So is it me now ? Where do I pick up the save ?
Cant do any until tomorrow evening. Probobly wont play many years...but hope to expand the empire a bit and beat up our foes.
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So is it me now ? Where do I pick up the save ?
Cant do any until tomorrow evening. Probobly wont play many years...but hope to expand the empire a bit and beat up our foes.
The uploaded game is titled Juliipbm250.zip. Find it here. [url]http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
Watch out for Alesia, I sent a spy up there and found out they're producing chosen swordsmen. Right now Patavium(? the city in the east side of the po valley) is our only Princepes producing city.
Is this the right file ?
A picture from the campaign/save just downloaded and before I have done anything.
https://img337.imageshack.us/img337/...i250ii8.th.jpg
That's it. ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
Zimfan, my report is finished, only i have to add 3 photos and that report is finished!
Three more turns and we are reciclying the players
Sorry for the trouble, but can you move me to the end of the line? If I am elected Consul in Will of the Senate there will be no time to play the Julii reign, and I still have a Vandal write-up to do.
Played 1 year tonight. 9 more to play.
How many days to go? I will run out of time before I do 10 years.
Strictly speaking, 5 days. But to be honest, if you take another 12 days, I don't think anyone would mind much. I know you are a reliable player and AFAIK, there's only me after you (I think GeneralHankerchief won't be free any time soon) and then we'll recycle the players.
:2thumbsup: Cool. Schoolwork has prevented me from doing more than a rough outline of my writeup, but intensive writing will start after school tomorrow. I should have mine up in a few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
One question? ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
A question in answer to the one question asked above:
When are we going to gain our revenge....or have we already done so ?
Well, we started to. The first ten turns or so of my reign consisted of using a smallish field army to take on several large Gaulish armies in the field while an even smaller one of ours sieged our lost city(with a stream of reinforcements from the other one) and consolidate control of the Po valley. Then I put two half stacks together and headed west. I think the city to the farthest west I took is Narbo Martius.Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
I also spent time repairing our rather poor infrastructure(didn't have a single paved road at the start, although out military buildings were very good), keeping taxes as high as possible to pay for them and the troops and enslaving conquered cities to fuel population growth. :2thumbsup: Most fun I've ever had playing RTW.
Anywho, with any luck you'll be finishing the revenge on those filthy barbarians. ~:)
We lost that city, i doesnt played it, we have a clear defeatQuote:
Originally Posted by Zimfan
I have a few pictures ready to post into the write up.
Nearly captured another region....
Wait to Zimfan to make his reports
I'll post a placeholder to edit my writeup in. Class is out at noon tomorrow, and I'll be spending the weekend on my writeup. That way you can post yours if you finish before me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
Hows the write up going Zimfan ?
Ive got loads of pictures..and a few captured regions. For my write up its the uploading of pictures that takes all the time. Im not a story teller...
It seems like the Senate is now leaning the other way.
You can put me back in line as I'll most likely have time to play this now.
Pretty good. I have loads of pics that I'm sifting through tonight, but now that I have time I should be able to finish it tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
:2thumbsup: Ok, my writeup is done. I hope it's ok. Sorry about the wait guys, school was pretty busy for me last week.
:laugh4: I just want to note the extent of lameness felt by me after reading Severous campaign writeup and noticing how he's accomplished far more in half his turn than I did my whole one.
Also wanted to say that I got a new computer to play the MED:TW2
New computer! :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping:
^Zimfan
'Money is the sinew of war' Isnt that one of the quotes the game has ?
You built up our infrastructure and coupled with the military already in place you both set the scene for the Julii expansion.
I wont complete 10 years in my turn. I have played 6 years and can do a couple more but I want to adhere to the max of one week rule.
So next in line get ready....wednesday this week isnt it ?
Hi
My turn has ended.
I completed 6 years and moved a few units in the summer of 244BC.
I need to pass the game on now as I want to complete my write up over the next two evenings before I go away for a week.
The save campaign:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Juliipbm244s.zip
The campaign has plenty of action to pick up:
- How to capture Ireland. There are stronger navys around. I was growing the Briton town nearest to try to get it to build a port/ship.
- Spain. Fought 3 big battles over turn end. Spain has an invading force our lands.
- I have two equites in the Greek/southern Italy area. Opportunists to take over Brutii seiges perhaps.
- Archers have arrived near the fort in Dacia. Time to take Dacia?
- We have a powerful force in Scythian lands poised to invade the last German land
- You can wipe out Briton this turn
- German leader beseiges one of our forts
- Palma has a garrion of lots of town militia. Played carefully we can take them with a weak invasion force if we can spare it from Spain.
Lots to do.
Enjoy.
That's a prodigous 6 years, Severous. :bow:
Now it's over to GeneralHankerchief.
Savegame downloaded and picked up.
You certainly gave me a lot to do, Severous.
You can take two weeks, if you like, GeneralHankerchief. I think the faction counts as "big" after Severous's conquests.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
Waiting for news.
Caius
Blah.
I've just been going through my screenshots and realized that the legionnaires have fallen victim to the Curse of the Pointy Limbs.
Being a bit anal about this, I don't want these uploaded to the Org. Anyone know an in-game way to fix this? Thanks.
??? What is the curse of the pointy limbs?Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
The arms and legs of the soldiers are filed down to points, so all of their limbs look like cones. As a result, they have no hands or feet and it looks ridiculous whenever they're supposed to be wielding a weapon (which is always).
Sorry, I have never encountered that one - you could try asking in the Colosseum or Apothecary.
Maybe the unit detail is very low
Generalhankerchief, by my reckoning, your reign runs out on Wednesday (27th Sept). I wouldn't be able to play until the weekend though, so would a handover be possible by a weeks time?
Any news or write ups ?
Generalhankerchief just finished his Vandal write-up (haven't had time to read it myself yet, I confess). I'm happy to wait a little longer if he wishes. Just so long as we don't let this campaign die.
Ok, reign's done. It's all yours, econ21.
Savegame: http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Juliipbm234s.zip
Just a couple things that looking at the savegame won't tell you:
-Manius Victor (Julius) just lost his legion outside of Vicus Venedae, but escaped with two other bodyguards. It's best if he retreats to Dulcus Domus Dulcus or another nearby settlement.
-The Spanish army sieging Corduba has done it before, but whenever you sally out they withdraw (oddly enough, on the battle map and not campaign).
-There's a Senate mission ordering us to blockade Scallabis. A bireme is en route.
-"A Chance for Power" has just come up.
I have a long weekend, so if we're lucky the writeup will be up soon.
Finally, just a little something I found while playing:
https://i113.photobucket.com/albums/.../julii_017.jpg
Enjoy. :2thumbsup:
Thats me:laugh4:
Caius Flaminius, first Bruttian diplomat
Already!? :dizzy2:Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
:2thumbsup: Looks like if I do get another turn, it'll be in the middle of the civil war. Woohoo!
Write-up's done.
Hopefully the events that happened in the third post won't limit anything, econ.
Nice write up GH. :2thumbsup:
Like the strategic blocking in of Brutii. Were there any opportunities to work with our allies the Brutii ?
Nah, they've mostly been going for Southern Greece. I think we'll beat them to Byzantium, which is my goal for every Julii game.
And the Scipii have just loaded up on armies in Italy and Sicily but haven't done anything with them. So the Civil War'll be a barrel of fun... :juggle2:
Thats a good writeup, noy my try-of-write-upQuote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
We have forgotten a thing:
The story telling!
From Econ21's writeup:
"Instead, his arrow lodged in Manius’s neck and Manius the Victor, the hero of the Julii faction fell dead, his blood staining the snow on the steppes."
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, carry on.
From econ21's writeup "Why does my father believe I am any less a man because sometimes I prefer snails to oysters?"
:laugh4: A Spartacus fan I take it?
:2thumbsup: Getting ever closer to my turn...
OK, I'm done:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Juliipbm224s.zip
I think we are recycling old players, so it is back to Caius Flaminius, is that right? If so, Caius, it would be fun if you could continue the story idea of grooming Amulius's two sons to be Emperor - ideally designating one of them faction heir if they appear worthy enough. I think Empires should be dynastic, rather than just choosing the most influential heir as the computer does.
Zimfan - your turn is indeed close (next after Caius), but it may be a hairy one. I am not sure Caius will want to start the civil war yet, but we should be ready in 10 years if he works towards that goal.
Econ21, well, at least that ensures an exciting reign for me. ~:) If for some reason we're not up to a civil was by the beginning of my reign I'll make sure we are by the end of mine. :charge:Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
Ok, starting rigth now.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
Caius
EDIT: I cant play, I'm having a CTD when i try to end turn.
Please help me!
After seeing this post, I downloaded the game and gave it a try. It's working for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
Did you remember to extract the file before putting it in your saves folder? That's the kind of thing I'd forget to do.
I load the file, i say macrch attack, etc, i end the turnm and CTD!!:help: :help: :help:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zimfan40
Caius
From what Zimfan said, the savegame is fine - it must be your copy of RTW. As I said in my PM, uninstall and re-install RTW is the best I can come up with, sorry.
Could there have also been a problem with his download of the save? In that case, it might be as simple as deleting it and redownloading.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
I doubt it - a bad download probably would not allow the zip to be unpacked, still less permit you to get to the end of a turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zimfan40
Who is the next?
I have to download both patches...again
and reinstall, obiously.
Caius
Zimfan's next - do you want him to play before you?
Yes, he can.
PM he.
Caius
If anyone knows a way of fix this PM me.Thanks
I can play the next turn, but I have a midterm tomorrow, a midterm Wednesday, and a midterm and quiz on Thursday, so I'll be held up with studying until then. :book:
:2thumbsup: I can do the campaign this weekend. From the look I got of the save, I'll have a lot of consolidating to do, but I can make sure that come time for the civil war, we'll be ready.
Remember the Senate Missions!!
Regards.
Caius.
Missions noted and about to be accomplished! :2thumbsup:
May I suggest that we amend our victory condition? I say we should try to eliminate the other Roman factions, or at least push them out of Italy and Greece. Our empire is so large the Civil War could only just be warming up by the time we've gotten up to 50 provinces+Rome.
I say, start the civil war now if we have full stacks in Italy, because Arminium and Arretium, doesnt have too much troops enough to start. If you feel you are prepared, do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zimfan40
Caius
We don't have much in Italy, yet. Econ21 disbanded many of our troops to A. Build post Marian reform troops and B. Provide the much needed cashflow for those new troops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
~:) Luckily, all of our Italian cities and many or our cities in southern Germany and Gaul can produce the updates units, so I am amassing a brutii and Senate killing machine of an army. I'll likely have the needed troops on the ground in the second half of my turn, but I'll be lucky if I can conquer Italy before my turn ends.
I AM SO LUCKY!!!!
I CAN PLAY NOW!
AND NO REINSTALLS!!!
I FIXED IT!!!
Caius
:juggle2: Well, you have two choices now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
:book: Because of midterm exams in college this week, I've only played through most of one turn. I wouldn't be finish my turn until Friday.
1. You're welcome to go ahead and take your turn back. Most of it will be spent building up an army of taking the Brutii and then playing the very start of the civil war(to see their strength, look at the second from last pic in our writeup thread. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=68309 ).
2. Or I could go through with the rest of the turn. I'd probably finish up this weekend, and you'd take it up at the beginning of our turn, taking the armies I build to victory against the Bruttii. :charge: :duel:
:bow: Either is fine with me.
Take the second option :2thumbsup:
Caius
:2thumbsup: Works for me. I'm looking forward to trying to develop Econ21's story, and to the climatic start of the civil war after years of bulding up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
Curse you imageshack! ~;p
All my pics are showing up blank in my first writeup. And If I recall correctly, I'd had to redo them once already shortly after I'd written the thing. I'd fix them again, but the pics are long gone from my computer. Does anyone know of a more reliable place to host the images for my upcoming writeup?
All of my midterms are officially done today. :book:
Got home late(I have a night class Thursdays) but managed to get in a couple of turns. Looks like Publius Maxentius is about to become even less popular with the faction leader. Campus Sarmatae revolted. :sweatdrop:
Other than that things are going well. :2thumbsup:
I hope to get through most or all of my turn tomorrow.
Ok, 5 A.M. here and I'm not quite done. Think I'll call it a night. The reign so far has been rather more exciting than I thought it would be. Desert armies popping out of nowhere, several revolts in formerly Sarmatian towns(all of which are about to receive new government buildings relieving us of most of those terrible culture penalties.
:2thumbsup: Just started the civil war. I have a feeling that as soon as I hit end turn, all heck's going to break loose. I'll probably fight more battles this upcoming turn than the rest of my reign combined! Many a pixelated Roman life will be lost over the next six months. :skull:
I moved away from Imageshack due to its unreliability.
Try this site.
http://www.theimagehosting.com/
Its been great for the last month ive been using it. Allows upload of 10 images at a time.
I recommend saves with different names between each battle.
:2thumbsup: Thanks Severous, I'll give that site a try for this writeup.
Caius, I finished my reign. I have the save in the .org filespace under the name Juliipbm214civwar.zip .
The civil war is on and the Brutii and remaining Scipii are ticked. The Italian cities I took are garrisoned by the armies that sieged them. If we can get some crap units to take their place as garrisons, it'll free up about 4 full stack, post Marian reform armies. Several Brutii stacks are making their way to our border cities in Scythia.
Technically we need only one more city to "win" with fifty settlements. I'd take a screenshot of the win scroll to post at the end of your writeup, then keep on going until the other Roman factions are dead. Not only is that much more interesting than playing a turn to take only one city, but it would cement our faction's position as the only Roman Empire. :2thumbsup:
I have to :hanged: the other romans and remove from the map?
Playing now!
Ok people.
Caius Flaminius is proud to announce this PBEM has finished.
:yes: , it is finished.
Much thanks for every one of the people who wanted to play this PBEM.
Regards
:2thumbsup: Woohoo!Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
Did you wipe them off the map? :skull: Or take the 50 province win?
The 50 provinces
For some reason i cant edit my post.The button doesnt work.
Zimfan:Remember the writeup!!
Well done. Another PBEM completed. :2thumbsup:
My first PBEM completed.I thought this never runned.
I'm will be organizating another, but later
~:cheers: An accomplishment to be proud of. Most of the RTW PBEMs on the site died before finishing, especially the big imperial campaign ones like this one. Can't wait to join the next one! Any ideas on what it might be? MTW2 is coming out soon. :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius
I will do the writeup. Got my notes ready and everything. Unfortunately my report on Ciudad del Este for Spanish class and my paper for my Mayan culture class take precedence, so it might be a few days, but it will be done. :yes:
Check the poll.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zimfan40