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Nice Makedonia, nice AS, nice Pontos.:2thumbsup:
Hey thanks for commenting on my AS. It has been shrinking gradually, and is not as mighty as it once was. It's been pushed from all sides you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
The same Aedui campaign in 210 BCE:
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I was going to sack Massilia, but the Romans intervened, and in a typical fashion occupied the city after they had "liberated" it. My AS is going hard on Parthians, but I don't think they'll be able to wipe them out. Epirus took Thessaly from the Macedonians and are sieging Athens.
A half a decade ago the Iberians swarmed down from the mountains and descended unto Gaul. After five years of gruesome warfare the coalition of southern tribes pushed them back beyond the mountain range. In a bloody but heroic battle in the streets of Emporion, the city was seized, with its Greek inhabitants still trembling from the Iberian oppression. The tribal chieftains agreed to give the city back its independence, on the condition that the Greeks would keep the Iberians from invading Gallic lands from the south. The Greeks agreed and joined the alliance of hellenic states as their farthest colony. The relief is welcome for the southern tribes, for the Romans are laying siege to the Arverni town of Gergovia.
By the way, would I be killed if I was the first to post a topic in the brand new EB2 forum?
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Epiros campaign in 233. After a long and bloody war Epiros under Pyrrichos Aikides has secured its European frontier on a line running from Massilia in the west through the Alps and along the Danube. Peace with the Romans, alas, cost 100,000 mnai, but they have their hands full with the Sweboz who are Epirote allies. There has been a very active espionage campaign in the Asia minor provinces of the Arche Seleukia to the point that Ankyra and Amaseia have more Seleukid Satrapy buildings than any other types. :7ninja: Carthago was sacked to prevent any quick response to an invasion of the islands west of Italia. Basileus Pyrrichos sent an expedition to Aigyptos in response to a desperate plea from his allies, the Ptolemai. The expedition arrived just in time to relieve Cyrene and has pushed on retaking Alexandria and returning their cities to the rightful ruler. The expedition has already fought off four Seleukid armies and plans to liberate Upper Egypt to strengthen the Ptolemai. It also benefits Epiros by pulling more troops out of Asia Minor in preparation for the main invasion there. Macedonia and Pontos were both killed off within the first 10 years. Macedonia in a huge battle for Chalcis lost 4 family members and ceased to exist and Pontos fell to the Seleukids. Baktria has barely hung on with its last city under siege several times from the Seleukids. The Lusotana are a protectorate of the Karchedon while Rome in its Gallic incarnation has allied itself to the Aedui and Averni in fighting the Sweboz.
In other words a great game!! :2thumbsup: :yes:
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191 BC, I'm playing the Sweboz.
Wow what happened to the Selucids!!?? Nice campaign it looks like. Ive always wanted to play the barbarian horde :)
I was suprised about Selucids too! Too bad I have no clue how they got decimated so badly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chirurgeon
Are you using one of the new money scripts?
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Pahlava campaign update, 190 BC.
The Romans and Carthies are officially at war now. Hooray! Though with the various wars they are both in, it might be awhile before they start rumbling in earnest.
Rome lost the Celt-Iberians to rebellion but have continued wearing down on the valiant Gallic resistance. Patavium has done a remarkable job of throwing back several Polybian legions of good quality.
Nothing has changed hands in the mainland KH-Rome border, though a couple armies on both sides have mauled each other pretty badly. After separating the Baltic KH acquisitions from the homeland, the KH has started bringing up quality troops, stalling the Roman advance but as yet being unable to push it back.
As expected, the revolt of Syracuse cost the Carthies dearly. They have been eliminated from the island and its now a tussle between Rome and KH.
A general trend has been an increase in revolts. As far as I can tell, its because a lot of the big players are losing military strength solely because they are involved in so many conflicts that they are not able to focus their strength. The Carthies setbacks against the Ptolemaioi are illusory since those are revolt-based and several quality stacks lay nearby to take the cities back. The KH lost Serdike to revolt to the Getai and the Bastarnoz to the Sweboz. Most of Carthie-land is in near or open revolt. The only ones not being terribly affected are the Romans, with the exception of Iberia.
The Getai are also moving well, taking a territory and sieging Gawjam-Silenjoz.
The Hai, though at war with me, have taken another province, though they are beginning to funnel their firepower towards me, which is much like throwing meat into a grinder. As can be seen, I've taken Armavir and will take Kabalaka, Kotais, and Ani-Kamah to cripple their MIC system, then see if they are willing to accept peace.
The Saka are done for. I'm debating as to wheteher I want them as protectorates or not.
The Ptolemaioi are kickin', but anew round of Elite Carthie pikes will probably reverse their fortunes.
The Maks have started assaulting the KH again, taking Byzantion. Who says a faction can't rise from the ashes?
I've taken Hieroslamya and that's as far as I want to expand in that direction, unless the Saba decide to get rambunctious with me, in which case I will make Arabia mine.
Some BI-influenced goodness: The Carties took Crete and have landed a force on Rhodes, the KH have landed a force on Crete, and the Romans have landed on Alalia (or whatever that close island is named). So the fireworks shall be fun.
All in all, great campaign.
Sweboz campaign, 230BC
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I was preparing an invasion of the weak Aedui, but then the Romani threw a big ole monkey wrench into that one by launching a massive invasion of the Eleutheroi tribes south of me, forcing me to head over there to make sure they didn't get too far. Fortunately the natives of Vilendicoppidos (sp?) beat their arses back, and the tribesman of another whos name I forgot (directly south of Vilendicoppidos) appear likely to do the same. Nobody claims land earmarked for the Sweboz :smash:
Now the problem is getting it before the Romani while avoiding the swarm of Eleutheroi that gushed into the area at their arrival. The Romani are my allies, but I won't let such a potential power begin creeping into my domain. Not acceptable. The Aedui are just waiting to be liberated, but the Romans are acting up and I don't feel like going through the whole army construction process again to simply make a second one.
In other news, Baktria is quite literally ramming a large phallus into the AS' rear, much to the delight of Seleukia's western enemies...
I don't know what happened to Carthage, they just kind of died on me. They were looking like they could have been something great, possibly even keeping the Romani busy while I sneakily snatched central European territory, but alas they suck.
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Hayasdan campaigne in 205.
Selceudics are down and the only thing saveing them from a sure dead is me :laugh4:
Macedon defeated koinon Hellon in Greece early on and than kicked epurios hiss ass.
Carthage went mad and conquerd the Romans lol Phalava isn't fdoing much same with Pontos.
Baktria had a great empire before they went to war with me.
Getai are doing well expanding for a change in most of my games they don't evven conquer on settlement. Rome is allmost dead ater losing Italy they lost are tehir legons and are now using levies
Sarmatians and sweboz are at war in the steps and Sarmatia is my ally so I can decide to go and help them defeat Sweboz.
Barbarians make babies fast, I agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Dayve
precursor of the Schleiffen plan in WW1 :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Veris
it's their oil... thats a super-upgraded mine structure, the oil dilling fieldsQuote:
Originally Posted by Conqueror
it's their oil... thats a super-upgraded mine structure, the oil dilling fields[/QUOTE]
LOL!:laugh4:
LOL!:laugh4:[/QUOTE]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobolicious
its true :beam:
I wish I could show my map, but I am consistently CTDing so I am going to reinstall, reboot PC, and all that... seemed to have helped last time, which was awhile back, and if I play for less than a couple hours at a time it seems to be ok too
but I think i will need to restart...
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Bi.exe, my changes to the money script (stronger Eleutheroi, more money at the start for factions and random money bursts), decreased building health bonuses (by half), decreased slingers number per unit and increased their cost (2x, upkeep = cost/4), decreased income from mining (~20%), decreased "AIGeneral" Command bonus when attacking and defending (less confusion and better AI results) and decreased pirate spawn rate (to 300) and brigands spawn rate (to 100).
Casse campaign, 220 BC. Great campaign, many, many interesting things going on. I united the British tribes in ~247 BC and from that point my economy was very strong. I maintained the alliance with Arverni and Aedui and established trade rights with every faction. Arverni is under the protectorate of Sweboz. I didn't want to break the Celtic alliance from several reasons, the most important one being that I was and I'm still gaining 1/3 of my income from trade with the Celts and the Sweboz. Therefore, I turned my eyes to the certain peninsula on the south, where lands were possibly as rich as mine. And then it began... My invasion of Spain was going bad right from the start. My 2 fleets with one and a half stack and a big band of agents were forced to perform an "emergency landing" in the Arverni territory, as the pirates had almost destroyed my ships. I lost a general and a half of my bigger stack in the disastrous siege of Vellika and eventually was forced to retreat. It was then when I realised that conquering this peninsula won't be easy. I captured Pallantia and send my forces to siege Numantia. Before I was able to capture the city, the Lusotana attacked me. The situation was not good. I had no governor and barely any units in Pallantia, and I didn't want to lose more of my forces in the eventual assault of Numantia. I was forced to lift the siege and attack the Lusitans. It was my first big victory and I was damn proud of myself. Meanwhile, I was preparing reinforcements in The Island, as the pirate fleets seemed to simply sail away. I captured Numantia and when it was looking better and better, the Lusitans performed a counterattack and I lost the city. Now I was angry. My wrath brought me some great victories and I captured Tyde. Moreover, my reinforcements had just arrived: a full stack with two young generals. Within two years Vellika and Numantia were finally mine and the Lusitans were forced to retreat. And then the Romans came... They captured Arse and Mastia from the Carthaginians and in an intense assault they captured Numantia from me. I haven't retake it yet. I'm building up my Celto-Iberian forces in my three cities in the peninsula. I've managed to establish a ceasefire with the Lusitans and eventually formed an alliance with them and the Carthaginians. The Celtic Reforms have just happened. While it may look as the situation isn't as intense as before, I have very ambitious plans. First, I pull the Romans back from the peninsula and annihilate the Lusitans. Then, with the riches of both The Island and the Iberian peninsula I will invade Gaul from the north and south at the same time.
Carthage is the most powerful faction here, with the Sweboz as the close second. Recently, the Carthaginians have conquered the Sicily and taken the Corsim back from the Romans. Rome is quite good, while the Epeiros is strong. The Macedonians are fighting for survival, while the Koinon Hellenon are mainly restricted to the isles. It looks as the Seleucids are done here and everyone is taking as much as they can from them. The Ptolemaioi are still quite strong, but they are progressively falling down to the Carthaginians. At the beggining, Pahlava was a dominating force in the East, but now Baktria is the strongest. The Sarmatians were expanding for a while, but then the Armenians took some cities from them and the Eleutheroi and now things aren't looking good for the nomads. Pontos and even Saba are doing quite well, but then, every nation around the Seleucids are doing well in this campaign. Things weren't looking as bad for them [the Seleucids] until the Ptolemaioi conquered some cities in Asia. After that, the once mighty Arche Seleukeia just fell apart. Oh, and yes, THEY moved. Yep, really, it's not a joke. The Getai moved and are doing rather well. It's great.
Generally, I'm really enjoying myself. It's one of the best campaigns I have ever had in RTW. Thank you, EB, for this massive enjoyment.
Still the same Aedui campaign in 200 BCE
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A legendary Boii general, who united the tribes of the Alps and brought his hometown to alliance, who became the elected leader of the Aedui and its allies, saw the decline of the city states and Macedonia and figured the Epirotes would surely start raiding his territory unless he acted first. He gathered a Boii horde and went on a rampage pillaging everything as he headed toward Epirus. After many glorious battles and fun times, he was killed in an ambush near the Illyrian-Epirote border, after which his army began making its way back towards home.
At the same time south of the mountains, the new elected leader of the alliance lost a great battle against the *bleeping* mother*bleeping* bastards that some call Romans but I call *bleeps*. The *bleepers* got their hands on the whole of Po valley and will probably never let their *bleeping* hands off of it. Because of this, the defeated general, who managed to escape beyond the Alps, became completely mad. I don't mean like "He's really crazy!" type, no. I mean he's *bleeping* NUTS, a complete and utter whackjob. The type that when I look at his traits, I get genuinely scared.
That, plus Carthage is trying to expand from Iberia... I'm completely *bleeped*. At least it's 200 years till J-Dog reportedly spawns, so it calls for some celebration.
damn that sucks your general got ambushed. Ive lost generals to riots in cities. That really blows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaatu
Here is my Carthage campaign around 200 BC:
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Amazingly only one faction has been eliminated after 70 + years of fighting. Finally AS isnt raping the whole map. Although Macedon is on a serious rampage at the moment.
Here's my Casse campaign, 234 BC.
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By lumberjack14
The Arverni and Aedui were doing well for a while, until the Arverni were destroyed, and the Aedui are being conquered by the romans.
Rome, 262
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Rome, 252
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Rome, 242
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Rome, 232
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Rome, 222
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The rise of Bactria and the bizarre Indian expansion by Parthia strike me as rather interesting. I have no idea what the Parthia AI thinks it's doing! Likewise Armenia's expansion to the northern Black Sea in the 230s seems slightly odd. Note that Macedon still survives - the little black dot is Lesbos. Also note that Getai took Bithynia in the 240s.
Gameplay notes: I've been allied with the Arverni for most of the game; currently also allied with Sweboz and KH. Epirus and Getai are KH protectorates. Scripted war with Carthage, fought to their destruction, then I wiped out the Lusotanians because they were small and I had big experienced armies right there with nothing much to do. Lots of rebel spawns let Arverni beat me to some of the northern provinces in Iberia. They also beat me to Vindelicos by just one or two turns. Ptolemies attacked as soon as we shared a border (when they took Kyrene). The expansion of KH into Asia Minor in the 220s is partly my doing, my spy flipped Halicarnassus to them again, putting them at war with the Ptolemies and Seleucids. Since the Ptolemies are, ahem, busy :beam: KH is doing just fine fighting the Seleucids over there. Roman financial support probably has something to do with Pontus and Armenia clearing the last two Eleutheroi provinces on the south coast of the Black Sea, and perhaps also with the continued survival of the Aedui. I haven't even spoken to the Bactrians since a map trade in the 260s though, and haven't spoken with Parthia at all - that's 100% AI work over there.
I'm running one of the money scripts, but no other modifications.
Baktria starts out as the 'rebel to' faction for Indian provinces. But they are also eastern in culture, which means parthia is the best one to choose for that. That works out ok, but then later, when they upgrade the size of the town, that 'trumps' Baktria being the 'rebel to' faction, and any rebellions after that would go to Parthia. Not much we can do. We want them eastern looking, not eastern greek looking. With eastern portraits too instead of a mix of eastern/greek like Baktria has. Lots of stinky compromises have to be made with the Indian provinces as no faction is really like them.
Rome 210
Eb+BI
balancing-minimod-for-EB
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That's a pretty nice Getai you've got there. Is it normal for them to expand so much with that mini-mod?
I never noticed before either in other games it all depends on the first battle over a town if the lost badly they have to recover for years and then it's most of the time too late for them i think this time they won there first battleQuote:
Originally Posted by Warmaster Horus
I posted this because most the factions are in good balance with each other
although some of them get a real good beating right now
BTW Casse has landed a stack on the mainland in France
I have a really nice Casse campaign going on. As I am at work right now, I don´t have a screenshot, but the situation is so interesting that I will try to explain. I play with EB 0.81v2 and BI with redmeths money script. I haven't used any cheats even to give the AI any money, nor have I given significant amounts of money to any faction, just 100 mnai / turn to my allies, so my influence on most factions has been small or non-existent.
It is sometime around 220 BC, as I just got the reforms. I have conquered all of Britain, Gaul and northern Iberia and am currently expanding into Sweboz territory. Most factions are doing nicely, gaining some territories here and losing some there except for the Gauls (Aedui extinguished, Arverni driven out of Gaul) and Sweboz, who haven't really done much in this campaign. They had maybe 8 territories before I went to war with them. Carthage is doing well having all of Africa except the traditional Ptolemaic provinces and most of Iberia, which they took from Lusitania who were doing well before that. They just attacked me, so we will see a nice war in Iberia I think.
Rome has expanded some, taking Sicily, Segestica and some territories north of the alps. Here is where it gets interesting.
The Getai started off reasonably well, gaining some territories early on. But now, they have gone on a real rampage, taking all their traditional territories, Dalminion, and all territories from there to the Baltic Sea! They even had Nikaia for quite some time (probably through rebellion) before AS captured it. They are already one of the biggest factions and are currently besieging one town in Crimea(the other already theirs) and one Sauromataean town. They even field some quite good troops, far from their homeland.
Greece has been very interesing. Things started as they usually do in this EB version, with KH and Epeiros quickly driving Macedon out of Greece and sharing the rest between themselves with KH in the south and Epeiros having the Macedonian lands and Byzantion. Macedon only had the small island off asia minor, (mytilene?) for a very long time. The last decade or so, I have not had any spies in that region, so when I sent a spy to Greece and found that Macedon was in possession of Pella again I was pleasantly surprised. I quickly noticed that they had also conquered Byzantion, Tylis and Pergamum, and watching the faction territorial ranking saw that they are now in possession of 7! provinces (haven't found out which others yet). I have never witnessed this kind of comeback by Macedon. The situation in Asia Minor is also quite interesting as Pontos has quite a large part of the peninsula, about 8 territories. Hayasadan was doing ok, as Pontos' protectorate, but have recently lost provinces to the Sauromatae. Galatia has been Arvernian for quite a while, which probably helped Pontos quite a bit.
The ptolemies seem to have the upper hand against AS, but both are doing quite well if not great. Sabyn is doing well in Arabia and southern Egypt and periodically gain some territories from the AS through rebellion mostly. Pahlava, Bactria and Saka are not that interesting, just gaining and losing territories from each other, with one of them having the upper hand and then losing again.
Well, that was my Casse campaign and quite a long explanation. I will try to get a screenshot here, as I think this campaign has really turned out well, especially in the parts of the world where I have no influence! :) I will also post an update if something interesting happens in the future.
hope this pic isnt too big if so just tell me and i'll link it
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in this one i didnt start with pics til late (239) this is KH VH/H. the Maks were quickly pushed off the mainland by Epe/KH. Mak left with one province(Mity.) and given a ceasefire by me. when we join up Helik rebelled from AS a couple years ago and came to me. I began to push around southern Asia Minor taking AS provinces and allowing the Maks to take a few NW AM provinces from the rebels. Then in 239 those darn dirty Maks allied with AS and attacked my provinces with large stacks. Between 239 and 236 the AS/Mak alliance pushed me back totally off mainland AM for a turn or two and cost me 3 family members! darn you treacherous Maks, no more mercy given to you! Two large amphibious forces landed in Helik. and Mity. The Makedonians were utterly destroyed and AS pushed back from 236-230. The Carthaginians have pushed hard into Rome and as you see they eventually become a monster in the west. Lusotanna secured Iberia and Carthage has been so busy with central eu that they have left Iberia alone. Around the 230 screen you can really see the powers emerging that have stayed large this game. Lusot, Carth, Seleu, Epe, Swe, Ptol, and KH are the big players here, the Ptol were getting a beat down by Seleu so some KH help came in the way of espionage units. 221 the powers get more developed as they swallow up the weaker factions around them. KH(me) launched an expedition into the coastal areas of Seleucid hopeing to draw attention away from AM. By 211 the expedition turned into a full on invasion as AS clumsily shifter troops. At 211 the treacherous Epe betrayed their alliance with me(not a good idea as they are being whooped by Carth to the west) but they did nonetheless. between 211 and 207 the worst treachery of them all came about as the Ptol. signed a ceasefire with AS and by 208 they have attacked me having a de facto alliance with AS. 207 Lusotanna seems to be at the peak of its power stretching all the way to Epe land. At this time the world looks like 200 with Carthage and KH still having not had any real fighting(thank goodness), an Epe, AS, Ptol.(EAP) alliance against KH. Carth and Ptol are at a cease fire. Carthage is quickly pushing into Europe i'm afraid if i dont get allied with them soon they will join in the fray on the side of EAP that will be too much for the KH.
Also in the East Baktria and Pink have been fighting over the same 2 cities since the beginning of time it seems, KH has pumped in a total of around 10k to Baktria but it seems to be going to southern expansion instead of western expansion
I love what Epeiros, Lusotannan and Carthage have done in your campaign, and the ressurection of Ptolemaioi when they lost the Levant. Good luck in your wars, madmatg.
thanks im gonna need it im at 200 and carthage just blockaded all my ports... hopefully they wont attack full force for a couple years im getting ready to launch hard into AS with 4 stacks
Nice to see the Karthadastim taking over Italy and destroying the Romani. It's also really rare to see Lusotanans expand so aggressively.
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AI balancing and First Cohort Mod, sometime in the late 200's BC.
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My Pontos campaign. BI, Balance mod 1.1. The Seleukids are in near total collapse: Armenia is the only state around them not at war with them, and their only allies are the Maks and the Saka. I'm currently at war with both them and the Ptolies, and making good progress in Anatolia. I have Side under siege. The Romans have expanded along the coast into Iberia, where the Lusotanna are doing fairly well. The Karthies have Arse under siege, and it looks like they're going to win and they also have stacks en route to Tingis. The Romans are at war with the Aedui already, so it should be interesting to see what happens. The Getai did manage to capture a settlement, and are currently at war with the Maks, as are the Epeirotes. Still. Their border is bristling with stacks of troops and forts. The Parthians are advancing against the Saka in the steppe and Baktria is kinda just sitting around. The Casse are a big disappointment, though they do have a stack around Ratae. The Saba are at war with the Ptolies. The Sauromatae are a big surprise, and have Pantikapaion and Olbia under siege, and have besieged Chersonesos in the past. It may not be totally clear on the map, but the Ptolies have captured Seleukeia and are marching on Persopolis. Lastly, the Aedui have Bratosporos under siege and the Arverni are circling the drain...
Very interesting Roman expansion. Bizarre Sweboz growth though. Nice to see Parthians moving around too.