1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[LordCurlyton]

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Victory! The 172 BC shot represents the last I didn't meddle severely in the East. Between then and victory I spent roughly 1.2M mnai to buy territories to give to the AS and Hai. The AS is holding out for now as the Ptolies concentrate on retaking Egypt. I even got rid of the Ptolie super-FM stack (5 FMs all max xp/command) that was single-handedly keeping the Romans at bay (they had virtually no troops just the massive auto-calc advantage super-FMs get) but the damage may have been done as the Romans can't kick them out.
As you can see, as soon as the Saka and Hai went to war (due to Hai/Ptolie alliance driving Hai away from south), the "Hai Steppe Problem" reemerged. Of course, now the Baktrian Beast has declared war and I expect the ass-kicking to be delivered forthwith.
At least the increasingly strained war has kept the Romans from trying to raid again. The same could not be said about the KH. It forced me to take the extreme step of razing Greece/Macedonia to the ground with 4 stacks of mercs and letting revolts have their way. This has led to the Maks getting Epeiros into a protectorate and KH/Epeiros fighting on roughly equal terms. So far, Maks/KH has not reignited. I spent 1M and gave back Buridava to the Getai to get them as my Protectorate, since I really had not interest in the underdeveloped Illyrian towns and reaching all the way to the Pontus Euxinos would unnecessarily have exposed my forces to raids both north and south. Heck, I didn't even really want Naissos but I really wanted to see the victory screen.
The only real "goal" that I have left would be to take the Boii homeland, which, ironically, I wouldn't be able to get Boii Cingetos from since it is not an Expansion territory of mine, yet all the other territories which I could recruit them from are Expansion. Since the easiest way to beat the Boii Eleutheroi would be to wait until I have about 8M mnai (say 100 turns tops) and then bribe all the stacks that lack FMs and use them to conquer, it may be time for me to call this campaign done.
I have no real desire to head into Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, as all that would be available to me would be the standard fare of regionals and I'd be stuck going through all the major pike-using factions that are left and frankly, the Celtic lineup is not designed to be able to beat and consistently hold that area of the world. While the AI stupidity would probably allow me to do so, realistically the Celts would face the same problems that the Romans did in that the archer- and cavalry-heavy factions over there would inflict excessive casualties to make it worth the while of defending.
Now with the factions that are left in my game, considering that they are generally Hellenistic, it is *slightly* more feasible since they are not uber-cavalry and uber-archer, though all 3 (AS, Ptolie, Baktria) can field far better cavalry then me and the waves of phalanxes would take its toll, especially once the computer decided to send 10 Klerouch Agema or Argyaspides or such after me. And they still have access to the superior archer levies or the east, so that would mean 2 of the 3 arms of my military are already at a disadvantage. Even the Getai with their combination of falxes + HA were inflicting more casualties then I would have preferred.
If I did continue, I would probably play up until I had taken the Boii homeland and then assimilated the Balkans, stopping at the Hellespoint. But that wouldn't be for another 50-60 years at least as I completely devastated the whole of Greece and Macedonia. That would leave my empire as very large, wealthy, and with easily defensible borders, able to draw on diverse fighting styles suited for the rough terrain which generally characterizes my empire: skirmishing and semi-skirmishing infantry from Iberia, Gaul, and Britain, skirmishing cavalry from Cantabria, Ireland, and Gaul, missile levies from Greek, Gallic, and Iberian possessions, medium melee noble cavalry and medium melee/jav-cav hybrids, disciplined line spearmen, loose swordsmen, shock infantry, and the bread-and-butter close-order heavy infantry. As long as the terrain is not flat and vast the troops I can draw on should be able to go toe-to-toe with any army that could be arrayed against me.

[Tartaros]

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My Romani-Game 231bc
I just conquered the "united state of Gaul" and i besiege Salamis (my naval-base next to kydonia).
I think, the next big deal could be Hellas with Epeiros and the Macs.

[SwissBarbar]

I like carthage, but don't like the grey death

[Tartaros]

Jupp (but both i´m allied with!)
I try to build up Salamis and Kydonia as my hornet nest to spread
a lot of spies and chaos to the arche.
Cold War

[Mediolanicus]

That looked like a very nice Arverni campaign, LordCurlyton.
I was planning on doing that in EB1.1, but a corrupt save game threw me a few years back and then 1.2 came along.

[gamegeek2]

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Current Sarmatian campaign, 236 BCE. By sending a force near Hayasadan's attempt to invade the steppes, I somehow made them turn around, and they are invading Ptolemaic lands. I gave the Seleukids 100000 mnai per year for the first ten years of the campaign, and they were holding out well until I stopped the cash flow. FD'd a peace with Epeiros and told them to attack the KH. Pahlava has been entirely stunted since I took Gava-Mazsakata - I should give them some dough. Since I mauled the Saka, Baktria has taken advantage of their weakness. Ptollies are doing well, as always. The KH are a monster - I never gave them any money, but they are a monster, ravaging Anatolia as you can see. Rome is, as always, carving out a niche in Celtic lands, but they seem to have been halted since the Aedui finally defeated the Arverni, and are able to concentrate on Rome. The Lusotanaan have forced Qart-Hadast out of Iberia, but the Carthies still look strong, with plenty of trade across the Mediterannean. I expect them to explode by 220 BCE. Casse, as always, not so impressive, but they don't need to be.

[gamegeek2]

double post

[Mediolanicus]

Nice map, although I don't like seeing Rome going up in the Alps there.
Teal and Yellow death are slumbering, but they are there none the less.


Casse, as always, not so impressive, but they don't need to be.

The Casse unified Britain and Ireland in 230BC in my campaign, I gave them 1 settlement in Belgica by 215BC. It is now 195BC and they are 5th in the ranking of most powerful factions behind me (romani), ptolies, pahlava and pontos!

[Olaf Blackeyes]

My ??? AAR. (guess the faction)
year 229BC
https://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr133/Maurl/RomeTW2009-01-3100-53-47-64.jpg
Nice huh?

EDIT:@%@% i HATE photobucket

[penguinking]

Sweboz!

[SwissBarbar]

yeah, I also say Sweboz ^^ Or did you condescend yourself to play a Roman Barbarian campaign? ^^

[Marcus Ulpius]

Not too hard to guess with the Sweboz sign on the UI:2thumbsup:

[Rilder]

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Aedui
233 BC.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Well photobucket #@$$ed up the crop (again:sweatdrop:) so its not that hard to guess but look at the AS and the Averni in Galatia

[gamegeek2]

@ Olaf, how come you're not using the campaign I sent you? Or did you just let Lugouw go?

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Im having a problem getting the savegame onto my computer, as in i have no idea how to do that.
Also when i try to open it i get an error message saying that it needs an association file or something.

BTW: how the @#$!$ did u take lugow???

[LordCurlyton]

Step 1: Wait until, or lure away, the big uber army.
Step 2: Spies
Step 3: No-turn siege
= Victory! Deal with the scary stack as you will; it won't lay siege to you.

[gamegeek2]

Where exactly is EB installed on your computer? Download the file to your desktop, then copy/paste it to EB/saves

I actually defeated the stack in an actual battle (somewhere a page or two back, its in a thread called "Lugii Rhesus Defender" and took the city, I sent a unit to defeat the respawned fullstack using auto_win, to make things fair on me).

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 190BC

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I saved the KH from destruction by giving them Byzantion 1 turn before Epeiros captured their last city.
I gave Casse settlement in Belgium back in 220BC and look at them now, they are fighting a fullstack war with Sweboz now.
Talking about the Sweboz, After I drove them back 230-220BC across the Alps and gave those settlements to the Arverni and Casse they've been quiet. Now, suddenly turning up out of nowhere, they are laying siege to Buridava and Sigudunum (sp.).

Pahlava is doing great!!! Seleukies won't last that long anymore, I'm afraid.
Baktria is starting to eat up Saka, they are allied to Pahlava.
The Ptolies are beginning to push back Pontos, I don't like that...

[Rilder]

Mediolanicus, do I see some mithridatic wars in the making?

[Mediolanicus]

Mediolanicus, do I see some mithridatic wars in the making?

That's the main reason why I don't want the Ptolies to become too strong. Taking Greece is my first priority and I don't want to see Pontos dying a horrible yellow death in the meantime.
I may attack Syria first and give that back to the Seleucids.
Besides Pontos has been an ally since ~260, so I better make up a good reason to attack them.

[SwissBarbar]

what a beautiful map that is :2thumbsup:

[Chris_]

That's the main reason why I don't want the Ptolies to become too strong. Taking Greece is my first priority and I don't want to see Pontos dying a horrible yellow death in the meantime.
I may attack Syria first and give that back to the Seleucids.
Besides Pontos has been an ally since ~260, so I better make up a good reason to attack them.

I had a similar thing happen in my Luso campaign, so I sent out 2 armies to ruin the Ptolies front lines. It worked well, and the other factions have retaken Asia Minor and I have temporarily taken control of Egypt, and am working on getting rid of the yellow death elsewhere. When it's all over, I'll just leave it to them, however I'm having to hold settlements rather than letting them rebel because they just go back to being Ptolemaic (with thousands of Apeluetheroi)

[Mediolanicus]

That's why I want to give a few regions to the Seleucids. No Apeleutheroi! All those cities have MIC's that the Seleucids can use too.

But first I need to repell the Sweboz and pacify Greece.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

SPQR 190BC

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Wow, you can have your Gallic, Mithradatic and Parthian War. :2thumbsup:

[Chris_]

That's why I want to give a few regions to the Seleucids. No Apeleutheroi! All those cities have MIC's that the Seleucids can use too.

But first I need to repell the Sweboz and pacify Greece.

I gave a few to the Seleucids, unfortunately they kind of got wiped out by the resurgent Pontos and Hay, and the very powerful Makedonians who are now taking cities about two turns after I take and leave them. Although it stops it going back to Ptolies, it does create another super empire in its place. At least it makes a change from yellow though.

[IrishHitman]

SPQR 190BC

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I saved the KH from destruction by giving them Byzantion 1 turn before Epeiros captured their last city.
I gave Casse settlement in Belgium back in 220BC and look at them now, they are fighting a fullstack war with Sweboz now.
Talking about the Sweboz, After I drove them back 230-220BC across the Alps and gave those settlements to the Arverni and Casse they've been quiet. Now, suddenly turning up out of nowhere, they are laying siege to Buridava and Sigudunum (sp.).

Pahlava is doing great!!! Seleukies won't last that long anymore, I'm afraid.
Baktria is starting to eat up Saka, they are allied to Pahlava.
The Ptolies are beginning to push back Pontos, I don't like that...

I hope you have a large diplomatic corps, because you could be forced into a NINE front war.
Or even a TEN front war if the Casse come south via that independent region.

[Mediolanicus]

Lusotann and the Getai have been friendly for the last 30 years or so. The Aedui have been bordering me since 260BC and are still ignoring me (I took Mediolanum and the Alpine cities from the Sweboz).

Chartage is a problem though. They recently captured Kirta with a fullstack and are laying seige to Atiqa with another.
I'm my main front is in Greece against Epeiros at the moment.

I just signed a ceasefire with Sweboz after their 5 unsuccesful attemps to capture Buridava and Tylis. The cities' garrizons can manage the threat.

Arverni, Macedon in Olbia and KH are no threat to me either. They are weak and when they decide to attack me a halfstack should enough to destroy them if I want.


I wonder what Pahlava and Baktria are going to do now. They've both taken that last patch of other faction and they are building up their armies. I wonder which way they'll go.
Pontos has gained some ground from the Ptolies, but the Seleucids look quite dead.

[gamegeek2]

I guess the Aedui are still pacifistic?

[IrishHitman]

Lusotann and the Getai have been friendly for the last 30 years or so. The Aedui have been bordering me since 260BC and are still ignoring me (I took Mediolanum and the Alpine cities from the Sweboz).

Chartage is a problem though. They recently captured Kirta with a fullstack and are laying seige to Atiqa with another.
I'm my main front is in Greece against Epeiros at the moment.

I just signed a ceasefire with Sweboz after their 5 unsuccesful attemps to capture Buridava and Tylis. The cities' garrizons can manage the threat.

Arverni, Macedon in Olbia and KH are no threat to me either. They are weak and when they decide to attack me a halfstack should enough to destroy them if I want.


I wonder what Pahlava and Baktria are going to do now. They've both taken that last patch of other faction and they are building up their armies. I wonder which way they'll go.
Pontos has gained some ground from the Ptolies, but the Seleucids look quite dead.

The Getai always find some excuse to attack me (when I'm Makedonia), I don't see why it would be different for you... The Lusotann territory is rich in mines, not taking it would be a mistake.

My point is to be careful is all.
AI factions declare war for no reason at all quite often.

[Marcus Ulpius]

Romani campaign 221BC:


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The Aedui, Arverni and Sweboz are not fighting each other any more. Instead, Sweboz and Aedui are fighting me, which puts my Northern border on fire. Sweboz are sending small stacks to Aventicum, while Aedui are sending their elite stacks to Massilia and were close to taking the city once or twice. They've also sent a surprise naval attack against Quart-Hadashtim and took Balearic Islands:dizzy2: My primary front is the Luso war and they are starting to show signs of breaking which is good - I need those legions against Aedui.

In the East I'm fighting Epiros who managed to take Dalminion and right now I can't spare more troops to retake it without compromising my defenses in Greece. Getae were very ineffective in fighting the Epirotes and are slowly losing. KH are my allies and are very weak. They get new towns only by rebellions and can't hold them for long. Maks got themselves in trouble with the Grey Death and are... well, dying. Same goes for Pontos. Pahlava and Bactria are trampled into the dust by the phalanxes. Saka doing nothing important.

The only power who can probably make some progress against the Grey Death is the Yellow Death who made a comeback in Syria and took Antioch.

Qart-Hadasht - dormant after the loss of Balears and Iberian territories, they sometimes go to war against the Ptolies over Kyrenaika, but soon make peace after it rebels back to Eleutheroi (sp).

[athanaric]

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Swêboz in 213 BC (playing on H/M). Conquered the Bosphoran provinces in order to help Hayasdan against the Yellow Fever. Arrived too late, though. Ptolemaioi will die.

Apart from that, business as usual (have been backstabbed by Aedui and Getai; Romani trying to "unite" Gaul).

AS and Baktria are now clinging on for dear life. Pontos and Hayasdan have been annihilated, Rhodos (formerly KH) is still alive.

Rhesus the Carrodunum Defender never turned up, maybe because I stormed the town in ealy campaign.

[Tolg]

This may sound like a pretty stupid question, but where does the game save your screenshots?

I think I found it when I first started playing (vanilla)RTW but I can't remember anymore. :embarassed:

[Mediolanicus]

Rome - Total War\tgas.

[Tolg]

Rome - Total War\tgas.

Thanks, but for some reason all files in there can't be opened/only show a black background in programs which can open them... (Which is way I couldn't find the folder myself)

Edit: I don't have any problems opening other .tga files btw...

[Mediolanicus]

Do a forum search, there are lots of threads about this problem.

[Tolg]

I'm sorry, I didn't find the the search before I registered and didn't realize that it only appears afterwards. I'm really sorry. :oops:

[Reenk Roink]

Hi Tolg, welcome! :bow:

The black screenshot problem is quite common. In some cases it can be fixed by turning off anti-aliasing thought not in all. Other people just use some third party program like Fraps to take their screenshots and that works well for most (not me though, for some reason I get a ton of jagged edges when using Fraps for R:TW, and so I really have no way to take screenshots :shame:).

Hope this helps. :bow:

[Mediolanicus]

I'm sorry, I didn't find the the search before I registered and didn't realize that it only appears afterwards. I'm really sorry. :oops:

No need to excuse. I was just suggesting.

I know that's a common problem, which I fortunately don't have, so I don't know the solution to it by heart either. But I know there are lots of threads about it floating around. And I was kinda too lazy to look for them myself. :shame:

[Tolg]

Hi Tolg, welcome!

The black screenshot problem is quite common. In some cases it can be fixed by turning off anti-aliasing thought not in all. Other people just use some third party program like Fraps to take their screenshots and that works well for most (not me though, for some reason I get a ton of jagged edges when using Fraps for R:TW, and so I really have no way to take screenshots ).

Hope this helps.

Thanks, changing the anti-aliasing didn't work for me either, luckily fraps did.


No need to excuse. I was just suggesting.

I know that's a common problem, which I fortunately don't have, so I don't know the solution to it by heart either. But I know there are lots of threads about it floating around. And I was kinda too lazy to look for them myself. :shame:

It's just that I consider it common sense to always do a forum search before I ask a question yet I didn't which is why I apologized. :sweatdrop:


Back on topic:


Sadly all my previous screenshots are lost but anyway:

Pahlava campaign M/M 193BC


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The Lusotanna actually took almost all of Italy including Rome itself while at the same time leading successful wars against the Aedui and numerous rebellious cities (Gader, Emporion, Masallia) and only recently lost Segesta and Bononia.

The Ptolemaioi are slowly but surely losing ground against my royal army after Ptolemais Theron revolted to them (and those damn rebels annihilated my general and his mercenary army when he tried to take it back - 2 gold chevron gold weapons/armour apeleutheroi are scary).

The KH made a comeback after having lost all his settlements on the Greek mainland to Macedonia 30-40 years ago, when they took Sparta back (with a 3 Akontistai 1 Hoplitai Haploi stack that hidden itself in the woods of the Peloponnese during the Macedonian conquest) and are by now the most powerful Greek/Hellenic faction.

The Aedui are busy defending against the Lusotanna.

The Arverni are using Rome's weakness to take back lost territories.

And so are the Sweboz though they have a much more comfortable position than the Arverni.

The Romans themselves are losing. Full stop. They have war on all borders and their country has been torn to piecemeal. I had high hopes for them when they were at the heights of their power owning half of Gaul, Illyria and 2/3 of Sicily but what we see now is an early version of the invasion of the barbarians.

Quarthdast has nice, secure borders and doesn't appear to be content with them.

Epeiros is at war with both Rome and Macedonia but but neither looses nor gains territory in either of those wars.

The Getai are trying to invade Germany but don't stand a chance against the local Eleutheroi.

Sabata is my ally and doing nothing at all.

Seleuceia and the Sauromatae are both my protectorates.

And the Casse haven't even moved their armies in the last 100 years. Rumours are that they are trying to imitate the roman senators during Brennus' attack on Rome.



Please note that I didn't support the Lusotanna at all. On the contrary, I tended to support the Romans with the additional tributes from my protectorates.

[SwissBarbar]

Apart from your huge empire, the Sweboz catch my eye. They invaded Italy, cool!



And the Casse haven't even moved their armies in the last 100 years. Rumours are that they are trying to imitate the roman senators during Brennus' attack on Rome.


:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Olaf Blackeyes]

I am REALLY enjoying that Sweboz. I will cry when u have to beat them down.:shame:
Keep it up.

[Tartaros]

Rhesus the Carrodunum Defender never turned up, maybe because I stormed the town in ealy campaign.

for sweboz: my first conquer is always eburonum and later carrodunum... that saves a lot of blood and money

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Its because they have a staggered spawn pattern. Starting about 260BC or so they all spawn one turn after the other. If u move fats enough u could get there before them, but thats hard to do, and not NEARLY as much fun.

[athanaric]

Starting about 260BC or so they all spawn one turn after the other.

I suspected as much. Well, doesn't matter now because I stormed Eburonum some time ago and wiped out the population *harharharr*. Boy that was probably the most satisfying EB experience I had. The scripted defender arrived too late and could only watch the pillage from afar. Cost me a lot of soldiers and mercenaries though.

I usually conquer Rugolandam or Silengolandam first. Skándzá is also a good province.



@Tolg

Why didn't you take Sind (SE Indian province)? It's a very rich province with a big port. Plus, it's inhabited by Eleutheroi scum.

I still wonder how the Lusotannan could manage to subdue the Romaioi. Do they use a lot of Ambakaro elite guys?

[Tolg]

@Tolg

Why didn't you take Sind (SE Indian province)? It's a very rich province with a big port. Plus, it's inhabited by Eleutheroi scum.


Because of the elephants. I've been very cautious with those beast ever since the defenders of Taksashila annihilated my entire army in my Bactria campaign. And as I'm using HA-armies I don't have much I can do against them.

Bactria (allied with me till ~220BC) took Taksashila and killed most the elephants in Opiana making it possible for me to conquer it with 4 battalions of Indian spearman and 1 battalion Akontistai, Patala however is still properly defended and all my (major) armies are currently in the west preparing to attack the Greek mainland. (No second Marathon!) At the moment I'm moving a 2 Indo-Iranian Heavy cavalry, 2 Dahae Skirmisher Cavalry, 2 Arachosian Skirmisher Cavalry, 1 FM army from Kophen down there, but I doubt it's gonna be enough. :thumbsdown:
Sometimes loosing can be fun as well. *Eagerly waiting for the Yuezhi to mess up his completely unprotected eastern "border"*


No clue what kind of units the Lusotanna are using though (I'm going to recruit a few spies to find out)

[Ibn-Khaldun]

No clue what kind of units the Lusotanna are using though (I'm going to recruit a few spies to find out)

You can use 'percect spy' to find that out.

Just press F1. Advisor will will pop-up and then you just have to press 'Show Me' button and you can see what other factions have in their settlements/armies!

[athanaric]

Because of the elephants. I've been very cautious with those beast ever since the defenders of Taksashila annihilated my entire army in my Bactria campaign. And as I'm using HA-armies I don't have much I can do against them.

I know how you feel. In my Baktrian campaign I had a single Elephant killing more than more than a dozen Pahlavân bodyguards in a gate fight. Guess who survived.
Daha and Arachosian Skirmishers are good against Elephants, but you need a lot of them. Try to hire some infantry skirmishers as well. Against the Indian Eleutheroi, your main force should consist of javelin-throwing troops of several kinds. Arrows are almost useless against Elephants (especially those nasty bodyguards). Use all your arrows to mow down the Guild Warriors and the Longbowmen. It might be a good idea to hire Hyrkanian mercenaries (they are available in India too), as they have javelins (against Elephants) and AP axes.

[Tolg]

You can use 'percect spy' to find that out.

Just press F1. Advisor will will pop-up and then you just have to press 'Show Me' button and you can see what other factions have in their settlements/armies!

Thanks, I learned something new. :2thumbsup:


I checked all of their armies but they only had 1 batallion of Ambakaro right next to rome. They use various types of XXX Medium/Light Infantry/Spearmen. The Romani are probably losing because their favorite unit are the Vigiles.

Yes, for some reason the Romans got the Marian reforms although it isn't even 172BC yet and they certainly never had more then 90 settlements. :dizzy2:
Are the conditions for the reforms different for the KI factions?


I just conquered Patala with the army I mentioned, it was an incredible close call though, I would have lost if the enemy's Elephantes hadn't trampled down his general in the nick of time.

[Shadowwalker]

@Tolg:

The conditions to get the reforms are quite different for the AI indeed.
If you like to know it exactly just have a look in the EBBS script (.../Rome - Total War/EB/data/scripts/show me), it's written down in the "2c: Roman Reforms" section (search the file for "2c:" or "Marian")

IIRC it's something like a 6 percent chance after a specific date if they have 20 settlements.

Nice campaign btw.
Oh, and welcome to this forum. ~:)

[Mister V]

So this is where I'm supposed to post this.

By 200 in my campaign Carthage swallowed Italy right up to Bononia, further north several provinces were conquered by Epeiros. Rome has taken the place of the Aedui (who still resist! one small village hasn't been taken! seriously, reminds me of Asterix:beam: ), and they're getting thrashed by Lusotana, Sweboz and Epeiros. It's the first time Rome has ever been brought to its knees by the AI.
It looks like if Rome does get detroyed completely, those four will be thrashing each other and carnage would ensue. Skulls to the skull throne!

[Tolg]

By 200 in my campaign Carthage swallowed Italy right up to Bononia, further north several provinces were conquered by Epeiros. Rome has taken the place of the Aedui (who still resist! one small village hasn't been taken! seriously, reminds me of Asterix ), and they're getting thrashed by Lusotana, Sweboz and Epeiros. It's the first time Rome has ever been brought to its knees by the AI.
It looks like if Rome does get detroyed completely, those four will be thrashing each other and carnage would ensue. Skulls to the skull throne!

Carthage beating up the Roamns happens sometimes, Epeiros expanding northwards is rare though. Would you mind posting a screenshot?


@Tolg:

The conditions to get the reforms are quite different for the AI indeed.
If you like to know it exactly just have a look in the EBBS script (.../Rome - Total War/EB/data/scripts/show me), it's written down in the "2c: Roman Reforms" section (search the file for "2c:" or "Marian")

IIRC it's something like a 6 percent chance after a specific date if they have 20 settlements.

Nice campaign btw.
Oh, and welcome to this forum. ~:)


Thanks, although I didn't find the AI conditions (Just an seemingly endless procedure to count the latifundiae) it's great to know that there is a chance to fight against proper roman legions one day. And thanks for the welcome.

[Mediolanicus]

Romani 180BC


https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR180.jpg

[Shadowwalker]

@Tolg:

Want to know it exactly?
Just open the spoiler. ~:)



This is the complete script used to trigger Marian reforms for the AI (red lines):

;Unconditional AI Reforms
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType seleucid
This is just to make sure the script checks at the end of every player turn (when you hit "end turn") if the following conditions are met
and not FactionIsLocal
This mean the AI is controlling the Romani (the local faction is always the one you play)
and I_CompareCounter Romanii_Reform = 1
This just means that the polybian reforms have already taken place
and I_NumberOfSettlements seleucid > 20
The AI romani has to control at least 21 settlements. To change the settlement requirement just replace the "20" with the number of settlements you wish. The higher the number the more unlikely the AI will manage to have te reform. I would however not recommend to set it too low since the AI needs to meet the same requirements as the player to get the Polybian reforms. So setting the number to (for example) 5 would be below the requirements of the Polybian reforms. This will mess up the script! I would recommend to set the settlement number not below at least 15.
But if you change the percentage chance (see below) you can also leave the "20" untouched. It's up to you.
if RandomPercent < 6
If conditions are met, a random number between 1 and 100 is generated. If the number is below 6, the reforms happen at the begin of the next AI Romani turn. Once again, you can change this easily by replacing the 6 with for example 100 to make sure the reform happens in any case if the AI has had Polybian reforms and controls the required number of settlements.
set_counter Romanii_Reform 2
terminate_monitor
end_if

end_monitor

The last three lines just make sure that the check is finished so that it can start again every turn until the reform happens or you end the game.

Important: before ever editing any of the game files make sure you have a backup of the file!
And don't open the files with editor (this sometimes doesn't work). Use WordPad or Word (or the adequate OpenOffice application).


Hope this is helpful. ~:)

[SwissBarbar]

this is very helpful indeed, thank you

[Marcus Ulpius]

213 BC, Romani Campaign

https://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5586/213gl5.png

That's the situation at the end of Lusitanian war.

Aedui and Sweboz are desperately trying to take Massilia and Aventicos respectively, but without any success.

Getae and Epiros are fighting each other and aren't moving anywhere although Getae appear to have the upper hand.

KH are locked by me in Greece, but they still get and lose a town by rebellion here and there on AS territory.

Hai are fighting the Sauros with unclear result.
Bactria are besieging the last town of Pahlava.

The AS is a monster, they rule undisputed in the East and now invaded Egypt. They seem to have trouble holding on some Asia Minor settlements, but they reconquer them without problem because there's no one who can pose any military challenge to them. Maks are dead and Pontos are dead.

Carthage has eaten up all of available rebel territory and it'll be interesting to see where will they go now - invade Iberia or move eastwards to finish off already stretched Ptolies.

[SwissBarbar]

Arverni-AAR-Campaign - southeast


https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9227/unbenanntfi0.png


This is the most northerly expansion of the Saba I've ever seen (it's 239 BC). I didn't help them in any possible way, I didn't even have contact with them so far. They managed it on their own.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Arverni-AAR-Campaign - southeast


https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9227/unbenanntfi0.png


This is the most northerly expansion of the Saba I've ever seen (it's 239 BC). I didn't help them in any possible way, I didn't even have contact with them so far. They managed it on their own.

I think that they were just lucky and Petra rebelled to them, though. ~:(

[SwissBarbar]

you may be right, but they took hierosolyma as well, they have a 3/4 - stack army there :yes:

[Hax]

And don't forget Damaskos.

[SwissBarbar]

wait wait, I was mistaken. They didn't take hierosolyma, but Bostra and Damaskos. You're right Hax! :beam:

[Angry-Angel]

There is my current Mac Campain in 251 BC :

https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu141/Angry-Angel/AngelEB/Mace-251.jpg

I finally kicked Epiros out of there homeland, but they established a nice south-italien kingdom.

[Varam]

My AS Campaign in 243BC:

https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7334/69657570ts3.jpg

It could be going a little better.

[Gaivs]

Props for not bailing, unless its deliberate lol

[Justiciar]

It's going to be be a fun ride getting out of that. Good luck!

[Marcus Ulpius]

My AS Campaign in 243BC:


It could be going a little better.

What difficulty level are you playing?

It looks the AI had blitzed you after the frontline collapsed.

[Varam]

Props for not bailing, unless its deliberate lol

I deliberately abandoned a couple of my eastern provinces at the start but after that it's just been me sucking.


What difficulty level are you playing?

It looks the AI had blitzed you after the frontline collapsed.

VH/VH. I usually play on M/M but I thought this would be a nice change of pace. I was doing OK until I blew two field battles against the Pahlava which cost me both my eastern armies, after which I sent one of my western armies to go save Persia. The Ptolemies then bribed my remaining western army and left me with 1 army with which to defend some 20 odd provinces. And then the KH and Hayasdan attacked. I fought (and lost) five city sieges in a single turn at one point.

I've been holding the Pahlava and Ptolemies off for a while now by abusing the rivers at Seleukeia, but my economy's collapsed and I can't afford to retrain any of my soldiers so I am thinking of destroying all my buildings in order to finance a boat with which I can try to escape to India.

[Tolg]

I've been holding the Pahlava and Ptolemies off for a while now by abusing the rivers at Seleukeia, but my economy's collapsed and I can't afford to retrain any of my soldiers so I am thinking of destroying all my buildings in order to finance a boat with which I can try to escape to India.

You just made my day. The king (or whatever he is called) of the mighty Arche selling the ruins of his palace to buy a sea passage to India. rofl


(Not that I'm one to talk, I usually play on M/M or H/M as well.)

[Mister V]

Carthage beating up the Roamns happens sometimes, Epeiros expanding northwards is rare though. Would you mind posting a screenshot?

Will do, but I have to remember where I backed up the default EDU&EDB because I've changed them for my current Baktrian campaign.


Arverni-AAR-Campaign - southeast

https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9227/unbenanntfi0.png

This is the most northerly expansion of the Saba I've ever seen (it's 239 BC). I didn't help them in any possible way, I didn't even have contact with them so far. They managed it on their own.
Same here, although with me they've also managed to take the southern settlements and make progress against the Ptollies there. But, seeing as I was the AS, the Ptollies might've been too focused on me.


You just made my day. The king (or whatever he is called) of the mighty Arche selling the ruins of his palace to buy a sea passage to India. rofl

:laugh4: I just imagined that, rofl

______
My current campaign, Baktria 241BC (it's been more or less tough).
https://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7952/ebcampbakt241zo5.jpg
Everything seems to be going in completely random ways, but as a general rule, as this is the third campaign, I'm almost sure that the AI actualy handles diplomacy pretty well if it doesn't involve the player-controlled faction. It does not have any random moves like before, but instead tries immediately to ally itself with its enemy's enemy, etc.
I'm being defensive and chasing enemies away from cities with my MG42 teamsPersian archers.
The AS won Antiocheia back and captured Sidon, but hasn't made any further progress, instead preferring to concentrate on Pahlava (and me). The Ptolemaioi, as you see, have noticed that Carthage was currently in a state of suck (seriously, it's the second campaign where they can't even take rebel cities in Sicily) and have begun a major offensive there.
Romans seem to be crushing the gauls, but things are quite mixed up around there.
The best thing ever happened in Greece though. KH, through wars and persuasion, managed to get Makedonia, Epeiros AND Pontos as Protectorates!
:hide:

[Tyrfingr]

I've been holding the Pahlava and Ptolemies off for a while now by abusing the rivers at Seleukeia, but my economy's collapsed and I can't afford to retrain any of my soldiers so I am thinking of destroying all my buildings in order to finance a boat with which I can try to escape to India.

Go for India!

[V.T. Marvin]

My AS Campaign in 243BC:

https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7334/69657570ts3.jpg

It could be going a little better.

Wait a minute!!! Before you go to India or do just abou anything anything, post your savegame in the appropriate savegame thread (here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=110417)). I am sure that quite a few people would be happy to play this game!:yes:
A suggestion for advertisement: "Hey, you´ve said that you need a challenge - here you are and show yourself!":whip:

A game is not about always winning, it is about to achieve something against all odds. I am sure that this game shall give a lot of fullfilment to anybody who dares to take it.:clown:

[IrishHitman]

Wait a minute!!! Before you go to India or do just abou anything anything, post your savegame in the appropriate savegame thread (here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=110417)). I am sure that quite a few people would be happy to play this game!:yes:
A suggestion for advertisement: "Hey, you´ve said that you need a challenge - here you are and show yourself!":whip:

A game is not about always winning, it is about to achieve something against all odds. I am sure that this game shall give a lot of fullfilment to anybody who dares to take it.:clown:

I agree.
I want to play this.

My campaign in 242 BCE. Luck, investment in mines, and a series of blunders by Rome have let me take most of Italy.
https://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9061/0000p.jpg

[Tollheit]

My current 1.2 Casse campaign with BI exe, hard/medium. It is the winter of 225 BC.
(I am at peace with every faction, even the rebels. I did not fight a single battle, but I bribed some settlements from the Eleutheroi. My coffers are full.)

https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/overview.jpg?t=1235234957

The Romani are determined to take Euboea, but the Makedonians desperately need it:
https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/0072.jpg?t=1235235145
The Koinon Hellenon withdrew its forces from Krete and has lost Rhodos to the Makedonians, who in turn will lose it to the Ptolies:
https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/0073.jpg?t=1235235275
The Seleukids are in trouble:
https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/0074.jpg?t=1235235431

Baktria is a protectorate to the Saka.

[IrishHitman]

My current 1.2 Casse campaign with BI exe, hard/medium. It is the winter of 225 BC.
(I am at peace with every faction, even the rebels. I did not fight a single battle, but I bribed some settlements from the Eleutheroi. My coffers are full.)

https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/overview.jpg?t=1235234957


Who are you going to attack first?

[Tollheit]

Depends. Probably either the Aedui, if they betray me, or the Romani, if they continue to reap their ill-gained profits from the endless Aedui-Averni bloodshed.

[IrishHitman]

Depends. Probably either the Aedui, if they betray me, or the Romani, if they continue to reap their ill-gained profits from the endless Aedui-Averni bloodshed.

Looking at the map, it looks like it...

[Mjolnir]

I'm the Romani, it's 262 with H/M settings.

https://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1545/262expansion.jpg

Take a look at Carthage. o_O

[Subotan]

There is my current Mac Campain in 251 BC :

https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu141/Angry-Angel/AngelEB/Mace-251.jpg

I finally kicked Epiros out of there homeland, but they established a nice south-italien kingdom.

I once saw a game when I was playing as the Maks, kicked Epeiros out of Italy, and the Epeirotes suddenly went into Overdrive, and conquered all of sudden Italy, and almost took Rome. SPQR then counterattacked, as did the Epeirotes, and the resulting stalemate left SPQR with all of Italy West of the Appenines, and Epeiros had all of Italy East of the Appenines. Italy was split straight down the middle :beam:

[IrishHitman]

I once saw a game when I was playing as the Maks, kicked Epeiros out of Italy, and the Epeirotes suddenly went into Overdrive, and conquered all of sudden Italy, and almost took Rome. SPQR then counterattacked, as did the Epeirotes, and the resulting stalemate left SPQR with all of Italy West of the Appenines, and Epeiros had all of Italy East of the Appenines. Italy was split straight down the middle :beam:

You should act on Epirus' weakness and take Southern Italy.

[Subotan]

It was too cool for me to attack. Instead, I got attacked by the Grey Fog and was smothered by waves of Pants.

[Tollheit]

4 years later, winter of 221 BC.
https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/0089.jpg?t=1235337211
The Ptolies succeeded on Rhodos and are now besieging Kydonia on Crete.

The Pahlava and Saba are dividing the eastern reaches of the Ptolemaic empire between them.

The Romani failed on Euboea, lost the Baleares and Sardim to the Karthadastim and several provinces to the Aedui, but made a foray into Iberia.

The Averni lost Gergovia to the Aedui and have almost no military remaining, apart from two stranded stacks of remnant Averno-Galatians at the Bosporus.

The Lusotannan awoke from their slumber and are besieging Gader.

Both Baktria and the Sauromatae are now protectorates to the Saka, who have been the richest faction more often than not.

[IrishHitman]

4 years later, winter of 221 BC.
https://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/Tollheit/0089.jpg?t=1235337211
The Ptolies succeeded on Rhodos and are now besieging Kydonia on Crete.

The Pahlava and Saba are dividing the eastern reaches of the Ptolemaic empire between them.

The Romani failed on Euboea, lost the Baleares and Sardim to the Karthadastim and several provinces to the Aedui, but made a foray into Iberia.

The Averni lost Gergovia to the Aedui and have almost no military remaining, apart from two standed stacks of remnant Averno-Galatians at the Bosporus.

The Lusotannan awoke from their slumber and are besieging Gader.

Both Baktria and the Sauromatae are now protectorates to the Saka, who have been the richest faction more often than not.

Holy ****.

[A Very Super Market]

I'm guessing he is Casse, but HOLY **** this is the quickest buildup I have ever seen.

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 170BC.

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR170.jpg

I'm currently at peace with everyone except for the Sweboz and what is left of the Charties.
I've been hoping for the last 70 years that Lusotannan would attack me, but they haven't done so far.
Looks like I'll have to start a war myself if I want to expand more.


Despite some efforts by me to keep every faction alive, one faction succeeded in commiting suicide in 171BC.
https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/factiondestroyed.jpg

[Lovejoy]

Mediolanicus; Nice map! Now give some money to the Saka! I want so see a Saka-Indo kingdom before I'm totaly happy! :smash:

[A Very Super Market]

Never! Baktria will prevail!!!

[IrishHitman]

SPQR 170BC.

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR170.jpg

I'm currently at peace with everyone except for the Sweboz and what is left of the Charties.
I've been hoping for the last 70 years that Lusotannan would attack me, but they haven't done so far.
Looks like I'll have to start a war myself if I want to expand more.

How the hell did Pontus become so powerful?

[A Very Super Market]

Why not?

No Grey Death...

[Mediolanicus]

It does that all the time in my campaigns. They captured Asia Minor all by themselves. They are in the Levant because I pillaged the Ptolemaic holdings because they were becoming too much a threat to the Seleucids and Pahlava.

Apart from that I only helped the KH (moved them from Euboea which Epeiros took to Byzantion), the Arverni (gave them that province while pushing the Sweboz back over the Alps and Casse, by giving them one Belgian province I took from the Sweboz.

[Subotan]

@ Pontus O_o

[anubis88]

https://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8966/37867541.png

Well this is my Aedui campaign on VH/M ... It's preety interesting... The Arverni don't dare to attack me because they would face war with Lusotana, who is my ally and the arverni are under their protectorate... I had a long war with them, but i never tried to exterminate them... On the West the Germano-Roman alliance keeps giving me headaches, but i'm managing to stop them with no problem, and now the time of soldiers has come, to help me. I tried to play as historicaly as possible, not conquering any settlements unless i really needed them for money. I conquered the belgae and helvetti cities only fot them to be buffer states. I also conquered lemonum a few years ago, becouse of the chariots, but it seems i will not be able to use them now since the reforms have come.

Seleucia was destroyed a year ago, while the romans seem to be in trouble with carthage slowly making stronghold in south italy.

It's really a very interesting campaign... I struggled for money till few years ago, when i decided i had to conquer a few more provinces in order to stop the arverno-romano-germanic attacks. Thankfully my long term allies of Lusotanna are helping me now.

The most interesting part was a Koinon Hellenon kingdom in southern gaul. Since massalia rebelled to them, they've managed to conquer Tolosa and Emporion as well and they had become a powerfull regional power. Unfortunatly they were destroyed by rebelions ( tolosa rebelled to me) and lusottana.

It was fun fighting hoplites though:2thumbsup:

[Subotan]

Nice KH/Qarthadast. Saka looks pretty sweet too.

[bobbin]

https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1.jpg
203bc from my Pontos campaign using BI.exe At war with Arche Seleukieia

Carthage was kicked out of the Iberian pennisula a few years ago and are now involved in a on/off war with the romans for Corscia and Sardinia.

The KH was sitting cooped up in greece untill about 30 years ago when Messana revolted to them, they conquered the rest of sicilly pretty quickly after that. They are now happly shipping troops to there building up for a invasion of italy.

After a intial rush the Pahlava have been making a slow steady push into the Seleukid lands.

Baktria has form a lovley indogreek kingdom and been at war with the saka for ages but neither seem to be getting anywhere.

Eprios is starting to recover from my devastating invasion of hellas that wiped out the maks and left them nearly dead by capturing segestica from the aedui.

As for the others the Gauls are fighting each other and Rome, the Sweboz are trying to capture the central european cities without much luck, the Hay and the Sauromatae are fighting it out on the steppes with the sauro only still in the fight due to repeated rebellions and the getae are busy building a nice balkan empire.

A few years after this pic was taken the ptolemies started a war with me, me and my saba alllies have driven the back into egypt and i'm just about to assault alexandreia.:egypt:

[Zim]

https://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=map1s.jpg

I guess that didn't work. :sweatdrop:

[Hax]

IGNORE - error

[Hax]

Faction: Pergamon [detailed in my mod thread]
Engine: rtw.exe
No Force Diplomacy
No Monetary Aid given

270
https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x152/Elphir/EB/Pergamon-270.jpg

260
https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x152/Elphir/EB/Pergamon-260.jpg

250
https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x152/Elphir/EB/Pergamon-250.jpg

EDIT: seem to have missed somethings while I was making the map; will make a better one tomorrow, with some feedback on the factions.

[penguinking]

Nice Romani expansion. It's surprising that KH is managing to hold the Macedonians off without Epeiros to divert their attention.

[A Very Super Market]

Eh, they usually manage anyways.

[Tartaros]

My new 1.2 Hai-game
250bc
Phaaspa (270), Trapezous(269), Mshketa(?) (263), Kotais(259), Ani-Kamah (256), Karkathiokerta (253), Arbela (252), Babylon (251), Seleukeia (251), Ekbatana (250)

Ptoly´s are very interessting (peace with sele since 270bc), so they storm Kart Hadast- they never do this befor:balloon:

http://www2.picfront.org/picture/7VM90ltLzIJ/img/hai250bc.png

[GnaeusCotta]

https://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6859/europabarbarorum193.jpg

my Romani campaign.
The first faction that died were the ptolemaioi. Then Hayasdan and The Maks were killed. All by AS. And I finished Lusotana and Eiperos.
I was allieds with AS but then they took Byzantium and started pouring full stacks of phalanxes and other elites into my lands. But I had no problem holding them of thanks to the Rhomompodoroi (it's writen something like that I think) that I used as flanking troops. Then a few years ago AS came to beg for peace. We had a few years of peace but then I bribed a city that revolted from AS to Eleutheroi, you can see it in the East between Pahlava, Bactria and AS. They immediately started besieging the city but I was capable of keeping it.
Now again every turn they assault me with a couple of full stacks. it get's a bit boring. I'm waiting for the Marian reforms. I have 4 possible reformers but they didn't become consul yet, it's a bit early so maybe it's for the best. One is already 40, then two around 35 and one is 25 I believe. So there are still 80 turns of fighting full stack AS armies before the reforms can kick in.:skull:

[SwissBarbar]

OMG the grey death!!! Ptolemaioi the first faction to be destroyed? Wow

[A Very Super Market]

Grey Death still happens. Apparently, if they keep control of Antioch, it will be the Grey Death and vice versa.

[bobbin]

https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1-1.jpg
Pontos 195bc
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image2-1.jpg
SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/0002.jpg
They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea~D

[IrishHitman]

https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1-1.jpg
Pontos 195bc
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image2-1.jpg
SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/0002.jpg
They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea~D
.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

[Centrius]

My first post on this forum! :2thumbsup:

Okay, so I'm playing the Sweboz, H/M. It's just 245BC and I recently got around to capturing Iuvavoaeta and Eburonum. (God, I hate those scripted defenders.)

https://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o27/CentriusNord/EBSweboz1.jpg

Any suggestions on where to expand next?

I'd like to keep my peace with the Averni and Aedui. They stay away from my turf, I stay away from theirs.

So either; destroy the Romani before they can grow powerful, or just expand east towards the Sauromatae?

- Centrius





P.S.

lol @ Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon surviving against Epeiros and eachother. :laugh4:




P.P.S.

River defending can save your life against those stupid scripted defenders. :devil:

https://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o27/CentriusNord/Rivarrr.jpg

[bobbin]

.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.

https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1-2.jpg
Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

[Lovejoy]

Centrius: Dont go east! I went east and I went crazy fighting the Sauromatae. :sweatdrop: Cata + HA is not fun to fight with poorly armoured germans :no:

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Aedui208.jpg
Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)

[A Very Super Market]

What an interesting campaign...

Even Saba has got a piece of the AS?

[IrishHitman]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Aedui208.jpg
Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)
Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Typically the way the Grey Death/Yellow Fever thing work out is into three possible solutions.
1.AS keeps Antioch for the whole game=Grey Death
2.AS loses but then regain Antioch=stalemate
3.AS loses Antioch for good=Yellow Fever

[Rilder]

Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

Really I felt if I kept it my empire would be too big, I try only to expand when I have to, Italia is a highly profitable zone and I already have to much cash, besides I did so much damage to those cities, Roma had like 30k Population before my attack and now has like 2k.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

... besides I did so much damage to those cities, Roma had like 30k Population before my attack and now has like 2k.
A man after my own taste!

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My Makedonian Empire of my AAR, in the year 182BC:

https://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4577/makedoniendieweltimjahr.jpg (https://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=makedoniendieweltimjahr.jpg)


In the year 172 BC, the civil war broke out!

https://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4577/makedoniendieweltimjahr.jpg (https://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=makedoniendieweltimjahr.jpg)

[A Very Super Market]

Cool!

What faction did you use to do that?

And on what criteria did you choose the rebel territories?

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Cool!

What faction did you use to do that?

And on what criteria did you choose the rebel territories?
Baktria. I editted the picture so that Baktria itself can be distinguished.

I scanned all my FM for their traits. The traitorous (roughly 40%) are now the "Eugeneis Makedones", the Nobles.

[Berg-i-dum]

Roman Empire, 198 BC.

https://i40.tinypic.com/34fgmyd.jpg

The long war in Asia against :egypt: Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

[Tartaros]

very nice red (and pink) empire!

[SwissBarbar]

Love it!

[The Persian Cataphract]

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.

https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1-2.jpg
Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

Now this is a really promising screenshot: Pahlava actually goes on to conquer Caucasian Albania and the Gerrha strip. This is, as far as Pahlavân progressions go quite a rarity. Especially the latter.


Roman Empire, 198 BC.

https://i40.tinypic.com/34fgmyd.jpg

The long war in Asia against :egypt: Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

...And this is of course so messed up I can barely find the words for it. I have never seen Pahlava go this batshit crazy :medievalcheers: (Now, of course, we'll have to consider limiting them down to EB2, but it's still quite a sight to see them divide the world quite like this!)

[IrishHitman]

Roman Empire, 198 BC.

https://i40.tinypic.com/34fgmyd.jpg

The long war in Asia against :egypt: Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

I'd be more concerned about the Getai.

[bobbin]

Now this is a really promising screenshot: Pahlava actually goes on to conquer Caucasian Albania and the Gerrha strip. This is, as far as Pahlavân progressions go quite a rarity. Especially the latter.

Thanks :beam: I've been especially happy with the faction progression in that game, heres a little update.
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g177/0404625/Image1-3.jpg
Romanoi 219bc

Pahlava have now full conquered the persian gulf and are heading toward india, they are allied with the Ptolemaioi and have Baktria as a protectorate.

Baktria has lost Baktra to the Saka and have now become a indo-greek kingdom, which is nice.

Also notice the Pontic expansion in the crimea, with the pounding their reciving from the Ptolemaioi I'm hoping they'll form their own version of the bosphorian kingdom once they lose anatolia.

Apart from that not much else to report, captured Ak-Ink and gave it to the getai (the first time i've done that in this game as i like to leave the factions to do their own thing).

[Berg-i-dum]

I'd be more concerned about the Getai.
Yep, they are my allies since the first years and they are doing his own empire living under my shadow hehe. But well I havent interest in Dacia for now and they can stop the Sarmatians and so, I dont think they will be a hard opponent.. but dunno, I have never fought them.

The long war in Asia is complicated and the campaing in Hispania has just started. The situation in Asia Minor is hard too, with Makedonians, Pontos, Hayasdan and some well defended Ptolemaioi cities. But Mesopotamia is open.

Suevi are allies too but I have already fortified the Rhin front hehe.

Next to Hispania I think i can try Britannia or go finally against Carthago.

[Berg-i-dum]

...And this is of course so messed up I can barely find the words for it. I have never seen Pahlava go this batshit crazy :medievalcheers: (Now, of course, we'll have to consider limiting them down to EB2, but it's still quite a sight to see them divide the world quite like this!)

I think It was the Seleucid fault hehe, they were destroyed really too fast by Ptolemei in the first decades. And well the Ptolomei became weak since they are fighting me in a long war, so Pahalava had "free field".

Dificult settings are H/M. May be i should have set VH/M.

[A Very Super Market]

A powerful Getai will put severe hurt on you romans. Bloody romps..

[Ravenfeeder]

Hai H/N bi.exe (just exe, no formations) with gold and silver modded to 4 and 2 respectively.

240bc
https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t31/ravenfeeder21/Hai240.jpg

230bc
https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t31/ravenfeeder21/Hai230.jpg

Early on Pontos took Mazaka and Ptolemaioi too Antioch, but AS took them back plus Tarsus and Side. AS and Ptolemaioi then declared peace and have remained that way since about 250bc.

From 240 to 230 AS and Pahlava have had a sort of armed truce, at war but not attacking each other.

Saka beat up Baktria early on, but didn't follow up their victories, although Baktria's recover by their insistance on repeatedly attacking the Saka rather than going for India.

Arverni and KH expansion quite interesting, although now that the Romani have taken Sicilia I'm not sure I fancy their chances.

Sauromatae took Kabalaka and Phraapsa early on, but the latter rebelled to me almost immediately.

[Tartaros]

do you prepare an orontid empire?

edit: is rhodos eleutheroi???

[Rilder]

do you prepare an orontid empire?

edit: is rhodos eleutheroi???

Looks Makedon.

Also, is that Seleukia in Kyrene?

[Ravenfeeder]

Yep, Makedon in Rhodos. Kyrene rebelled from KartHadast to Selukid. Krete is still Elutheroi despite having large stacks of both Makedon and KH wandering the island for years (without attacking each other).

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Romanoi245.jpg

Romanoi 245 BC, normally would wait for 200ish before I posted a map but the eastern faction expansion is quite interesting.

Not to mention the Greek Triumvirate in Greece (and extending in to Asia Minor)

[Ravenfeeder]

It's nice that AS and Ptolemaioi are both still along old borders (apart from Tarsus). Are they still at war?

[Rilder]

As far as I know, haven't been paying much attention.

Epeiros is on the move north though, The Getai have been pushed north east, but Makedonia is on the move north too, Ambrakia got taken.

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 162

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR162.jpg

The marian reforms have happened! Now it's time to take Spain and after that, time to start the Mithridatic Wars!

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Romanoi245.jpg
Romanoi 245

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/238bcRomani.jpg
Update:

238 BC, A tenuous peace dawns upon the Res Republica, in 240ish, with the Carthaginian fleet broken and the Roman fleet getting stronger every day Kart-Hadast abandons trying to Reclaim Corsica, ending the Punic war, this brings about the first peace in many years, in Cisalpine Gaul, the Aedui Confederacy make several attempts to take Segesta but fail and lose one of there best generals in a Pyhrric victory. (haha I lost a bridge defense) They soon agree to peace and turn back attention to removing the Averni Threat.

Greece:

Epeiros meets setbacks against Makedon and Pontos, losing Byzantion and Ambrakia, in response it signs an alliance with the Illyrian tribes at sword point and begins pushing north into Dacia in an attempt to gain more troops and profit from the north for its war against the Other Greek Nations.

In the north the Getai are driven north by the Epeirots and march against the Saurmotae, driving as far as Bosporion

Makedon holds her lines tight and even makes ground against Epeiros, but looses Rhodios.

The Koinon Hellenon also hold strong, and push against Makedon Phalanx and regains Rhodios, but the Ptolemaioi exploit the instability in the region and marches on Rhodios.

Pontos Drives west, marching against Epeiros and taking Byzantion.

In the East, Pahlava unites Bactria and the Hai against Seleukeia, The Anti-Seleukid pact drives forward as Babylon and Seleukeia falls.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Res Publica, public matter.

[Rilder]

I was elected to lead not to read >_>

Res Republica sounds better though, but look at the map not the text :p

[NickTheGreek]

I would argue that the expansion of the glorious SPQR is avery public matter indeed :laugh4:

[Ravenfeeder]

Continuation of Hai game above

220bc
https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t31/ravenfeeder21/Hai220.jpg

Arverni threw Aeudi out of Gaul and mad the Swebox their bitches Protectorate and immediately went to war with the Romani. They've swapped Segesta and Massilia, but my money is on the Romani in the log run.

AS and Pahlava armed truce continues. Whoever incures the wrath of Pahlava is going to reap the whirlwind - they're frightning. Saba getting flattened by Ptolemaioi, only holding on due to revolts.

Pontic expansion entirely due to my efforts/generosity. KartHadast looked like they were building up nicely in Iberia, but are now at war with the Lusotannan and it doesn't look good for them.

[Marcus Ulpius]

https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8092/217.tif

217 BC, my Macedonian campaign

Lusos are ready to kick Quart-hadasht out of Iberia (as usual).
Aedui are creating an impressive western empire.
Romans are strangely quite. They are stuck in the war with Epiros, although they should have kicked them out of Italy long time ago. Even more strange is that they went north-east instead of northe west and appear to be stuck fighting huge multi-chevroned rebel armies, giving Aedui a chance to grow stronger. The future doesn't look bright for them at all.
Getae are trying to get their homeland back from me, but without any success.
Pahlava are fighting Bactria and AS and appear to be stuck.
AS are driven deep into Asia by my glorious phalanxes. They've even stopped trying to attack me and are doing something else elsewhere.
Bactria were on the receiving end of some heavy beating from Saka and now are fighting Saka, AS and Pahlava.
Saba are doing better than usual, but it's most likely because I've dealt with the Grey Death and the Yellow death.
Ptolies are fighting me. They've lost Syria and Judea. Soon they'll lose Palmira and the naval expedition to Alexandria in it's final stages of preparation.

[SwissBarbar]

Great Aedui expansion :smash:

[IrishHitman]

https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8092/217.tif

217 BC, my Macedonian campaign

Lusos are ready to kick Quart-hadasht out of Iberia (as usual).
Aedui are creating an impressive western empire.
Romans are strangely quite. They are stuck in the war with Epiros, although they should have kicked them out of Italy long time ago. Even more strange is that they went north-east instead of northe west and appear to be stuck fighting huge multi-chevroned rebel armies, giving Aedui a chance to grow stronger. The future doesn't look bright for them at all.
Getae are trying to get their homeland back from me, but without any success.
Pahlava are fighting Bactria and AS and appear to be stuck.
AS are driven deep into Asia by my glorious phalanxes. They've even stopped trying to attack me and are doing something else elsewhere.
Bactria were on the receiving end of some heavy beating from Saka and now are fighting Saka, AS and Pahlava.
Saba are doing better than usual, but it's most likely because I've dealt with the Grey Death and the Yellow death.
Ptolies are fighting me. They've lost Syria and Judea. Soon they'll lose Palmira and the naval expedition to Alexandria in it's final stages of preparation.

Why didn't you seize Italy?
It's richer than Dacia...

[JRG]

RTW exe Makedonia Campaign 255 BC:
https://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8548/ebmap255.jpg (https://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ebmap255.jpg)
https://img13.imageshack.us/img13/ebmap255.jpg/1/w816.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img13/ebmap255.jpg/1/)
The first couple of turns for Makedonia were very difficult for me. I was constantly on the brink of destruction, caught between Epeiros to the west and the KH to the south.
On turn 1, Phyrros took Pella (also killing Alkyoneus) so Antigonos had to go north to reclaim it. Then I went south back to Greece, and with great difficulty managed to secure it.

After a decade or so of peace, the Seleukids attacked Mytilene, and not wanting to get involved in Asia Minor yet, I ceded it for a ceasefire. As revenge, I got my spies to make it revolt and go Eleutheroi. Then the KH (who were still living on Rhodes) launched a naval invasion (On RTW exe!!) and captured it, then captured Krete too.
Seeing the resurgent Koinon Hellenon, I caused a revolt at Corinth to roleplay having difficulties securing Greece, but to my disappointment it just went rebel. Then, however, as I was laying seige to it, another KH army comes and seiges Sparta!
https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/893/khattack.jpg (https://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=khattack.jpg)
https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/khattack.jpg/1/w1024.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img6/khattack.jpg/1/)
Also, the AS is going into Grey-Death mode, and the Aedui has secured almost all Gaul.

[Onehandstan]

Casse Campaign:
https://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s192/onehandstan/RomeTW2009-03-1220-44-33-42.jpg
Changed the Casse to reddish-brown (because I can) and AS to olive. My Lusotanna campaign is near an end after I've beaten them back from Belgae and I have bitter war with the Qarthadastim to finish for the Italien Peninsula (I got to Rome first :p). AS are terrifying, the Makedonians have plenty of full stacks in the Balkans but instead of protecting their rich homeland they are instead using them to look at the getai menacingly from over their northern borders. Saka are also becomeing pretty big. Ever since about 264 BC the only provinces the Koinon Hellenon have gained have been from revolt.

[IrishHitman]

Casse Campaign:
https://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s192/onehandstan/RomeTW2009-03-1220-44-33-42.jpg
Changed the Casse to reddish-brown (because I can) and AS to olive. My Lusotanna campaign is near an end after I've beaten them back from Belgae and I have bitter war with the Qarthadastim to finish for the Italien Peninsula (I got to Rome first :p). AS are terrifying, the Makedonians have plenty of full stacks in the Balkans but instead of protecting their rich homeland they are instead using them to look at the getai menacingly from over their northern borders. Saka are also becomeing pretty big. Ever since about 264 BC the only provinces the Koinon Hellenon have gained have been from revolt.

Care to explain Carthage?

[Lovejoy]

I like the green color on AS. I never liked the old light grey color. :yes:

Nice empire btw!

[Tartaros]

http://www9.picfront.org/picture/MdLshNdF/img/hai228bc.jpg

my hai-update 228bc
ptoly´s are going west, they look successfull
pontos is now in war with rome and macs

started my orontid-reform in susa and persepolis
short after that pic i conquered kydonia and rhodos and a stack is near edessa and halikarnassos

[Rilder]

Look at them Ptolemics.

[Onehandstan]

Care to explain Carthage?
They decimated Rome, taking as far up as bononia (but leaving Roma) at the same time the Romans were being destroyed by the lusoes in Gaul, it'kll be one hell of a fight to get the Italien peninsula but I'm starting to gain ground.

[IrishHitman]

They decimated Rome, taking as far up as bononia (but leaving Roma) at the same time the Romans were being destroyed by the lusoes in Gaul, it'kll be one hell of a fight to get the Italien peninsula but I'm starting to gain ground.

That'll be amusing..

[Hax]

MAKEDONIA - 205 BCE
No Force Diplomacy (save the switch of Pontos to Bosphoros)
No cheats
BI.exe

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x152/Elphir/EB/Makedonia-205.jpg

And here the mess in the west:

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x152/Elphir/EB/MakedoniaItalyclose-up-205.jpg

Casse: United Britain. Woo. Hoo. Then went to sleep.
Aedui: Being killed by the Sweboz and Luso's at the moment, although they did manage to kill a lot of Arverni before the Sweboz decided it was enough. Having a new, interesting future in Venetia and Pannonia.
Arverni: Dying. Sloooooowly dying.
Lusotannan: Does not want to take Baikor for some mysterious reason. I think they like to annoy me with that sharp stingy white in the midde of a brown sea (politically incorrect post to be deleted!)
Sweboz: Deadly, huge, evil. Killing other barbaroi.
Getai: A bit sleepy at the moment, I think they're happy with the fact they've united the tribes.

Sauromatae: Nothing really special, enjoying the horses women of the steppes.
Saka-Rauka: First tried to be somewhat interesting by invading Seleukid lands, but then decided to return to their grassy nomad plains, where nobody is around to see them do things to horses.
Pahlava: Meh. Losing slightly against the Seleukids, though I wonder what will happen when the Seleukids lose their riches in the west. We'll see.

Arche Seleukeia: Involved in a three-way struggle against the Saka, Pahlava and myself. Oh yeah, and the Ptolemaioi, but who cares. They are too busy sending useless stacks to Rhodos and Alexandreia.
Ptolemaioi: Dying lalala dying dying dying soon dead.
Baktria: Sleepy, eh?

Koinon Hellenon: *tumbleweed*
Epeiros: Woohooo! Ever since I kicked them out of Epidamnos and Ambrakia they LIVED with the fact that they lost Epeiros and apart from three attempts to conquer Epidamnos, they're mostly contended with the dealings in Megale Hellas and Illyria to be really annoying me, I'll let them live for the time being. They were renamed to the Illyrioi and given a slightly different shade of green. I'm afraid they're losing to Kart-Hadast in Italy at the moment, but the tide may just change!

Romani: Well, they pretty much got raped by the Illyrians, the Karthaginians, the Aedui and the Lusotannan. Reduced to three settlements at the moment. They did manage to fix me the March of Time before they went! Woohoo for Hysteroi Pezetairoi!

Carthage: Shown on the map as Politeia Karchedonoi. Did some cool things in Iberia at first, even taking Baikor and Oxtraca; but then sadly got kicked out by the Lusitanian warmachine. Now they've conquered all of Sicily and are slaughtering Illyrians in Italy.
Saba: Brains...

Hayasdan: Brains...
Pontos: BRAINS! They are now known as the Basileion Bosphorou, who have a tendency to march armies all around the Black Sea to attack Amaseia. Weird people. Those pigspawn even bribed one of my new generals, who was underway to Sparta. Unreliable little -- *grumbles*

Makedonia: Me. United Hellas a bit, relaxed for a while, then took western Anatolia, finished off the KH, finished off Pontos, and now killing Ptolemaioi and Seleukidai!

Edit: I noted there is an inconsistency in the screenshots. In the first, Kart-Hadast did not take Taras yet, in the second they did. This is a result of the fact that I took the first screenshot in summer 205 and the second in autumn. Sorry.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Nice empire, Hax. Gutenoi? Where does that derive from?

[Hax]

The Greek name for the Goths. I wanted to create the map in such a way that it would seem like it was really created by someone in the 200's BC.

[IrishHitman]

https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3893/0002x.jpg

- Currently fighting against the Getai, Sarmatians, Pontus, AS, and Roman rebels.

Getic Front:
After I seized two towns that the Getai had, they've been unsuccessfully trying to retake them.
My home army at Pella is incomplete, but I could probably beat them if they came down into Greece.
If the Getai were more aggressive, I might be worried, but they're generally incompetent.

Sarmatian/Crimean Front:
I took the Crimean towns before they were taken by the filthy hordes from the North, the tent-dwellers weren't happy. The Eastern town is under siege, and is unlikely to hold.
The Western town is preparing an army to assault it once taken.

Pontus:
My most pressing concern. No matter how many of their armies I defeat, the bastards just keep coming back for more. They took Nikaea last year, and I am being forced to build a levy army from Ionia, Lydia and Caria to deal with them once and for all. Byzantium is threatened from both Getic and Pontic armies, but is well stocked with troops, so I expect to hold the Bosporus Straits.

AS:
My expedition to Babylonia has been successful, and I've seized the heart of the Seleucids.
The two cities were poorly defended, and were easy pickings for one mere stack.
I'm building armies there to join up with the Pontic and Eastern Frontier armies currently being formed in Asia Minor at great cost (hence the low cash).

Roman Rebels:
After I seized Italy, the Latins were never really happy, and rebelled a year ago.
They've got about three turns until Rome surrenders, and I intend to level the place to the ground upon entering...

- Other factions:
Iberia is now united under the Lusotann, and they've seized southern Gaul.

The Ptollies are bit busy with the AS at Antioch, and Carthage in the West. I'm allied with them at present.

The Hai had a go at Tarsus, and failed horribly. They repeatedly fail at keeping the Sarmatian hordes from crossing their lands, despite being at war with them... Hence the Sarmatian foothold in Northern Anatolia.

Everywhere else is normal really.

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/238bcRomani.jpg
238BC

Update:
https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Romani220BC.jpg
220BC

West to east:

In the Far west the Lusotannon battle fiercely with Kart-Hadast colonies, Though neither make much headway, probably because of the Romani's domination of the Seas

Emporion is attempted to be brought under Iberian Rule, but fail and the colony signs on with Sparta.

In Gaul an apparent change in leadership brings new wind to the Struggling Averni who go on the Offensive, even making incursions on Roman soil.

Casse fights the various tribes in Briton without success.

Roma fights feircly with Kart-Hadast across the waves, on land not much Expansion. Besides Mediolanium.


Massive Wars are fought in Greece, Makedon marches on the Koinon Hellenon, leaving only Sparte Free. Pontos Marches north against Epeiros and divides the land, Epeiros takes Byzantion, cutting off Pella from the Pontos homelands.

The Getai move west against the Independent tribes, but looses her Bosphorian Holdings.

In Asia Minor the Makedons push east ward, while Seleukia fights for her survival, every battle a seemingly last stand.

The Ptolmies move north Splitting the already fractured Seleukia in half.

The Hai push north in her campaigns against the Sauromatae.

Bactria, no longer needing Pahlava in its war against Seleukia, abandons the Anti-Seleukid pact, and together with the Saka Rauka, decimate the Near-Empire Pahlava, leaving it a position rapidly approaching the position the Remaining Seleukids are in.

[anubis88]

My carthage campaign...

The seleucids kinda got the upper hand against the ptolys early on( they besiged alexandria), but then they were hit hard by pontos and lost their posesions in the near east...
Pontos had control over entire asia minor, but lost almost everything against macedon... All they have left now is the starting seleucid capital Antioch...

Ironic ain't it?
https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3244/rometwbi200903172107072.png

[Cyrus]

My Epeiros Campaign, 243BC. H campign\ M battle on BI.exe
https://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2751/rometwbi200903172302203.th.png (https://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rometwbi200903172302203.png)
Almost all empires have stagnated, the AS after loosing many territories in asia minor to the ptolies, got the upper hand and now control also Kypros, the pahlava are being pushed back and even lost Nisa to the AS but it revolted back to them, Bactria had the upper hand against the Saka but now has lost almost all her former stllements, the saka are expanding slowly but shurely. The sarmatians, after a breef period of brightness have stagnated, right after chersonesos rebelled to the KH, the hai have formed a nice caucasian empire and haven't been at war with the seleucids yet, Pontos has laid seige to misa for the 100th time and finally seems to be able to take it, the KH have stagnated, so have the ptolies(who lost all their conquests in africa and asia exept ammonion), it's like the saba don't even exist and the luso only took 1 settlement!!!!!!!!!!!
The gallic wars have "stopped" because they still fight but noone wins, the Aedui have just laid seige to patavium. The Karties have stagnated and conquered only 2 settlements in africa.
The Getai took many cyties in thrace but kinda died after their 100th attemt to take Sciordisci homeland failed, they are my allies. Rome has been kicked ot of italy and now owns only corsica and sardinia, though inexplicably they are the richest factions!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have a fullstack just sitting outside caralis.......... Oh and the sweboz are kiking ass, exept they seem to have stopped conquering in the last 2 yers.
Anyways if this is how much BI improves EB? it sucks! i have no resistance if i go anyware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anubis88]

My Epeiros Campaign, 243BC. H campign\ M battle on BI.exe
https://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2751/rometwbi200903172302203.th.png (https://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rometwbi200903172302203.png)
Almost all empires have stagnated, the AS after loosing many territories in asia minor to the ptolies, got the upper hand and now control also Kypros, the pahlava are being pushed back and even lost Nisa to the AS but it revolted back to them, Bactria had the upper hand against the Saka but now has lost almost all her former stllements, the saka are expanding slowly but shurely. The sarmatians, after a breef period of brightness have stagnated, right after chersonesos rebelled to the KH, the hai have formed a nice caucasian empire and haven't been at war with the seleucids yet, Pontos has laid seige to misa for the 100th time and finally seems to be able to take it, the KH have stagnated, so have the ptolies(who lost all their conquests in africa and asia exept ammonion), it's like the saba don't even exist and the luso only took 1 settlement!!!!!!!!!!!
The gallic wars have "stopped" because they still fight but noone wins, the Aedui have just laid seige to patavium. The Karties have stagnated and conquered only 2 settlements in africa.
The Getai took many cyties in thrace but kinda died after their 100th attemt to take Sciordisci homeland failed, they are my allies. Rome has been kicked ot of italy and now owns only corsica and sardinia, though inexplicably they are the richest factions!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have a fullstack just sitting outside caralis.......... Oh and the sweboz are kiking ass, exept they seem to have stopped conquering in the last 2 yers.
Anyways if this is how much BI improves EB? it sucks! i have no resistance if i go anyware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow, that's a cruel colour for Epeiros... I almost got a seizure:beam:

[Cyrus]

Well after it became the greek-italic-thracian empire i wanted to change the colour........

[Rilder]

Update:
https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Romani220BC.jpg
220BC



2 Years later, Bactria still continues her brutal massacre of the Pahlava, Makedon makes war on the Ptolmies,(pushing east) and Epeiros, Sparte is taken leaving the KH with Emporion and 1 family member stuck in Illyria.

Kart-Hadast marches against the Lusostannon, being unable to get troops to Corisca.

Pontos marches east from pella to reunite her lands.

The Averni attempted invasion is met by the Consular legion, it is also cut off from being able to get home by the 4th Legion, The Averni toops starving they march against the legion over a stone bridge, pushing through the roman lines with fierce desperation and rage, the legions tribune at some point attempts to flank the attackers but is merciously cut down with the rest of the Roman Calvary. Spurius Cornerius Blasio, the legate is forced to retreat and marches the survivors back to Rome.


EDIT:

215BC, Epeiros is no longer a threat to anybody, Makedon and Pontos kicked them out of greece and Illyria.

Pahlava is now even smaller then the 2 province Seleukids, its not being sieged yet but One strong Bactrian Army could end them. Bactria making war with Saba too.

Greece and Asia minor are Divided in half by Makedon and Pontos, right now their friends but if they break into war it could be an epic fight.

[Tartaros]

http://www9.picfront.org/picture/MdLshNdF/img/hai228bc.jpg

my hai-update 228bc


http://www9.picfront.org/picture/bfaBOEPL/img/hai223bc.jpg

another update. 223bc
i have no masterplan for the future, should i break my alliance with pontos or should i conquer antiocheia and wait for a ptoly-attack... (my destructionteams doing well in north africa)

[Marcus Ulpius]

In some campaigns I see that the Romans are not going against western Celts as they should, but are expanding to the North-East, getting stuck and lost in the thick forests of the Eastern Europe. Usually that totally messes up their development.

[General Appo]

Argh. Where's a Delete Post option when you need one?

[Tartaros]

In some campaigns I see that the Romans are not going against western Celts as they should, but are expanding to the North-East, getting stuck and lost in the thick forests of the Eastern Europe. Usually that totally messes up their development.

In my game rome is the protector of the aedui, epeirotes and getai and allied with sweboz and averni...
so there´s not much left

[Raygereio]

EB 1.2 on Alex.exe
Playing Baktria

https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktria/AI_Alex_Baktria.gif

minimods:
-Ferromancer's BI installer
-some modifications to make EB work on Alex.exe
-Traitchanges (command stars for combat experience)
-Hoplite Density
-Spoils of Victory
-Win Conditions
-Allied Armies (V 0.3)
-Got rid of the giant trees
-Extended Offices Mod (V 2.0)


https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q01_270BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q02_265BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q03_260BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q04_255BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q05_250BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q06_245BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q07_240BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q08_235BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q09_230BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q10_225BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Baktira/q11_220BC.jpg

At this point I'm probably going to quit this campaign; all I'm fighting is either horsearchers or skirmishers. (Lots of me yelling: "stand and die like a man, dammit!").
That and no one around can offer so much as a challenge.

-Aedui: Was busy fighting the Averni. Then the Romans, Sweboz and Lusotannen came and they just rolled over and begged for mercy.
-Arche Seleukia: Is trying oh-so desperatly fighting a war on 6-7 fronts. They didn't succeed, didn't really fail either; at least they're still there and are now mounting an (for now) effective defensive against the ptolemies. Only problem is that pretty much all their eastern cities are held by a single unit or general and they have no armies in the field left. I have 4 full-stack armies, 5 once the Saka are taken care off... see the problem?
-Averni: See Aedui
-Casse: Nothing spectacular.
-Epeiros: Romans arriving from the north-west, Getai from the north east, fleeing macedonians and conquering Greeks from the south. They're toast. At least they still have the heel...
-Getai: Nothing spectacular.
-Hayasdan: Did some things up north in the steppe, then played dead from a while. I'm not really sure what it is they're doing; all they do is build armies and then start moving them around with no sense of direction.
-Karthadastim: Pretty agressive. They conquered some in Iberia, got kicked out by the natives. Then conquered sicily, lost interest there. And is now busy making Ptolemy's life miserable.
-Koinon Hellenon: Doing great.
-Lusotannan: Woke up one day and decided they really didn't like their neighbours; so they kicked their asses. Then decided they didn't like their new latin speaking northern neighbours either, so they kicked ass again.
-Makedonia: Got rushed by Koinon Hellenon.
-Pahlava: Took a bite of the Arche Seleukia early on. Then did nothing, despite having ample oppertunity.
-Pontus: Kicked Macedonian's ass out of Asia. Then taught Epeiros that thinking they're Alexander is real cute, but they really ought to secure Greece first before crossing over. They then decided to pull a reverse Alexander and start conquering Greece, the Greek did not agree.
-Ptolemaioi: Is busy beating down Saba and - since recently - Karthadastim incursions inbetween beating down Arche Seleukia armies.
-Romani: Went up north, kicked some ass. Is now in the process of getting stomped by the Lusotannan.
-Saba: Took avantage of cities rebelling to them.
-Saka: I took Alexandreia-Eschate and Saka then decided taking that city was their ultimate dream. Two units of Pantodapoi Phalangitai and 4 Subeshi archers foiled their plans. After several years of throwing away their armies at my gates, their military was completely depleted.
-Sauromatae: Did nothing. The Getai and Hayasand conquered their lands and they just let it happen.
-Sweboz: Nothing special.

Edit; gah, so many typo's. It's late, sorry.

[SwissBarbar]

cool

[Hotseat_User]

:thumbsup: that's a really well done overview. :smash:

[IrishHitman]

http://www9.picfront.org/picture/bfaBOEPL/img/hai223bc.jpg

another update. 223bc
i have no masterplan for the future, should i break my alliance with pontos or should i conquer antiocheia and wait for a ptoly-attack... (my destructionteams doing well in north africa)

Attack Pontus with a couple of stacks, roll them out of Asia quickly, then blockade the Bosporus Straits with a decent defensive army.
You'll be seizing some pretty lucrative cities in the process, which will allow you to make incursions against Egypt.

[Marcus Ulpius]

Makedonian campaign, 210bc:

https://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3684/210.tif
This one is from 217 bc:
https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8092/217.tif

So, during these seven years:

The Lusos have pushed the Carthaginians and the Aedui out of Iberia.
The Aedui are fighting Sweboz and Lusos now, it is yet to be seen how they will perform under these conditions.
The Sweboz are fighting the Aedui with unclear results, but Aedui assault seems to be stopped.
The Romani are still doing god knows what in the area where they shouldn't be in the first place at this time. They are also fighting Epiros in S. Italy and still can't kick them out of there.
The Getae were harassing my Dacian provinces for some time and I took Singidunum from them for that. But they are still making progress against Sauromatae (new Bosphorian province).
The Sauros and the Hai are still fighting over the same territories practically since the campaign start.
The AS are fighting Pahlava and Bactria.They've signed a peace with me (no forced diplomacy) after we didn't attack each other for a long time. The peace cost me around 20000 mnai and it appears the Seles are preparing an attack on Phalava from the West.
Pahlava and Saka both fighting poor Baktria which will probably die (it's unfortunate as I really like this faction).
Saba are my allies and aren't doing that much.
The Ptolies are on the verge of collapse. They managed to give me 3 big battles - one for Alexandria and 2 for that city west of Alexandria. They lost 3 full stack good armies in these battles and it looks they won't be able to pose serious threat any more.

[desert]

Sweboz Campaign with Alex and Minimod, 1.1, 172 B.C.

https://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr309/desertSypglass/RomeTW-ALX2009-03-1323-59-01-59.jpg

First, I'd like to say that I fixed all the inaccuracies in the map (territory control, etc.) in paint, in case you notice something weird.

Sweboz - well, I bribed the middle province in India once, but later lost it to amazing Baktrian generalship ( mofo had his armored elephants walk through the men sent to distract them and they LITERALLY RAN UP THROUGH THE SIDE OF MY LINE AND KILLED 15,000 PANTODAPOI). I had conquered Sind/Patala so oh well.
I have razed all cities in France and Patavium + Mediolanium at least once. Currently moving into Iberia. I took a province from the Arverni and it rebelled to Lusotana, which you can see
The two provinces bordering the steppe rebelled to me from Sauromatae, they came with full stacks of trip gold chev, gold weapon elite inf and HA, **** was so cash!!! :smash:

Casse - I ****** with them a bit a few decades ago by razing their capital and bribing Scotland after it rebelled from them :laugh4:

Epirus - was smashed by KH juggernaut and had 2 provinces left that were defended by fullstacks of golden supermen and 10-star generals; that's been the situation for like 50 years or something

Ptolemaioi - after some time of fighting Carthage over Kyrene and Paratoinon, they got raped around 200 BC and only had Eritrea and Megale Oasis left. Eritrea was taken by the burgeoning Kingdom of Axum (Saba) and after some years of heroic defence by some super FMs, Megale Oasis too fell; all they have left is Kypros

Saba - lost Gerhaia Arabia to Pahlava and have Nabataia through rebellion; also, Axum
At one point, their homeland rebelled from them

Sauromatae - they were nerfed by KH and the two rebellions to me

KH - holy ****! The KH want revenge on me for overwriting their savegame!

Getai - getting slowly and periodically raped by KH

Lusotana - had an empire but lost it

Arverni - were getting screwed by Rome + Aedui so they migrated into Iberia and obliterated Lusotana's large empire; unbelievable

Aedui - they've been slaugthered by me countless times

Romani - they once had all of Southern Gaul and northern Iberia AND much of central Gaul, but they just rebelled over many years, one by one; they've been completely inactive for at least 20 years, they have like 5 fullstacks sitting near Bononia doing nothing, even though they are at war with everyone

Pontus - nothing much, took part in the recent Pergamon land grab

Hayasdan - were blitzed by Pahlava in ONE YEAR; Caucasus my ass-us

Baktria - were doing well, had Taksashila, lost Baktria to Saka in 180 BC, somehow repeating history; very good friends with Pahlava, I saw some FMs near Persepolis that had apparently been exiled or something, lol

Saka - bastards are really messing up Pahlava's groove; lost Margiana, which they had owned for 50 years, to Pahlava recently (it might not be shown on the map)

Carthage - mastered Ptolemies, took Phoenecia and had lots of parties; are currently raping Pahlava
Their Capital is Still Carthage :2thumbsup:

Pahlava - :dizzy2: these guys were KINGS! but they took Antioch, and sometime around 175 the Carthaginians declared war on them and they suddenly went all French!. They lost Antioch, Assyria, and Babylon in short order; they also lost Aria to Saka soon after fall of Baktria and have been unable to retake it, although they just took Margiana

Makedonia - were driven out of Greece by the KH bulldozer and became Pergamon, and recently got blitzed by Seleukia and Pontus; it was really funny, they allied to Pahlava and within 2 years they lost everything; their last city, Lesbos, rebelled to Eleutheroi, guess they got what was coming to them :P

Seleukia - after desperate fighting, they lost Antioch to Pahlava; they had southern Anatolia, but got Pergamon and Kappadocia in the Pergamon land grab\


PS: In case it wasn't clear, yes the Seleukids have all of southern Anatolia, and the KH ARE in Central Europe

[IrishHitman]

https://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4632/0003c.jpg

Getic Front:
Seized the Getic Capital, and am currently sieging the surrounding towns.
They eliminated my first wave attacks with ease, killing two of my best generals in the process.
They failed to prepare properly for my second wave, which was much more powerful in terms of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.

Eastern Front:
The Pontic and Seleucid Fronts have been merged, as they are effectively the same fight at this stage.
Ancrya is under siege from a reasonably large Pontic army, but is filled to the brim with levy phalanx units to the point that it won't fall. Army building continues in Ionia, Lydia and Pergamon.

The Mesopotamian Expedition was defeated after lasting five years of constant assaults.
Three massive reinforcement armies that were sent from Macedonia by ship were ambushed and took heavy casualties in the desert, finally arriving in Fertile Cresent depleted. After losing Babylon, the remaining forces lasted a further year in Seleukia before being ousted.

The loss of these very expensive elite/merc mixed armies and the continued investment in mines resulted in a massive boost in income, which has allowed the largest military build up so far.

Western Front:
The Arverni, my allies, were defeated the season that has just past.
Aedui spies and assassins are stalking around the Po valley.
Fortunately for me, the Lusotann are friendly, and have cut the Aedui in two.

I expect an attack from either of them in the near future.
My investment in large defensive armies in Italy will pay large dividends, as Carthage is inactive and weak in Sicily, and the Aedui cities in northwest Italy are vunerable to attack.

Crimean Front:
Sarmatian invasion repulsed in 225BCE by horse archer armies mixed with some Macedonian medium & heavy cavalry. Invasion forces currently being built up at a steady rate to seize surrounding Sarmatian settlements. If successful, swinging west into the Getic Front, and east into the Eastern front, will be possible.

The Plan:
https://img239.imageshack.us/img239/5954/0003plan.jpg
Red dots represent major army groups, blue dots represent major steppe army groups.

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/romani208bc.jpg

Romani 208 BC

In Iberia the Lusotannon finally kicked the Kart-Hadatism out of their land.

Gaul is relatively calm, though under the surface a vicious cold war is being fought with the Romani, Hundreds of Spys and Assassins have lost their lives in it.

After the Makedon's failed attempt at taking Arpi and conquering Italia, 2 legions were sent to Illyria to fight Makedon, After winning a Heroic battle in North Illyria, 1 legion had to retreat though, and another Makedon army pinned down the other legion and nearly destroyed it, Spurius Cornelius Scipio barely making it out alive, this Bought the Consular Army to Alert which then marched on Southern Greece, Taking Sparte and Kornith and making the 2 provinces allied states. The Consular army now digs in for the coming storm.

Makedon herself is now surrounded by foes, Romans and Epeirots in west, Pontics in the North, Ptolmics in the South.

Pahlava continuely proves that a wounded animal fights the hardest.

Things Im hoping for:

Bactria stops prancing around and destroys the Parni Rebels.

Lusotannon Advance northward against the Celts.

Pontos owning Makedon and giving me awesome Mithridatic wars

[athanaric]

Good luck against the US- er... Baktria. I guess you have spared the Karchedonoi so far so it's more fun crushing them when they are powerful?

Why haven't you taken Krete though?

[Lovejoy]

KH 253BC (alex .exe)

http://pici.se/pictures/mZhcdoTTs.jpg

I am besieging what's rest of Epeiros and the eastern most Pontic city.

The AI has been VERY smart and fun in this game. :dizzy2::yes:

I really like how things have played out. In the beginning AS was very active in asia minor. When I had kicked Mac out of greece, they had captured most of it. Except Pergamon(rebel), Lesbos(owned by Mac) and the Pontic cities.

I didnt like AS dominating asia minor, but didnt want war, so I trained a team of expert spies, and was able to delay their progress causing disorder. AS didnt like that, so they attacked and captured Byzantion(owned by me). But at that time I had build a large army with who I landed in Asia minor and captured Halikarnassos. Now, much of asia minor was undefended, so they agreed on peace in exchange of Byzantion to me. :2thumbsup:

A few, 5 years later the AS attacked again. They once again captured Byzantion. I moved my army, killed a large stack outside Sardis and captured the city. And I send new stack to recapture Byzantion. The AS saw they were fucked. So I asked for peace in exchange of Byzantion AND Ipsos. They agreed. I was shocked. :yes:

And so the KH vs AS wars ended.

:beam:

[Rilder]

Good luck against the US- er... Baktria. I guess you have spared the Karchedonoi so far so it's more fun crushing them when they are powerful?

Why haven't you taken Krete though?

I haven't Invade Karchedonoi because frankly that would be a costly bloody war and after its finished I'd be probably getting too much money and make me to powerful, besides after the amount of crushing naval defeats and losing Iberia to the Lusotannon they gave up trying to take Corsica and have left me alone.

Krete was being besieged at the time of that screen, just gonna make it an allied state for now and bugger off, if someone takes it, It won't matter much.

[IrishHitman]

No one going to comment on my campaign?

[Lovejoy]

IrishHitman: Why go so much up north? Concentrate on the east! :P Step-lands and muddy wood-lands is not a worthy target for your Macedonian warriors! :D

[IrishHitman]

IrishHitman: Why go so much up north? Concentrate on the east! :P Step-lands and muddy wood-lands is not a worthy target for your Macedonian warriors! :D

The Getai are too threatening at present.
I need to beat them to a bloody pulp and force a ceasefire before pushing east in a big way.

[desert]

Hey, what about my campaign! :P

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

No one going to comment on my campaign?
Makedonia in pre-imperial stage. Ahh, the days of yore... *sigh*

[IrishHitman]

Makedonia in pre-imperial stage. Ahh, the days of yore... *sigh*

I resent that, I currently hold the richest areas in Southern Europe!


Hey, what about my campaign! :P
You referred the French in a bad way, so I'm ignoring it.
Ever heard of Napoleon? Sort of conquered Europe?

[Lovejoy]

KH 253BC (alex .exe)

http://pici.se/pictures/mZhcdoTTs.jpg



234BC KH (HEHE, sry for bad image. By accident I included a small army defending Asia Minor)

http://pici.se/pictures/TVKTjSbpp.jpg

Army setup:
Spartan Army - in Italy.
Syracuse Army - also in Italy
Athenai/Rhodos Army - in Asia Minor
+several small hoplitai armies defending the borders.

To go east and west at the same time proved to be difficult. The Romans are tough. But the Syracuse Army just had a crushing victory against them outside Arpi - so things look better. The Spartan Army is under siege by the Romans in Capua.

Back east the Athenai/Rhodos army just captured Tarsos from the AS.

I am allies with the Ptolemaioi.

Comments?! :P


Desert: I would LOVE if my Pahlava faction could get that huge. :O

[desert]

You referred the French in a bad way, so I'm ignoring it.
Ever heard of Napoleon? Sort of conquered Europe?


Touchy, eh? :wall:

[Tyrfingr]

You referred the French in a bad way, so I'm ignoring it.
Ever heard of Napoleon? Sort of conquered Europe?

Google "French military victories" (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html)

[SwissBarbar]

ouch, that's ... true :laugh4:

[desert]

Google "French military victories"

That sort of thing will lead to INTERNET RAGE, Jaertacken. :sweatdrop:

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Can i has French surrender jokez naow??

[bobbin]

Getting back on topic

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=166&pictureid=1212
Ptolemaioi 242bc

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=166&pictureid=1211
Getai 224bc

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=166&pictureid=1210
Saka 240bc

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=166&pictureid=1209
Pahlava 244bc

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=166&pictureid=1208
Arverni 224bc These frenchies are doing rather well:smash:

[desert]

Screenshots?

[Hotseat_User]

http://pici.se/pictures/zRLQwrCiN.jpg

my Getai, RTW.exe with fixes - and greek phalanxes recruitable for KH without MoT (due to my KH-game - around 232BC, not shure, just raiding around. :juggle2:

the Aeudui?!? were crushed between Averni and Sweboz, a think the Romans had their part, too.

till 245BC I thought I would get a GreyDeath, they had captured Antioch several times and owned the major part of Asia-Minor but now they are quite gone. Dunno if I should feed them.

I'll describe it a little bit more if you want to.

[Tartaros]

Whow!!
that´s great - nisa(?) is owned by hayasdan!
did they captured nisa or was it a rebelion away from the seleukids??

[Hotseat_User]

well tbh. I don't know. but should i feed the arche? I'll raid the east-med-coast to nerf the yellow beast but I don't know if thats enough. any suggestions?

[IrishHitman]

http://pici.se/pictures/zRLQwrCiN.jpg

my Getai, RTW.exe with fixes - and greek phalanxes recruitable for KH without MoT (due to my KH-game - around 232BC, not shure, just raiding around. :juggle2:

the Aeudui?!? were crushed between Averni and Sweboz, a think the Romans had their part, too.

till 245BC I thought I would get a GreyDeath, they had captured Antioch several times and owned the major part of Asia-Minor but now they are quite gone. Dunno if I should feed them.

I'll describe it a little bit more if you want to.

Dirty barbarian hordes!

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 155 BC

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR155.jpg


I'm fighting my Vietnam war in Spain against the Luso's. We've send fullstack after fullstack at each other for the last 5 years and we haven't gained or lost anything except a few thousand men each...

The Aedui have declared war on me too. I'm playing on the defensive there, although I am sending an army over to capture Massilia.

The East is quiet for me.
Pontos and Pahlava keep expanding.

The remnants of the Carthaginians keep harassing me, but I don't want to destroy them.


It takes me 2.5 hours on avarage to play a game-year, but I'm really enjoying this campaign so far.

[SwissBarbar]

What's a "vietnam war" in spain? are you going to lose it or are you using napalm?

[IrishHitman]

SPQR 155 BC

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR155.jpg


I'm fighting my Vietnam war in Spain against the Luso's. We've send fullstack after fullstack at each other for the last 5 years and we haven't gained or lost anything except a few thousand men each...

The Aedui have declared war on me too. I'm playing on the defensive there, although I am sending an army over to capture Massilia.

The East is quiet for me.
Pontos and Pahlava keep expanding.

The remnants of the Carthaginians keep harassing me, but I don't want to destroy them.


It takes me 2.5 hours on avarage to play a game-year, but I'm really enjoying this campaign so far.

I've been fighting a Vietnam for the past fifteen friggin' years with the Getai, AS and Pontus, though I'm starting to make progress at last.

[Mediolanicus]

What's a "vietnam war" in spain? are you going to lose it or are you using napalm?

I tought Spain was going to be an easy picking with my Marians. Instead I ended up losing more than half my battles to their skimishers. When I finally defeat a full stack, three others turn up out of nowhere.

If RTW had diplomacy I'd be trying to find ways to stop the conflict.
Now, I'll have to send all the troops my economy can support over there to defeat the Luso's.


I've been fighting a Vietnam for the past fifteen friggin' years with the Getai, AS and Pontus, though I'm starting to make progress at last.

Strangely enough the Getai have not attacked me for the +80 years they've been bordering me now... Each time I take Rhodos or Kypros, Pontos is immediately there to ship an army over and declare war on me. Once they take the islands they come asking an alliance...

[IrishHitman]

Strangely enough the Getai have not attacked me for the +80 years they've been bordering me now... Each time I take Rhodos or Kypros, Pontos is immediately there to ship an army over and declare war on me. Once they take the islands they come asking an alliance...

Be ready for that to change at a moment's notice.

I'm now fighting (successfully) against the remaining Aedui in Italy after large preparations were made.
The Lusotann will have trouble beating me as well despite a massive empire.

[Lovejoy]

SPQR 155 BC

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR155.jpg


I'm fighting my Vietnam war in Spain against the Luso's. We've send fullstack after fullstack at each other for the last 5 years and we haven't gained or lost anything except a few thousand men each...

The Aedui have declared war on me too. I'm playing on the defensive there, although I am sending an army over to capture Massilia.

The East is quiet for me.
Pontos and Pahlava keep expanding.

The remnants of the Carthaginians keep harassing me, but I don't want to destroy them.


It takes me 2.5 hours on avarage to play a game-year, but I'm really enjoying this campaign so far.

Was it you that help Casse over to main land europe? Or did they do that by themselves? The scripted invasion?

[Ignopotens]

Dirty barbarian hordes!

Kickass Getai!

sorry, they're my favorite faction :D

[Tolg]

Be ready for that to change at a moment's notice.




I've never, not even once, been attack by the Getai. It's really strange, I've bordered them for more then 50 years in countless campaigns, often without guarding my border at all, yet they never showed any signs of aggression. In the end I came to believe that they're the only pacifistic EB faction. ;)

[Mediolanicus]

Was it you that help Casse over to main land europe? Or did they do that by themselves? The scripted invasion?

Back in 240-30BC the Sweboz were pouring over the Alps. I raided 7 settlements, kept three, gave two settlements to the Arverni and one to the Casse (Northern Belgica) - and let one rebel back to the Sweboz. What those factions did afterwards they did on their own.

[IrishHitman]

I've never, not even once, been attack by the Getai. It's really strange, I've bordered them for more then 50 years in countless campaigns, often without guarding my border at all, yet they never showed any signs of aggression. In the end I came to believe that they're the only pacifistic EB faction. ;)

That's just strange.

[Lovejoy]

Back in 240-30BC the Sweboz were pouring over the Alps. I raided 7 settlements, kept three, gave two settlements to the Arverni and one to the Casse (Northern Belgica) - and let one rebel back to the Sweboz. What those factions did afterwards they did on their own.

Ah ok. I see :)


234BC KH (HEHE, sry for bad image. By accident I included a small army defending Asia Minor)

http://pici.se/pictures/TVKTjSbpp.jpg

Army setup:
Spartan Army - in Italy.
Syracuse Army - also in Italy
Athenai/Rhodos Army - in Asia Minor
+several small hoplitai armies defending the borders.


5 years later. Everything is the same. :/ My Spartan Army had an exiting battle against the Romans. They were severely outnumbered - but fought until the last man. The faction leader, a spartan and my best general, was killed and the entire Spartan Army was slaughtered. :shame: :no:

With the Spartans weak and ashamed, the Grand Greek Alliance is now led by the Athenians. Now the western expansion wont be supported by the Alliance anymore. But if the Allied State of Syracuse wants to continue on its own, it is free to do so. Tough it's unsure if they have the will, money and manpower to beat the Romans.

The east will get prioritised. The AS just had a crushing defeat against the joint Army of Athenai and Rhodos ouside Tarsos, and the Galatians(pontos) just wont stop attacking me. :wall: No armies, many enemies. Things looks nasty. :sweatdrop:

[Teucer]

First, allow me to introduce myself... I'm Teucer, a long time fan of RTW and especially EB. I've lurked around these fora for some time now (although not nearly as long as my extremely old join-date would suggest). I'm not usually one to go in for online conversation so I haven't posted very often, but I've followed the various AARs and other interesting threads at the org for a goodly space of time.

I break my customary silence now, because over the last few months I've been working on a (not so)mini mod for EB. Its almost done to the point where I will consider releasing a beta. Here are a couple of maps to whet your collective appetite....

The year is 320 BCE. Alexandros has been dead for a few years now, and his successors have already waged one war over his patrimony. The first war was brought to an end when Perdiccas, one of the key players, was murdered by his subordinates (Seleukos, Peithon, and Antigenes). With Perdiccas dead, a treaty was concluded at Triparadisos which divided the empire among Alexandros' generals. Peace was not to last, however. Now war is being waged against Eumenes of Kardia (a follower of Perdiccas) and Antigonos Monophthalmos (the main power in Anatolia who has gotten a little too big for his britches). To the east, anarchy rules. Each Satrap rules his own little kingdom, while noone holds the reins of imperial power. An enterprising general could bring unity to the region once more, but the task will not be easy...

https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7329/320map.jpg

Here are the major players:
-The Basileion Antipatra (dark purple and black)
-The Basileion of Lysimachos (dark green and black)
-The Basileion of Eumenes (light purple and dark purple)
-The Arche of Antigonos (dark blue and black)
-The Arche of Seleukos (grey and dark red)
-The Basileion of Ptolemaios (I think you can figure this one out)
-The Satrapies of Phrataphernes (green and dark green)
-The Satrapies of Oxyartes and the Paktyans (maroon and yellow)
-The Massagetai (red and gold)
-The Hegemonia of Syrakousai (light blue)
-The rest of the factions are largely unchanged (except for some shifts in borders)

After 10 years of doing nothing as the Casse we end up with this....

https://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6209/310map.jpg

I'm not sure I like what the Massagetai are doing up in the corner, but I'm quite happy with everyone else. In reality, Antigonos expanded east very quickly after 320 (but subsequently lost most of his holdings), so I may have to make the Antigonids a bit more powerful to recreate this pattern.

Although its not historical, I have to say I'm enjoying Syrakousai's expansion in the west.

Let me know what you think. I'll be posting later maps as I continue to test the campaign.

[Ignopotens]

I like the additional factions but I wish you'd dropped the Casse and kept the Hai, just personal preference, but yeah I'd love to see further developments of this

[Cyrus]

I love it! Seems very interesting:2thumbsup:, but have you got a name for this mod?:laugh4:

[Ravenfeeder]

@Teucer - looks interesting and I have a couple of comments, but please can you put this in its own thread in the EB modding sub-forum, rather than in this thread.

[Phalanx300]

Although its not historical, I have to say I'm enjoying Syrakousai's expansion in the west.

Let me know what you think. I'll be posting later maps as I continue to test the campaign.

Really nice minomod, I suggest that you make your own tread in the unofficial modding section!

And on Syracuse, it wouldn't be fun if you had to lose and win all the time at set dates would it? :dizzy2: After the start of the game anything should be possible. :2thumbsup:

And of all the Greek poleis in Magna Greacia Syracuse probably had the biggest chance of becoming a super power, or well it even was for a while.

[General Appo]

Oh oh, I wanna play as Eumenes!

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Romani200bc.jpg
Romani 200BC

Bactria expansion has slowed down somewhat from my last update, warfare mostly been confined to the Steppes fighting the Saka, and the Saba in Arabia. Oh yeah, Pahlava is dead if you didn't notice.

Bloody Makedons nearly conquered my Pontos :(

Been fighting a bloody war with makedon, given Makedon devastating defeats but each major battle forced my Consular army to retreat back to Roma for retraining. The legions in the area are forced to bring large contingents of Mercenary and Allied Troops to hold the line.

[miotas]

Baktria the year is 229BCE
https://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/joshball2000/baktria229.jpg

the nation grows wealthy off the mines captured from those mighty warriors from beyond the Indus after over a decade of fighting. This was one decade ago now and the Basileus has now trusts them enough to let one of his nephews lead an army of these fearsome warriors, accompanied by the finest Hellenic Pezhetairoi and Hetairoi Kataphraktoi to subdue more of these rich indian lands.

The Hetairoi Kataphraktoi have already proven themselves many times against those foolish weaklings of Seleukeia who seek to have our rich lands as their own and they now wish to test themselves against those worthy foes of the Indus.

The Iron Lions of Baktria will have a difficult fight ahead of them but if they succeed they will bring untold honour upon themselves and their ancesestors and much wealth to the empire. Be brave mighty warriors, the hopes of the nation rest upon your strong shoulders
https://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/joshball2000/ironlions.jpg
(I LOVE THESE GUYS!!! :smash:)

[Cyrus]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

[Rilder]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

This makes it funner, especially when you get Established AI Factions that are actually able to fight you.

On that note I'l probably have to pull out of Greece in my Romani campaign, I have a vicious fight with Kart-Hadast coming up, which may be a bit of a pain. They have three stacks (known) available to fight, one on Korsim fighting my garrison legion, (full of elite African pikemen.)

The Consular legion just deployed and is heading into battle.

[miotas]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......


This makes it funner, especially when you get Established AI Factions that are actually able to fight you.

On that note I'l probably have to pull out of Greece in my Romani campaign, I have a vicious fight with Kart-Hadast coming up, which may be a bit of a pain. They have three stacks (known) available to fight, one on Korsim fighting my garrison legion, (full of elite African pikemen.)

The Consular legion just deployed and is heading into battle.


Yeah, i surprised myself actually when i realised what the year was, in my romani camaign i've basically conquered everything north and west of italy bar the british isles and all of the islands in the med bar kypros and all this by the year 230bce. I'm enjoying my baktrian one more though so i think i will start another romani one after i feel i'm done with the baktrian one.

[Shadowwalker]

@Teucer:

This looks very promising.
Looking forward to further screens (and of course a beta). :2thumbsup:

[Raygereio]

Hayasdan campaign. 270BC-210BC
EB 1.2 on BI

This has been a pretty fun campaign so far and it looks like I'm going to finish this one. I'm busy with the persian reforms right now.

https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Hayasdan.gif
(I didn't get a picture of 215BC)

minimods:
-Ferromancer's BI installer
-Traitchanges (combat experience: blooded 1 command, veteran 2 command, grizzeld 3 command, STHE 4 command & removed command penalty from lover of beauty)
-Spoils of Victory
-Win Conditions
-No giant trees
-Activated units: Dosidataskeli and Dubosaverlacica and Ordmalica
-Darth Stalin's Roman Units
-TWFanatic's PhalanxMod


https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_01_Hayasdan_270BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_02_Hayasdan_265BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_03_Hayasdan_260BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_04_Hayasdan_255BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_05_Hayasdan_250BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_06_Hayasdan_245BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_07_Hayasdan_240BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_08_Hayasdan_235BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_09_Hayasdan_230BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_10_Hayasdan_225BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_11_Hayasdan_220BC.jpg
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/RR5/EB/Hayasdan/Q_13_Hayasdan_210BC.jpg


-Aedui: Won the Aedui-Averni civilwar, held against the Romani, but eventually lost against the Sweboz juggernaut.
-Arche Seleukia: they ignored me untill I broke our alliance when I completed the pan-caucasus reforms. At that point, the Arche declared war and started besieging only Armavir (while ignoring all other cities). This enabled me to easily amass an army and attack them (targetting the cities needed for the first Persian reforms, cutting the Arche in half).
While still mighty, the Archy isn't much of threat anymore; they did get the Cataphract Reforms and have started recruiting Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou in Syria, but their most developed cities (those in their western holdings) are - besides me - also fighting against Pontus, Ptolemaioi, Makedonia & Koinon Hellenon.
Their eastern holdings - while also not that well developed are also fighting against Baktria and the terrible Saka.
-Averni: Lost their chance at writing history and is now trying to survive. Funny bit of AI diplomacy: when the Averni began to lose against the Aedui, they became the protectorate of the Romani. When the Lusotannan came and started pushing the Romani back, the Averni became their protectorate. And now that the Sweboz have arrived, guess who the Averni turned to this time for protection? I'm actually impressed by this.
-Baktria: did pretty well in the beginning, but got overun by Saka. Attempted several times to get the Indian cities, but failed against the strong garrisons. Baktria itself did rebel from the Saka back to Baktria several times, but that was more of a curse then a blessing - especially the last rebellion as that one gave them a halfstack of Armoured Indian Elephants (!!) sending their already weak economy to the grave. I'm expecting Saka to kill them off soon.
-Casse: Haven't done anything special.
-Epeiros: Fiercly fighting for dominion over Greece with Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon, the fighting has also spilled out of Greece actully and onto Asia Minor!
-Getai: Got a rude awakening from Makedonia. When the Maks had more pressing concerns to the south, the Getai expanded a bit, but soon got a bloody nose from the Romani to the west and is now fighting with the Sauromatae to the north; no clear winners there yet.
-Karthadastim: Got kicked out of Iberia. Entered in a bloody war with the Romani over Sicily. At some point they remember having boats and invaded central Italy several times (joygasm!). Eventually they fell before the mighty Romani war machine.
They then took avantage of Ptolemaioi's distraction to the east and invaded them, seem to be doing pretty well.
-Koinon Hellenon: Took avantage of Makedonia's going-up-north-and-leave-our-soft-belly-unprotected-strategy. Is now fighting with both Makedonia and Epeiros over Greece with no victory in sight.
-Lusotannan: United Iberia and kicked some Romani ass. It'll be interesting to see if they can win against the Sweboz.
-Makedonia: Went up North in a badly prepared manner and allowed Epeiros and the Koinon Hellenon to become threats. Is now busy paying for miscalculations from the past, more precisely; they're losing, but it seems they do have a stronghold in Asia Minor that can hold out.
-Pahlava: *sigh* oh, the disapointment. When they went on their "Nomad! Whoo!" spree and started taking the steppes, I was happy; I could already picture them attacking me from the North! Then their conquered holdings rebelled back to Sauromatae and the Pahlava AI seems unable to deal with that, it just kinda died. No moving armies, etc. Anyone know of way to get them going again?
-Pontus: Doing pretty well. Became my allies once the Arche declared war on me and remained friendly. I am however getting tired of their diplomates constantly trying to bribe my cities, so I'm going to conquer the treacherous scum. I already have my Arkahen Arkah make a tour of his realm together with an entourage of assasins, killing all Pontus diplomates they're coming across.
-Ptolemaioi: I am at a loss of words at how poorly they are doing. I expected them to become huge once I took the Arche's strength away, but instead this happened.
-Romani: did pretty well, got their polybian reforms as a reward for winning their punic wars. Are now bearly holding their own against the barbarian onslaught.
-Saba: Doing pretty okay. They maybe just field skirmishers and other light troops, but they're fielding a lot of them!
-Saka: Has become the mayer eastern powerhouse; constant rebellions are wrecking them however. It'll be interesting to see if they can overcome that, or if the Arche can mount an effective attack against them now that they're somewhat weaker.
-Sauromatae: Got overun to the east by Pahlava, rebellion saved them however. Now the behemoth from the steppes is busy attacking rebels, Getai and Makedonia to the west, all of those are holding the Sauromatae back however.
-Sweboz: Ah, the european powerhouse. Nothing I can say about them really.

[Rilder]

https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/romani188bc.jpg

Romani 188 BC.

Finally getting to the end of the Second punic war. Hannibal is the current Carthagian Faction leader, but I think he's come a bit to late to help much...

Second Makedonian War is about to begin, probably because Makedon got thrown out of Anatolia.

Bactria... Excuse me while I beg for mercy.

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign.

Early on the seleucids and ptoly's became allies, but thankfully the seleucids always accepted my ceasfire offers, and after a short blitz of tarsos and antiocheia i managed to get some money, and claim the crimean peninsula...

the strongest faction is probably macedon, who were my allies, but then backstabed me... now i'm allied with almost everyone around macedonia, since they all fear them... when they backstabed me i quickly conquered ancyra, nicomedia and ipsos, but lost tarsos...

I just won the last year probably the greatest battle in my carrer. The macedonian FL suddenly attacked cheronesos and i had a preety weak army guarding it but somehow managed to defeat their really awesome army. They had 3 units of thraikan rhompaioi or sth, 4 of reformed phalanx 2 bosphoran archer + 125 men of the faction leader with 3 silver chevrons... I had 12 men left standing, including 2 family members... If i had lost the battle i would probably lose the game, since the crimean is an extremly important income source for me. It was probably the greatest battle i ever won

P.S. i've never seen the seleucids take Chingu:clown:

https://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3656/rometwbi200904072034003.png

[Elcmar]

I'm kinda amazed the KH have managed to survive with Makedon so dominant!

Sounds like you had one of those truly epic victories anubis88 - gotta love 'em :smash:

[Cyrus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

[Rilder]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

Diplomacy: Bactria is at war with Saba and Saka, + one other I think. (not Ptolmaios)

I'm at war with Carthage, Makedonia, and Averni, while Allied with Epeiros and Lusotannon.

Dunno the complete diplomatic situation though.

Edit: DL the save here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=48157e0c082e50ecd2db6fb9a8902bda

(note, theres some legions being transported at sea)

[Aemilius Paulus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
He is using RS (Roma Surrectum) textures. Google it or go to TWC where you should find it. Heck, you can find plenty of references to them on this forum as well, after a Forum Search.

[Mediolanicus]

He is using RS (Roma Surrectum) textures. Google it or go to TWC where you should find it. Heck, you can find plenty of references to them on this forum as well, after a Forum Search.

The link is in the EB1.2 mini mod pack thread. You can download it there without DL'ing or installing the mini mod pack itself.

[Hotseat_User]

grrr, sorry for my horrible paint-skills :laugh4: here is my current KH on BI.exe
https://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4899/greekexpansion.jpg


I was busy pushing the Maks northwards(s?) around 260 when the Epirotes attacked my garrision at Rhodes. :smash: They failed hardly but because I gave them some 40k Mnai in 270BC to hold back the red hydra - they also failed hardly :furious3: - I took the chance to get Ambrakia and their main-Mics. After that, they pushed north and got those two illyrian provinces. Just last round the stupid Syracuseans rebelled to them but I had just destroyed everything there, because the :furious3: romans made my days with (Ceasefire-TradeRights >>> attack Syracus)³.

The Maks on the other hand hardly tried to get Pergamon as it was independent while conquering Byzantion, Nikaia and last round Tylis. The annoying AS stealed it in front of them ( btw. they also attempted to get Rhodos :inquisitive: but two stacks were owned by my navy while a third with 5 phalanxes :wall: was destroyed by a mixed 2/3 stack of silverchevroned levy hoplites with one FM and one unit of ClassicHoplites / two akontistai and 2 archers :whip:.) and now I think they gonna attack me soon. Hopefully I can resist those phalanxes <----<(-_-;<)

Oh and then, to finish my briefing, I thought of conquering Kallatis to get those SkythianHA's but there is a downfighted but silverchevroned 3/4 stack with the SauroLeader inside :oops: so I'm currently preparing a raid at the city northwards to set some confusion and then pulling the Sauro-garrision out of MY Kallatis :yes:

https://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4139/epimakkoi.jpg
Look at the Epirotes and Maks. One round before I took the screenshot, I thought "ohh my, hopefully they don't attack me." But as one can see, some Aiakides?!? guy is attempting to get them their capital back. :dizzy2:

[anubis88]

as they said, i changed to the RS textures to have a fresh look at the game:yes:

[Mediolanicus]

The world: 150BC

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR150b.jpg



Senatus Populusque Romanus, including the client kingdoms of Mauretania, Numidia and Odrysai, the indepentent city states of Massalia, Emporion, Syrakousai, Athenai and Kallatis, the tribal confederacy of Helvetian tribes, the Scordisci clan and the semi-autonomous regions of Lusitania, Galaecia, Celtiberia, Rhaetia, Noricum and Getia.
Confederacy of various Northern Iberian and Southern Celtic tribes.
Aedui Confederacy
The Treveri
Various British tribes
Various Belgae and Celto-Germanic tribes
Various Germanic tribes
Independent Boii tribes
independent Getae and their client Boii tribes
Maure and other Breber tribes
Garamantine Kingdom
The Military Alliance of the city states of Olbia and Pantikapaion and subjagated Scythian tribes
The Steppe Satrapy of Tanais
Sauromatae, Roxolani, Yancai, Aorsi and free Crimean Scythian tribes
Kingdom of Pontos, including the allied city states of Mytilene, Rhodos, Pergamon and Halikarnossos and the client states of Syria, Phoinike, Ioudaia and Palmyra
The Satrapy of Lazona
Parthian Empire
City State of Seleukeia
Ptolemaic Empire
Kingdom of Saba and client kingdom of Nabataia
Kingdom of Baktria, including the client kingdom of Sind and the Saka client tribes
Yuezhi and Wusun steppe tribes

[penguinking]

Really cool expansion- you'll get great Pontic and Persian wars. Did you aid either of them in any way?

[Tyrfingr]

The possibility for The Mithridatic Wars is great, go for it!

[Mediolanicus]

Really cool expansion- you'll get great Pontic and Persian wars. Did you aid either of them in any way?

I helped Pontos a bit indirectly by raiding along the Nile and thus weaking the Ptolies.
They did the rest on their own.

Right now I'm playing a defensive war against Pontos, but once I've secured my border with the Aedui, the Pontic war will really kick off!

[Elcmar]

Seleucid Campaign Winter 270bc
https://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk51/subliminal-funk/seles270bc.jpg?t=1239654776

Decided to simulate an early collapse of the Arche, RP'd that Antiochus Soter kind of went a little senile in his old age and made some really bad decisions which basically lost most of the empire and alienated most of the old client kingdoms (let everything but antiocheia rebel at the start). Antiochus II (Theodorus) now rules in all but name - keeping the father stuck in Antiocheia, and am starting to re-assert Syrian influence (taken Damaskos and Galatia). Looking forward to progressing with this campaign :smash:

[Hotseat_User]

hehe, Elcmar - quiete an interesting idea but i wonder how much dept you will be in about 10years ... :sweatdrop:

[Karo]

Here's my Hayastan campaign in 217BC
https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9861/map217.jpg (https://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=map217.jpg)
the Yellow death has almost crushed the Selceudics, that's why I'm kicking their ass very hard now so they'll learn their place.
The AI in Europe is doing really awesome only Eiporos has been destroyed the rest of ht efctions are alive and kicking.

I've to say I'm now sharing a border with pontos, Makedonia and HS for a decade or so and they still haven't attacked me very weird. And Pontos being my ally hasn't back stabbed me yet.

[Elcmar]

hehe, Elcmar - quiete an interesting idea but i wonder how much dept you will be in about 10years ... :sweatdrop:

Heh i've already had to give myself some debt-clearing money just to keep the story going, but things are picking up, albeit slowly - the ptolies were nice enough to offer me a ceasefire, trade rights, and some mnai - probably felt sorry for me :laugh4: Also helps that i'm keeping a small enough army at the moment - making full use of the native phalanxes and peltastai!

[IrishHitman]

https://img2.imageshack.us/img2/4076/0006rsx.jpg

Northern Front (Formerly the Getic Front):
The Getai hold one settlement after a massive pincer offensive with combined Macedonian and steppe forces. Meanwhile, the Germans seized the rebel settlements that I didn't. Furthermore, Sarmatian raids have started, but are easily repulsed. Due to the German and Sarmatian threats, I have to keep three large armies in the former Getic homeland.

Western Front:
The Lusotann attacked as predicted, and the Alps have turned into the Battle of the Somme.
Constant battles and sieging of Segesta in a complete stalemate are the order of the day.
This stalemate will soon be broken, as I have sent both Macedonian and steppe armies to the front.
The steppe forces have just entered the Italian province, and the Macedonian forces are in Illyria nearby. I expect to take Massalia within three seasons.

Eastern Front:
Captured Antioch and Sidon from AS, two turns after they took them from the Ptollies.
Lost them to rebellion two years afterwards after I failed to reinforce them.
Mazaka was taken by a fullstack Pontic army after a long, crippling series of sieges by AS.
Another wave of armies is being trained in the Eastern Aegean regions at present to take Pontus down, as the AS threat is now minimal, thanks to Pontic and Hai actions.

Elsewhere:
Ptollies and Carthage are locked in a titanic war in Africa, as the screenshot shows.
Saka, Parthia and Bactria are in stalemate with only the AS benefitting.
The Saba are strangely stagnant, which is weird considering that my diplomats spot Saba armies as deep as Babylon on a regular basis.

[athanaric]

IrishHitman:

How did the Swêboz capture Eburonum?? :inquisitive: Did you help them or did the "roving defender" commit suicide? I've never yet seen any faction (except myself playing Swêboz) seize Eburonum.

[schlappi]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.

https://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7175/kh219.jpg

Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

[Elcmar]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.

Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

Sounds like a pretty cool campaign - i'm liking the AI expansion too

[Tarkus]

Wow...looks like a titanic struggle is brewing in the East, schlappi. Pahlava all the way down into the Arabian peninsula??!! I'd love to see their battles with the Bactrians.

[Lovejoy]

schlappi: I like the Roman expansion! :D

250BC Makedonia
http://pici.se/pictures/lANfcxoEv.jpg

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign 180 BC.

https://img21.imageshack.us/img21/201/rometwbi200904231227337.png

The farthest i've ever played a campaign. Playing with BI, it's extremely fun. In italy rome lost almost all of the southern peninsula and Sicily from Carthage, but then i gave them a lot of money, and they kicked the carthies back. The fun thing is that rome controled all of sicily, corsica, and sardinia, but the carthaginians launched a massive 4 full stack force back at them and destroyed everything in their path.

In the west the Lusotanna are monsters, but carthage manages to get invasions at them with the hopes of conquering parts of the peninsula. In the East the first superpower was macedonia, conquering everything in their path. They've left the getai with one province, but i gave them a lot of money also, and after some macedonian city's rebeled due to my spies they've conquered them. I also managed to pillage the coast of Greece and give the regions to rome. Hopefully the romans will start a massive war with macedonia so that i may finally have my Mithridatic wars:2thumbsup:.

In the further east the Yellow death is destroying everything in it's path. I'm hoping that by giving money to their adversaris they may fight back... Armenia backstabbed and pissed me off so i launched a huge invasion and finally left Kotais and Trapezous (which was mine from before) hugely fortified so they don't start any funny things. Interestingly the Ptolys keep attacking me through antiocheia which i gave to Armenia. They're allies and seemengly have the military acces.

I left the KH only with pergamon to represent the Kingdom of Pergamon, but then Rhodes and Krete rebelled to them from Ptolys and Carthage, and later i saw that in carthage they have 3 full stacks, all with at least 4 experience mainly of spartan hoplites, phalangites and thorakites.:yes: If they start a war with macedonia they will probably destroy them. Incredible.

For my part i tried to expand as little as possible, just enough to have the money to hold my many fronts.

[schlappi]

Update, Map in 211 b.c.

Rome took Syracuse and Lilibeo from me and Carthage steamrolled the iberian peninsula, including my well-sized and decently defended polis of Emporoion. It will be a long time before i can take revenge, since i am busy fighting Macedon (side by side with my allies, the Epirotes), Pontos, Hayasdan and Ptolemaic Egypt.

https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6549/kh211.jpg

Playing the last eight years took longer than the whole game before and every battle takes careful planning to minimize losses of remote armies.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

KH is quite popular faction I see...

This is my old(I think I started it in January!:dizzy2:) KH campaign I recently picked up.

https://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh311/ibnkhaldun/EB/kh_252.jpg
I have to add that Epeiros was my ally from the start until they backstabbed me couple turns ago. I have fought many wars against Makedonia and just recently sided with them only because I wanted them to keep Epeiros busy. So much for that idea... I should have burned Demetrias when I had the chance! Now Makedonia recruits it's Peltastai Makedonikoi and Pezhetairoi and it's a bit difficult to fight against them with ... Hoplitai Haploi! :wall:
AS is a pain in the ***. They just keep on sending their small armies against me but then again what armies they are. Argyraspidai, Pezhetairoi and the like!! NB! Never trust AS and sack Antiocheia as soon as possible!
And to make thing even more interesting I have to fight against Pontus too!
And you people say that RTW AI is stupid! :clown:

[Elcmar]

Seleucid Campaign Winter 270bc
https://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk51/subliminal-funk/seles270bc.jpg?t=1239654776

Decided to simulate an early collapse of the Arche, RP'd that Antiochus Soter kind of went a little senile in his old age and made some really bad decisions which basically lost most of the empire and alienated most of the old client kingdoms (let everything but antiocheia rebel at the start). Antiochus II (Theodorus) now rules in all but name - keeping the father stuck in Antiocheia, and am starting to re-assert Syrian influence (taken Damaskos and Galatia). Looking forward to progressing with this campaign :smash:

Now at 248bc in that campaign

https://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk51/subliminal-funk/seles248bc.jpg?t=1240615682

Theodorus has been busy!

Well this is what happens when you leave a huge power vacuum in the east

Pahlava, Baktria, Hayasdan, and the Saka - Pahlava, Baktria and Hayasdan were quick to gobble up all of the former AS territories, i'm currently engaged in a guerrilla war with Hayasdan around Assyrie - they seem content to maul themselves attacking me over the bridge in the south of the province.

Ptolemaioi - was at peace with them until the mid 260's or so when they decided to send a halfstack to besiege antiocheia, it's taken until now to push them out of anatolia completely and further south in egypt (though they could undo all my hard work in egypt quite quickly because my mostly machimoi army is fairly depleted and i'm low on cash)

Asia Minor - Used my Galatian client king and his army to secure most of the 'spare' rebel towns, the Galatikoi during the Ptolemaioi war. The KH, in their infinite wisdom, decided to attack me on Krete, the turn after my 3/4 stack landed back in Lydia - ended up taking Sparte from the KH and RPing it as an independent allied city state to the AS.

Hellas - Epeiros (in blue) are dominant, although the Makedones have several fullstacks maintaining the current status quo. The Makedones (my long time allies) also own Rhodos and have a stack of crap sitting around there.

Elsewhere - The Sweboz are slowly massing stacks - as usual. My allies the Aedui are winning in Gaul and successfully holding off the Romani. The Carthies are expanding in Africa, and declaring war/ceasefiring with the Romani every other turn

Right. I think i should shut up now :laugh4:

[IrishHitman]

IrishHitman:

How did the Swêboz capture Eburonum?? :inquisitive: Did you help them or did the "roving defender" commit suicide? I've never yet seen any faction (except myself playing Swêboz) seize Eburonum.

I didn't help them.

I have a theory regarding how they were able to take it...
The Swezboz didn't have to deal with the Aedui/Arverni as they were too busy with themselves, my Italian armies, and the Lusotann (whom Gaul eventually fell to). They've built up a large amount of stacks that just walk around picking off random independent settlements in their path.

[bobbin]

Previous Update :195bc
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Pontos 183bc
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Continued my invasion of egypt, hoping to take the rest of their settlements in the south and leave the western ones as a buffer state. After that i plan to raise an army in ethiopia and launch a punitive expedition against the Saba who have been attacking my cities in the Levant.
Currently also at war with the Arche, who seem content with fighting the Pahlava (with neither getting anywhere) and have left me alone and the Sewboz who sent a stack from Gawjam Bastarnoz to attack Kallatis, my army form Chersonesos responded quickly and those silly unarmoured northmen were slaughtered by my massed Bosphorian archers. I am currently marching north to capture the city teach them a lesson.

The only other thing of note is the Lusotann who are tearing into the Romanoi at a frightening pace. Not looking forward to confronting them.

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 140 BC

https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/Miros_G/SPQR140.jpg



Republic of Roma
Berber and Maure tribes
Garamantian Kingdom
Kingdom of Egypt - Basileus Peleusias II Apollonios
Kingdom of Saba - King Sharib Il Watar
Kingdom of Pontos - Basileus Artabazos I Kotyoros
City State of Seleukeia - Archon Lysimachos Bithyniakos
Parthian Empire - Shahanshah Bârmân ê Zandig
Kingdom of Baktria - Menander I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I)Baktrios Soter Milinda (coincidence)
Sauromatae - Chieftain Pidanos
City States of Olbia and Pantikapaion - Strategos Alkman Mekybernaios
Crimean Scythians
Getic Kingdom - King Oroles I per Germisara
Sweboz Horde - Chieftain Hrábnáz
Baltic and proto-Slavonic tribes
Boii Tribes
Treverii Tribes - Catuvollorix (Catuvolcos moc Celtillos)
Belgae Tribes - Amminau ar Gyll
Skándáz - Chieftain Ansugisáláz
Aedui Confederacy - Warlord Sedonnuae moc Casticos
Lusotanian Horde - Chieftain Bilosban Lusotanakum
Veneti Tribes
Casse Kingdom - Bren Cadwalor I moc Segovax

[GnaeusCotta]

that's one strange map, no yellow or grey death but a pink one:dizzy2:

[athanaric]

Good description, Mediolanicus.


Here my first attempt at playing Makedonia (RTW exe, H/M, 232 BC):
https://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4646/themakedonianempirein23h.th.jpg (https://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=themakedonianempirein23h.jpg)
https://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3576/makedoniamap.th.jpg (https://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=makedoniamap.jpg)
The Romaioi are behaving in a totally retarded way. So far I've been very lenient with them, but I'm getting angry (guess who had to trigger the March of Time reforms himself ~:rolleyes: instead of having to wait for the Romaioi who were busy losing to Epeiros)...
I've bribed Sparte :laugh4:(including a Spartan governor), Pantikapaion (from the Eleutheroi because I had too much money), Kallatis (the denizens were in constant upheaval against their Getai overlords, so I stepped in), Roma+Capua from Epeiros (to give them back to the Retardoi).
Really like the black colour theme:verycool: I'm the centerpiece of an obscenely powerful alliance which includes Lusotana, Qart-Hadast, Aedui, Casse, Sauromatae, Sab'yn, Pahlava and Baktria.

Edit: I'm sorry, couldn't figure out how to make the pictures larger except by clicking at them.

[Elcmar]

Retardoi

:laugh4:

Got yourself a pretty nice looking empire btw!

[Berg-i-dum]

Roman Empire, 198 BC.

https://i40.tinypic.com/34fgmyd.jpg

The long war in Asia against :egypt: Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.
Update, SPQR 184 BC

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The Limes is constantly assaulted by Germani (I like these historical accuracies but It is a bit tiring play as defender siege after siege each turn :dizzy2:)

Aegyptus is almost subjugated. Ptolemaic Empire is divided in two pieces and it is no more a danger.

Dacia is also almost pacified. (the area required to roman conditions, I have no interest in the rest).

But there are still problems in Iberia, a long swap war that I think is going now in roman favour, anyway Carthago and Lussotana are defending well his territories.

Saba is knocking in the back door also, I need a campaign to solve it.

About the rest, I think Pahlava will be a hard enemy :laugh4:, fear the pink death. Also Hayasdan is hard. They both have his own empire in the East. I like this "2 worlds" perspective in the game.

[Tyrfingr]

- Semi-observant Indo-Baktrian campaign.
- EB1.1 on Alex.exe (VH/M)
- No cheating (except toggle_fow) or FD

244BC
https://i40.tinypic.com/6gk9hx.jpg

217BC (changed Baktria's color)
https://i40.tinypic.com/1ru893.jpg

203BC
https://i40.tinypic.com/34rbwxf.jpg

The years between 220-200 were really fun. Epeiros first chased the Romans out of Italy, only to chased out (and exterminated!) by Carthage. Other tendencies, the smelly Brown Death is at it again, with little signs of slowing down. I have had a living hell against the AS, who has been sending full stacks after stack towards my indian provinces, despite my efforts to maintain a peace. I have been trying to break AS alliances to the Ptolies, Makedones and Pontos, but with little or no effect.

When the coffers are running low, I usually send out a fleet with an army to plunder coastal cities. All of Arabia has been visited, along with the Ptolemaioi coast and AS settlements.