very nice everyone! though im not playng EB until V8 is out. it just goes slow on 1.2!
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very nice everyone! though im not playng EB until V8 is out. it just goes slow on 1.2!
Paullus' postcards:
Since I haven't taken many campaign map shots, this may be a better way to show off my campaign...
We start from a large hill overlooking the Oxus, not far from Baktra itself...
https://img445.imageshack.us/img445/4910/oxus4qn.jpg
From there our sightseeing tour moves into the central Hindu Kush in summertime:
https://img183.imageshack.us/img183/...ndukush0uy.jpg
And on to the forests and mountains near Taksashila:
https://img174.imageshack.us/img174/...dukush25jh.jpg
Then back west, through mountain passes toward a warm vacation at the partly-Greek city of Alexandropolis:
https://img174.imageshack.us/img174/...nborder3ps.jpg
But seeing how it was summer, we headed further south, passing through Karmania en route to the luxurious resorts at Hormuz:
https://img174.imageshack.us/img174/...armania1ru.jpg
We then took a look toward Persis...
https://img174.imageshack.us/img174/...opersis9sf.jpg
...before heading north toward the wooded valleys of Ariana:
https://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3626/ariana4xe.jpg
It wasn't too long after that, when the Yuezhi "invited" us to visit the northern Hindu Kush...
https://img183.imageshack.us/img183/...bekmtns2bp.jpg
...and even take a quick look toward the mythological realm of China (though admittedly it was a little hazy, what for all that billowing smoke coming from the city...and the pezhetairoi swear they don't know how the fires started):
https://img445.imageshack.us/img445/...rdchina0vt.jpg
About the time our Seleukid overlords got all pissy, and so we were forced to head back west to throw off their yoke. We let one live, to go tell their king we would no longer give earth and water:
https://img334.imageshack.us/img334/...ethimgo5dx.jpg
hope y'all enjoyed it!
:2thumbsup:
very nice postcards Paullus, here's my actual empires, please note that i play very slowly, 1 or 2 years every couple of days, so im still in the 3th century for all three empires.
So here weare:
1) Gauls (VH/M) 241BC
2) Parthians (VH/VH) 226BC
3) Greeks (VH/VH) 223BC
Ive choosed this three faction according to different factors:
1)Gauls, because from were i was a child and i studied Roma, i had some sympathy for the gauls, but RTW had no care for this civ, so thanks EB i can try finally give a stop to Roma from raising in the Northern Europe.
2)Parthians, well same of above except that im a great fan of the Eastern civs, and when we studied Greece at the school, i dont know why i always was for the Persians...
3)Greek, i dont know, i have not a particuallary attraction for this civ in the history, but it is the more accurate in EB, so i had not but to try it.
here are some descriptions and my current campaign maps for the three empires:
1) Gauls:
ive already conquered the Arverni, and have unified the Exagon, but im having a very bad moment with Cartaginians (from Iberia) who want to take Emporium at all costs, the romans are not giving me much problems cause i can handle it with my Gaesate, but ive actually only 3 army, one on the north, one on the Sud-East (this is the more powerfull cause it have to face Roma), and One in the Sud-West that is guarding Emporium. I think that after ive stabilized my frontiers with Roma, i will take care of Chartaginians, sending a big army to invade spain, that's all.
https://img340.imageshack.us/img340/...cempire0lj.jpg
2) Parthians:
this is my more difficult campaign, im conquered a abaut 12,13 provinces, but im still facing Seleucids and Bactria, My biggest town is Kiat, that i consider my economical capital.
https://img93.imageshack.us/img93/42...nempire1ew.jpg
3) Greeks:
this campaign is very funny, cause the greek oplites are not so good to attack, so i have to manage almost all my battles on the defensive, and i must say that defending a place with a full parade of greek oplites is a great spectacle. i must also say that the Torakitai (theuroforoi++) are really nice, and are good to protecting the fanks of my oplites. And there are some very nice cavalry unit too. In definitive i must say that this faction is very accurate and nice to play
https://img93.imageshack.us/img93/84...kempire5xd.jpg
The gauls and the Parthians are the slower to play since im actually writing some aars, so i cant play them free, but im trying to follow a storyline
The greek are my "jolly" faction, cause i play it without have nobody to tell abaut my game, i can play them more often (i have not to write about what i do in the campaign).
I was having also an YuèZhe campaign that was the first faction (really) i tryed when i downloaded EB (but i sadly stopped the campaign when i had the bad news that this faction will be cruelly eliminated), im an eastern civs fan as you know, now im waiting for the new China Han faction in EB0.8 (with the new map spreading to the pacific ocean), i know it will be great and im anxious to fight the romans with my QinShiHuangDi Elite Guards!
that's all
PS and here's my preferred pic (washed-out) from my gallic campaign
https://img102.imageshack.us/img102/...at011ic5au.jpg
Heh, I like the picture Obelics. One naked dude in the middle of all the action. Nothing like a Gallic full moon to brighten up your battle.
Really, really beautiful pics, paullus.
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How exactly did you do all of that by 271 BC? It would take me a good 30 years. I'm pretty bad at campaigns though so maybe what seems amazingly fast to me is normal to experts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obelics
Edit: Oh wait, it's 241 BC. That makes a lot more sense.
TK is already having a good time and it's just now 9pm on a Friday night. :grin:
and this is nothing, i have a pic (taken from the front side) of a full stack of this nude dudes charging triarii spearmen, ah i love these guys...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wonderland
Is this Han China faction official?
By the way, the First Emperor was a dynasty before Han ~;)
yes it is official in the 0.8 of my dreams:juggle2:
anyway you have preceded me, i was just running here to correct it, omg if one of my collegues at uni read that ive lost my face...
I wanted to say a WuDi or a GaoZu army spreading to West against romans and taking all Europe... i Know QinShiHuanDi was the emperor of Qin dinasty and not of Han, but i dont know what i was thinking while writing, what a good think to be anonimous on these forums...
anyway i was referrring to a generic Qin/Han faction that cover the EB timeframe since the Han start in the 206 bc
They aren't mine. They are Paullus's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obelics
The Romans are invading Crete in your KH campaign? That's cool, I've never seen the AI make naval invasions in any of my EB games.
ah sorry lets give Kaesar what is of Kaesar:2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ludens
in fact they aren't invading, they actually are "neutral" but there is a stack of them in Crete i dont know from how many turns, whitout doing nothing, i dont attack it cause i dont want to start a war with Rome...Quote:
Originally Posted by Conqueror
Go Team China! :china: :hongkong:
Obelics: If you plan on keeping Crete and keeping neutral, I suggest not moving your troops away ~;)
Roman commander (while at sea): allright men, see that coast? Well, that's Crete. It should be easy pickings, and its got easy women
[Cheers]
Roman commander (after landing): hmmm...(surveying garrison)...well, men, what do you say we just sit tight then? Right? Right!
Quick update on Carthage.
The Makedonians attacked, pushed my forces into Thermon and beseiged the city, reinforcements from Carthage landed and the siege was lifted without a blow. Makedonian elite troops faced the Carthaginians on the peninsula and despite some heavy losses the Carthaginians surrounded and defeated the combination of Hetairoi, Hippeis, Hypaspists, pheraspidai and Phalangitai. Two more armies attacked the Carthaginians on the same plain but were routed with fewer losses, The Carthaginian troops now beseige Corinth and are about to face the last threatening stacks of Makedonians, may Baal save us.
Aulius has started a campaign through Italy to eliminate the numerous rebels that have sprung up.
No, sir that particular pictureQuote:
Originally Posted by Obelics
https://img415.imageshack.us/img415/...guiclip3oe.jpg
was most definitely not a Bowel Movement. :stare:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...omanEmpire.png
^^ The Roman Empire at it's height, Cheexsta. Turns out you should have kept the Caucasus ~;p
OMG are they really going to have the chinese han empire included in 0.8!!!! Thats like the entire world now except america nice :)
:inquisitive: What?
However, it is a Battle Map.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorba
@ Darkarbiter:
No that's just wishful thinking by Obelics. They'd need a whole lot more faction slots to expand the map that much eastwards and do it even half-hearted justice. And the Han empire wouldn't exist at the start date, "China" would still be going through it's Warring States era.
Doesnt BI double the faction slots for the RTW engine. So once they upgrade to BI they could do it
BI never increased the faction limit. CA just replaced the factions already there with different ones.
I don't believe the EB team intend to use BI anyway.
Khelvan announced a long time ago that the finished version of EB will run on vanilla R:TW. Off course, this does not exclude the possibility of an EB 1.1 for BI. Also, a 1.5 -> 1.6 port is relatively easy, so no doubt we'll be seeing BI ports for EB 0.8 onwarts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justiciar
Gah!
Around 2 months with no EB due to a corrupt install of 1.2 was all I could take...
Yesterday, I went and uninstalled R:TW and BI, cleaned my registry keys, reinstalled, used the automatic 1.2 patch instead of the difficult .zip files, and finally played some EB...
:balloon3: :2thumbsup: :balloon: :2thumbsup: :balloon2: :2thumbsup:
So good...
*gurgle*
Anyway, here's my new Epeiros campaign, winter 270 BC...
https://img320.imageshack.us/img320/1725/1qj4.jpg
Instead of foolishly going for Southern Greece, I reigned in Pyrrhos's capricious tendencies, and sent him to consolidate his holdings in Macedonia... After all, the starting army I gave him (a 14 unit basic Hellenistic army) did wonderful against the levies that defended Macedon (hey, Pyrrhos already defeated Antigonos II 2 years ago)...
I also meant to keep Taras, as in due time I would send old Pyrrhos off to subdue the Romans and conquer Sicily. Luckily, I had started building a stone wall immediately, because as soon as it was finished, a Roman army came knocking...
The incredibly inept A.I. failed to take advantage of my pitiful garrison, and so a couple of archers along with the towers decimated the attacking army, and the two units of levy pikemen finished them off...
I have now sent most of the Macedonian-conquering army to garrison in Taras, and signed a ceasefire with Macedon. Time for some economic buildup, and then Italian campaign redux... :2thumbsup:
RR: In that position, historically it doesn't seem hard to understand that consolidating power in Macedon and taking Pella would have been the best option for Pyrrhos. It's too bad (or good - depending :grin:) that he tried to move into the south of Greece. Dumb move. Every time I play as Epeiros, Pella is the first place I go, after I get a treaty with the KH, and usually the Getai too. It's a great place to recruit troops from too - not like some (currently) poor illyrian provinces or into central italy.
True, even if I hadn't modded descr_strat to give me a decent starting army, with the majority of the Makedonian army in southern Greece, it seems idiotic not to go after Makedonia itself... The Epeirote starting army will suffice to at least take Pella...Quote:
Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
Anyway that's the beauty of EB, so many different scenarios to play out... :2thumbsup: