Hayasdan aar

[moriluk]

I have been playing around with powerpoint lately b/c it is easy to move images around, edit, add text, etc., and b/c I have to learn it for my new job. This is my first extensive Hayasdan campaign (I hope), my last one ctd after 4 years. So this will be done entirely on powerpoint. I never intended on posting this here, but it has been one of the funnest starts to a campaign. If this doesn't cdt I will keep playing this. Hopefully until the complex reforms are finished and beyond. I am not sure why I never played Hayasdan before. They are one of the only factions (ptoly being the other) that I have never really played out.

This is my first aar and it is mostly a lot of fluff and very little substance.

By the way, I understand that my pre EB history is off because I am assuming I will have a huge empire at some point, and history is written by the victors.









Hopefully this is not full of fail. I am just trying to have some fun and share with others.

[moriluk]

[moriluk]

[Walle]

Very enjoyable! Hayasdan is my favorite faction, I'll definitely be following this!

[Biowulf]

I like this a lot, keep it up. Makes me want to start a new Hai campaign lol

[d'Arthez]

Too bad it is not really possible for the RTW engine to simulate political instability in the Arche, but so far so good. Keep it up!

[stratigos vasilios]

Great work, I'm liking it alot!

[vartan]

I am thoroughly enjoying this. Thanks for the many laughs. Keep it up!

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Too bad it is not really possible for the RTW engine to simulate political instability in the Arche, but so far so good. Keep it up!

You can simulate it by using Force Diplomacy. Use it to make Seleukia give you a load of towns, then immediately disband any slave garrisons, and give them all to Epirus.

[moriluk]

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately the game got super boring for a while.

[moriluk]

[moriluk]

[Arkeolog4]

Nice AAR Moriluk! Don't worry, it's not full of fail :P

One thing I don't understand, why raid eastern Seleukid towns when you can add them to your Orontid Empire?

[moriluk]

@Arkeolog4 Thanks. I just don't have the money or infrastructure to hold everything and I am trying to avoid a border with the growing Bactria. For about 20 turns I would have 4 - 5 cities sieged by small elite AS armies. It got old. So I cut the populations and mics down. Eventually I will have to conquer the east but for now my concentration is in the south and the west.

[moriluk]

This has become somewhat botched!
Pontos died so no civil war.
I have cheated Rome 500k and they are still failing. They can't take Sicily or keep Taras.
I am glad people like this. I only wish I had played h/m instead of m/m.

[moriluk]

[The_Blacksmith]

[Walle]

Very impressive AAR. I've always wanted someone to make a detailed and interesting AAR about the Hayasdan and the reforms. I'm very satisfied, and I thank you, moriluk. Are you going to continue this AAR, even though you have achieved victory?

[moriluk]

Very impressive AAR. I've always wanted someone to make a detailed and interesting AAR about the Hayasdan and the reforms. I'm very satisfied, and I thank you, moriluk. Are you going to continue this AAR, even though you have achieved victory?

Yup. The fact that I haven't played Hay before makes this tons of fun. After 3 1/2 years, this game got sort of new again. I love Hay because it reminds me of Foundation trilogy. I wanted Persia to be my Terminus; use superior technology to conquer the surrounding barbarians, then have a go with Armavir (Trantor). But Pontos died so that won't happen.

Nonetheless, the reforms give me something to write about. I don't have the creative writing skills to write a 150 year Luso aar. It would be like... "here are another 20 pics of me outsmarting a simple AI...again, I am such a military genius".

Problem is I don't have the leisure time I used to & this is incredibly time consuming. I do not know how some of the guys here have the time or energy to write these extensive aar's. Mine is quiet simple. Not too many pics, not tl;dr. The problem here is I cannot edit what I have done. Many mistakes.

[moriluk]

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

That is a great way to do an AAR, nice work!

You're already well on the way to recreating the empire of Cyrus the Great.

[moriluk]

edit: this hasn't crashed yet. I process_cq a new gov instead of building it. Perhaps that helped?

I should have mentioned in the first post that this was meant to be read while listening to multiple versions of Ravel Bolero in succession.

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[The_Blacksmith]

Woaw... thats alot... great work!

what is that celtic unit on the first picture?

[moriluk]

Woaw... thats alot... great work!

what is that celtic unit on the first picture?

ha. uh, ya. a lot of this has been done for a while. I just haven't bothered putting it in final format to post. Now that I think of it, it kind of does make me look like a basement dweller.


The unit in the first pick is just a celtic lesser king. I just play it up because Hayasdan cannot get any of those nifty Galatian troops. So I use the celtic lesser kings as my heavy infantry in the west.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Basement dweller or not, two thumbs up to you sir!

[moriluk]

I have accomplished most of my goals here. I want total control of Arabia and I would like to have some money at some point. I have not developed in every province since the early turns. I have to cut corners on every turn. ALL other factions I would be filthy rich by now.

Tons of cheating going on here as everyone hates me and everyone has a completely unrealistic amount of soldiers. I could not tell you how many times Isreal has been seiged. This is old news to EB fans. I suppose it is old news to total war in general. I thought about letting the empire crumble and I may just do that yet, but probably not for a while. I may nerf this thread a year from now. I have always wanted to play a campaign all the way to the year 0.