IceWolf
05-26-2007, 08:14
(I should have been posting AAR sthe whole tim but screw it, i've been having fun)
So you wish success as the Scythians, gather round the fire, grab a horn of mead and listen up! We began as a simple, undermanned and underfunded nation of steppe warriors. In my forefater's time (it's now 210 bc), Our great leader had a vision, he knew that the wealth and th population for great expansion lay to the south in the Peloppeneseus. We gathered our scattered warbands and bound them together like a spear and thrust southward. Our first major conwuest was Byzantium. We then assembled a mighty flkeet and sent an army to take Rhodes for the increase in naval trade. Our first major opposition were the Macedonians. Ahh these were brave warriors, but slow. Our leaders kept telling our men that therer are sometimes more of the enemy than we have arrows, so many times we retreated from the field after inflicting 8, 9, even ten to one casualties simply because our warrriors ran out of arrows and could slay no more.
We to Bylazorum and made it our new capital because we knew that our destiny lay south. While we concentrated our war effort agaianst the macedonians, we kept a northern army in the field to combat the Germans who kept biting us in the arse. A generation later the Germans were no more and we had driven the Macedonians out. Around 230 BC there were no more greeks or macedonians left to fight but a new enemy had appeared, the accursed Romans. From 230 to today we fought the Brutii many times and fought them well. After the Marius reforms kicked in it became harder but our brave horse archers overcame. We now have a new eenemy in the North, the Julii. The Parthians took one of our northern outposts but that was a barren wasteland anyway and our people have moved south.
The cursed Julii keep taking over our settlements in what used to be Germany. Bahhh! Within the next season we will have four full stacked armies consisting of two generals, 3 onagers and the rest a mixture of horse-archers and Scythian noble horse archers upon the Italian penninsula. We have taken Patavium and Tarantum already. There is but one Brutii city left and it shall fall soon. Our troops in the north advance upon Arratium and the southern armies shall eliminate the Brutii and drive the Scippi from Capua.
The next step will be a four army assault upon Rome itself which shall not fail. We shall see how long the Julii can keeep sending full stacks against us once we have cut their legs out from underneath them. We shalll have all the profit and manpower of Greece and Italy combined, let us see the Julii compete when all they have to draw upon are central european :furious3: splat towns. Once Italy falls it will just be a matter of time too accumulate 50 provinces. Our province count has held steady at 18-20 during the whole war/migration. With Greece, Macedon and Italy beneath our boots the potential for further expansion is unlimeted. We shall drive the Julii out of Germany then turn our attenetiont westward. That is my tale, it is an unfinished song that shall be completed later as time allows.
IceWolf, Scythian Warlord
So you wish success as the Scythians, gather round the fire, grab a horn of mead and listen up! We began as a simple, undermanned and underfunded nation of steppe warriors. In my forefater's time (it's now 210 bc), Our great leader had a vision, he knew that the wealth and th population for great expansion lay to the south in the Peloppeneseus. We gathered our scattered warbands and bound them together like a spear and thrust southward. Our first major conwuest was Byzantium. We then assembled a mighty flkeet and sent an army to take Rhodes for the increase in naval trade. Our first major opposition were the Macedonians. Ahh these were brave warriors, but slow. Our leaders kept telling our men that therer are sometimes more of the enemy than we have arrows, so many times we retreated from the field after inflicting 8, 9, even ten to one casualties simply because our warrriors ran out of arrows and could slay no more.
We to Bylazorum and made it our new capital because we knew that our destiny lay south. While we concentrated our war effort agaianst the macedonians, we kept a northern army in the field to combat the Germans who kept biting us in the arse. A generation later the Germans were no more and we had driven the Macedonians out. Around 230 BC there were no more greeks or macedonians left to fight but a new enemy had appeared, the accursed Romans. From 230 to today we fought the Brutii many times and fought them well. After the Marius reforms kicked in it became harder but our brave horse archers overcame. We now have a new eenemy in the North, the Julii. The Parthians took one of our northern outposts but that was a barren wasteland anyway and our people have moved south.
The cursed Julii keep taking over our settlements in what used to be Germany. Bahhh! Within the next season we will have four full stacked armies consisting of two generals, 3 onagers and the rest a mixture of horse-archers and Scythian noble horse archers upon the Italian penninsula. We have taken Patavium and Tarantum already. There is but one Brutii city left and it shall fall soon. Our troops in the north advance upon Arratium and the southern armies shall eliminate the Brutii and drive the Scippi from Capua.
The next step will be a four army assault upon Rome itself which shall not fail. We shall see how long the Julii can keeep sending full stacks against us once we have cut their legs out from underneath them. We shalll have all the profit and manpower of Greece and Italy combined, let us see the Julii compete when all they have to draw upon are central european :furious3: splat towns. Once Italy falls it will just be a matter of time too accumulate 50 provinces. Our province count has held steady at 18-20 during the whole war/migration. With Greece, Macedon and Italy beneath our boots the potential for further expansion is unlimeted. We shall drive the Julii out of Germany then turn our attenetiont westward. That is my tale, it is an unfinished song that shall be completed later as time allows.
IceWolf, Scythian Warlord