My longest game

Hey,

as im currently under the guise of a jobless student, ive had abnormally long periods of time to play EB for once (it loads very slowly on my computer).
I've never really had the patience with it before, and usually end up ending my campaigns after i get a 'resonable' sized empire. Never being one for massive empires anyway.

I managed to get past the stage where i lost interest however, and now im quite impressed with the EB late game and interested in how everyones developed.

So heres a little description of whats happened in my game, mainly because I need someone to talk to it about, after telling my friends i've just siezed pergamon i just get blank looks.

By the way im not playing as baktria!

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Sorry for the shoddy image (nice and stretched).

Im playing as the KH if you can't guess. My game started off pretty average, taking out the maks. I never tend to want to spread too far inland however.

The first interesting thing that took place in this campaign was when people started to rebel to me. Emporion, followed in quick succession by Olbia then chernesous and pantypakplace (the one next to it)

This is when i started to refer to my humble faction as the Pan Hellenic Empire.

Wars

My first major war of course was Makedonia, who moved over to the east, where i followed. Not a very spectacular war but nonetheless it helped me move across the pond and establish a powerfull eastern part of my empire.

At this point in time the Selucides (who'll you notice are dead) had a massive empire stretching nearly all the way to india. I never really went full scale with them, a few minor battles and city grabbing but I couldn't be bothered at the time.

Emporion rebelling to me brought me into war with the lustonnan and carthage. This led me to invading Sicily, eventually taking it all (originally just going for syrakousi). That war fizzled out after that, but they've recently just started it up again (because they took arse no doubt) which means i've got an excuse to take all their other islands.

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The Ptollies

Now they started off as my strong allies the back stabbing bastards. We both took down the selucides together, their muscle and my money and spies. They basically adopted the whole selucid empire and looked stupidly strong, shortly afterwards turning to take on me. Countless battles led to me having a stupidly elite eastern army mostly gold chevrons. By this point in the game i was't actively wanting to expand, more persuading places that looked like they would want to join the pan hellenic empire.

Of course now they're fucked to put it blunt, Baktria who i didn't notice for ages somehow got huggeeee and they have tonnes of cash and men, really don't know if they'll cock it up like their predecessors.

Romanus

The situation in gaul is another place i like to dabble in, recently i've managed to get the adeu back on form with a combination of spies, money and a few aggresive 'diplomatic' manuvours. I helped the gaul cities rebel against their roman masters, but rome seemed to be gaining a grip on the area slowly. Through some dodgy diplomatic deals however, mainly down to me being their main trade resouce and embargoing them for years aswell as blockading their ports, i managed to get them to give me taras (silly idiots) and also bought rhegion of the epirotes who must have all spent it on crack and continued standing around in a daze.

I've had a few minor wars with Hayasdan and pontus. Both didn't last long. The situation with pontus was interesting, they were my allies, and punched through chasing the remnant of the maks. I accidently persuaded byzantion to rebel to me. But the next turn (after destroying their closest army) offered them a ceasfire, then alliance, and military access, which they happily accepted. I assume they'll turn on me later, but for now they seem content with marching their reinforcements through my land.

Anyway, if anyone actually bothered to read all this drizzle i'd like to ask for some advice what to do next. The only people im at war with at the moment is carthage, but its touchy with the romans.

I don't know which direction to go now (as im in so many different places) I've got alot of funds and the highest population so manpowers not a problem and i've got a huge navy. Any suggestions?

Thanks if you read it (i do write in quite an erratic way) and cheers for any tips, ill post if anything crazy happens.

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Originally Posted by Ezephkiel

as im currently under the guise of a jobless student, ive had abnormally long periods of time to play EB for once

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Ah, reminds me of some 12 hour sessions in 0.8 :-).
Also your Baktria expansion reminds me of 0.8.

If I was in your place I would probably seize Epeiros and the rest of the Makedons, then Pontos and / or Italy. But I like big empires. Since you don't, I suggest you take Massalia from Rome. That way you keep them out of Gaul and you can attack them from 2 sides. You could also go for the carthagian islands, that way your possessions in Spain and Massalia would be more "connected" to the rest of your empire.
If you attack Pontos you should only take their cities in Europe and leave them as a buffer between you and the Baktrians. If they expand more like that, they will be a real threat.

what id do will be best in the interest

first u gift ur chersonesos area to makedonia but first destroy all EXP building and the goverment
leave the rest alone to the makedonians so they wont keep rebelling to u
this will cause the makedonians to resurge a bit
in the meanwhile gift them from 5000-10000 gold per turn so they'll survive and also improve there view of u (if u gift a faction money, no matter how much, less chance of them betraying u)

next is to try to contain the baktrian power engine
move there armies (command move_character "Captain Antiochos"etc) back to the east, thatll slow down there advance and leave there cities open to attack
and since there armies are far away, the ptolemaios and etc can attack on better grounds

If u can abandon arse to a faction thats greek but also friendly,
Id handly put Epirotes or makedonians there
just to keep the roman/gual from pushing into iberia or vice versa

then a question
do you plan to fight against the "barbarian horde" or the civilized "eastern despots"

from what id do if i was u after the above
id id conquear Nikia and split the pontic lands farther and conquear anatolia down to the ptolemaios and focus ur war to the armenian lands

then its all fun wars there :)

kill the romans, then take on baktria.

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Originally Posted by satalexton

kill the romans, then take on baktria.

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Best advice ever :beam:

"Yeah, just go kill everyone and get super duper emperor" Sounds like a good plan, eh?:laugh4:

Admiring your patience with the game, as I also am one of the "I rule the world" guys:2thumbsup: ,but probably most RTW players are...

i say go for italy to begin with, since its a pretty straight forward invasion and other factions wont get caught up in it. and WHA? baktrians been using tanks or something?

Tanks with long noses i think.

I've not really done any suggests just yet, have taken arse (how did they used to pronounce that one) and sardinia.

I've managed to get hold of a plague. Using spies i've started spreading it across baktria, chemical warfare all the way. Not sure if this will cripple their economy (quite possibly) but the sab'yan have started kicking their arses a bit.

Carthage has moved through egypt so i assume they're gonna have a go at baktria aswell. Maybe there will be a sab'yan empire in place of the baktrian one in a few decades?

hmm, first of all i like your style.. i'm usually not for vast empires too. in my kh campaign i also took only handpicked citys like sinope, syrakuse etc. because i felt they deserved hellen protectionism.

but i always hoped to counter a massive roman empire in the end which mostly did'nt come either of alternate history unfolding or me having not enough patience (my pc is very slow) and i only had last week to do the 12 h game sessions on a daily base - so now i started to play rome myself for the first time in my eb time (lots of nice traits to read though). but i started the campaign on medium, because i felt the diplomacy would not quite work on h/vh, but i do feel it might be getting too easy - although i do see reasonable naval invasion.. hargh i cannot abandon it again !!!

ah and what i wanted to say - i have the same problems - i just can't talk to anybody about eb - my friends are not even rudimentary antique history what can you expect starting a sentence: "..this is when my consul finally took lilibeum from (sp?) safot'softim bi quart'hadast ;) ....

i once told a friend about r:tw and he got it way before i came across eb (actually, i came to it because of a rome mod for mount & blade if anybody knows - get's quite repetative after a while) and i know he will not have the patience to get into eb.. so if he tells me about some r:tw vanilla experiences (he still on it sometimes) i just feel like.. well you know hes my friend you can complete the sentence yourself

anyway big thxs for the eb team - i think i never said it that straight..

and good luck for your campaign (sorry i was now talking more about my own exp.)

Chat away my friend. (i've also got mount and blade)

After a lonely pennyless friday night in with a crate of beer things have changed a bit in my campaign.

Everyone went for me at once, pontus rome and carthage. But alas they're all puny and im kicking their arses now. Took massilia and have been utilizing them 4span arrow projector thingies, good fun. Pontus made a big mistake and ive took nikia off them.

I decided to spread the plague into carthage more, baktria and me have an alliance now, the two big boys on the block vs everyone else is seems.

I plan to sack rome to try and slow down the romans a bit, they are tough bastards even though they can't compete.

I've got an imitation legion in the south of italy, peltasti as hastati, thorakitai and some other stuff as back up. Its been grinding against roman armies for a while so is quite good now.

Carthage's navy's pretty big at the moment so i might concentrate on taking on that for bit and just getting some stability back. Pontus needs a lesson or two, but then baktrias on the other side, then the fun will begin.

Thats how i did it (and still would do it)


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