?" post related to the battle of kophen in the previous table

thanks for the protection count :lol: anyway the problem is that as we get out of Kophen, i begun to play in a sort of a fury and took very few screenshots (just the battletab deployments and results, and very few images of the battles), so i have a bit of a problem to assembly a good update, with a good assembled battle pics, and im too lazy to turn back from an old save and replay it all, anyway i will find a way...

yesterday, i speculated a bit on that battle of Kophen, the unglorious one, and i tryied to replay it from the old save, this time trying to fight the 2 armies in one time, here's the results (with some pics):

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/utopia2aig1.jpg

here's the enemy army dysplayed in a phalanx line (all our archers were setted in skirmish mode of course), all their cavalry were on their left flank, cause they were the attackers in this case, so we had to move all our cavalry on the right to face them. The phalanxes were faced after a while, one by one, for now i just loose the control of my foot archers, cause they were all in skirmish, and i concentrate on enemy cavalry.
The bad side is that while all caballry was on their left flank, the two generals were on the right one, so i lost some units of archers.

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/utopia2bwv2.jpg

3 general to face (2+1), this one was the last:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/utopia3ds8.jpg

and these are the results, as you can see it was a massacre, even from our side, dont forget that the battle was fought near the wooden walls of kophen, and that my archers (both on foot or mounted) are very sensible to the tower arrows. and also dont forget the settings, VH/VH that cause an unbalanced gamestats (exspecially for archers i say and for charges, this is even more true for EB who's stats are thought for H/M.)

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/utopia4ba4.jpg

now you say ok but you have taken the town, but i dont show the rests of my army to save you by the disturbing view of some "missing in action" charachters (cry :sorry: :vava: ).

But remember that this is not an update, this is just an experiment of FANTA-Waste Land (what could have been happened?)

and then this is a pic showing Teleas (the capitain who almost destroyed our army under the wall of Antiocheia Margiane (Tavola 15 - page 14), he and his remaining army from that battle was marching between Bactra and Kophen, cutting us the retreat, and with 500 men left in our army, i dont know how we could have done...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17/utopia5bwr5.jpg
the picture above, was also an excuse to show you the new eastern interface, it is still WIP, so it could change in EB0.8, remember that im not an EB member and not related with any EB policy, it was just a personal gift (not related with nothing) from a nice guy of the team you could know :D, and he autorized me (under my ask) to use it in the aar since it was already previewed (the Nizag Gund small/large unit card was mine anyway, i made it for my game and uploaded it on the EB forum in my Ucard thread if you like and want to use it)

PS im not sure the parthian interface is this Eastern one, or the Nomadic one in the final relase, they are still debating if pahlava will be an Eastern or a Nomadic one in the final interface graphics. (it should be nice if they start with a Nomadic interface and finish with an Eastern one, but it is hardoded i think)

ok i think it's all for this strange FANTA-post
Salut to all, arzarakarkakazz and dont worry, a "real" update soon...






This is the copy of the post of a little interlude

Ok i thought also this Kuna deserved an "interlude" as the previous cyruz... i hope im not destroing him so much... man can be good and can be bad, not one only side alone... ok i've sayd the banality of the night...
i also imagined that his "parthian" is becoming better after all this time... or he is just making some efforts to appear better in this case... he imagined a glorious return for him after all... and Marakanda was the first more civilized town he encountered, after all that time in the north...
I made this just to have an (I hope) coherent narrative continuation to the previous table, hope i succeded in this, cause you know it is difficult with a "given" engine who's animations you can not control.
press f11 and appointment to next table 18.








ITERMEZZO

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun0.jpg

a deserved welcome...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun1.jpg

it was so much time...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun2.jpg

you can help if you want...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun3.jpg

friends can be embarrassing sometime, they know too much, you know...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun4.jpg

but with a bit of optimism you can obtain whatever you want...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun5.jpg

could be just a matter of tone...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola17B/kun6.jpg

well, we dont know...but go now, old friends are waiting for our arrival...

TBC

hope enjoyed






This is the copy of the post of table 18

ok here's a new table, it's so cold here people, and this computer seems even more cold, and even the waste land here, hope still like it, as usually a warmy (lol) arzarakarawak to all you, and here we go.
i used a pair of pics from a replayed battle of the previous save, cause i took too few sshots this time, sorry.
remember to press f11 on you keyboard, and drag the scroll bar all to the right on your browser, cause i used some 950 lenght pics, but they should fit if you drag the scroll bars.












TAVOLA XVIII

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/000fronttab18.jpg

That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend of men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur! -mon semblable, -mon fr&#232;re!

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

so well, we expanded to the East, we failed to destroy the bactrians, at last untill now, our great Akemenes' expedition clashed against some maior bactrian forces that have run to help their remaining provinces, Yu&#232;Zhe are still alive and strong, and eager to spread in the western lands, only the Seleucids seem weakened a bit, their armies are not that strong and not that massive anymore, for now at last...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/atab1801.jpg

we still need to turn back in our core provinces and retrain our lead-army... this long campaigning generals are getting older... an army was raised in the north, they will be sent to face that Yu&#232;Zhe in the East, an other force was raised in our South-West domains, to try to take back that Hircanian province...
here's a last battle for that Akemenes' army...? They just want to turn back and have some rest in a warm place...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/ateleasbat00.jpg

and here what's happened...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/ateleasbat01astart.jpg

it could be said that a never-end bloody affair like that, is taking them to a point where a form of free-violence is taking the place of their last shreds of humanism...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/ateleasbat01b.jpg

there's some taste in all this... shameless we will pursue that, until the end...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/ateleasbat01c.jpg

others, are still there to save the memory of a fading ideal

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/ateleasbat01d.jpg

ah! here's who deserves his portrait, the death make you noble...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat00.jpg

the end of the world! AHEAD!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat01a.jpg

The far borders of this territories... the last frontier, no more return? could we be redeemed?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat01b.jpg

later pheraphs, now let's enjoy this strange histerical euphoria...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat02a.jpg

but carefull, there could be not another chance in the future...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat02b.jpg

or it could be just a joke, we never deserved that chance...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat03.jpg

lets have a look to the stats...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat04result.jpg

are you then so sad now? ah! it was funny at the start you could say...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat05.jpg

the South-West borders

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat06oltre1.jpg

just to test some fresh trained troops...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/matbat06oltre2.jpg

and the world...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola18/zzzmaptab18copia.jpg

well, that was enough for now... if we can get back to the town of Bactra and reform our army a nice surprise will attend those seleucids, Akemenes is still alive and he can fight some more battle we hope... (sorry no rhyme this time, strange weather...)

TBC

hope enjoyed

Subedei
09-25-2006, 13:54
Best wishes Obelics...I´ll sure as hell wait for up and coming adventures in the Wasteland...

Discoskull
09-25-2006, 18:27
Good luck with your life issues Obelics, may they turn out for the best.

PS: Oh yes. Whenever the next installment of the Wasteland comes out, it should be a double-issue...

kambiz
09-25-2006, 21:59
Hi Obelics;
Thank you for your kind words and wish you good luck.
The Imageshack has been blocked for a month I think ,so I had the chance to read your outstanding AARs except the last one.I think they are more than just some simple AARs ,They are some artistic writings OR comics.:2thumbsup:


im sorry for Kambitz for the IShack problem, but it is too hard to re-upload all the pics on another IHoster.
I meant to use another image hosting for your future works if possible.
I (And I'm sure others) always enjoy reading your AARs.

With the best wishes
-Kambiz

CountArach
09-26-2006, 00:26
Good Luck Obelics! I will truly miss reading this!

EDIT: Good news guys! The RTR forums are up! We can move back there and spread the word of this AAR!
http://forums.totalrealism.net

Obelics
09-26-2006, 11:09
ach! my bad english has betrayed me another time... nothing serious... it's not life-iussue, iussue this word i think means somethink like serious-problems? it's just usual real-life matters that give me very few time this period to play and to stay at the computer... why dont i check my vocabulary more often...:inquisitive:
anyway thanks for the good wishes and im going to update this 2 new table posted here also to the old forums.




[EDIT: here's the table 19+a little interlude+20]
This is the copy of the post of table 19

ok, thanks people, so much praises this time... im really starting to "fear" the next one, what a coward... hopeless i did a new one...
for the "purists" sorry cause there is an error inside, Otanes talking of buddism about a seleucid captian, i thought he was bacrtian... and i retrained a pair of madasabara units before to built a pahlav-shahrdaran, my fault, it can happen, anyway i have disbanded them all after that small battle, their upkeep is too hight for this medium persian-cavalry (about 570 if i well remember), and i think i can protect that huge town of Zadrakat even with only archers and pahlav shivatir (naturally not in the open fields, but just behind the huge walls).
as usually a warmy arzarakarawak to all you, remember every single nickname and i can bet i understood somethink of you (not bad dont worry!) and here we go, remember to press f11 on the keyoard, and there is an updated table of contents in the first post.














TAVOLA XIX

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/00atav19frontZ.gif

"...and my heart
Under my feet. After the event
He wept. He promised 'a new start'.
I made no comment. What should I resent?"

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

and here's what happened in the last months... Teleas was dead, and this we all know. Akemenes reformed part of his army in Bactra and then moved in the South to took the ancient province of Aria, a needed acquisition... It was an easy job, not too much seleucids there around, and the small garrison was not a problem, we are starting to think we could have cut some of their reinforcement routes... they seem still strong from the West, while feebles from the South-East territories... we think that if only their alliance with bactria didn't exist, their eastern lands would have been conquered by their friends with a so minimal effort...
but lets see here...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/00joo0gh.jpg

these generals become part of Akemenes' family thanks marriages, he was unlucky, no sons, all daughters, but they can consider themselves as son anyway...
and now a look to that fresh conquered province of Alexandreia-Ariana, a man is coming for a visit...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/00joo1kna.jpg

a so warmy welcome... there was said there could be even a party... with those nice colorful long banners, trumpets and all the outfits that could be needed...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/00joo2kna.jpg

just an experiment it could be sayd, the seleucid pezetaroi was our real pain, we already fought a lot of them under the walls of our towns, but we barely could face them with some success in the open field, could be a test for next expansion campaign, we are going to disband these horsemen raised from the old persian folks after this battle, cant allow to maintain this force, they will soon go to enlarge that big unrest movement spreading around in our towns...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat00zadr.jpg

Sosimenes first public battle, a Suren Clan member, who linked his blood to the Askhani clan thanks the marriage with an Akemenes'daughter...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat01zadr.jpg

so ordered, so effective, even that akemenes'azats couldn't do that well...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat02azadr.jpg

they are old, their blood weakened... it's the eternal fashination of the decadence, a day it will come our turn we know... today is theirs we hope...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat02bzadr.jpg

the death make you beautifull, that's a well fitted sentence we can say...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat02czadrgen.jpg

and so the end...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat02dzadr.jpg

and here's the results as well...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat03zadresults.jpg

now turn back to the town, you were chosen as a governor, not as a fighter...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/bat04zadr.jpg

a warm and joyfull welcome we were saying...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/ret01cyrkun.jpg

souvenirs! from a pleasure journey...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/ret02cyrkun2.jpg

ADDENDUM: just a "bird-eye" view to some of the last provinces passed to our Cause, there's also this recent province of Aria you can see, a name there to remember some of our ancient roots, it did not deserve to stand too much time under the Seleucid banner, but we had to leave as soon as we conquered it, those Yu&#232;zhe warbands are spreading around, and even if some towns can face them with their own garrisons, it is better to move our main army there, while that Alexandreia-Ariana province, seems enough calm to allow us to move away for now...
Akemenes and his band, now enlarged by the precious (?) Kuna arrival, had to move toward Bactria, Yu&#232;Zhe seems to be raising some effective armies... will we be able to stop them definitively a day? Well, not for sure now, our empire has grown big, but our economy is still feeble, cause our towns has not all that structures that allow them to develope a strong economy... it seems that we are better to conquer lands than to keep them... and now that the empire has reached a point of self managing economy, we cant just force the architects and the engineers of our kingdom to build "free" new structures under the pain of death... they want to be paid those fools!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/ret03akae.jpg

some of our beloved familiars:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/zzzaddxw1.jpg

time to go to bed...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/zzzaddxw2.jpg

some objectives can be difficult to focous in a distant vision...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/zzzaddxw3.jpg

well, what other to say... ah yes, as usually the world is vast, the wand is lost... ops ehm, the land is waste,
a cold wind born from the eastern hights is sweeping our grounds here around...
lets have a rest now here, while the soil is furrowed by the enemy foot-steps there outside from the winter passes.
(and yes this time you have to enjoy one of my unforgettable rhymes...)

TBC

hope enjoied







This is the copy of the post of a little interlude

well thanks friends, i know 0.81 will not be save-game compatible, so i will wait for it to continue on the new build.
I've tryed a bit on the 0.8 but i didn't go too much far (to be sincere i was slained :D ... cause i tryied to play just with the new uber bodyguards... without training any army on the field)
Anyway as far as 0.81 will be out, i will try to make a continuation on it.

The fact is that im continuing to play this campaign on 0.74 (while im trying a funny campaign on 0.8 with an other faction)

So i know someone will be deluded, but expect some new update still on 0.74 (and it is a nice way to see the yueZhe for the last time...) and as i sayd when there will be the patch, i will continue on it.

So the next update will be a 0.74 update

but... here a preview of how could look the Waste Land on the 0.8X EB build
https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola19/zzxtyutea1hz0.jpg

ok, Cyruz still can go i guess, but Kuna... <_< i will try to have back the old kuna skin when the new patch will arrive... :D
anyway that is just a preview, next table will be 0.74 "In to the Waste Land" (the two only parthian army, will enter in the wasteland inner-core trying to end forever that nasty brigands from the eastern countries...)
but dont expect someting too good.

thanks and arzarakarawak!

Artaserse







This is the copy of the post of table 20

thanks people, suggestions always took in good consideration (ah! im sorry i cant be too much active in this period)... anyway even for a new aar, i should have to wait until the patch cause 0.80 and 0.81 are not compatible... but i have not the time to start a completely new aar for now, i think i can continue it until still enjoing to make such thinks... here's an update on the yuezhe side (a small one), a bit made in a hurry, cause i wanted to make it before tomorrow and before the patch. So still 0.74, and then we will see.
I made two different pre-battle cut-scenes, but i was undecided what to choose, so i added both of them (you can notice that akemens seems to talk from two different place... sorry)
Anyway as usually a warmy arzarakarawak to all people read/like/dislike this, press F11 on the keyboard and i updated the table of contents on the first page of this thread, and here we are:











TAVOLA XX

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/000fronttav20.jpg

What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by that flat horizon only

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

so, two armies were sent to stop the border raids of the YueZhe Eastern Nomads...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZaawl00.jpg

a warrior raised this few Dahae and YanCai knights in his existential journey through a North of Wildness and Empitiness... a Grand-Tour ante-litteram!

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZaawl01.jpg

and there's no place so sweet for the brigands of everywhere... it seems they care for our existence, since the parthians never succeded to diminish their spawning bands... pheraphs we never just tried... they know, rogues from everywhere, they will live long and prosper under the griphoned standard...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZaawl02.jpg

but here! the southern arm of our two-way enclosing manoeuvre, suddendly encountered some resistence...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZaawl03.jpg

and the inevitable battle... (we were just able to retrain our foot-archers units in Alexandreia-Eschate before to start this, we hope fruitful, expedition...)

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat000.jpg

it was sayd there was no need for that, we could have waited furthermore, and they... suddendly disappeared.

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat001a.jpg

down the hills...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat001b.jpg

nobles are the first to dye... like in a time forgotten in the past...could it be these nomads still preserve somewhere the true reminiscence of an age of gold that is gone forever?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat001c.jpg

if he will survive, this young Miyika, too few traces of his youth will be left on his gentle face...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat001d.jpg

time to call some cavalry to stop those spearmen...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat002.jpg

the end of the day?

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat003a.jpg

go ahead and you have obtained you freedom...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat003b.jpg

and here the results:

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat004.jpg

the expedition was half a success so far, the northern arm of our incredible two-way military plan (pure avant-guard) got lost in the nowhere...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/YZbat005.jpg

we have just to proceed furthermore...no way back, the more time spent out of the borders, the more our troops will suffer in moral... and still cant figure out where to search for those towns...

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/Tavola20/ZZbat006.jpg

as usually the land is waste, lost is the path... but following them could be we will arrive to find a direct way to their villages hidden among the high muntains of this unknown landscape so cold so vast...

TBC

hope enjoied

ah! shin already sayd that, anyway good end and good start of year!

EDIT added the last pic that i forgot before.

CountArach
09-26-2006, 11:16
ach! my bad english has betrayed me another time... nothing serious... it's not life-iussue, iussue this word i think means somethink like serious-problems? it's just usual real-life matters that give me very few time this period to play and to stay at the computer... why dont i check my vocabulary more often...:inquisitive:
anyway thanks for the good wishes and im going to update this 2 new table posted here also to the old forums.

Phew that is good to hear. It did sound serious.

Subedei
09-26-2006, 11:27
ach! my bad english has betrayed me another time... nothing serious... it's not life-iussue, iussue this word i think means somethink like serious-problems? it's just usual real-life matters that give me very few time this period to play and to stay at the computer... why dont i check my vocabulary more often...:inquisitive:
anyway thanks for the good wishes and im going to update this 2 new table posted here also to the old forums.

Alrighty!!!!:2thumbsup:

Subedei
10-24-2006, 13:43
Any news???? :yes: :whip:

I miss Wasteland action a lot

Baldrick
10-24-2006, 16:54
Artas is posting updates back over on the RTR forum at http://forums.totalrealism.net/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=320

only a couple thus far but still witty and interesting...oh and Kuna is back

Teleklos Archelaou
12-23-2006, 06:37
A little mini-update on the Waste Land over at the RTR forums:
http://forums.totalrealism.net/index.php?showtopic=17002&st=420&#entry314303

He's still got it. :laugh4: Can't wait to see some 0.81 stuff.

kambiz
12-25-2006, 11:04
Why he doesn't continue on this forum anymore?

Bonny
12-30-2006, 16:14
Why he doesn't continue on this forum anymore?

He waits until 0.81 is released, since this patch isn't savegamecompatible.

CountArach
01-05-2007, 06:14
Also he has a life outside of forums. He started on RTR forums, so I assume he will finish there. There are also more readers at RTR Forums.

Obelics
01-06-2007, 14:04
the only real reason is this:

- I started it there (rtr, and there were even other EB aars, like a Demetrios/Omorphos Swebotz one)
- than the forums went down
- then i continued it here for a while
- than the forums come back
- than i naturally decide to continue it there, cause there were all the chapters from the first on.
- but i decided to continue it here too...
- so i sayd: ok i update it there (rtr) and then copy & paste on the .org
- I forget to copy it here, and i made a second update, and a third one on the rtr forum.
- But now i was embarrassed to copy 2 or 3 updates here, cause it seemed like a second-hand think.

Ok i think i've found a solution: as soon as i have ended the waste land, if i want to start a new aar, i will start it here and continue it here. So no more embarasse.

so at the end i make my exscuses to Kambitz:shame: , and i say dont even try to think i was snobbing this forum. I was simply so overhelmed by the support, even from some great EB man like teleklos (thanks dave) that i didn't know how to resolve the conflict between a full thread with all the 26/27chapters (rtr) and a thread full of friendly support but with only 4-5 chapters...

so as i sayd after i will end that waste land, if i will start a new one, it will be here (its natural place).

salut and i take the occasion to say how it is great to have seen all this support and how it is honouring, especially cause it sound so sincere, thanks & vivat EB.

EDIT: reply the post below:
yeh, you're right thaatu, you know it depends on the days...
reading this post today it seems to me a bit like a psycho-drama... :laugh4:
had to edit it...:smash:

EDIT2: reply 2 post below:
@Kambtz, here your link: http://forums.totalrealism.net/index.php?showtopic=17002&pid=320928&st=440&#entry320928
salut friend!

[This is the copy of the post of table 21 and 22 (the last one i completed sic...)]
[copy of table 21]

ok, this aar is reaching a point where it's becoming to be auto-referential. So dont be surprised if you see some of the guys quoting themselves.
As usually thanks to every one (hope it's not that arcade game that get you away, count... :lol: ) and a warmy arzarakarawak from this place so cold.
And here's a new table, hope you like as the previous ones.
Pheraphs the picture are a bit too large on the vertical, so it could be hard to load... I could have split, but i didn't know where to split it, and i thought to give an end to the East borders of our kingdom. Damn there aren't some pre-battle/in-battle scenes as i like, so a more traditional update this time. And i would have added some map, but you can see the eastern borders from the little maps on the pics.
As usually remember to press F11 on the Keyboard (for the vertical screen-shots) and there is an update table of contents on the first page.












TAVOLA XXI

https://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4733/000tav21frontpicmw2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses' heels
Over the paving.
And the flags. And the trumpets. And so many eagles.
How many? Count them. And such a press of people.
We hardly knew ourselves that day, or knew the City.
...and we so many crowding the way.
So many waiting, how many waiting? what did it matter on such a day?
Are they coming? No, not yet. You can see some eagles. And hear the trumpets.

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

So this was the expedition... those YueZhi are used to live as steppards like us... but here's a difference, they, still nomads, while Pahlavans claim for themselves that ancient heritage of the Akemenids... we will rebuild the temples, restore the Great Royal Road, the exchanges with the Silk merchants... and God, Mithra that Arcangel and Anahit the virgin, this holy trinity, will bless the lands under our domain... it's in our mind to build so magnificent monuments so wide, that they will compete with the great Terrasse of Persepolis, or just with what it's left of it... if we will be able to take back that town a day...

https://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1098/tav20bacc0lg8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

while from our kingdom: an emissary has come for negotiation, what can be called a surviving satrapy, at the end of their Decadence, a pale mirror of the past!

https://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2108/tav20bacc1px7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Ah! They found some reinforcements at last...

https://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1494/tav20bazap0hs8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Lets see the battle begin...

https://img322.imageshack.us/img322/1091/tav20bazap1nr3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

some lonely heroes...

https://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3579/tav20bazap2zo2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

and here's the results

https://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8713/tav20bazap3iy8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

well, you know, there are so many places we dont know, so much thinks...but here!

https://img322.imageshack.us/img322/9391/tav20bazap5xq5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

The siege to the migthy towns! ok just a village, but we need supplies!

https://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8461/tav20byzchighu000aaw5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

let's see here...

https://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6945/tav20byzchighu000bjz2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

raise the spears, hold the shields... yes, we pahlavans, are the masters of the horse-mounted warfare, we have the supremacy over the wind, and the wind will lead our arrows... but you can see here, how it can be usefull sometime, to have a pair of spearmen units at our side... we will take what is good of a conquered enemy, and make it of our own...

https://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4259/tav20byzchighu001rb3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

and you already know, that General, that young one that Otanes seems to like so much... well it seems he's got his way to end his days on this grounds.

https://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9874/tav20byzchighu002reloadfh3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

ah well, there's an Hell for everyone... as it is sayd, and Ah! Theo, you've just found your own in this life... as everyone of us can do... no way to keep your soul too pure, so clear!
But Miyika!... the death make your sweet face a bit less haughty... someway pale...

https://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2122/tav20byzchighu003wn9.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Calm! Otanes... that's too early...

https://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6370/tav20byzchighu004gr3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

now it's the moment, come on! the town is waiting us... some beautifull marriages will be prepared upon the corpses of our enemies!

https://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8108/tav20byzchighu005jv2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Some guys this time didn't got their turn on the stage... at last not so much, but there will come some days they will have their main part again, it was more a matter of infantry, and well, of arrows...
and here's the results as well:

https://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6730/tav20byzchighu006so7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

and someone that finally have found his path!

https://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5716/tav20byzchighu007hv0.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Ah well, it seems enough for now... as usually the world is vast, too far the path to find your way... we can turn back home and leave there forever that Cincixri, who could have finally found a place were to stay...

TBC

hope enjoyed








[This is the copy of the post of table 22]
ah, thanks salvor, and you too are put in the list of the last moicans :D , anyway here's the small update i sayd. Hope it still can go, as usually thanks to everyone who is following this, and there's an updated table of contents in the first post of this thread, im not sure of the title of this table anyway, i could change it, and i renamed the previous one too, and press F11 for a better view, and here we go (and and and, i love the parataxis period coordination... :P )
(ah, and look that pic i used as front-pic, they bring the pikes exactly like in the mod! ok that was surpraising for me cause i was still a bit doubious on the 2 handed cavalry pikemen, i wasn't able to figure how it could be handfull, but now im so pleased!)
ok ok no more words and here we go:














TAVOLA XXII

https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7744/tav22bat00afront5yw.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Now they go up the temple. Then the sacrifice.
Now come the virgins bearing urns, urns containing
Dust
Dust
Dust of dust, and now
Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses'heels
Over the paving.

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land

Here's continue the Expedition, or not? we are not so sure... some men are tired, and the moral is starting to lowering...

https://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8134/tav22bat00b3eu.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

and an inevitable fight that force our army to proceed... the other choice was to free the path toward home, against that army of brigands...

https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6224/tav22bat00deploy6ys.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

briefing:

https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8697/tav22bat01a8js.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

The Courage is our way of life!

https://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2556/tav22bat01b7dr.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

and here's the battlefield in a dusty morning...

https://img250.imageshack.us/img250/921/tav22bat002a8np.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

what a general!

https://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7563/tav22bat002b9kk.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

And here's the results stats:

https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6760/tav22bat03results5wl.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Note by Artaserse: You can imagine the men left in a hero unit, like his HitPoints, so we have 22 HP left for Kuna, 69 for Aristocrat III (SHin), 33 for Gaston, 44 for Sacripans etc.
But now that we conquered a further province (WuSun YabGu), we can give a look to the Overall Scroll:

https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5966/tav22bat04ranking9hm.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

lets do a very semplified analisys on that ranking tab, doing a comparison with the previous faction-overview Tab (229 B.C. you can see it in Table 13-C page 13)
we can see:
1) regarding Overall Ranking and Military Ranking there's nothink new on the world front, we are still out of the top 5 ranking
2) regarding Production Ranking and Territorial Ranking, in 229 B.C. we were already in the top 5, but the real news here is that we gained some positions! In 229 B.C we were number 5 in the Producion and 4 in the territorial ranking, while here in the 218 B.C. we are at the 3th position in the Producion! (while still 4th in the territorial ranking...sic)
3) and we are just a new entry in the Population Ranking! currently number 5, but we count to make it better!
Anyway our old General here, decided to continue the campaign... just after have had some rest there around that silver mine...
there is a road leading somewhere further to East...

https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5749/tav22bat052xp.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

but look at Otanes, he discovered somethink:

https://img404.imageshack.us/img404/2416/tav22bat061al.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

ah, the more time spent in this north-eastern lands, the more our main army get thinner... it could be that to proceed further, was not the wisest decision... two provinces left on the yueZhe side, could mean more and more armies to defeat, and we cannot retrain our own one.

TBC

hope enjoied











[and this is a screenshot of table 23 that i never finished...:shrug: ]

https://img224.imageshack.us/img224/6080/grinpanvar2jz2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Thaatu
01-07-2007, 13:00
Obelics, you think too much. :fishbowl:

kambiz
01-07-2007, 21:56
Hi;
Dear Obelics ,No need to apology mate ,I just admire your great works and really enjoy reading them ,and they are particularly interesting to me because they are about "Ashkanians" (Parthians) which I am somehow their descendant~;) so it's so bad we miss your them here. Is it possible to post the address of each update so we can read them whenever you have updated them?

Anyway ,I wish you good luck my friend~:)
-Kambiz

CountArach
01-24-2007, 21:07
He's updated again! Now up to table 22!

http://forums.totalrealism.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=17002&view=findpost&p=324527

Baldrick
01-25-2007, 11:03
I can't read it any more as our bloody IT department have blocked 'personal' pages...come to think of it I can't see any previews on here at all :furious3:

I'm going to a dark room to cry

Subedei
06-28-2007, 09:02
jJust found the 2 tables above....great job again Obelics. :2thumbsup:
ME READY FOR MORE ACTION in the WASTELAND!!!!!:charge: :duel:

Teleklos Archelaou
06-28-2007, 14:42
I wish all of this could be saved for posterity. :grin: The images will slowly start to fade away I guess though.

PowerWizard
08-08-2008, 16:16
Well, I've finished reading this AAR-comic, and I'm speechless. What a huge work, super-funny!
Sorry for necro-posting

Obelics
08-08-2008, 21:34
well thanks for the kind word...

anyway it's not necro-posting, it's just bumping the thread, cause i reserve for me the chance to continue it when i feel.

gamegeek2
10-22-2008, 04:03
The links aren't working!

Aemilius Paulus
10-22-2008, 04:33
Well, this in an old AAR, so the Internet has changed since then. Nothing unexpected.

General Appo
10-24-2008, 00:10
An very old AAR. But I just to love this badboy. Seriously, if take in the early stuff that don´t appear here (and maybe not anywhere else either anymore) this is the best AAR of all time (sorry MAA).

gamegeek2
10-24-2008, 01:26
Tied with MAA's. After Of Mail and Men, I might make a laugh out of the Aedui. Might do too well on that campaign too early, though.

When Aysni gets old, I'm following Azes, who is actually the biological son of Aysni and Tavrak.

General Appo
10-24-2008, 02:11
Nah, I have to give this the prize. MAA´s is legendary epic, but this ones makes me laugh every chapter. A good laugh lengthens your life. I´ve yet to hear that a epic read does the same.

MarcusAureliusAntoninus
10-24-2008, 02:50
Personally, I'd vote this the best EB AAR of all time, too.
Too bad it can't be found intact all in one place...

General Appo
10-24-2008, 03:11
I don´t know if the first chapters survive anywhere. Didn´t they get lost in one of the big TWC crashes ages ago?
I can barely remember what happened in the AAR back then, when I was still a shy lurker.

gamegeek2
10-24-2008, 03:18
with MAA's vote, I must concede

Karo
10-24-2008, 12:49
Reading this AAR again brings back memories, good memories of an more ancient and more simple EB.
I hope he writes another awesome AAR because he rocks and he has the best Eb AAR ever

gamegeek2
10-25-2008, 03:00
A true legend, one that is infrequently mentioned, but even more respected than MAA's.

Please Obelics, start one for 1.1 - If you have the time, that is. (Sorry other Parthian AAR dude if he puts you out of business)

General Appo
10-25-2008, 09:22
He did have a Romani AAR up not that long ago. Must at least have been 1.0.

johnhughthom
10-26-2008, 22:24
My Parthian AAR seems so lame after reading this.:embarassed:

General Appo
10-26-2008, 22:52
All AAR´s does. But the only way to change that is to keep writing and keep trying.

gamegeek2
11-19-2008, 03:40
Someone sticky this.

General Appo
11-29-2008, 01:08
If this world had any sense of justice in it, the mods would indeed sticky this. But I guess they won´t.

Tristuskhan
01-18-2009, 22:05
And since it's not stickied, it's our duty to keep it on the first AAR pages for education of newcomers.

Atraphoenix
01-27-2009, 16:23
My best AAR, though I feel my AARs are nothing to compare with this..
At least we can make it alive by posting. I wish that AAR had finished or sb stick it,..

MerlinusCDXX
07-11-2009, 00:45
This deserves a bump... shame the rest of it is lost though.

Teleklos Archelaou
04-19-2011, 06:42
Needed to show some AAR's to students, so I'm bumping this. If you aren't familiar with this thread, you should definitely take a gander at it. Unfortunately, only some of the "tables" are here, but more were lost at the RTR forums. Still, they're worth reading. So much time and effort must have been expended to create these.

gamegeek2
05-12-2012, 05:18
Obligatory bump. This is mandatory reading material.

Obelics
06-28-2012, 10:53
Hi people, i found a backup pendrive among my things, and inside there was a directory with some incomplete buckups. I found some pictures. Today i was just a bit nostalgic about the eb days, and i want to salute all people i know on the forums that i felt like friends even if i didn't know them in real world, like teleklos, psicho V, trituskan, and other people i dont remember the nicknames (I cant believe how many years have passed) but i still remember them. Cheers to every one, i know we are all good peope eheh :)

this was an incomplete picture from the last table (number 23) there were more things in my old computer but it broke out.

https://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/Artaserse_LostBorg/AARs/The%20Waste%20Land%20EB/time%20is%20changed/FINE.jpg

at the end there should have been a picture of Kuna totally burned out, but still alive who sent really bad words to his friend Ciruzz, but i lost my file and that was all i had, still thought that was nice to post it

[I found also tables I and II (that are really ancient things) that are missing in this thread, i will post it in these days as i will have edited the .txt files]

Tristuskhan
08-04-2012, 00:15
Ave Obelics, I'm still lurking here and there from time to time. Glad to see Ciruzz and Kuna are still wandering in the endless steppe!

(come on give us the fist two tables, lazy shepherd!)

mikepettyrtw
08-13-2012, 06:09
Parthia rules.
Nuff said.

V.T. Marvin
10-23-2012, 17:40
Hello good old time friend Obelics/Artaserse! I too sometimes still hang around here and it is excellent news that you have found the Tavolas I and II. Hopefully you will eventually find some time to post them as I am very much missing those in my otherwise complete collection (after that accident wirth RTR server I have saved all the rest (III - XXII) as .doc files (I hope you do not mind).

Anyway, yeah - those were the days so long long ago!

Salute!