Your best campaigns and battles

[Majd il-Romani]

What are your guys best, funniest, or plain out most badass campaigns and battles in Vanilla or EB alike.

As for my campaign, it had to be in vanilla when I was playing as Julii. There were 4 main superpowers; Me, Carthage, Briton, and Egypt. I controlled Italy, Greece, the Balkans, some of east europe, southern France, Ireland, and northern Iberia. The Brits controlled EVERYTHING north of my empire. Carthage conrolled one settlement in south Iberia, all of western north africa, and Sicily/Corsica. Egypt had everything east of Lepcis Magna. There was this awesome 4-way-war between us, and I was doing pretty well. I was able to hold off an Egyptian attack across the Agean sea with my monstrous navy, and keep carthage hemmed into southern spain, thanks to me building a fort in every mountain pass and chokepoint. The brits kept kicking my ass though, and I had an army in wales about to take deva but my save got corrupted :wall:
The save corruption prompted me to install EB and I am actually thankful it happened!

[tapanojum]

My Koinon Hellenon migration to Massilia game. After constantly getting lousy FM's and such, I finally adopt a sharp/charismatic/ivigirous young man, with a list of other excellent traits such as completed agoge, being top of his agoge class..etc etc. To top it all off, he was 16. Perfect! I put him in the 4 year academy I build in Massilia, he racked up even more amazing traits. He eventually got the trait that says "People's Choice for Heir" or something along those lines. Sweet, I'm thinking!

I took hima long with my FL for his 4 year military training along a real general in a full stack.. First battle, he is holding the center of the front line on gaurd mode. The Rebel Gallic army advances, half stack. Their FM charges straight into my center, and the first casualty of the battle, was of course, non other than my STAR FAMILY MEMBER! DAMNIT!!!!

No, I didn't reload =(

[Gabeed]

RTR. I'm playing as Numidia. I keep a peace with the Carthaginians for about 5 years, until suddenly they invade my kingdom with 2 massive forces. A mere couple turns later, I have 2 cities left, and 1 family member, a mere boy of 17 who became king of Numidia after his father fell to the Carthaginians. I had him quickly ride towards the port city of Tingi, where I assembled a small army of camels, javelineers, and spearmen. With the Carthaginians at the doorstep of Tingi, my force departed by boat to southern Spain. At Carthago Nova (ironically) a new Numidian kingdom in Spain was formed, although it took 50 years to completely conquer the Iberian peninsula and its fierce inhabitants. When the CTD inevitably occurred, my Iberian and Numidian troops were holding off the Romans in the Pyranees, and the population of western North Africa was completely decimated due to my efforts to retake the region back from the Carthaginians. It was easily the most difficult campaign I've ever done (and I've played as Pontos, Saka Rauka, in EB), but it was heroic and glorious.

[Vasiliyi]

Mine was a campaign as the arveni. I quickly conqured the aedia norther settlements and disbanded my armies. I built economically for about 5 to 10 years built a massive army and conqured all of gaul. Then I took over the last aedua settlement, mediolanioum (sp?) and then the romans attacked. I moved my stack of silver chevroned barbarians near bononia where I was attacked by 6 or 7 stacks of roman legionaries (one or 2 a turn) until they ran out of funds or men.. Not sure. After that I sacked all the cities of italy. When I returned to retrain my very experienced army there was a repeated ctd and I quit the campaign.. Best campaign ever

[Celtic_Punk]

My most badass campaign was with the Brutii, the scipii took the pelopenese and crete, i had northwest africa, illyria, macedonia, thrace, turkey, syria, and all the islands except crete. my biggest enemies were thrace britons, and the skythians. egypt was my most capable naval adversary. The campaign picked up when i refused to commit suicide. and the julii owning all of spain, france, the low countries, and half of germany, formed a north-south border that ended at the east coast of italy. I had disposed of scipio and the senate with one swift attack with my faction leader whom i groomed from birth to be the general of all generals. had full influence and command but negative management (lol) he moved in with 2 full legions in a pincer move on greece with his son leading the west legion. this crushed greece in 2 years with minimal casualties, i resupplied and armed and moved out to italy with the son leading the northern assault and my FL leading the southern assault, meeting at Rome in 4 and a half years. northern italy was retaken and my FL son was killed outside rome outnumbered defending the rubicon, his legion fought on taking severe casualties and the battle was won with only 24 survivors from the veteran praetorian cohort. by this time i had finished all resistance in europe and the skythians were held back with a large border guard. Any headway i made in Germany against the julii was forced back, borders on the map literally meant nothing anymore as it was our legions forming frontline were the true borders. By this time i discovered EB and was losing interest in this war of attrition, by the way i looked at it they had been successfully exiled and i was going to hold Rome as long as i held the rubicon. I plan on going back to it one of these days. egypt had become a massive power and i was having trouble holding them on their side of africa, they had taken all of the mideast aswell, selucids, armenia, and the persians were swept away by the early on.

easilly the most epic battle fought in that campaign was the assault of Carthage. because it was my first target on my campaign in africa i had little time to spare and only half a legion (money shortages because of a italy wide plauge) i built ladders and one seigeram and assaulted after the first turn. the carthaginians had lots of those phalanx dudes they got on the walls and i only had principes at the time so we got chewed to peices, i abandoned sending more men to the walls and sent my skirmishers to move the ram to the walls, broke through and sent in the hastati, who got routed, i charged my general into the lybian spearmen guys and rinsed almost losing him to boiling oil, and charged my remaining unit of principes in, they routed the spearmen, and i funnelled all my troops in. to counter my victory at the gate he moved a phalanx off the walls but they got stuck and most of them fell off, and raped the moral of the carthaginians on the walls, which gave my 40 some odd principes still alive on the walls the edge and they killed most of the sacred band guys, till they were both fighting to the death. (the last ones got separated and wouldnt close in on the others) i separated my 3 last units-principes, hastati, general and surrounded them in the square, charged in and broke through their lines, turning the last engagement into a huge battleroyale, or thrashpit. i was watching my general to make sure he didnt get himself killed, and he managed to find and slay the Carthaginian King! not many men were left, only a handful of principes, 3 hastati and just my general remained from the his guard.

as it stood - 3200 Romans for 6000 carthaginians and 1 King

I had a good greek campaign, i finished it in about 50 years by steamrolling the romans, macedonia, thrace and turkey - god damnit i love Armoured hoplites!!!

[Sarkiss]

My Koinon Hellenon migration to Massilia game. After constantly getting lousy FM's and such, I finally adopt a sharp/charismatic/ivigirous young man, with a list of other excellent traits such as completed agoge, being top of his agoge class..etc etc. To top it all off, he was 16. Perfect! I put him in the 4 year academy I build in Massilia, he racked up even more amazing traits. He eventually got the trait that says "People's Choice for Heir" or something along those lines. Sweet, I'm thinking!

I took hima long with my FL for his 4 year military training along a real general in a full stack.. First battle, he is holding the center of the front line on gaurd mode. The Rebel Gallic army advances, half stack. Their FM charges straight into my center, and the first casualty of the battle, was of course, non other than my STAR FAMILY MEMBER! DAMNIT!!!!

No, I didn't reload =(
i can feel you pain!
i wonder if it is programmed to target such outstanding personalities in battle first?

[satalexton]

My best campaign was a Makedonike one. I sacrificed Korinthos and Chalkis, used the troops to kill the Epirotes till they're down to Taras, where the Romaioi swiftly finished them off. Then I disbanded most of my army and saved up for a couple of years, leaving only a skeleton force at Demitria to hold of the cities of Hellas. Once I saved up a bundle of cash, I hired the whole lot of mercenaries and stomped the people of Hellas into submission. I then disbanded the Mercs and replaced them with factional equivilants. For the next 10 years i waged a series of sieges against the Getai and took them out for good around 240.

With Hellas in my hands I started to take Asia piece by piece. MoT came in around 220 and the Romaioi attacked me from Illyria and my 15 unit stack of mostly reformed phalagitai + peltastai stood and held off THREE Romaioi stacks of Illyrians+Pedites Extraordinari in a span of 2 turns. The reformed phalagitai are so good xD

I merged the survivors and reinforced them into a full stack, sailed and took Taras. The Romaioi were dead by 198.

=D Most of my good campaigns are makedonike ones....ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!!! (shout with me Maion =P)

ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!!

[Recoil]

Julii in Vanilla. Had spain, italy, north africa and ALL of northern and central europe. i remember building highways and paved roads all throughout my empire and was amazed how quick it was to get troops from italy to russia to fight the scythians and parthians there. absolutely epic :2thumbsup:

[Rilder]

My current pontos campaign. So far its the only campaign I ever played that got past 200BC.

[Cimon]

I actually have a very nice campaign going right now. Playing as Makedonia in the 160s BC. It All factions still exist except for the Arveni, KH and Epeiros, the latter two due to me. This campaign, while obviously not strictly historically accurate, feels very "real" in terms of the themes of the time period.

I control Makedonia, Greece, southern half of Illyria, Kallatis, Naissos, Italy from Rome down through Sicily, Asia Minor, Koile-Syria down into Egypt, and Alexandria through Kyrene. Currently besieging Memphis. Ptolemaioi own the rest of Egypt, Ammonion and Aguila. Arche Seleukia owns everything east of my position except for Hai lands (my ally), three Pontos provinces (my ally), two Pahlava provinces and three-four Baktria provinces.

The reason this campaign feels "real" is the following. Rome refuses to give up, just like they did in real life. They are constantly attacking me in Italy, and since I have left them their two northernmost starting provinces, I actually get attacked by full Polybian legions. Rome is also fighting Qarthadastim in Iberia. As to the other Diadochi, there has been constant warfare in the East between the three of us. At the beginning Egypt as being pummelled, so I allied with them against AS. Once we beat the AS back out of Asia Minor and all the way to Mesopotamia, AS and I allied to fight the Ptolemaioi menace. At the end of that war, I controlled all of Asia Minor and into Antiochia. Then Ptolemaioi and AS allied against me, and it's been that way ever since. It feels like what really happened with two Diadochi allying against the third whenever one got too powerful.

Qarthadastim had, until recently, been using its navy much like in history. They OWNED the Western Meditteranean, with lots of "4s" and "5s." Despite playing on Rome.exe (not BI), they continually invaded Sicily (true, it was only with half-stacks) until I FINALLY crushed their navy and raided Qarthadast itself and destroyed its shipyards.

Finally, and this is the best part, my allies at whatever point in the game have acted like real allies. I have had more battles fought with allies on the field in this campaign then in all my others combined. I recently fought a battle over Karkathiokerta, which is owned by Pontos. AS besieged it, and both I and Hayasdan came to the rescue at the same time. However, there were several AS armies. In the end, it was three AS armies (one full, two half-stacks with elites) against my full stack, a Hai half-stack, and the Pontic garrison. The lag was ENORMOUS. My allies each took one of the half-stacks, but were both defeated. I couldn't defeat the full-stack in time, and had to withdraw. I've never had so much fun losing a battle before. It was great.

(Apologies for the long post, but it is such a great campaign that I felt I should elaborate why.)

[socal_infidel]

My best campaign so far is my current Arche Seleukeia one (read about it here, if you'd like (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=106019)). Which is funny, because I had avoided the Seleukids for quite some time, despite wanting to play them. I'm a cavalry guy myself (Pahlava is my favorite faction).

I was intimidated by their size and I had little knowledge of their history (which for me is somewhat of a requirement in order to play a faction). But I spent some time reading up on them and decided to do an AAR campaign to give me focus. Made all the difference in the world. Role-playing the campaign with a focus on history has made this campaign both my favorite and longest by far. Rather than simply conquer the world, I'm trying to act in a somewhat realistic manner. I'm up to 217 and I can't bloody wait to continue!

regards
s_i

[Chris1959]

My current Romani campaign under 1.1 M/M, with Konny's allied legoins, City Mod and Darth Stalins formations. I'm sort of roleplaying it the basis premise being only go to war when attacked or to keep the balance of power i.e Aedui and Averni.
So far in 215BC it's almost historical except for Illyrian provinces and no 2nd Punic with Carthage, all other factions going strong and kept in balance with huge handouts! The Luso and Carthies are really slugging it out over Spain, Pontos and Hayasdan are bigger than I've ever seen and Seleucids and Ptolies are evely balanced, Epeiros are the dominate Greek faction. The Getai have done very well and gave me a real spanking a few years back! They attackes Dalminion and I sent a full Consular army to sort them out when it was attcked by a very aggresive Getai FM, I outnumbered them 3:2 but they came charging out of woods and smashed my line, fabulous.
I must admit that under the formation mod battles are bloodier in that the AI does try to flank you and keeps it's units together better, also heavy cavalry seem to charge retreat and charge again and that looks wonderful.