Originally Posted by
MDPR
The following is a mixed AAR + opinions and a few suggestions.
This is indeed a challenging game. Especially because the CITY MOD b. makes it difficult to recruit new troops in the perimeter of my Arche Seleukeia empire, the faction Im playing on VH/VH.
With the city mod b version, I got 3 cities that can advance to Huge. Rest cant.
Pahlava, Saka, Ptolemaio and Eleutheroi are naturally causing me great difficulties, since I more or less am in constant fighting on all fronts.
So far i have gotten to 259 bc, with some 19 or 20 provinces. Macedonia is still my ally and one way I began making few more money from start, was to make peace with Epeiros and Koinon Hellenon, and at the same time capturing the two Ptolemaio provinces at the coast in the western part of my empire.
Giving Macedonia some money now and then - have maybe made them stay allied with me for now? One thing is for sure. If Macedonia at some point decides going East, now I'm involved in fighting with Pahlava and Saka in the northeast and Ptolemaio in the south, + the "loose" ½ stacks from Eleutheroi, several places inside my empire, I am done. So thats a good challenge.
Pontus haven't attacked so far, and had Pontus done that I had lost the west part of my empire.
Two of my huge cities have been sieged, Seleukis several times and I have also lost it two times in a row to Ptolemaio now. Fightings costing me 1½ stack plus a significant decrease in the city's population.
Great strategical and tactical game.
I especially like - hate :) - when Pahlava siege a town, I then try to break out off with numerous troops, just to have my troops clustered with arrows, and then when I have enough troops outside the city walls and begin to be ready to attack, the AI leave the battlefield, having lost almost no troops.
Also, the prices on certain buildings, like mines to 35.000 Mnai!!! - Top amount of income I have had in a season yet, has been 10.000, and 1/3 of those, more or less go to retraining troops. Good challenge trying to save up for the income these mines can provide in the future.
I can only recommend playing EB with the CITY MOD b. and Darth 16.2 + Sinuhet 7.0.
One thing I noticed after having installed City Mod, was the halfling of playable factions. Looks like its not possible to play as Barbarian with this mod. Doesn't matter btw, its a great challenging mod, playing the Arche Seleukeia faction.
I love that they dont speak english on the battle-field. Sadly they still speak englisg on the campaign map, but it is what it is.
A casualty list would for some weird way, be cool in this game as well. Like you complete your campaign, or a decade perhaps, and then get an option to view how many troops you trained -and used up so far. Statics of your forces would also be cool. Like how many spear units, how many Cav and so on, your army consist of right now.
EB = GREAT GAMING
EB + CITY MOD b + Dart + Sinuhet = AWESOME GAMING!
Oh, the Music and all the historical information, almost forgot that. Love it!!!
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