Faction you hate the most in your campaign?

[Pezlu]

What is the faction you hate the most rightr now, in your current campaign?
Please do not vote the faction(s) you hate the most "in general", just because you don't like them at all.

Option to vote more than one faction if you hate more in the same amount OR if you're playing more than one campaign.

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In my Romani campaign, I'm hating the Sweboz.
We were allied, then they cancelled the alliance at the first occasion and attacked me. After taking one of their settlements, they agreed to a ceasefire.
They attacked me again a few turns later. I took three of their provinces, and another ceasefire was delared. After some diplomacy, they allied with me again.
Now, they betrayed me, and I'm now determined at destroying them. I didn't want to conquer Germania right now, but I guess I'll have to... damn Sweboz!

[-sKy-]

Hate? I don´t hate any Faction... most factions are just annoying me for being stupid ^^

[Pezlu]

Hate? I don´t hate any Faction... most factions are just annoying me for being stupid ^^

Ok, "hate" is an exaggeration, think of it as "faction you are bent on annihilating completely for it being FAR too annoying" XD

[Hax]

Ooh, pezhetairoi, another anatomically challenged person synergising with official viewpoints!

I severely dislike the Karthadastim. Filthy, threacherous, ugly, child-sacrificing monkeys! Nothing personal, though.

[beatoangelico]

the yellow death will win hands down :skull:

[Lovejoy]

yellow death?

yellow feber sounds much better! :P

Selue for me. I still have nightmares since the 0.8x days- :skull:

[woad&fangs]

Playing as the Avernii
Filthy Traitorous Romans!!!! First they betray our alliance. Then they ally with the Sweboz so I had to constantly worry about a two front war starting. Then they bribe my Factionheir's son and his half stack of high quality mercenaries. Luckily I was building a powerful fullstack up in the Alps to conquer Patavium so I brought them and Nammeios moc Estinos down into Italia and started going ape**** on them. But the little ******** wouldn't surrender. I had to kill 3 of their faction leaders, the traitor, 6,000+ roman soldiers, 30,000+ roman civilians, and conquer the entire peninsula down to Arpi for 5 years because they wouldn't surrender. Now I'm pouring money into Italia to keep it from rebelling because I refuse to give up my hard earned territories.

I should post a pic of the campaign map. My empire is odd shaped and completely unwieldy.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I hated AS and KH for their implausible, crazy expansion in my Lusotannan campaign. Other campaigns haven't yet lived up to seeing any such kind of thing.
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[sanitarium]

As Epeiros, I've been pushing through Asia Minor and into Syria, and have to wade through the infinite armies of the Yellow Annoyance. It doesn't matter how many battles I fight, the Ptolies always a 3/4 to full stack army waiting to attack my advancing forces.

They also will land an army outside Athens every two or three turns, which has really become annoying because all of my best troops have been committed to the advance east. I've resorted to devoting one of my navies to the area near Athens soley to intercept the Ptoly ships.

[antisocialmunky]

-_-

The Romans because they don't expand well at all.
The Swezboz because they end up taking over the whole of the North
The Baktria because they ALWAYS dogpile me as the Parthians

[Gebeleisis]

I cannot say i hate any of them whatever they do (ok maybe is i was in SunShadows position i could hate the sweboz but..)

I like the "yellow death" cause they are no longer mummy returns look alikes and dont have uber armour when they look naked,and dont have uber expansionist AI for nothing

So i go with Eleutheroi cause they killed my best general in my curret getai capmaign
I was trying to get him to a better army,send some guys with him and suddenly this rebel army pops up when i end the turn and atack me (aprox a ful lstack) and i retread,again again again and they keep folowing me until i have nothing else to do then fight them,so he died:|:skull:

[Obelics]

Ptolemaics for me, after a while, they start to cross the desert with full stacks, and attack my forts near Leptis, i cant autoresolve, cause with the kleurichoi i always loose, so i must fight every battle... after have fought a pair of battle, usually i quit..., and the Romans cause they aren't a challenge, at last for Chartage, they just send some very mixed-up stacks of hoplite haploi, thureophoroi mercenary and peltasts, akontistai, principes and triari (both camillian and polibian), botroas, lugae etc. etc... usually they are just half stack...

[General Appo]

The Epeiros are truly bugging me in my Romani campaign. I decided to play it by the book, and only expand historicaly. So after kicking the Epeirotes out of Italy I ceasefired them, and moved on to fighting Karthadastim and Aedui.
But of course the Epeirotes just couldn´t accept the inevitable, and started to blockade all my ports. It took me quite a while, but eventually I managed to destroy all their fleets and blockade their ports, but then they started attacking Patavium from their stronghold in Segestica. As it wasn´t time to take Segestica yet I just had to hold out against their attacks.
Then when the time came to take them out they had built up Segestica with walls adn lots of troops. I barely managed to take it after several reinforcing Epeirote armies attacked me in the back, and even after that they continued to spew armies at me trying to retake the city. I´ve slowly taken their cities so they are now down to only Thermon and Demetrias, but even now they continue to relentlessly attack me with huge armies they sould never be able to afford. Annyoing fuc*s.

[Hegix]

Ptolies hands down. In my current Hayasdan campaign I felt confident enough to declare on the the Seleucids and had quite a good start. 5 rounds later the yellows and silvers stopped fighting and both of them turned on me. Thanks to force diplomacy I managed to keep the peace with the ptolies, but I even with that I couldn't start the war between them again.

[Disciple of Tacitus]

The faction I hate the most RIGHT NOW in my current campaign? Well, I am playing as Sab'Yn and that means - of course - I am hating both the Yellow and Grey Deaths. Although, to put it more succicently... I am waging war against the never-ending heavily armored yellow rain and allied with the Grey Monster. But I am FEARING the Grey Death, b/c as we all know that whenever the Grey Death decides that I no longer amuse him AND if the Yellow Death has not already crushed me, they will come, pillage the villages, r@&# the sheep, plunder the women and make us speak boobaleegoop.

[The Wicked]

Arche Seleukia God i hate them so much !!!!!

[MiniMe]

Pontos. Go after them as soon as possible since these tricky bastards most definitely have some nasty plans

[Pezlu]

Pontos. Go after them as soon as possible since these tricky bastards most definitely have some nasty plans

They are my neighbours and allies right now, but I don't fear from them since thay are too occupied against the ptolemaioi :laugh4:

[anubis88]

Playing with carthage i was trying my best for rome to conquer taras so that the punic wars may begin... So, i destroy the Tarantine Army.... wait for rome to beseige the city, join them since they didn't have enough strenght to defeat them by themselves.... And what do they do? They assault Corsica! I mean WTF!!! why betray me when i'm trying my best to give them Taras? they attack me 2 turns before the city gives in!

I know the AI is ultra-stupid but i mean Com'on!:clown:

[Ayce]

Ptolaimoi - because it exists to bother me.

[Morte66]

Greys. Must. Burn.

[NEver]

Good that the successor states are getting a lot of hate.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I, the mighty Shophet, hate all the damn Ptollies! And why? They attacked me out of no reason, what else? Thought they could snatch Syrthim from me, after destroying liberty of the proud hellenic city of Kyrene. Thank Baal I was there to liberate them and reestablish a free city state. Yes, I did that. Now they have to ask every turn if they can eventually build a simple sanitization in their town or erect a little monument in my honour. But at least they are no more forced to mate with their sisters.

[Megas Pyrrhos]

I hate the Romani when I'm playing. They don't act Roman enough; too stupid and slow to take out Epeirotes in southern Italia.

[Parallel Pain]

The Yellow Ptolemies all the way.

The Seleucids are heck annoying. They send half stacks of infantry (with cavalry and archer support every so often) to attack my Saka Empire. I keep wiping out everything they send but they won't give up. The just keep sending them even when they're down to 5 settlements.

Now why are the Ptolemies more annoying? Because they do the EXACT same thing but send FULL stacks and they have TWICE as many stacks. It got to a point that the battles are so repetative I thought of dumping the stupid thing and calling victory since all that was left to do was to wait for money.

[pezhetairoi]

Those Eleutheroi, damned scripted armies! Gah!

Even the Ptolies don't give me any problems. They usually fall without a whimper, or I can thrash them hard enough, because never in my campaigns have they ever come close to dominating the game.

EDIT: Ooh, Hax, I see him! Such synergy!

[DeathEmperor]

The Ptolemaioi for me both in my last Seleukid campaign and my current Makedonian one.

A few years ago in my Mak campaign I launched a new conquest of the East led by princes Perseus and Demetrios Argeades. In the process I betrayed my long-time ally the Seleukids, and succeeded in conquering all of Anatolia up to Antiocheia itself, when suddenly I get a message from the Ptolemaioi that they want Rhodos or they'll attack. I'd taken it from the Seleukids who took it from the Ptolemaio who took it from the extinct Koinon Hellenon, so I politely responded "Give me 5,000 mnai for your rude proposal or I WILL ATTACK".

The cowards accepted, but a few turns later they besieged Antiocheia, and made a ceasefire and soon after alliance with the Seleukids so now I'm facing two very powerful empires in my dream of re-establishing Megas Alexandros' empire.

Well least now I know how Antigonus I Monopthalmus felt :laugh4:

[MerlinusCDXX]

in my current Ptolie campaign-the ***** Grey Death, damn spammers-I hand them their arses every time, yet they won't stop. I don't hate them 'cause they're beating me, I hate them 'cause they're BORING me.

In my last Pahlava campaign, I could have said Ptolies, but their stack spams were so laughable as to be entertaining (it's really entertaining to annihilate stacks twice my size with HAs). It was my allies the Romani...for being a bunch of useless wankers.I gave them like 3 or 4 coastal Ptolie provinces, thinking that they'd keep them busy enough to let me wipe my arse with everyone else, but no. these frickin' wankers just get their arses handed to them by a faction that I'd left with nothing, pitiful income, no MICs, no sea trade access. puhthetic

[anubis88]

I, the mighty Shophet, hate all the damn Ptollies! And why? They attacked me out of no reason, what else? Thought they could snatch Syrthim from me, after destroying liberty of the proud hellenic city of Kyrene. Thank Baal I was there to liberate them and reestablish a free city state. Yes, I did that. Now they have to ask every turn if they can eventually build a simple sanitization in their town or erect a little monument in my honour. But at least they are no more forced to mate with their sisters.
I did the same thing!:laugh4:
gave Kyrene to KH....
worked great till they attacked me.... Thankfully they have a pretty weak army... so they're much less of a nuisance then the Ptolies

[NEver]

I hate the Romani when I'm playing. They don't act Roman enough; too stupid and slow to take out Epeirotes in southern Italia.It really does detract from the Carthaginian campaign the fact that you can take them out in the first ten years. It really really does.

[anubis88]

It really does detract from the Carthaginian campaign the fact that you can take them out in the first ten years. It really really does.
Playing as Carthage you need to help them....
that's what i do
i help the conquer south Italy and messana, then you have a hack of a 1 punic war on your hands, give them Sardinia and corsica at the right time.... help them conquer messana.... and after they become a powerhouse.... Like the true romans of old:2thumbsup:

[Pezlu]

They are my neighbours and allies right now, but I don't fear from them since thay are too occupied against the ptolemaioi :laugh4:

You were right -_-

Despite being at war with the most powerful faction around (the ptolemaioi) they betrayed and attacked me, even if I am the second most powerful faction... they must be masochist.

In fact I don't have many troops near the cities they besieged (Serdike and Pella at the same time!); but I'm sending a full stack army now.. and they'll be punished :whip:

[Starforge]

Yellow death :wall:

[BerkeleyBoi]

Yellow Fever... for what they did to my poor Ethiopians...

[Sarkiss]

Yellow death :wall:
that would be my "favorite" too, followed by Grey death.

[Os-Q]

The Ptolies are great fun, and they have such nice things! I led a full stack of Sarmation Family members and noble horse-archers deep down to Memphis and Alexandria leaving a terrible path of destruction as they went. Since Egypt just keeps spamming Galatians and heavy phalanxes, they have NOTHING that can catch my horsies, and nothing that can escape. However, I can tell I'm going to get sick of their counter attacks, AND they have Babylon, which will mean they will start pumping out more balanced armies pretty soon.

Get your horse archers, (or skirmisher cavalry) behind their lines.
Disrupt, weaken, isolate, destroy, repeat! :smash:

In my Sweboz campaign I hated the Romans, just because had stacks of Triarii and Elite Infantry of the Italic Allies, and saved them just for me, a smart move for the AI, but not realistic.

[Barbarian]

I was going to oppose the opinion, which said that Arche Seleukeia is nasty, by telling how nice people and trustful allies they are.

I just wanted to end my turn, before coming and posting here. Just as I did it, they besieged my capital with the strongest army I have seen so far. All our mutual allies ( about half of the all factions ) decided to stay on their side. Now I have no allies, I have only enemies, and neutreal factions, who would like to start a war soon. And it is all because of the AS.
But I hate no factions, I just fight with them. I believe that the circumstances, like fear for their lands, have forced them to attack me, and each battle is a sad moment, because so many soldiers die on both sides. :no:

Ok, but in this case, AS will be slaves or worse :whip: , and the rest of the world will curse the day they betrayed me.

[Kromulan]

Poor little Hay. . . they get no respect. I voted for them because the fools just sit there and watch as stack after stack of grey warriors march south, never to return.
I give them money, I whomp their neighbor, and there they sit, just watching all those phalanxes marching to their death.
My diplomats tell them "Look at Pontos, Parthia, Baktria! They're all making the most of this opportunity! Why shouldn't you?" So they skirmish with Sauromate. . .
I'll have to show them what war looks like.:skull:

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Just to be fair, I hate everyone equally.

[Gourmet]

One faction that I do not see, but should exist is the Kingdom of Numidia. Even though they aren't a faction in Europa Barbarorum, I still hate their guts! If Numidia were put on the list, I would definitely vote a million times that I hate Numidia the most. Rotten sand monkeys stabbing my ankles, they should all be crucified and left to rot for the crows to eat! Ruining my beautiful Karthadastim homeland to their filthy Roman training. Ohhhhh, I still have nightmares of them from back in the days of Carthage for original RTW -_-. Luckily for me, I made it first priority to go on an ethnic cleansing of Numidia and steal all their sand in the beginning of the game. Nightmares and good memories for ya all :elephant: :elephant: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hmg: :hmg:

[PershsNhpios]

Romans..

In my Getic campaign, which I am going to update soon to illustrate... they blockaded the port of Thermon!

And if that isn't enough cause to hate them, I diverted my campaign from Anatolia into Sicily, and took Messana, Rhegion, Taras, and Arpi.

But the Roman units are so damned determined!

I had the same problem as the Sweboz - how do you defeat even the smallest Roman army without huge casualties - due to the fact they do not waver until 90% of them are perished?

[Beefy187]

Hated the AS but... I started playing with them and I almost felt sorry for them (Getting attacked from all fronts) so I respect the AS AI.

Playing Getai campeign atm and hating the all the hellens for spamming misile units (My main soldier are naked falxmans) so Koinon gets my vote

[delablake]

a)The boy-loving Ptolemoi.
b)And the smelly Getai/Dakae.

a)The Tollies are Dollies and have endless armies, no matter how many armies my brave Polybian legions slaughtered, they kept coming for 40, 50 years like nothing happened. Now my pincer movement from Africa and Byzantion got them by their vitals: Alexandria has fallen, and most of Galatia, and Bythinia. I finally notice that the quality of their armies is dropping to mostly local levies, with much fewer Galatians and phalanxes. Anyway, I'll only take what I need in order to fulfill my Imperial mission, and leave the rest (in India and the likes).
b) Those falxes cut a swath of destruction through my Camillan legions. Sometimes just 3 or 4 elite falxmen units took out more than a halfstack of mine on a whim and conquered a city like nothing, but with new technology, tactics and sheer manpower I managed to finally wipe them out, although my empire is now mainly in Greece, Illyria, the East of Europe and Northern Africa, so Spain and France are still waiting for my Eagle Standards.

EB 1 is reeal fun!

[Hax]

a)The boy-loving Ptolemoi.

Sister-loving, six-toed, corpse-stealing.

Pick your insult.

[monkian]

Im going with 'The silver death' in my Romani

They have all of Asia minor and most of Bactria going down towards india and the middle east.

I have taken pretty much all of the Ptolemaic empire from them with the tomies controlling just some desert province and an island accross from Babylon.

Despite us not sharing border the grey death continues to trickle stacks of bastard Phalanx towards me, a nation should know when its dead !

[Maion Maroneios]

I just HATE those filthy fish-smelling Romaioi... I know I shouldn't vote a faction I hate in general, but I just can't stand them. Never. When I get the chance with my KH campaign, I will crush them utterly. In one of my former campaign as the Maks with ver 0.81av2, I conquered Illyria and then attacked the Romaioi from the north. I shacked every city over and over again, untill their cities where reduced to somewhat like 500-1000 citizens, whilst destroying every possible building and wonders. I was especially happy when I sacked Roma. Yes... Those where sweet times... Then I just left Italy with my battle-hardened army and faction leader to conquer Anatolia... Then version 1.0 came out and I just quit...

[Lysandros]

When I played the Ptolemaioi, the Arche Seleukeia got on my nerves heavily. Now playing the Arche Seleukeia, it is the other way around. Nevertheless, I like both factions most.
The solution to endless stack-after-stack-fighting is simply setting the campaign difficulty to medium. I have had the best faction progressions (because the AI actually fights other enemies besides your faction) and the most enjoyable campaigns with it so far - for example Epeiros taking Rome, going farther and almost destroying the SPQR, but then SPQR taking Rome back and recovering a bit. Don't think the AI won't be mean to you anymore - it's just that the number of its attacks is reasonable and that you can actually expect a ceasefire after a few years. Anyway, I will never play on very hard again.

[Red Son SuperDave]

I'm with Barbarian on this one, I hate the AS. They shattered my dreams of owning the entire map back in version .86 with the four full stacks EVERY turn they'd send across the ruins of Egypt to attack my Carthaginian holdings. Also, in the Baktrian campaign I just started (on the advice of the majority in the "shameless cavalry fanboy" topic), my so-called AS "allies" parked a half stack outside of my capital city and decided to attack without warning in freakin' 268 BC, before I even have my economy out of the toilet.:furious3:

[Bouketsu]

I don't necessarily hate this one, but once in a while Carthage can really get on my nerves.
Almost every game I've played with Sweboz they seem to steam roll over the Iberian peninsula and just crush Gaul and Rome in a matter of a few years, while I'm just watching up north, thinking how I'm gonna get out of this mess.. :juggle2:

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well I have the same with them Romans. I play as the Casse, and guess who come nocking at my door in Arctaunon?

I play as the AS, guess who decide to launch a full scall assault in Singidunum?

And guess who's been ally to me long time?

Or what if I am the Aedui?

Yes those Romans. With their endless Triarii and Extraordinarii and all in Camillan times.

A bit with the Carthaginians too: I am the AS, wiped the floor with Ptolemaioi become the single undisputed superpower controlling everything between Baktria/Alexandreia-Eschate and Kyrenaia. So there comes two full stacks of Phoenician idiots. The next piece of news in the International Politics section of all major and minor newspapers in the world was that the Qartadastim accepted a protectorate. (I offered them nearly all my treasury if they would, guessing they won't accept anyways...)

EDIT: I am soo looking forward to the possibilities of restricting Roman elites... They among a few other factions have, IMHO, actually the worst and most dull armies to fight against in EB1. It should be much better if we can force the AI to actually balance its armies for a change. :yes:

[Flibjib]

I'm waaaaaaayyyy over extended in my Romani campaign. But right now, the Lusotann, who up until recently were lovely chaps, are now besieging all of my Cathaginian prizes on the south cost of Iberia...while I'm in a two anda half front war with Makedon, Aedui and Ptolies...when they remember I'm right next to them. I think they're busy with the Blue Monster of the East.

Either way, going to exterminate every last on of those filthy, traitorous Spaniards.

[Satyros]

In my current campaign as the Aedui ( Goooooooooooo Greens !! The clover should be considered by the EB team as their chosen symbol - pretty please ) as soon as the game begun I allied with the Romani to win me some turns while annihilating the Arverni and uniting the tribes .

They happily accepted .

Then just I was emerging from the financial chaos I plunged during the civil war , with only 4 or five turns remaining before I would be able to heal the wounds of civil war across the Gaul universe , them F*****G C***S betrayed me .

I immediately sought the Sweboz to secure my back ( at the time we didn't even share a border so the agreed happily too - also , as soon as I was on the positive financially I gave them small gifts every turn , we are still good friends , which is a first as long as I remember ) and battling through their infinite elite stacks and my sheer stupidity ( I abandoned early in the war the only city I could retrain my Gaeroas and Botroas - which were 90% my army since the beginning of the game - Mediolanum ) I managed to cross the Alps again .

I could not take the initiative because I was trying to stabilize financially and maintain some coherency and order in my homelands , while the kept attacking me every second turn at best and at worst twice per turn . Unfortunately I failed to contain the C***S ( die die die )in the Italian peninsula , facing determined resistance by my half stacks of half units ( yes , I 'm stupid /me slaps me with a trout , a pig and a safe ) the Romani errr.. C***S expaned eastwards .

So I pressed south in the Italian peninsula ( slooooooooooowwwwwwwly ) in an attempt to crush the source of my problems , their L5 MIC's .Meanwhile I succeded in retraining my units in Bononia , hooray for me !

After dozens of battles ( because I decided NOT to return ANY towns to the C***S , so I had to maintain order in every single city/town ) I sacked Roma . HA! In your face you F*****G C***S !!1

And what do the F*****G C***S do ?

They assassinate my best general !!!!!!!!

By Teutatis they shall die to the last pig , because men they are NOT !

Ahhhh , ranting over , I had to spill my hate somewhere .

Great idea this thread .

Ahhhh ...

Satyros

[anubis88]

In my current campaign as the Aedui ( Goooooooooooo Greens !! The clover should be considered by the EB team as their chosen symbol - pretty please ) as soon as the game begun I allied with the Romani to win me some turns while annihilating the Arverni and uniting the tribes .

They happily accepted .

Then just I was emerging from the financial chaos I plunged during the civil war , with only 4 or five turns remaining before I would be able to heal the wounds of civil war across the Gaul universe , them F*****G C***S betrayed me .

I immediately sought the Sweboz to secure my back ( at the time we didn't even share a border so the agreed happily too - also , as soon as I was on the positive financially I gave them small gifts every turn , we are still good friends , which is a first as long as I remember ) and battling through their infinite elite stacks and my sheer stupidity ( I abandoned early in the war the only city I could retrain my Gaeroas and Botroas - which were 90% my army since the beginning of the game - Mediolanum ) I managed to cross the Alps again .

I could not take the initiative because I was trying to stabilize financially and maintain some coherency and order in my homelands , while the kept attacking me every second turn at best and at worst twice per turn . Unfortunately I failed to contain the C***S ( die die die )in the Italian peninsula , facing determined resistance by my half stacks of half units ( yes , I 'm stupid /me slaps me with a trout , a pig and a safe ) the Romani errr.. C***S expaned eastwards .

So I pressed south in the Italian peninsula ( slooooooooooowwwwwwwly ) in an attempt to crush the source of my problems , their L5 MIC's .Meanwhile I succeded in retraining my units in Bononia , hooray for me !

After dozens of battles ( because I decided NOT to return ANY towns to the C***S , so I had to maintain order in every single city/town ) I sacked Roma . HA! In your face you F*****G C***S !!1

And what do the F*****G C***S do ?

They assassinate my best general !!!!!!!!

By Teutatis they shall die to the last pig , because men they are NOT !

Ahhhh , ranting over , I had to spill my hate somewhere .

Great idea this thread .

Ahhhh ...

Satyros

WOW... You must really HATE the Romans. I've never seen such rage in a post on the EB forums since i've been a member....
You should really relax pall, take it easy:yes: :beam:

[Satyros]

Oh well I always get this enthusiastic when I play EB , it something like " temporary insanity " , the thing is I rarely get that kind of resistance , you see even with Pontos I encountered less resistance from the AS , mainly because I could hold my empire in the known two choke points , Tarsos and ...the northern ( to Tarsos ) one I can't remember now . The Romani insulted me by senting patrols - not armies - besieging at least a city per turn ,a fact which in turn after a while began hammering my balls . In other news from the front :...and as if one dead general wasn't enough punishment the next thing that happened was the metamorphosis of my Romaneitha ( my other general in Italia ) from an aspiring champion ( because we-are-legion! ) to a contemptuous brute . Where does it stop ? Lazy b*****d , I 'll leave him be just to be able to play a possible betrayal , but I'll probably have to remove the 70 gaesatae from his army first .....

Oh... the Romans crawl somewhere in the Balkans nowadays . Suits them right from breaking my balls with a hammer .

Satyros

[General Appo]

In my Hellenon Koinon campaign the Romans are quite irritating right now.
I´ve taken all the VC´s (and nothing else) and have decided to just lean back and let the world play out itself, without me interfering to much. Oh alright, I´m giving shitloads of cash to the Arverni, Saba, Baktria and Lusotannan, but at least I´m not planning to take any new city´s.
But anyway, that´s not what this is about.
The Romans refuse a ceasefire, and constantly besiege Segesta and Capua with huge almost-full stacks they shouldn´t be able to afford, especially as they´re at war with everyone, me, Aedui, Arverni, Karthadastim and Lusotannan (Epeiros and Makedonia are destroyed) and i´m blockading all their ports. All their generals are inccredibly resistant to assassinations, and whenever I do get one of those bastards two new ones always pop up.
They have 4 rebel armies roaming their lands and distrupting trade, I constantly sabotage all their buildings, and yet they keep pumping out Hastatii and make futile attempts to conquer my lands. Why? Why can´t they just attack Bononia instead, what did I do?
Okay, I did take southern Italy and Liguria from them, but still.
I took Siciliy from Karthadastim, Trapezous from Hayasdan and the north African coast from the Ptolies, yet all these are now my staunch allies bringing me loads of money from trade. Why can´t the Romani accept their role as a vassal to the mighty Greeks and stop resisting my righteous rule of Apulia and Kampania.
If only they agreed to peace all would be well, we would trade with them and they would flourish as Greek customs and ideas took hold upon their culture, and in time they might even be invited into the great Hellenic confederation.
They might force me to abandon my house rules and take city´s which are not part of the VC´s, right now I´m forced to keep huge garrisons in Capua and Arpi. Annoying little barbarians, who don´t know to surrended even when I´ve taken half their city´s and killed most of their armies.
Only fools are so reluctant to admit defeat, if one wishes to conquer to world one must be able to lose from time to time, I hope the Romanoi realise that in time to save themselve. If not...:whip:

[Andronikos]

Romani because of their army composition and Eleutheroi because they usually spawn on my most important roads and completely stop my armies marching on the front. I have to either fight with considerable casualties or take another road what consumes time.

[Spotted Pig]

Orange Sickness. Because they've spread out all around the Black Sea while I was conquering Illyria and Greece (I'm playing as Romani).
I have a feeling the AS will be a problem once I get that far. Right now they are about to crush the Ptolies and recently attacked Pontos (who have most of Anatolia).

[Satyros]

What's wrong with them " civilized " peoples ?

Have they no respect for the mighty Celt empire ?

Have they not learned nothing from the downfall of the Romani ?

Nothing?

Epeiros will pay for this betrayal . And to think the High King in his bountless generosity gave them taras as soon as he captured it from the stinking Romani .

Too bad I can't vote again .

Are the news from MTW2 concerning diplomacy more encouraging ? I'm sick of the diplomacy in RTW . I would appreciate some info on the matter , since I haven't palyed the game enough .

Satyros

[woad&fangs]

MTW2 uses the same engine as R:TW so that means the same lousy diplomacy.

Diplomacy should be fixed when Empire: TW comes out in the distant future.

[Satyros]

Thanks for the info mate .

Satyros

[underthesun]

I hate Hayasdan, I'm sorry, had to say it. They're not attacking me right now, but they're a strategic liability in Anatolia, and on top of that, they're besieging Olbia. You know, that one, on the Black Sea. Bordering Mikra Skythia. Yeah, that one.

It wouldn't be a problem, but currently I'm dealing with AS and the Ptollies simultaneously.

[carthage_supreme]

Romanis and the yellow pest.

Im peacefully conquering north africa to get the cash boost form the mines in the west. As the romanis are the biggest assholic warmongers , they start sieging syrkousai which is vital for financing my campaign in numidia. I went haywire , took my best general , loaded him with stacks of liby phonecians and liby phonecian cavlary and sent him on the boat to rome. The defense in the romanis interior cities was pretty lax so i went on a raiding tour and conquer'd rome , arretium ,and every city south of these. Every city i conquerd i razed the buildings and exterminated the population and left. The romans finiancially collapsed and they were crippled for 10 years.

10 years later i return with two full stacked armies and conquer all of italy save for segestica, boniona and pavatium. I know hannibal would have been proud :laugh4:. Arrogant warmongers need to go down.


yellows are the biggest assholes , they keep sending half stacks of agema and galatian heavy infantry to conquer lepki. There fleets are blockading my most vital ports, managed to get rid of them thought.