Against All Odds [Archive]

Kull

01-01-2007, 00:43

One of the good things about playing as Saka is that you find yourself forced to take on enemy armies at unthinkable odds, usually 5-1 against or worse. The normal RTW strategy of building up and fighting the enemy on your terms? Not possible. But over time my Faction Leader became quite good at death defying feats. Here are the final screenies from his two greatest victories:

https://img292.imageshack.us/img292/9550/sakaheroicvictorymz0.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img292.imageshack.us/img292/9420/sakaheroicvictory2ow4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Gazius

01-01-2007, 00:45

That's some great... uh... very vague text except for heroic victory and Imageshack.

Kull

01-01-2007, 00:47

That's some great... uh... very vague text except for heroic victory and Imageshack.

Sorry - resized to make it clearer!

Arbaces

01-01-2007, 00:56

Oh, you made me courious... Perhaps the next faction I'll play as (currently trying to win with the getae after having lost for the first time in 3 years since I play rtw). I'm quite sure it's easy for them against the phalanx-based Bactrians and Seleucids, but I don't think it will happen with parthians or sarmatians though...

Arbaces.

Gazius

01-01-2007, 01:01

VERY nice job there. :2thumbsup:

Caveira

01-01-2007, 01:12

When you press PrintScreen, is an image saved to some folder? I almost always forget to save my screenshots using paint. I had a screenshot of a general of mine with 100 horses who defeated 1100 Parthians (or Bactrians, not quite sure, I slaughter them all equally "turnly"). That's better than you have done :laugh4:

Kull

01-01-2007, 01:13

Oh, you made me courious... Perhaps the next faction I'll play as (currently trying to win with the getae after having lost for the first time in 3 years since I play rtw). I'm quite sure it's easy for them against the phalanx-based Bactrians and Seleucids, but I don't think it will happen with parthians or sarmatians though...

Arbaces.

Believe me "easy" isn't part of the vocabulary when you have 80 men going against 700 of anything! But yes, it's even harder when going against large Sauromatae horse archer armies. Hence the need to use your diplomatic skills to the max and keep them as allies or at least friends!

Kull

01-01-2007, 01:14

When you press PrintScreen, is an image saved to some folder? I almost always forget to save my screenshots using paint. I had a screenshot of a general of mine with 100 horses who defeated 1100 Parthians (or Bactrians, not quite sure, I slaughter them all equally "turnly"). That's better than you have done :laugh4:

Bah! Absent a screen shot, those are idle words and empty boasts! :beam: