Don't follow the bad men into the forest! And...
don't put all your eggs into one basket!
OUCH
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Don't follow the bad men into the forest! And...
don't put all your eggs into one basket!
OUCH
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I've never thought about it before, but is Red Riding Hood all about Varus?
I use spies a lot, but form now on will make much more extensive use of spies! It was worse than Custer....
Just of curiosity: which forest (= in which province) & what faction played Varrus & Arminius with you?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmacq
T.
You want details?
If it's about 250 BC in your campaign, basically everything to the North of the Alps towards the Baltic is very unsafe. :skull: It got some nice hidden 'features'... :grin:
That's an underestimation, I'd guess ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
better:
:skull: :skull: :skull: :skull: :skull: :hmg:
... and I who thought this was common knowledge among us players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Treverer
If you want to know what hurts: ask the AI... I believe Diazelmis & Sautes are about to bury yet another two core legions of the Romani under the piles of skulls of previous Roman legions...
People play as Romans?!Quote:
For Those That Play As Romans
~:eek: :jawdrop: :fainting:
:shrug: Well, its their life I suppose.
Well I figure not all people simply stick with smashing Romans... :smash:
I may have found one! I had sent a spy ahead and it seemed only a small army was holding the town with another small army nearby. But apparently....
there was a much larger army hiding somewhere close by. I organize my up-armed Roman armies with about 1/3 missile troops, lots of light infantry, with some medium-heavy infantry and horse. Like an early Roman army. Works very good in open country. Not so much in the woods.
This time I had sent a column ahead with most of the infantry, and a second column with most of the missile troops in trail. Trying to start the seige before winter. I lay seige to the town with the first column, not really concerned about a counter attack, as the second collum would have arrived the next turn. Well apparently....
all three of the enemy armies counter-attacked and forced my first army into the second, that at the time was moving through a very dense forest.
I was overpowered...
wwwwaaaaan
It was like Aliens....
it was a massacre!
some got away, but not many...
We should all hear more stories of mega-defeat, no?
The day I go to Pannonia with Epiros, I'll gather all my veterans, recruit a lot more slingers (& whatever else might be needed, but I'm now forgetting to mention) and then I will enter. Two, better three (= four for savety) full stacks of armies, crossing the border (just a bit) and then waiting for the attack. Either I win (even if a Phyrric, lol) or I'll wait and see what the future brings ...
Yours,
Treverer
I must agree with Pharnakes. Romans Bah. Carthage & Makedon forever!!!
Meh those Mak generals are too drunk to reach their cities in time... So the Epeirotai kinda took out two of 5 Mak settlements that way. And it's waiting till Epeiros eradicates them from the mainland altgother by conquering Thermon. Then it's waiting for the KH to finish Chalkis off.
I mean. C'mon you got your elite barrack up and running, you keep pumping out Hypaspistai, Argyraspides, Pheraspides and Agrianikoi... And then you let the Illyrioi Paraktioi walk into your city, basically?! :inquisitive:
What a choice. do I choose the drunken Macedonians who eventually died honourably to roman swords? Or do I choose the manic depressive, bipolar, low self esteemed, king of epirus who was killed by an old women with a roofing tile ? oh what a choice
Ehh... you people are weird. My Camillans and Polybians drove the Germans out of their western lands, beat them at their own forest games, and even ambushed a coupla halfstacks. Then came the Marians, which the German Kirslininkas gave hell to for awhile, but then I finally broke them on the borders of Sarmatia. No sweat, man! o.O
Nah, I covered the entire German territory with something like 15 spies who roved around triggering ambushes before any of my three fullstacks could march into them.
And further, I never, never divided my troops. The main army in enemy territory always remained as a fullstack. :D
Oh I didn't choose Epeiros... And besides if there's some 'honourable death to be died' it will be the Romans'...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfman
Have u taken on the BOI Eleutheroi (sp) yet?????Quote:
Originally Posted by pezhetairoi
....just a hint... they got a full stack, with GOLD Chevrons :skull:
heh...that's why I play Pahlava...:furious3: YaunaQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfman
Its good to meet a Fellow Pahlavian fan! I hate romans:furious3:and would love running them over with Cataphracts:smile: but i never seem to be able to progress far in a campaign with them.:wall:Quote:
Originally Posted by MerlinusCDXX
Everyone loves Pahlava and their cataprachts.Romans are in the mod so you could destroy them.
Well anybody heard of "defend" option?!?!?!
combine that with: armories (i KNOW u have them), Polybian troops or higher= unstopable army :p
Romans are the beat all faction IMHO. everyone gets beat except for parthia..they die slow (fights with arrows then run...go figure :P).
Everyone player who beats romans CALM DOWN!!! beating AI isnt mankinds greates achievement... phalanxes get PWNED w/out their cav protecting the flanks...
Horse cav relies on running away while shooting arrows, no more arrows/food for horse (in real life)/ testudo means one TUFF fight.
c'mon, Romans will throw pila (if not killing, then slowing u down, no more shield) then give you a wide stab wound..
Thats bad ass.
Interesting Boyar Son (AKA K COSSACK?) seeing as in real life (the one without RTW AI) the "unstopable" armies of rome were "stopped" alot. hannibal repeatedly defeated the romans who only defeated him by the cowardly tactic of attacking were he wasn't. And in real life the romans feared the Pahlava who repeatedly trampled the "unstoppable" armies of rome. ( these to names might ring a bell Marcus Licinius Crassus and the Battle of Carrhae).
Oh realllllllllyyy?! :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfman
Scipio AFRICANUS and TRAJAN might have something different to say.
Didn't Cordubo inflict some some damage to the Parthians?
My point being these people were still feared and the romans were humans not machines. And may I ask where you get some of your sources from? (no sarcasm just curious to learn)Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyar Son
I think your line of posts like this is no longer any fun. You've made a lot of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharnakes
cmacq is overpowered. He hasn't been nerfed yet, so he must still be. Will cmacq be nerfed for 1.1?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmacq
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The family muscle Bovi the Fish enforcing the law. If I were Pharnakes, I'd skip town. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by bovi
A note of clarification:Quote:
Originally Posted by Treverer
those Eleutheroi armies stacks appear via script at a certain moment and I'd guess they disappear too at a certain moment (or are replaced by a beatable stack) at some point of the game.
T.