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Intranetusa
04-05-2007, 04:01
Killing 6 Birds with 1 stone...killing 6 family member-generals with 1 seige:

*The messages on the left are all from the death of a Getai family member.
After this battle, the Getai faction was "destroyed" and all their cities rebelled. :D


EDIT: Getai had around 4-6 cities. For some reason, they had their capital right along my borders... This was my FIRST battle against the Getai too.

So I basically destroyed a faction with a single, first battle. :)


https://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2164/killing6birdswith1stonevc2.jpg
LordCurlyton
04-05-2007, 04:14
Huzzah! Just how many cities did they have at the time? I usually find that the AI spreads its family out, making it damnably hard to end the faction outside of total conquest.
NeoSpartan
04-05-2007, 04:15
Joint Pretty sick....
Intranetusa
04-05-2007, 04:19
Getai had around 4-6 cities. What's interesting is this was my FIRST battle against the Getai. For some reason, they had their capital right along my borders...

So I basically destroyed a faction with a single, first battle. :)
LordCurlyton
04-05-2007, 04:21
Nice! You get a cookie for "Spiffiest Elimination I've Seen in a While".
hoom
04-05-2007, 13:39
6 with one strike! You should sew it on a sash & wear it proudly :book:
Boyar Son
04-05-2007, 17:25
Getai had around 4-6 cities. What's interesting is this was my FIRST battle against the Getai. For some reason, they had their capital right along my borders...

So I basically destroyed a faction with a single, first battle. :)

LOL did you copy past this from you 1st post! lol:laugh4:

What luck you had against the Getai!
Intranetusa
04-05-2007, 22:57
6 with one strike! You should sew it on a sash & wear it proudly :book:

lol, like a sash from the Zen-Chan Shaolin monks. :)




LOL did you copy past this from you 1st post! lol

What luck you had against the Getai!

lol, no. I posted it first as a separate message, then I edited my first post & decided to put it in.
hoom
04-06-2007, 00:22
like a sash from the Zen-Chan Shaolin monksNot quite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valiant_Little_Tailor) but I forgot its a belt...
Intranetusa
04-06-2007, 00:36
Not quite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valiant_Little_Tailor) but I forgot its a belt...
lol, nice. Aseop's fables are great...

or I can make a head band, "6 in 1" :)
Kralizec
04-06-2007, 11:57
I think a faction is destroyed if both the faction leader and heir die in the same battle.

Good job, that should save you a lot of trouble. IIRC I've never lost a battle against the Getai but I usually take great casualties when fighting them. Crazy drapanai...
hoom
04-06-2007, 12:43
Its wierd, I haven't thought of that tale since I was a kid, then suddenly in a month it comes up like 3 or 4 times :balloon2:
Intranetusa
04-06-2007, 16:46
^ lol, weird case of dejavu?
RabbitDynamite
04-06-2007, 20:30
Something about eggs and baskets comes to mind. Nasty way for a faction to go, really.
MarcusAureliusAntoninus
04-06-2007, 20:57
I think a faction is destroyed if both the faction leader and heir die in the same battle.
No, two random guys will be given leader and heir when both current die at the same time. You have to kill every last member of a family to kill the faction. And when the AI gets down to one or two family members, Captains will get promoted without have a "man of the hour" even. So it is very hard to destroy a faction my family loss unless you corner a half dozen guys in one city.
Philippus Flavius Homovallumus
04-06-2007, 21:01
I'm impressed, we'll build you a triumphal collumn.
Intranetusa
04-07-2007, 02:25
I'm impressed, we'll build you a triumphal collumn.
Triumph column? Can it be a custom made column? Then I want an Egyptian style obelisk engraved with Latin numerals, along with Kanjii/Chinese characters, mounted on a Greco-Roman style platform. Also, plate the whole thing with gold leaf mined from the sub-Saharan provinces.

:) :D :)
antisocialmunky
04-07-2007, 03:01
Nah, we'll just find one build by some old fart, cut off the heads and faces and put your's on them.
Intranetusa
04-08-2007, 01:46
Nah, we'll just find one build by some old fart, cut off the heads and faces and put your's on them.

:( But that's just called "scavenging" a trumph column.

I'm pretty sure Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla said "build."
I'm impressed, we'll build you a triumphal collumn.


I want my column and I want it now! >_< -crazy Kim Jung Il
antisocialmunky
04-08-2007, 02:53
:( But that's just called "scavenging" a trumph column.


I'm sure Constantine would disagree with you there :2thumbsup:
Cataphract_Of_The_City
04-08-2007, 03:29
You can role play it. Some sort of religious festival where the nobility from all the Getai lands attends every year...or something like that.
Intranetusa
04-08-2007, 17:47
You can role play it. Some sort of religious festival where the nobility from all the Getai lands attends every year...or something like that.

I'm sorry, but for roleplaying, I lack imagination...I prefer something more materialistic...like an unique triumph column in the Getai capital. :)
Poulp'
04-08-2007, 17:53
lacking imagination ?

with a memorial column and Getai's habit to impale sacrifice to Zamolxis, there's material for something though

Some "Impaled Getai" in the stead of the "Dying Gaul" ?
Intranetusa
04-21-2007, 23:43
I don't think the decaying corpses of dead Getai soldiers will serve well as building material for a "lasting" triumph column.

but I suppose it'll have to do... :/