That one is very cool. Seems like all the major players are still around.
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That one is very cool. Seems like all the major players are still around.
I'd say Pontos or Getai.
Getai, obviously. I've never seen a Getai AI go for Dalminion and Segestika. It's more likely that the Sab'yn have no text because he forgot about them! ;)
Human players would probably be smart enough (no offence) to go for the riches of Hellas. Or at least finish off the Makedones. The campaign probably progressed a while already because Ptollies got ridiculously strong, that takes some time. You probably can't remain at peace with the Makedones and KH for that long.
Saka Rauka plays slow because the lack of cash. Sab'yn player would have Axum, also if you are Saba here you have probably lost.~D
Who could forget about Saba?:clown:
~Fluvius
I didn't even think that my map will encourage discussion what faction I'm playing. I completely forgot to write where Saba is...
Yeah I'm Getai. Playing a slow and roleplaying game. Just recently unified the lands you see in my map and the year is 227BC I believe. At war with KH, who declared war on me just recently (about 2 turns before the pic was taken), allied with Sweboz, Carthage (because was fighting Rome) and Pontus.
My faction leader is defending southern border and ambushing greeks, while my best general (6 command stars +1 when attacking) is ravaging northern Italy.
Overall this campaign surprised me by faction expansion (look at Pontus, continuing Gallic wars, there was even Rome vs Carthage war in Iberia, which now ceased). The only faction destroyed is Epeiros, but I was partly responsible for that. The diplomacy is very nice too. I was constatly involved in Makedonia/KH/Epeiros struggle, alied with one of them all the time, but changing diplomatic stances depending on situation. Macedon used to be the most powerful of the three, then Epeiros and now it's KH. Romans started asking for peace once I was ravaging northern Italy too, really strange as I still shared a border with them, but crushed two major armies.
Very pleasant game so far. Once my general returns from Italy I'm going to burn Greece abit :D
Don't you need to build?:clown:
I've already seen this one, still very nice, maybe I could beat this if I also went for ultra blitz mode.
~Fluvius
Blitzing just got a completly new meaning
https://i760.photobucket.com/albums/...quered-2-1.jpg
Why do I get the impression that I'm roleplaying more than you do... :surprised: :clown:
@HanBaal: how could you conquer the world that fast? :stunned:
G'day folks. long time reader, short time poster.
Would it please be possible when posting your conquests to state what difficulty level you played on the campaign map and the battles?
I've just recently started playing EB (big fan but just got a pc that can run the thing nicely lol) and have begun a Casse campaign on VH/VH.
Thanks
The world looks good in white.
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Thanks for the compliments all. Did this not too long ago in Medium (battle) / VH (campaign) only using Fog of War, most of the times to find my way into the steppes' settlements.Quote:
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"Build"? Check my financial annual report. Do you have yours by the time you finished those campaigns?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
"Beat this"? You can try xD
Wasn't that hard. There are far more unpredictable things in war. How could a 26.000 army and 37 elephants (who died after the first battle due to the cold) cross the Alps, enter a country with a +750.000 recruiting pool of man, kill more than 300.000 better equiped soldiers, destroy more than 400 settlements and remain undefeated in enemy ground for 16 years before leaving with virtually no reinforcements nor supply lines? How could this same man along with his father conquer almost the whole of Iberia in two decades what it took Rome almost 2 centuries and hundreds of thousands of losses to achieve? That I would like to have seen with my own eyes =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexokrat
Hannibal is my hero.
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My nice Sweboz empire. Up to this point, I've been using a lot of bodyguard units to fight all of my battles, but I think I've gotten to the point where I can afford regular infantry. I just lost like 3 FMs in a row in the last few battles, so I should give them a break for a while so I don't lost too many.
The Aedui are my good friends. I share a large border with them, but I pay them a lot of money, and they seem happy enough. I bet once the Arverni get wiped out, they'll attack me. I'll probably send a big army down to sack Rome and surrounding cities pretty soon. I always like to do that in my Sweboz games. I also plan on invading Britain at some point in the near future, maybe after the Aedui are gone.
Update.
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I just thought this was funny.
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My incredibly cheap army that I put together in about 3 seconds just to get the aedui out of gaul.
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My old and crazy good faction leader. Most things rout if they fight him for more than a minute or two. He sucks at governing places though, so I'm just gonna keep on having him fight until he dies of old age. I doubt anything could kill him in battle at this point.
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Gaul, Germania, the struggle over Massalia, and the approaching Lusatanians. I guess my Rome sacking and Britain invading will have to wait until I conquer Iberia. I think the aedui and arverni will keep Rome busy for at least a little while.
Your faction leader has "seen the elephant?" Who did he fight that had elephants in their army, the Romani?
He's a pretty awesome faction leader though
Viperlord, you should bring the battle difficulty down to Medium, anything above that gives unrealistic stat bonuses to the AI's units that completely messes up the unit stat balancing of EB. Very Hard is the suggested campaign difficulty for EB, however many players prefer Medium or Hard because it makes for a better historical roleplaying game, where diplomacy may actually be an option. The VH campaign AI pretty much just focus on annihilating the player and refuses to engage in sensible diplomacy. Not that the lower level AI is much more sensible, but it is a bit better.
No, that is an extension, a final one, of the Green/Blooded/Veteran/Grizzled/StE trait line. You know, the one which measures how experienced the general is by counting the battles. The name just means he saw an incredible amount of experience, so much that he has practically seen an elephant.
Yeah, the Command stars are awe-inspiring. But the Management is laughable. For my Roman generals, 10infl. and 7-10manag. is the norm.
Oh, I never realized that, I thought it actually referred to having fought elephants.
Yeah, management isn't that hard to gain in EB, but this guy probably hasn't spent any time in settlements because he's too busy on the battlefield. Gaining command that high in EB is quite a feat.Quote:
Yeah, the Command stars are awe-inspiring. But the Management is laughable. For my Roman generals, 10infl. and 7-10manag. is the norm.
I don't think I've ever had a Sweboz FM with good management. I'm sure if I left some of the good ones in cities for long enough, they'd get good traits and such, but the bodyguards are great, so I always end up making everyone a general.
And yeah, Seen The Elephant means that he has commanded >25 battles, I think.
I'm thinking I might just give my faction leader a good army and send him through Italy as his last huge campaign. Maybe I'll keep Italy instead of just sacking it. That might be fun. Shouldn't be too hard, the Romans haven't expanded much at all. I guess that could make it harder though, because usually when they've expanded, they don't have any troops in Italy, but I guess all of their troops will be there now.
That too would be a very interesting trait in it sown right.
Well, gaining scrolls and wreaths has always been easier in EB than in vanilla. However, strictly EB-wise, management is more difficult to gain than influence. Practically every single FM I have has 10 influence. Not all have 10 management. That is considerably rarer. Only my best ones have 10 management and influence.
Well, good management is pretty easy to get, I'd say. Don't you just stick them in a town for a while and they'll get better and better at governing? Does it have anything to do with schools? You don't really have to do any work for it anyway. Stars are way harder because you actually have to fight and stuff to get a really good general. I don't know how you gain influence, but I agree, it is very easy to get.
Gentlemen! Let's get back to topic shall we? :clown:
I thought I'd post an update to my Makedonian empire:
The current extent of the Arche Makedonia:
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The Royal Family:
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As you can see my previous Basileus Ισοδοριανοσ has died and his son Νεικον Νικατορ is the new Βασιλευσ. He incorporated the Kart-Hadastim into the empire and managed to form several client kingdoms in Arabia. He also made peace with Saba and the Basileus in Noubaion. He is one of the most brilliant commanders in Arche Makedonia's history and is also a great lawmaker and statesman.
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Currently he is occupied with subjugating the punic colonies in Iberia, and he also aims for taking control of the great and valuable mines of the vast peninsula, which would hopefully restore the finances to it's former glory. Many Hellenic city-states in the region has also asked for his protection and he will not turn down fellow Hellenes call for help.
Some random pictures:
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Any comments are appreciated. :bow:
Note: I roleplay that the Kart-Hadast remnants in north africa is the Mamla'ha biMassylim and that the Punic colonies in Iberia are independent city-states. Also Neikon did not personally conquer Arabia if someone really thought so, he organised it though.
Lol you even got yourself some nice TAB killing machines, who's gonna stop you!~D
What's with the army composition, where did the glorious Makedonian phalanx go? What would Alexandros say?:clown: Did you get Hysteroi Pez btw? Or were you unable to keep the Romani alive long enough?
NICE Basileus btw, good that hes still Argeades Argead Makedonian, he has a nice retinue and is promising enough to reach the ultimate 10c/10M/10I stats!
Karneades Akademikos always accompanies the truly great,~D but you will not match my Ultra-Baktrian Faction heir(do the math with the stats if he was Basileus!)
https://i594.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1268181750
~Fluvius
My budding Saka Dominion:
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more on that later...
Hmm... I always blitz with Saka until I own everything east of the Sauromatae and northeast of the Seleukids (including most of Baktria) and Pahlava. Watch for Pahlava and the Yellow Fever though!
No one, I'm invincible! :laugh4: Lol I've added quite a lot of units (Armoured Indian Elephants for example and I can recruit them in Pella, I roleplay that they are a gift from the Basileus ton Indon whom I have an alliance with).
Glad you liked him, he's quite something eh? I roleplay that he's related to Pyrrhos of Epiros through his great grandmother.Quote:
NICE Basileus btw, good that hes still Argeades Argead Makedonian, he has a nice retinue and is promising enough to reach the ultimate 10c/10M/10I stats!
Yeah I got em.Quote:
Did you get Hysteroi Pez btw?
Cool one that, a bit old for being faction heir though. :laugh4:Quote:
Karneades Akademikos always accompanies the truly great,~D but you will not match my Ultra-Baktrian Faction heir(do the math with the stats if he was Basileus!)
https://i594.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1268181750
~Fluvius
Is he Unselfish/Optimistic/Loyal/? It's hard to find good generals/governors which are still Optimistic at that date.
Mine still got more Management than yours.:wink: They share a hatred for the gods it would seem..
Well after a while I got bored with the phalanx battles (repetitive, too easy, and a bit static) so I roleplayed a Thorakitai reform after my previous Basileus battled the Romaoi and was "inspired by them", I might roleplay later on that the basileus after my current one, "picks up" the phalanx again.Quote:
What's with the army composition, where did the glorious Makedonian phalanx go?
I still like phalanx battles in general it's just that I played a lot of those in this campaign and didn't want to start a new campaign.
Bah! After I'm done with this campaign the feats of Alexandros will seem trivial!Quote:
What would Alexandros say? :clown:
DUUUUDEEE... I see your empires... meh, not bad, but what is impresive is your treasures... damn, you all got like 1278568375634723846 Mnai... when I, with sweboz, I'm jumping of joy when i have like 30 000 (generaly after the capture and sacking of a big city)... wich of corse dosen't stay that much for long!
Well Swêboz have a relatively weak economy compared to the factions round the Mediterranean.
Well yeah, i play with 'em since about a year and something, i just love to clubs my opponant to death! Mouhahahaha! economy isn't the only issue. I'm playing on Huge settings, and ouf... the population is hard to maintain... the cities loose their folks real fast, and less populace means less income and PAF we just entered in a vicious cercle, as even without high end income, I still must field a pretty expensive army to face multiple fronts... roman to the south, and gauls to the west... Still I love that, it really give a challenge! Now, I also got a kick for Koinon Hellenon
That sounds good. I'll have to try the Sweboz, again, on huge settings. I try to RP the ancient germans by keeping my populations very low and recruiting hordes of cheaper units. When I play on other settings (large) my cities still get too populated too quickly.
Also, like you said, I think there's nothing like facing off against the elite, armored forces of the enemy and beating them to death like baby seals! Or just generally using low level units to defeat better troops. (Even moreso if you play as Saba)
On my Sweboz game, I almost always have my cities on low taxes. It helps to keep the population from getting too low. I also use a lot of mercenaries. There's a very good selection near Sweboz homeland, and if you move down towards the alps, you can get even more.
Here's a glimpse at my aggressively expanding Sab'yn trade empire;
first, AS assaulted the faction heir's company patrolling the deserts to the south-west of Charax Spasinou,
then, Bostra sent an embassy to request help against the Ptolemaioi.
As the king had just returned to the Red Sea with his part of the royal army when word of the emissaries
reached him, he gave orders to bolster their local defenses with money from the royal treasury and seized
the opportunity offered by this casus belli to occupy the remote province of Eritrea, cut off from Ptolemaic
reinforcements by a huge army of brigands and unemployed mercenaries roaming it's north-western reaches.
Soon, when the extensive re-location of Arabians to the western shore of the Red Sea progresses so far as to
allow for a sufficient garrison to ensure the loyalty of the new vassal state, the king and his army will embark
on a perilous but potentially very rewarding sea voyage to pillage the jewel of the Ptolemaic empire, Alexandreia,
and to take from the Ptolemaic remnant the southern reaches of the Levante.
In the mean time, the faction heir's forces retaliating against the trespassing AS will liberate Babylon and put an
end to Syrian dominion over Mesopotamia and the Keleuthos Bombykike.
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... no cheats of course 'cept for the toggle_fow to make the screenshot of the campaign map, and constant building
in all settlements from the moment enough money had been saved to start building mines in Carna...
This is the point where playing Saba becomes very multicultural and factional troops are limited to a small core around
the general to maintain order and discipline within the armies of regional troops.
Most valuable troop type so far: arabian archer-spearmen.
*EDIT*
The year is 263BC, would have progressed faster but the immense distances to cover while uniting Arabia and the impracticability
of moving the capital when the chief source of income lies in southern Arabia (=>corruption...) make for sluggish expansion from
Charax onward in the east and all but impossible expansion anywhere west of Axum...
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edit: oops wrong thread and double post. sorry. :shame:
Hey long time lurker. I just got onto a new Roman campaign with the mini-mod pack installed with BI. I gotta say loving it.
Witness the fruits of the 42 year long rule of Consul Lucius August Cotta
https://i266.photobucket.com/albums/...gustsCotta.jpg
He personally conquered Sicily, Gualish part of Northern Italy, the roman possesions in Iberia, and the rest of Gaul during the last years of his life destroying both Gaulish tribes. But crowning moment of his reign was him getting the Glorious Fool trait and now the Glory Hunter forever enshrining him in my favorite generals I ever played with.
Whoa! Did the Romaioi clone Alexandros or something?! That's one of the best faction leaders I've ever seen! Now if he got more management.....
He used to have +2 more management than he does now but he got some negetive traits....
lol hes still alive too I expected him to die right then and there when he finnaly got the city. But hes made it to age 71 and hes been sent (with his army) to Iberia to quash some Carthagian strongholds since my second Punic war has commenced. Though hes gotten a bit "testy" in his old age...
eddit: Longest lived faction leader I ever had with the Romaioi. Hes been Consul consectively for at least a decade if not two decades...
WHAT SMELLY BARBARIANS??? come and say it in front of my Gawjam sweety, we'll have a chat... XD
How can your guy be Augustus in 230 BC? Did you mod it some way?
And also, just something I've had on my mind, why is it "Augusts" instead of "Augustus?" -M
Augusts does not sound very latin, does it?
lol He either had to hate them or feels sorry for them. The entire campaign against the barbarians in northern Italy and Gaul has been one of mass enslavement and depopulation. Every time i conqurerd a barbarian city with him it was the ensalve option. So he got quiet proficent at it. I imagine Rome got at least nearly a hundred thousand barbarian slaves from his campaign.
I figure its from one of his titles like the Glory hunter. Since he inspires his men so much.
Augusts-inspiring awe or admiration; majestic: the august presence of the monarch.
As a counterweigjht to that Roman imperialism I think we need a nice Sweboz one.
https://img297.imageshack.us/i/romet...918404696.png/
I attacked no one before they attacked me, even Casse. Took some rebel cities in the British Isles then they decided to attack me, so they got it- all as I expected from mad AI.
Game played in 1.1, never succeeded in updating it. And last Saturday-Sunday night with its power turned off, my pc fried its motherboard and harddisc, so the good pics of its progress are all gone :-(
Edited to add, Why on earth can I never post pics? It is here.
Well... you know... barbarians and tech...
I link to the pic though, you should like it.
*gets out the sword to teach the computer a lesson*
Thank you, and yes, it is a nice little empire there, pretty powerful- I like to take the British Isles for their economy (and as a Danish Viking fighting re-enactor I love to emulate my forefathers and invade Britain). I intended to go back at some point to the saved game and take the map as I understand it has never been done with the Sweboz, but motherboard died :-(
Guess I will have to start a new one at some point. But now for Romans.
Though... trying invasions of Gaul and Brittany by sea only and emulating the Vikings thus would be cool, a campaign where I invaded all the places they did chronologically... Hmmm...
Well, taking over the Casse as Sweboz is more like the Anglo-Saxon invasions....
Angles, Saxons and Jutes, the latter being... me, Aarhus is the capitol of Jutland ;-) But it is Viking re-enactor I am, and it is UK, Ireland and France that pulls.
Sweboz empire comming soon! i have a dilema though... I've conquered the whole casse empire but one small settelement with their faction leader (well... the last fm, as i killed all others. so it's a faction leader with 1 command 2 Management and only the influence that his title confer...) with, waiting the fatidic order, 2 stack of silvered chevron (because of multiple campaining in gaul and UK) blood thirsty german led by the best general i ever had (because of the same campains) with the titles of restless warmonger, famously couragous, conquering hero, hate celts, hate stranger, hate slaves with all command bonus that it implies, pillager ... anyway, you get the point... and still, I can't resolve myself to raze that village to the ground (as I did with the whole of their civilisation) because of a nostalgy to see the dissapearence of a culture. so, fellow conquerors, what should I do? Give way to my compassion and let them live in their far away village on the north part of northen britain? or unleash hell and satisfy the flesh eating general that served me so well in all those pillaging of western europe?
The dilema is also because the Romans are dangerously near, with very experianced units due to multiple battles with Aedui, and though i've blacksmith in every cities, the princi[pals armies are in britain and only fresh troops guard the Father Land...
Those Wealisc have bothered you long enough! Kill them all!
https://img12.imageshack.us/img12/64...rixvillage.jpg
Leaving your conquest short of just one Celtic town is a BAD idea :clown:
@ Conqueror
ahahahahahahahaha
ha ha ha ha good point.
As for those pesky Wolhoz, Kill them, The Vikings left Alfred alone, look what it did to them.
lol well i did kinda rush the campaign I found resupplying Gallic Swordsmen and Calvary far easier to manage in Gaul. The Roman units are doing garrison duty their more loyal to keep territories with... Plus i found Gallic swordsmen and Sammites better than Princeps.... Especially with Konny's allied legions mod which only Rome can recruit the roman units....
Edit: now that i have the poly reforms ill start using more Italian units eheh...
https://i266.photobucket.com/albums/...ampaign215.jpg
Right doing a update on my ongoing campaign. This is where i left off for today. Lucius August Cotta finnaly died on 222 BC at the venerable age of 78 but not before he campaigned in Iberia to take the Punic settlements there and to once and for all finish them off in Africa at their new capital in Ippone.
Current Player Faction Progression:
Romani:
War in Iberia: Shortly after Lucius August Cotta took Gader the Iberian Tribes attacked our newly aquired settlements leading to an ongoing mainly defensive war against them having only taken Tyde and Numnantia since the onset of the war.
War in Greece: The War in greece was set off by an failed assasination attempt against a member of the Eperiot Royal family in order to further stalemate the ongoing Greek Civil War (which was going in Eperiots favor at this point). This lead the Allied Legion (the main army that was under the command of Lucius August Cotta in Gaul) to be resembled in Italia under a new commander grandson of the late Lucius August Cotta. Having taken the western greek coastal settlements away from the Eperiots and the Allied Legion moved upon Pella. After a siege it was taken however feeling threatened the Koinon Hellenon declared war against us and attempted to move against Kydonia. Having failed to take the city and diplomats failed to establish an armistice between us we have had reports the Eperiots and Hellenon have entered into an Alliance against us..
War in Africa/Eygp against the Ptolemaio- The war intially went badly for us since we only had a parterly number of roman soldiers in Africa and only a mercenary garrison in the city of Lepki. When the Ptolemaio army attacked with their army of medium and Elite Phalanxes the city's garrison was inevitably overwhelmed. However Roman gold won the day when a new mercenary army was raised near Kart-Hadast and requiped with roman steel (blacksmith upgrades) and then sent against the Ptolemaio garrison at Lepki. The Mercenary army was intercepted outside of Lepki and while the battle was bloody it was decisive. The mercnary forces pinned and flanked the purely phalanx force and utterly decimated it. With their forces in tatters in Africa the town of Lepki was soon taken back and 2 years later a Roman Legion took the city of Kyrene and is waiting for resupply/renforcements to continue expansion into Eygpt.
War against the Swêboz- After making the Getai thier protectorate after a bloody war of expansion a rather small Swêboz army decided to attack the town of Dalminon. To say the least the ignorant barbarians were repelled and our legions on the Romani-Swêboz have begun their attacks against the rather lightly garrisoned Swêboz settlements having already taken one of them in the first year. We have another Romani Legion from Italia heading up from the Alps into Swêboz territory. Swêboz will soon learn the error of attacking the might of Roma. (rather stupid AI move they attacked Dalminon with an insufficent force when they had only 2-3 units in each of their settlements on their border with me since most of their forces were pacifying the Dacians)
You will find many a rant (of mine) against the AI Madness of just that sort if you search the forum.
I find that on M/M the problem is only 90% on average as in every 5th or so campaign the AI shows slightly more sense.
ya though main surprise to me in this campaign was the life of Lucius August Cotta.. lived to the ripe age of 78 and destroyed 3 enemy civilizations of Rome both fueding Gualic tribes and the Carthagians. Never had a faction leader live that long.
Also was surprised about Macedonian relisiliance and the Pontic expansion. The Macedons have mainly been fighitng a war against Pontos for the past oh couple of decades (they rely mostly on regional troops since the other Greek factions pushed them out of most homeland regions).
guys, I want to post here my sweboz empire, but I don't know how to post a picture so people can see it here, i mean, not just a link. what do I have to do to post it directly as a picture?
Easy, go for example to: http://tinypic.com/
Browse for your file (pic). When it's done uploading you see: Image-Code for forums (the code with the [IMG]....[/IMG]
copy that code and place it in your message.
Just look at this code for example (you got to click "Reply with Qoute" to see the code):
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guys, fellow conquerors, here I present you the Warrior of the Century, undefeated, battle after battle, campaing after campaing, Behold the Great Hrjawulfaz, who will spread Havoc and Hell to all neighbouring faction, and who will dine at the table of the gods after dying gloriously in battle :
https://s797.photobucket.com/albums/...1-54-43-20.jpg
Soon, pictures of his conquests will come!
Can you guys see it? coz i can't... offff... if i can't do it I'll just post a link, I'm ereally cursed when it comes to informatic...
No, can't see it. You're using the wrong code.
https://i797.photobucket.com/albums/...1-54-43-20.jpg
this is what you want, no?