View Full Version : KH problems (orange sickness)
fenix3279
02-17-2008, 04:15
Now I've played quite a few campaigns before. Mostly as the Romans , Bactrians, Cathaginians, and Macedonians. Not once have I ever seen, nor heard, of this happening...so bare with me. It is 219 B.C. and I am playing as the Aedui, I just finally finished conquering the italian peninsula and one of my cities in the north, has been invaded from the sea, by a full-stack Casse army. Naturally, I pull out my forces and begin to march north until...I ran face first into a KH full-stack....in the middle of Europe(?!?!?!) I thought to myself, Wtf?! How'd they get there?! In every other game I've played, this is around the time that the KH disappear from the map. They've NEVER made it this far before! For the first time since I've started playing, I took off fog of war. The blood rushed from my face. Orange everywhere. The Macs were gone. As were the Epirotes and the Getai. Pontus and the AS were up to their necks in orange full stacks. Nervously, I checked the "factions ranking list." They excelled at everything. Population, finances, military, territory, all were at the top of the charts! I fear for my empire. As strong as it is, it cannot hold back this storm. I've put alot of heart and time into this campaign, only to see it fail at the hands of the greeks. Against...so many soldiers...what can I do? I've tried to ally with Sweboz but the option never shows. Alone, no one can prevail. Greece has been unleashed. :help:
Teleklos Archelaou
02-17-2008, 04:47
I take it you're not a UT fan either? :grin:
antisocialmunky
02-17-2008, 04:55
Might I suggest a Nude Crusade?
fenix3279
02-17-2008, 05:05
I take it you're not a UT fan either? :grin:
LOL :laugh4:
Heck no, Vandy all the way!
caeser44
02-17-2008, 05:22
university of miami will own them all!!!:smg: :smg: :charge:
Big_John
02-17-2008, 05:45
I take it you're not a UT fan either? :grin:i didn't understand this because i thought you were talking about Unreal Tournament.
i'm a nerd.
Olaf The Great
02-17-2008, 07:53
Hmm, orange sickness?
Whats next?
White Shadow?
Brown Butt Baboon?
Purple Pain?
fenix3279
02-17-2008, 08:19
Hmm, orange sickness?
Whats next?
White Shadow?
Brown Butt Baboon?
Purple Painstick?
Well all the previous nicknames are actual disease/plagues so it makes more sense.
Like the Macs AKA the black death. Also known as the Bubonic Plague.
The Ptollies AKA yellow fever. This is a well-known disease.
And now, The KH AKA the Orange sickness. This is a genetic disorder caused from direct exposure to Agent Orange nerve gas. You can google it if you want.
Granted, it sounds a little lame but that's all I could come up with :shame:
Purple "painstick" actually doesn't sound too bad :2thumbsup:
Gebeleisis
02-17-2008, 10:13
well at least in EB you dont have only one factions that owns all (romans)
in vanilla at the end of the game you are sure t ohave rome owning everybody,gaul long gone,britain killing everything in nrthen france and germany,germany has a bit of russia ,and egypt having all of asia along side parthia,until the romans come
Care to share a pic with no fog?
Well all the previous nicknames are actual disease/plagues so it makes more sense.
Like the Macs AKA the black death. Also known as the Bubonic Plague.
The Ptollies AKA yellow fever. This is a well-known disease.
And now, The KH AKA the Orange sickness. This is a genetic disorder caused from direct exposure to Agent Orange nerve gas. You can google it if you want.
Granted, it sounds a little lame but that's all I could come up with :shame:
Purple "painstick" actually doesn't sound too bad :2thumbsup:
Also
Romans - Red Rash
Gauls - Green Mold
d'Arthez
02-17-2008, 14:20
Never heard of the Blue Death though (Baktria).
The Celtic Viking
02-17-2008, 18:36
Also
Romans - Red Rash
Gauls - Green Mold
"Green Mold" doesn't go too well with Arverni, though. Don't really know what to choose for them - not that it matters though, since neither Gallic faction ever becomes anything more than that. :shame:
woad&fangs
02-17-2008, 18:46
Averni= Lyme disease
it's what you get from ticks.
In my Averni campaign the KH will probably end up being the dominant power in greece and anatolia. Ptolemy's and Baktria are carving up the former Seleucid empire. The Sweboz are in contol of Germany and Poland, and they are fighting a war of attrition with me over the Rhine.
marodeur
02-18-2008, 02:49
Might I suggest a Nude Crusade?
Only if you explain it to the pope...
antisocialmunky
02-18-2008, 05:59
Its just a Crusade that happens to be nude, I don't see any problems with it. I would sanction it.
Lysander13
02-18-2008, 06:11
Luckily the greatest fantasy story ever told wasn't ummm....told yet. So no explanation to the pope will be required. Did i just say that out loud, so to speak?:saint:
All must bow before the ferocity and fighting spirit of the mighty....errrr...Orange Sickness? Hmmm, that doesn't quite have the ring to it that i'm looking for as a KH apologist. :clown:
Makes me wish i had that kind of luck in my KH campaigns.
pezhetairoi
02-18-2008, 08:08
The Lyme disease is becoming rather considerable, I have to say. They have all Gaul (almost), are deep in Iberia and defending Vindelicoppidos against Sweboz, having destroyed Aedui.
However, in Iberia they ARE butting heads against the Brown Diarrhoea. And the Sweboz are very considerable now, dominating northern central Europe (I foolishly destroyed and took Carrodunum, Eburonum and Iuvavoaeta for them and gave it to them). I wonder what Maroon ailment they can be?
fenix3279
02-18-2008, 09:13
Luckily the greatest fantasy story ever told wasn't ummm....told yet. So no explanation to the pope will be required. Did i just say that out loud, so to speak?:saint:
All must bow before the ferocity and fighting spirit of the mighty....errrr...Orange Sickness? Hmmm, that doesn't quite have the ring to it that i'm looking for as a KH apologist. :clown:
Haha, yeah I know, Orange sickness rather sucks but it's such an exotic color to find an ailment named after it. You could call it "Agent Orange" after the nerve gas. :yes:
Moosemanmoo
02-18-2008, 13:49
i didn't understand this because i thought you were talking about Unreal Tournament.
i'm a nerd.
lol me too, and I still don't know what they're on about:laugh4:
Centurion Crastinus
02-18-2008, 14:30
I take it you're not a UT fan either? :grin:
Hell no, Gig'em.
Lysander13
02-18-2008, 14:55
As the saying goes, you can't spell Citrus Bowl......without UT. Hehe:cheerleader:
Centurion Crastinus
02-18-2008, 15:05
As the saying goes, you can't spell Citrus Bowl......without UT. Hehe:cheerleader:
When did UT play at the citrus bowl?
Lysander13
02-18-2008, 15:13
When did UT play at the citrus bowl?
It's what Spurrier use to say when he was the Head Coach at UF, it was his way of taking a shot at.......ahhhhh, nevermind.
Centurion Crastinus
02-18-2008, 15:32
Fair enough.
Come in Nighthawk
02-18-2008, 16:06
Interesting. I am playing Rome; you can see some of my laments in the playing card thread and "too many Creeks." It is now ca. 191 BC, and I am doing this from memory, but:
One of the Gallic factions is gone (the Averni?), as are the Sweboz too, IIRC
The Makedamia-nuts are gone, shades of this complaint, conquered by the KH.
The Seleucids are gone, carved up between the Ptolomies, Armenians, Pontics, and to a small degree the Parthians and Baktrians.
The Ptolomies are now the major player in the eastern Med' and poor Pontus (I do pick the wrong allies!) were down to one town, "Nicea" (or whatever its called in the game), 'til I grabbed Pergamon from the KH and gave it to them. We'll see how long they last.
I was originally minding my own business mopping up "rebel cities" in Illyria, scrupulously avoiding contact with Epiros (neutral to me) and the KH, these last actually my allies!!! So of course --- the KH attacked me!! IIRC, by then the Epirotes and the Getai had been reduced to client status by the KH.
The price the KH have paid for attacking me, their ALLY, and then refusing any entreaty of a treaty -- I mustered forces and have expelled them from the western Aegean. I am now master of all Greece, Makedamia, Thrace, and Illyria, from Sparta to the Danube. I have left Epirus alone (2 cities) -- for now. The Getai are quiescent north of the Danube -- for now. I'm watching them carefully.
The KH are now trying to maintain themselves in "Asia" with my constant coastal pin-pricks to "keep them in line." The Ptolomies are harassing them from Antioch and vicinity. Mean-when, the Armenians, and what's left of the Pontics, are vying with the KH for "Asia."
What I am really trying to accomplish -- with something of a "blunt instrument" i do understand -- is to keep the KH in the game, but force them to push against my "real enemies," to the east. If I can slowly force them into Kappadocia, and maybe even cleverly pull the Pontics into "western Asia" and keep them in the game, maybe I can buy myself some breathing space to develop my economy -- money fuels everything! The longer I can keep out of direct contact with the Ptolomies, the better, I figure.
Mean-when I have now overrun Iberia, and am dealing with what is increasingly looking like "rebellion world!" It is really eating up troops to keep the cities in check. And finally, I am slowly either eliminating the hated Carthos', although if I can manage it, I plan to leave them Lepkis and the town out in the desert which I can't remember, and try to keep them as a buffer between me and the Ptolomies. :egypt:
Some time I must figure out what that town is way out in the desert to the far SW of Carthage... And how to get out there to seize it!
:juggle2:
fenix3279
02-18-2008, 22:54
lol me too, and I still don't know what they're on about:laugh4:
We're just talking about American Football. College Football, actually. Nothing related related to the topic lol
You could call it "Agent Orange" after the nerve gas. :yes:
Errr... Agent Orange is a herbicide.
fenix3279
02-19-2008, 01:51
Errr... Agent Orange is a herbicide.
:inquisitive: .....................
Is it really? lol :laugh4:
I always though it was some kind of chemical weapon. There are many cases of people having some severe reactions from direct exposure to it. It never came off as a herbicide, to me. Oh well, scratch that name :oops:
Watchman
02-19-2008, 02:17
It was used in Vietnam to defoliate jungle so the Vietcong and NVA troops wouldn't have such an easy time hiding, especially from aerial observation.
Shouldn't come as a big surprise dumping potent herbicide by the ton into a locale is going to screw the inhabitants six ways to Sunday, of course...
LordCurlyton
02-19-2008, 02:36
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2238416192_869a17197f_o.jpg
Orange Sickness? I have no idea what you're talking about, good sir...:boxing:
fenix3279
02-19-2008, 03:48
^
That's kind of like the KH look like on my campaign. Although they have less of Italy and more of Germania.
I'd be more worried about facing off aginst the bactrians if were you. They've certainly been busy.
LordCurlyton
02-19-2008, 04:22
Well since that is actually several years out of date (I decided to continue after winning the VCs) I am facing off against Bartix. They conquered Haysdan and promptly attacked me once we shared a border, proving that even under BI, having a military alliance since the start of the game is no deterrant to the AI. The thing is that they have not been building their factional MICs in most of the conquered AS territories so I face regionals which I can pound with my superior Hellenic infantry. I also turned on the Ptolies and have begun the Final War with them, so there will be lots of KH pikes swarming Mesopotomia and Asia shortly. Personally, I rather look forward to fighting the Arveni as their infantry quality nearly matches mine but lacks pikes so I'm tempted to go non-pike vs non-pike for the manliest infantry award. I'm really impressed with the late period Celtic army make-up. Truly formidable if used properly.
:inquisitive: .....................
Is it really? lol :laugh4:
I always though it was some kind of chemical weapon. There are many cases of people having some severe reactions from direct exposure to it. It never came off as a herbicide, to me. Oh well, scratch that name :oops:
It causes blood disorders and possibly a form of leukemia. But not officially. The gov't denies that any illnesses (including those that have affected my family) are in any way related to Agent Orange.
In all fairness, if you drop a few million gallons of commercial herbicide, like RoundUp, on people, it'll do about the same thing.
PenguinLobster
02-19-2008, 04:53
Pontus and the AS were up to their necks in orange full stacks.
They busy themselves in the East. with 2 ships and 3 armies you could sack Greece From Pella, Sparta and Thermon. Before they can rally a counterattack their homeland will be burned to the ground and your men will be heading home. Give the territory to their enemies if you wanna cover your escape. *or give it to a neutral and make a new enemy* Lets see how fast they spread with the richest cities in the game annihlated and an Aedui horde bought with loot from the sacking some of the worlds greatest monuments.
Maion Maroneios
02-19-2008, 17:37
They busy themselves in the East. with 2 ships and 3 armies you could sack Greece From Pella, Sparta and Thermon. Before they can rally a counterattack their homeland will be burned to the ground and your men will be heading home. Give the territory to their enemies if you wanna cover your escape. *or give it to a neutral and make a new enemy* Lets see how fast they spread with the richest cities in the game annihlated and an Aedui horde bought with loot from the sacking some of the worlds greatest monuments.
I liked that:2thumbsup:
What About Scarlett Fever for rome?
Anybody who utters the unholy name UT shall feel my wrath!! UF Gators all the Way!!!
Mr Frost
02-20-2008, 02:58
Hmm, orange sickness?
Whats next?
White Shadow?
Brown Butt Baboon?
Purple Pain?
Golden Shower !
fenix3279
02-20-2008, 04:57
They busy themselves in the East. with 2 ships and 3 armies you could sack Greece From Pella, Sparta and Thermon. Before they can rally a counterattack their homeland will be burned to the ground and your men will be heading home. Give the territory to their enemies if you wanna cover your escape. *or give it to a neutral and make a new enemy* Lets see how fast they spread with the richest cities in the game annihlated and an Aedui horde bought with loot from the sacking some of the worlds greatest monuments.
That was well though out. Might be hope for my empire, afterall.
Time to get crackin' :smash:
caeser44
02-21-2008, 03:37
i know that this an extremely noobish question, but when i press print screen while playing eb, the picture is not saved, so how can i save an onscreen screenshot of eb? I usually dont take screenshots but have decided to start taking them now so am:shame: :wall: :embarassed: new to that.
We're just talking about American Football. College Football, actually. Nothing related related to the topic lol
BTW LSU #1 NC
GO TIGERS WOOHOO
Oh, American Football...that football where you barely touch the ball with your feet. *sarcasm* I know...countless Americans will :tomato: and :whip: me now.
sanitarium
02-21-2008, 21:51
Oh, American Football...that football where you barely touch the ball with your feet. *sarcasm* I know...countless Americans will :tomato: and :whip: me now.
I agree that the name is a little misleading, but American football was derived from a sport called "rugby football", or more commonly known as rugby. Instead of calling our sport rugby football or something like "Rugby v2.0", we just shortened it to football.
fenix3279
02-21-2008, 22:47
Oh, American Football...that football where you barely touch the ball with your feet. *sarcasm* I know...countless Americans will :tomato: and :whip: me now.
Yup, here you go :tomato2:
V.T. Marvin
02-22-2008, 12:48
i know that this an extremely noobish question, but when i press print screen while playing eb, the picture is not saved, so how can i save an onscreen screenshot of eb? I usually dont take screenshots but have decided to start taking them now so am:shame: :wall: :embarassed: new to that.
You can either disable the anti-aliasing in the graphic settings - printscreen should be saved in a folder called "tgas" in your root RTW folder.
Or you can use some screensaver managers like Howie´s Quick Screen Capture Tool http://www.howiesfunware.com/loadSideBarMiscSoftware.html
or FRAPS (this one can do FPS benchmarks and record in-game videos) http://www.fraps.com/
Olimpian
02-22-2008, 12:58
When I use PrtSc it saves the pics in some unknown format and I can't open them with anything...so I have to take a pic,exit game and paste it in Paint...
...exit game...
Uhm, Alt-Tab ring a bell?
Olimpian
02-22-2008, 21:27
Uhm, Alt-Tab ring a bell?
My PC kinda sucks,can barely play with large unit size,and if I alt-tab it usualy freezes on the desktop or smth...
Any ideea what to use to open those "TGA files" that automatically get saved when you PrtSc ?
sanitarium
02-22-2008, 21:45
My PC kinda sucks,can barely play with large unit size,and if I alt-tab it usualy freezes on the desktop or smth...
Any ideea what to use to open those "TGA files" that automatically get saved when you PrtSc ?
Photoshop can open .tga's, but it's not exactly the cheapest software. You might be able to find a free trial version than you can use. Alternatively, Paintshop Pro may let you work with .tga's, but I can't say for sure.
Hooahguy
02-22-2008, 21:48
irfanview is, IMO, the easiest way to open and convert tga files- just open the picture, "save as" then choose JPG.... www.irfanview.com
Olimpian
02-22-2008, 22:25
Thanks hooahguy , it worked :2thumbsup:
Numa' bine ... :romania:
Centurio Nixalsverdrus
02-24-2008, 20:04
What About Scarlett Fever for rome?
What about "Emerald Excrement" for Epeiros? Love that.:yes:
fenix3279
02-24-2008, 23:55
What about "Emerald Excrement" for Epeiros? Love that.:yes:
And "Purple People Eater" for Pontus. Yeah, definitely :yes:
Olimpian
02-25-2008, 18:36
Isn't "Purple People Eaters" the name of the Minnesota Vikings fans?
fenix3279
02-25-2008, 22:06
Isn't "Purple People Eaters" the name of the Minnesota Vikings fans?
Yeah, but it's also the name of a song from the 80's. Plus it sounds funny so I like it :yes:
What about "Emerald Excrement" for Epeiros? Love that.:yes:
And "Purple People Eater" for Pontus. Yeah, definitely :yes: Perfecto! The Emerald Excrement Strikes Again Has a nice ring. The Purple People Eaters?! haha!You must not like the Vikings. If you do not i will give you a bright red shiny balloon:beam:
fenix3279
03-04-2008, 02:09
Perfecto! The Emerald Excrement Strikes Again Has a nice ring. The Purple People Eaters?! haha!You must not like the Vikings. If you do not i will give you a bright red shiny balloon:beam:
Well, in that case....I do NOT like the vikings :2thumbsup:
No seriously, I hate 'em.
Jaywalker-Jack
03-05-2008, 03:43
Im thinking "The Runs" for Lusotanna or Getai. Someone had to say it alright!
The Brown Turd for Getai (or Lusotanna)
Bouketsu
03-06-2008, 02:27
I've noticed it's always the Greeks or Epierotes that end up forging a formidable empire, I've never had to deal with the black death.
Just be thankful you don't have African Pikemen breathing down your neck from the south lol. I've never been that good at dealing with elite phalanx without excellent missile units. :P
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