I thank the gods your AAR isn't dead!^^
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I thank the gods your AAR isn't dead!^^
This is more than good news. You seem to be keeping everyone alive with your AAR.
Just a word of advice. Next time something fails in your computer, like something really important as the cooling element, try fixing it. Trust me things can get worse (got a friend who managed to fry EVERYTHING because he didn't clean up the dust from his CPU vent).
Rejoice! The AAR is saved! Now, with your downgraded video cards, you'll feel the wrath of ultimate lagging that I have been through too! Equal sharing of misery!:laugh4:
Hallelujah! Praise [insert relevant computer-related deity here]!
Turn off the shadows if you haven't already. My home computer (the one I play EB on) is three years old, but it runs EB fine with all the shadows off. [/obvious mode]Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
I don't think anyone will really notice the difference in your screenshots if you make a few key sacrifices here and there. Just make them a little further away, or turn up the detail for the duration of the shot. Anything to keep the AAR moving. :2thumbsup:
If all else fails, try sacrificing a live goat. Don't do it conservative style, either; leave all the meat and fat on the carcass. Make them gods happy as hell.
How do you turn all the shadows off? I've disabled every shadow option I can find, but the units still have little black circles on the ground next to 'em.Quote:
Turn off the shadows if you haven't already. My home computer (the one I play EB on) is three years old, but it runs EB fine with all the shadows off. [/obvious mode]
Yipppeeeeee!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the support, everyone. Sorry for all the drama. :drama2:
Hopefully I won't have to sacrifice anything big and can continue the quality of pictures I've been trying for. If everything works as it should, I'll try to get an update posted before the end of the week...
What drama? You call that drama? That was nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
maybe you should start backing up ur savegames (making a copy of it and putting it onto a flash drive or an external hard drive)?
Whew! I know your pain MAA. I had a hard drive crash one time that completely destroyed my RTR campaign. I had to abandon the AAR for that game and it was just terrible. Its funny how you become so attached to something like this
If your copping the lag on the campaign map, try taking the shadows off on the campaign map, just lower all the details i spose.
The problem is that I can't just save my save file. The version I'm playing isn't v1.0 and isn't savegame compatible with v1.0, and there is no way to download this particular version anywhere. I do save savegames, anyways though. I even have a savegame from my v0.80 Romani savegame, even though it is probably impossible to recreate the heavily modded 080 version I played on.
I played a while and turning off shadows (especially on the campaign map) makes the game run as fast as it would with my old graphics card. I keep shadows on most of the time and deal with the lag, though. I prefer lag over poor graphics. :shrug:
I was looking into getting a new videocard, but my motherboard is so old that I can't even get any new card that is top of the line (I have AGP interface). I was thinking of building myself a new computer, but have never built one before and am a bit hesitant...
what are you hesitant about? I recently built one so if you have any Questions you can ask me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
If he's never built one before, then you're asking for alot of questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoofa
How did you get the knowledge to make your own computer?
Indeed.
For instance, I was looking at processors. I have never thought about anything more than the GHz on a processor, yet there is so much variation in other categories and stats.
You can still get the Geforce 7 series with AGP interface, and that's fairly up to date. Not top of the line, but definitely not bad. But in the long run it might be more cost-effective to just save up some money for a new, complete computer later on.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
Anyway, it's nice to come back to this great AAR to see it still alive (in spite of that computer death scare :skull: ).
Sorry for the delay. I've been busy trying to figure out what to do with building myself a computer. Here's some stuff I'm wondering... What is the best Intel processors, Core 2 Duo or something else (Pentium D, Xeon)? Should I go with a motherboard designed for DDR3 or just stick with DDR2, since I get get twice as much for a tenth the price? Besides that, I thinking of getting a GeForce 8800 (of some variety) and a 1TB harddrive...
But, on topic...
I have written the next chapter and I'm going to go over it once more, then post it...
Chapter 27 : The Romani War (Part V)
Problems In the East
In the eastern parts of the Makedonian Empire, the city of Antiocheia (named for a Seleukid ruler) had long been the center of administration. It is where Aristotelis, hier to the throne, has run the empire from while Demetrios is off fighting the wars. The city has been the headquarters of the eastern army, which has a core of old soldiers who had been in Antigonos' original army, the one he taken across the Hellespontos to begin the war with Ptolemai.
Ever since the surrender of the Ptolemaioi, Aristotelis' attension had been on establishing firm control of the newly conquered regions in the east. Even though Aigyptos has its share of rebellions, the truely difficult regions had been those south of Syria. To counter unrest, Aristotelis had taken his army south to Nabataia. The region of Nabataia is too far from the core territories, and too poorly suited for agriculture, to settle Makedones in the region. The only way to subjugate them was with a show of force.
While Aristotelis is away in Nabataia with his army, the Ptolemaic Assyrians take the weakened state of Antiocheia's defenders as an oppertunity to betray the Treaty of Zuegma. Marching a small army west, the Ptolemaioi besiege the Syrian garrison of untrained levies:
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Rather than tire his army and march them north, Aristotelis decidea to force the Ptolemaioi into spreading their forces out across a wide front:
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Back on the Romani front, the Romani are finally capible of launching a counter attack against the Makedonike holdings in northern Italia. In Ariminum, where a large number of Hellenic levies besiege the city, Pyrrhos sallies out to confront them:
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The Hellenes are disorganized and undiciplined. As a result, the Illyrians have a large advantage over them, and easily outmatch them:
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Killing general Scipio in the fight, Pyrrhos is quick to spread word of his victory against greater numbers, even though the Romani stood no chance, dispite their numbers. The remaining Hellenes disbanded and flee into the hills:
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In Arretium, Gelon is left in command of the garrison. His father, Nepos, had gone north to Bononia to set up a center of government for the newly conquered regions. Now, Arretium is besieged. The army besieging the city is stronger than that which attacked Ariminum, but is mostly comprised of Gallic allies that have been cut off from their homeland:
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As Gelon prepares his men, he soon finds out that the city gates had been sabataged. It seems that the locals will require more proof of who is truely in charge of them, after the battle. To counter the chance of the Romani taking advantage of this weakness, Gelon orders his Pezhetairoi to defend the gates:
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When Gelon marches his army out of the city, the Romani become frightened and turn to flee. Gelon leads his cavalry after them, killing many:
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Killing half the Romani forces in a rout, Gelon wins the day:
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In Kyrenaia, Antisthenes decides to lift the siege there as well:
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Taking many losses, Antisthenes manages to force the Qarthadastism to flee:
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Starting before the Ptolemaic betrayal, Aristotelis had been implemented a new system of land grants. Rather than granting lands to soldiers, Aristotelis authorized an Empire-wide grant of land to locals in order to increase happiness amoungst the common man. In Makedonia, the system is taken further, to develop large, highly productive farming estates, but in most parts of the empire only a simple grant of land to locals is implemented:
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Along the Danube, Herakontides, nephew of Nepos, marches an army west. Taking advantage of the fact that the local army is away, Herakontides attacks the city of Iuvavoaeta in a suprise attack:
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The town is completely suprised by the attack and the fact that the gateways are damaged. Successful infitration by the Makedonike spy network has guaranteed the gates will be open. Herakontides orderes the untrained Celtic peasants forward to attack the gate:
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Once the peasants have tired the gate defenders, Herakontides ordered them to withdraw and moves in his Celtic mercenaries to finish them off:
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With the walls taken, taking the town is only a matter of getting to the center of the town and holding it long enough to encourage the remaining defenders to surrender:
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To the east, the Ptolemaic siege of Antiocheia continued, but the Ptolemaioi manage to gather enough men to attempt to lift the siege of Palmyra. Chares, first born son of Ptolemai V and heir to the throne, leads the counter attack:
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As soon as the battle begins, Chares moves his cavalry in at Aristotelis' flank. Countering him, Aristotelis charges his entire cavalry force in at the enemy heir:
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Two heirs of two of Makedonia's great dynasties fight it out on the parched desert battlefield:
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The battle doesn't last long and Chares turns and flees the battlefield. Aristotelis moves his cavalry back to the battle line, but Euphron Theadelpheus, governor of Palmyra, attempts to flank the line:
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The Thrakians counter Euphron while Euphron's army attack the Makidonike phalangitai line. The Thakians quickly cut through the Ptolemaic cavalry and kill Euphron Theadelpheus. Their general dead and taking losses, the Ptolemaic force turns to flee. Aristotelis quickly wipes them out before they could join forces with the last approaching Ptolemaic army:
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Once in possition in front of the Makedonike line, the last Ptolemaic army decides to hold their possition and not attack the Makedonike pikemen. Aristotelis takes advantage of the situation to rest his men. After a sufficient rest, Aristotelis leads his cavalry in a charge of the Ptolemaic rear:
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As the cavalry repeat charges against the Ptolemaic rear, the Thrakians move in and attacked both flanks:
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The enemy is soon weak and beginning to faulter. Seeing the weakness, the Makedonikie phalangitai line brakes formation and charged the few remaining Ptolemaioi:
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Though the Ptolemaic king's son has escaped, few other Ptolemaioi manage to join him:
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After the fall of Palmyra, Ptolemai V Dyskolos marches out of Edessa with an army of his own and prepares to counter Aristotelis. The Battle of Palmyra has cost the Ptolemaioi about a third of their military, but the foolish king decides to risk more in an offensive attack:
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Back on the Gallic front, the city of Aventicos and the Romani general Numerius Cornelius Blasio has finally run out of food, supplies, and time. Rather than surrender and save their lives, the Romani opted to fight to their death:
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Sallying out of the city, north of the great mountains, many Romani die under a rain of sling shot:
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With no options left to him, the Romani general charges Neikolaos' Celtic mercenaries and has his men fight to the death:
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The poor Romani general quickly falls and Neikolaos moves his men on to take the walls of the city:
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As the Makedonike army takes the wall, the remaining Romani and their allies retreat back to take shelter at the temple in the center of the town:
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Killing all who resist, Neikolaos takes the town, greatly reducing the Romani forces in Gaul:
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To the south, Pyrrhos fights off another Romani siege:
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Using the superior skills of the Illyrian cavalry...
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...Pyrrhos wins the day once more:
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Tired of the Romani counter attacks, Pyrrhos requests that he be permitted to invade the remaining Romani core territories of Italia. With Nepos too old and Pyrrhos' elder brothers busy elsewhere, Demetrios grants Pyrrhos permission to invade. Pyrrhos sends word to Epieros and Makedonia to build an army, but wishes to invade as soon as possible, before the Romani can rebuilt their military. Sending word the the Syrakousian nobles, who rule Sikilia for the time being, Pyrrhos arranges for all excess men to be sent into Italia to retake the territories in Kalabria. Pyrrhos plans to join them, but the Sikilians and mercenaries start the renewed invasion ahead of him, by besieging the Romani garrison at Tarentum:
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The known world in the autumn of 206BC:
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Next: Chapter 28 : The Romani War (Part VI)
how did I? it seems like your saying I seem like an inferior person to have the knowledge of computer building... :smash:
Anyway, I did it on my own, its pretty straightforward if your good with your hands and have a semi-decent head on your shoulders, usually with your mobo theres instructions so just follow them.
(or at least mine did. :laugh4: )
Uh, no. I was just asking how you learned how to make a computer.Quote:
how did I? it seems like your saying I seem like an inferior person to have the knowledge of computer building... :smash:
So you built a working, gaming computer with no prior computer experience? You build it from scratch?Quote:
Anyway, I did it on my own, its pretty straightforward if your good with your hands and have a semi-decent head on your shoulders, usually with your mobo theres instructions so just follow them.
(or at least mine did. :laugh4: )
Glad you're back again.:2thumbsup:
Very good picture for my taste.~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
Another amazing chapter, MarcusAureliusAntoninus! The Romani shurely do put up a decent fight:laugh4:
Ah, nice update! I do have a question though...
...how is it that you fight so many large field battles? The majority of the battles I have are sieges and sallies with tiny armies that randomly wander around in the fields. Do you just sit your armies in enemy territory until they join together and attack you? Is there some personal modification that you did? Whatever it is you did, I would like to try it too since sieges aren't too interesting...
...but anyways, keep up the good work! So what's next? The Romans seem to be running out of steam. Will you turn north against the barbarians or head back to the eastern front or something entirely different?
I just hate the Romani AI recruitment.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
*Dreams on about fighting proper, hastati-principes-triarii-style armies*
But yeah, nice update.
That empire o' yours seems to be getting quite big, bit by bit.
100% trueQuote:
Originally Posted by The General
Thanks for reading, everyone. And thanks for the comments.
Centurio Nixalsverdrus; I took that picture in the way my father always said. "When taking a picture of distant things, try to have a something close to 'frame' the picture." I was suprised at the detail visible in the close building.
BerkeleyBoi; I usually end up besieging a town, then wait a few turns. The AI will usually send a reinforcement army that causes the battle to occur in the open field. It is hard to draw them into a try field battle unless you counter an invading enemy or happen to run into the enemy while invading, yourself.
The Romans are almost gone, but they still have a little fight left in them. The Romani recruitment sure is a mess, but I just call all those swarms of foreign levies, 'allies'. After I killed that Gallic and Hellenic army in Italia, and now that they are cut off from Gaul and Taras, their last army in Italia is at least Roman. Mostly Polybian Pricepes and Pedites Extraordinarii with some Polybian Triarii.
wow MAA, you can that inferior graphics? its alot better then mine- im running an integrated card w/ only 64 mb. but im getting an GeForce FX5500 (256 mb, w/ heatsink and fan) and more RAM very soon....
i hope you kill off those romani and ptolies very soon... then start on the AS..... ill be rooting for you!
EB seems to be all about the RAM. I thought I would loose a lot more with the downgrade, but the only thing I've noticed is reduced frame rate. Though, my downgrade wasn't that bad, the card I'm using right now is probably about a middle quality card, not a low quality one.
Chapter 28 : Kalabria
The Romani War (Part VI)
Ever since Pyrrhos of Epieros had lost Taras to the Romani, it had suffered neglect and disdane from the Romani. Even though the region's value to the Romani had simply become a source for poorly trained Hellenic levies, the Romani weren't about to let it go. Sending an army to counter the invasion before Pyrrhos Argeades could join up with them, the Romani engage the Italian mercenaries in the fields outside of Taras:
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The mercenaries line up with the Italians in the center, the Baleric slingers in the rear, and the Hellenistic Peltastai on the wings. As the Romani approach, the Italians open fire with their javelin:
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While the majority of the mercenary army fight off the Romani levies, the elite Samnite mercenaries go up against the elite Romani Italian infantry:
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Completely outnumbered, the Romani army soon brake. As the garrison of Taras approaches, the mercenary army charges in at them:
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The Taras garrison brakes quite easily as well and flees back to the city. With the enemy defeated, the Italian mercenaries quietly return to the siege of the city:
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As the winter of 206BC hits, the Ptolemaic forces in Syria became desperate. Having looted the land, they seek to take the city before the winter hits its hardest:
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Polykratis Mekybernaios, son of the governor or Kilikia, was put in temperary command of the Syrian garrison when Aristotelis had travelled south. Now, Polykratis is to fight his first real battle and the stake of the battle is the province of Syria. With a force of mostly levies, the only real soldiers Polykratis has available to him is two units of Pezhetairoi and a few Thakian elites.
As soon as the enemy siege equiptment comes into range, Polykratis orders his archers to set the towers on fire:
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One tower catches fire and burns to the ground, but soon the enemy ladders and ram reach the walls:
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Moving down the wall, the archers open fire on the second tower. With the sides exposed, it quickly catches fire:
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On the western side of the gateway, the Thrakian elites slaughter all who came over the wall without much effort:
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But on the eastern side, many Galatians pore over the walls and begin to wipe out the defenders of the walls:
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Soon the gateway breaks, but by this time all of the enemy infantry is on the walls. With the gate opened and the eastern wall looking like it is going to fall to the enemy, the Pezhetairoi retreat back into the town to take up a more defendable possition.
With the west secured, the Thrakians move across the walls and begin to confront the Galatians:
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On the far eastern side of the fight, the Makedonike defenders have nearly all fallen. Soon, only two brave men hold the wall:
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When those two men fall, the Galatians turn all of their attension toward the Thrakians. Loosing more than three quarters their numbers, the Thrakians fought forward and continue to slaughter Galatians. Down to a handful, themselves, the Thrakians wipe out ever last enemy soldier on that wall:
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[80 Thracians killed about 300 Galatians. When I was done I had 29 Thracians left. It almost felt like cheating.]
Their infantry is gone, but the Ptolemaic generals hope that the garrison city is too weak to defend the city any longer and charge in through the open gates:
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Polykratis, who had circled his cavalry around the outside of the city, follows the Ptolemaioi in the gateway and confronts General Idalieus Anemurionios, just inside the city:
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The Thrakian elites, who were strangely unfatigued from thier fighting, rush from the walls and join the fight:
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Idalieus soon falls to the Makedonike cavalry and Thrakian blades, but in the center of the town General Marathos Philates moves against the town center. Fully prepared for this move, the Pezhetairoi set up a trap, blocking off en entire roadway:
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Rather than going across the city to go around, Marathos charges the Pezhetairoi. Reinforced by archers and skirmishers, the Pezhetairoi hold off the enemy cavalry long enough for Polykratis to charge in from behind:
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Marathos falls dead in the streets of Antiocheia. Polykratis has won his first true battle and ensured Syria remains in the Makedonian Empire:
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After the battle, Polykratis disbands the few remaining mercenaries and levies and starts to train a professional army to defend the town and reinforce Aristotelis. The Thrakians, too, are releases from service. Polykratis makes sure they are given large land grants in Syria in appreciataion of what they have done.
While Syria rebuilds and repairs after the partial occupation, Kart-Hadast land troops in Kyrenaia and besiege the garrison of Kyrene yet again:
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And to the north, the Athenai port is upgraded, an upgrade that would have been impossible without direct Makedonike influence:
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With Syria safe, Aristotelis opts to avoid the armies of Ptolemai V and his son. Aristotelis, instead, moves north to attack the Ptolemaic capital while their king is away:
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Back in Kalabria, Pyrrhos and his Illyrian cavalry have arrived by ship and combine with the Sikilian force of Italian mercenaries. Soon after joining up with the army, Pyrrhos is attacked by an army of the Romani under command of General Numerius Aurelius Cotta:
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The Italians march forward to confront the Romani:
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As the Romani approach, Pyrrhos orders his army to hold possition and throw their javelin:
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As the two armies enter combat, Pyrrhos flanks his cavalry around both sides...
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...and charges them into the Romani rear:
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General Cotta dies and the Romani break. While Pyrrhos leads the cavalry against the fleeing Romani, the garrison of Taras arrives but is greatly outnumbered:
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Wiping out both armies, Pyrrhos marches into Taras:
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The citizens of Kalabria welcome in the hero, Pyrrhos. The city has suffered greatly since the expelsion of the Epierote garrison nearly a century earlier. Pyrrhos Argeades promises them peace and prosperity, telling them that the Romani will be destroyed. Back in Makedonia, the army assembled for Pyrrhos begins its trek westward.
Handing over all territorial gains north of the mountains to the Gauls, Neikolaos marches his Celtic army south to attack the remaining Romani in Gaul. Coming to a bridge, Neikolaos finds it blocked by the Romani general Marcus Aurelius Cotta. Knowing that the opposite side must be gained in order to attack Romani holdings, Neikolaos prepares his army to attack:
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To ensure a foothold on the other side, Neikolaos orders his Massalian Hoplitai across first:
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Marcus Aurelius Cotta attempts to hold back the Hoplitai. As always, the Romani cavalry are too weak to accomplish their goal. The rest of the Celtic army crosses the river as the hoplitai push back Cotta:
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After his men kill Marcus Aurelius Cotta, Neikoloas crosses the rest of his army and prepares to confront the local garrison, who had sallied out to assist the defense of the bridge. The two armies clash, but the only ones that can hold their ground are the elite Gallic troops and Numerius Aurelius Cotta, father of Marcus:
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In the end, anger over the death of his son isn't even enough for him to hold his ground, and Numerius flees back to the city defenses as his army is wiped out:
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With no Romani garrison left, Cotta defends the city alone. To counter Cotta, Neikolaos dispatches an assassin, who sneaks into the town. Word soon reaches Neikolaos that Numerius Aurelius Cotta is dead, and the region falls to the Makedonian Empire:
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[I only had a 20% success rate!]
With the defeat of the majority of the Romani in Gaul, old Basileus Demetrios makes plans to head west and see if the stories of Makedonike treasure were true:
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Also occuring around this time, Aristion, king of Pergamon, dies. Chrysoloras takes the opertunity to move his army in from Lesbos and integrate the last Hellenistic client state into the Makedonian Empire. After this, only Galatia and Sophene will remain as client / puppet states:
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The known world in the summer of 205BC, seven years into the Romani War:
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Next: Chapter 29 : How the Mighty Fall
unfortunatly the computer which im playing EB on is low grade (it only has a PCI slot!), and ive upgraded most everything. all thats left is the video card. (i was going to get the Geforce 6200, but it didnt have a heatsink and fan, so im getting the FX5500.
btw, great update!
EDIT: oooh- whos the one that falls? the ptolies? the romani? or you?......
has me on the edge of my chair!
PS- this really should be made into a book.....