The Daughters of the Dragon: A Valkyrja AAR (ATW)

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Those are actually all of the original battle maps. I have not done anything to mod them.

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What about a mapping tool? I would dearly like to try my hand at making tactical maps...........:yes:

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I do plan to deal with the Germans. Just not yet.

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I wasn't suggesting a permanent campaign into their territory, but one of slash & burn. I've often used this tactic to quiet down a pesky adversary for a short term so I could move in the direction I really needed/wanted to go. Sure it creates some super-peasants (nothing you can't handle....right?) but it generates instant cash and requires complete reconstruction of a town/city that's been razed. And by the time your army returns to friendly territory, it's gained as much experience or more than from constant sallies.

You are obviously doing well, anyways.......I was just thinking out loud about what I would do:dizzy2:

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Originally Posted by Reluctant Samurai

What about a mapping tool? I would dearly like to try my hand at making tactical maps..........

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I have never done any work with maps. If you ask about modding tactical maps in the Modding Questions forum someone might have some suggestions.

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Originally Posted by Reluctant Samurai

I wasn't suggesting a permanent campaign into their territory, but one of slash & burn. I've often used this tactic to quiet down a pesky adversary for a short term so I could move in the direction I really needed/wanted to go. Sure it creates some super-peasants (nothing you can't handle....right?) but it generates instant cash and requires complete reconstruction of a town/city that's been razed. And by the time your army returns to friendly territory, it's gained as much experience or more than from constant sallies.

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Ahh, the old Viking Raid. I have done that in the past as well. As you say, it can be very effective and crippling an enemy and building some quick cash at the same time. I might do something like that after all, but I have no infantry in the west. Still, I have pushed my garrisons forward from Vicus Venedae and Vicus Gothi into Germania, I think I am going to lay siege to their border cities and either bring them out into the open or take them by blockade. Right now the have the plague, so I do not want to take them just yet anyhow.


In the east, the Royalists have sent two assassins after First Equal Klito, but she is more than a match for either.
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While to the west, the Thracians think they can turn the tables on Xanthippe the Brave. There are quite a few of them, but all are low tier. This means their remaining cities must also be small.
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I want that high ground.
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Such lovely ground for an archery faction like mine.
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Their first army is shot to pieces then run down.
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Time for round two. I see that their extreme right is made up of only Thracian Peltasts. So I bring my General around from my own right and charge them with both my Generals.
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Blammo!
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The rest of the Thracians soon followed.
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Heroic Victory.
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I think a farmboy from Tatooine must be leading this Rebel fleet.
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Whoever he is, the Force is with him.
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The Germans and the Greeks are now allied? Well, I was going to attack those damned Greeks soon anyhow.
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I am fabulously wealthy.
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The hills of western Greece are infested with Thracians. Molpadia rides to exterminate them.
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Once again I go for the high ground.
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Now this is such a great view.
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So is this.
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Charge!
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No survivors, my only losses were to friendly fire.
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In the cold north, Cynane attacked a Dacian force that blocked her march upon Lovosice.
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Not even Chosen Men can stand against Amazons.
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No survivors.
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The same turn, Cynane continues on to Lovosice.
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She has brought an Onager with her, so she can assault immediately.
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The Dacian Prince within is said to wear a helm that once belonged to a God.
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He is certainly brave. He comes right at me as soon as my women enter the city.
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While the Drakones pin him in place, Cynane circles around behind him.
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The Dacian Prince is squished between the two forces like a bug.
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Then the remaining defenders were baited from the town square by horse archers on one side.
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Allowing the rest of the army to enter the square unopposed from the other side.
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The Dacians are slaughtered in the street. None survive.
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As it is a tiny settlement, I Occupy.
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The same turn, Veleda assaults Aquincum to the south. Within is the Dacian King.
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Again, he is baited from the square.
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Then it is taken without opposition.
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The King is dead.
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No survivors.
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Once more, as it is a tiny settlement, I Occupy.
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This leaves the Dacians with only Iuvavum left. I do not see any family members within, but their faction has not been destroyed. They must have a General or two still roaming around the countryside somewhere.
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There he is. If I can smoke him, the Dacians will be history.
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Back in western Greece, Kardika the Honest leads the assault upon Apollonia.
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The road to Valkyrja victory is paved with scenes like this.
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The street was blocked by Thracian Peltasts, who once more put a far sterner fight than light troops can be expected to.
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But there is no stopping the Valkyrja war machine. The city was taken with no survivors.
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Kardika Occupies as well. These settlements are so small there is no one to slaughter even if I wanted to.
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Salona is all the Thracians have left, and Molpadia is already on the way to take it while Kardika remains behind in Apollonia. I have brought over a half-stack of Peasants from Pella to provide a garrison to assist her. This is a common strategy of mine, which allows me to instantly move an army out of a city I have just taken and continue to operate in the field.
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In the east, I concentrate the garrisons of Ulski and Thatis upon a Royalist army that has come north onto the plains.
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I start against their cavalry.
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Now I have turned one flank.
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Then they were surrounded.
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It was a slaughter.
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The Amazonians were broken.
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In the Aegean, Admiral Skywalker is once more making life miserable for my navy.
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Once again I am most ingloriously thrashed.
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In the west, I am busy spreading plague among all of Germania's cities.
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Veleda and Cynane have run the last Dacian to ground.
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Not my ideal choice of a battleground. I deploy Veleda's women outside of the dense forest that takes up the center of the battlemap.
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But the Dacians end up deploying in the open on the other side of it.
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That puts them close to Cynane's army as she enters from the other side of the field.
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Veleda's army quickly comes up to trap the Dacians.
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I have hired some local mercenary scum to lend a hand against the Dacians local mecernary scum.
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Up the hill, Cynane's Horse Archers are taking the Dacians apart.
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Finally Veleda comes to grips with the Dacian King.
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He is cut down before Cynane can even get there to help out.
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The Dacian army was in flight.
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No survivors.
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With that Dacia is no more. That should be my third faction of the campaign.
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To the north, Pantariste the Mighty has marched west to lay siege to Vicus Gothi, and Maia the Conqueror lays siege to Vicus Marcomanni. Neither has infantry or siege equipment. I am hoping to lure German relief armies out to precipitate field battles, or to simply take the cities by blockade.
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With that the Germans want me to pay them to stop killing them. Not bloody likely.
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I would be tempted to pay Admiral Skywalker and his Rebel Fleet to leave me alone however.
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These Rebels are unstoppable.
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Lousy Egyptians.
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I wonder what caused my mutual allies to have this falling out?
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There have been numerous little skirmishes in the east like this one, but none of great size or importance.
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I have been slowly cleaning up the Royalists.
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Uh oh, the evil Greeks have marched from Attica and are now advancing through our lands. Next turn they will be able to strike either Thermon or Larissa. Probably Thermon as it is less heavily defended.
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Time to finish my work with the Thracians. Molpadia assaults Salona.
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After the missile troops clear the way, her infantry enter the city.
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The Thracians would put up a fight deeper in the city however.
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I advance upon the town square from three directions, here you see the view from my right flank.
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Molpadia pursued the Thracians down the main street for too long, and has gotten far ahead of the rest of the army. I am obliged to pull her back.
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These Thracian Infantry leave the square to go after her, giving my Horse Archers a lovely shot at their flank as they did so.
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Then suddenly my Beserkers were in it. I never ordered them to attack. They just did so on their own. Or maybe one of the Thracians was able to hit one of them, pulling them into the fray.
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With that there was no point waiting any longer, I sent everyone in to support the Berserkers. In moments only the Thracian King was left.
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Molpadia went into hand to hand combat with him.
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She cut him down with her own hand.
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She left no survivors.
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Once more, I Occupy.
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With that the Thracians are destroyed. My fourth faction of the campaign. I wonder why the defeat movie is not playing? I did not do anything to tinker with it.
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Just as I had hoped, a German relief army attacked Pantariste the Mighty outside of Vicus Gothi.
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The army that attacked me had the high ground, but no archers to take advantage of it.
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I bait out one of their Noble Cavalry into a Scythian Horse Ride.
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They quickly rout.
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That got the attention of their other Noble Cavalry unit, who foolishly charged Pantariste, not seeing the rest of my army charging them.
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They are quickly put to flight.
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Now only the garrison of Vicus Gothi was left.
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I take their General on a Scythian Horse Ride.
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We have not gone very far at all, and he has lost a third of his bodyguard.
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Now he has lost two-thirds, and Pantariste turns to finish him.
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He routs first.
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My Horse Archers cut him down.
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No survivors.
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The Goths are lead away in chains.
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Well it is about time! 50 years into the campaign and the Romans are finally attacking the Gauls.
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The Greeks have changed their mind about invading me.
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In the east, Klito the Cunning assaults Myrina.
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I stretch out my army in a long line, this causes the Amazonians to put most of their troops at the gatehouse, where I am not going to attack.
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Instead my Onagers create a breach at the other end of the wall.
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In we go.
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A unit of Axewomen tried to stop me, but First Equal Klito put them to flight.
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Now the rest of their army started coming down the road from the gatehouse.
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I know my Drakones do not stand much chance against those Agema Axewomen, so I throw everything I have at them.
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That includes four Agema Archers. Now it is the Agema Axewomen who do not stand much chance.
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Now their General is coming.
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My Agema Archers slaughter her bodyguard.
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She is cut down by my Drakones.
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Still not finished with them yet. Their own Agema Archers are waiting around this corner.
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I have at them.
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After a grueling melee, the last of their gatehouse troops are finished.
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Then it was on to the square, which was defended by a lone unit of Amazon Cavalry.
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They were crushed, and the city mine.
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Victory, but with heavy losses from Amazonian missiles and Agema Axewomen. If I had not forgotten to use my Berserkers I probably would have lost fewer.
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Klito Occupies. I want to get this city up to Huge as soon as I can as well.
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In other news, it looks like the Gorgons have finally knocked off the Numidians.
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On the steppe, the Amazonians have not had the nerve to attack my border cities, and so they are milling around the southern plains. I finally saw an opportunity to attack one of their stacks without the other two being able to counter attack me later in the turn.
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I move up into contact as fast as possible.
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Then I pick them apart.
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Their General was lured into a Scythian Horse Ride and trapped.
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She runs for it.
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But there is no escape.
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Heroic Victory.
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It also netted me a famous battle marker.
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A small update tonight.

Once again, I benefit from a stroke of luck. A German army has come to the relief of Vicus Marcomannii and attacked Maia the Cunning.
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I deploy on a hill at one side of the field, this way the German reinforcements from the city will be coming in directly behind the German army, rather than on my flank.
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I quickly bait out a unit of Gothic Cavalry.
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Then I charge them from open-shields with Maia.
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They insta-rout.
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Maia pursues, but has to be careful of these Naked Fanatics. Well, maybe she does not. They have lost 130 men in less than a minute of arrow-fire. Barbarians never learn that heavily-armoured fanatics are better than naked ones.
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Now Maia has to stop, as the rest of the German army is in the way.
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Then it was standard horse-archer tactics. Pick them apart and destroy them one unit at a time.
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Their Captain was squashed by an Onager boulder. Onagers miss everything else smaller than a stone wall, but they always manage to find Captains and Generals.
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Now it was the turn of the garrison.
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It was pretty much a repeat of the first, except this time my Drakones got to have some fun as well.
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Heroic Victory, and a famous battle marker.
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Then men of Vicus Marcomannii are led away in chains.
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Looks like the Amazonian empire has grown to a mythic proportion since the last time I checked this thread. Well done SubRosa!

Thank you Monk, but I think you mean the Valkyr Empire? :winkg:

On the eastern steppe, the garrison of Campus Aorsi has ridden out to intercept an Amazonian army.
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I send my cavalry around their flanks.
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Now time to get rid of those Onagers.
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Then it was a matter of taking them apart a unit at a time.
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Scratch another Amazonian army.
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After the battle there was still a small Amazonian remnant nearby, so I sent a young General out to deal with them.
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I like this picture.
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Heroic Victory.
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Out on my new western frontier, all three cities I have just taken are 1st tier. Not really much use to me, as I cannot even retrain horse archers in them. So I have been sending waves of Peasants in from my big cities and disbanding them. This has gotten all three settlements up to 2nd tier in just a few turns. I think in a future version of ATW I will include a colonist unit to facilitate this sort of thing.
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It looks like the Marian Fairy will be coming in a matter of turns.
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I have a scarfaced General. I have not had one of these in a long time. She got it fighting rebels too. If she were not so old I would send her south to be an extra heavy cavalry unit in the Army of Armenia that is forming on the southern steppe.
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First Equal Klito the Conqueror assaults Trapezus.
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The Amazonians had nothing to oppose my entry. The battle would begin as I approached the square.
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Their General was cut down in a furious melee with my Drakones.
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Then it was down to the Axewomen.
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Victory. I lost a lot of women to that General's javelins and those Axewomen's flying axes however.
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I Occupy. It is nice to finally take on a faction of the same culture. Without the culture penalty it is so much easier to hold on to what I take.
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Further east, only one Amazonian army remains on the steppe.
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They have good ground.
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I quickly turn their flank.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1353.jpg

Then I start munching on their soft gooey filling.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1354.jpg

The Amazonian army is being shredded.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1355.jpg

No survivors. The steppe is now clear of Amazonians.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1356.jpg

In the west, Molpadia has finally returned from Salona and marshaled the Army of Vengeance. However, when I tried to make my Berserkers walk up to join the stack behind Molpadia, instead they decided to walk all the way around the mountain range to the south of them instead, using up all of their movement points in the bargain. I wish RTW had an Undo feature to save me from annoying things like this.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1350.jpg

Not surprisingly, the Greeks attacked them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1357.jpg

There is really only one way this battle is going to end. It is just a question of how many Greeks my Berserkers can take with them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1358.jpg

I attack their General, but even though I am warcrying, my Berserkers do not go berserk. It must be because it is the Captain unit.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1359.jpg

It is most disappointing. I am sure I would have gotten much more of them if I had been able to go berserk.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1360.jpg

Still, this means war! This entire campaign I have never initiated hostilities against any faction (except Rebels). I am going to try to keep it that way until the end. I also see that the Gorgons and Egyptians are now at war. Good, it is about time the two African heavyweights duked it out.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1361.jpg

Off the coast of Aetolia, my Roman allies and I cleared the sealanes of some pirate scum.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1362.jpg

Coming next, the War of Vengeance!
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My slovenly spies show that the Romans have taken Mediolanum. All the Gauls have left are Patavium and Segestica.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...yrja1363-1.jpg

In the east, an Amazonian army has laid siege to Myrina.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1364.jpg

First Equal Klito the Conqueror comes down to with her army to deal with them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1365.jpg

There sure are a lot of them, and all of my cavalry is in the city. Since the Peasants are in the UI before the cavalry, none of my horsewomen will enter the battle as reinforcements.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1366.jpg

So it will be the infantry who win the fight today. I send them forward into the Amazonians to come to grips with them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1367.jpg

Grip them I did.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1368.jpg

They cannot stand up to Valkyrja women.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1369.jpg

The entire center dissolved.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1370.jpg

Victory. Many escaped due to my lack of cavalry to run them down.
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In the west, the War of Vengeance has begun. For over a millenia the Greeks have been our enemies. A thousand years ago they destroyed the Libyan Amazons, sacking their capital of Triton in an orgy of blood. Five hundred years ago at Heraclea they inflicted a humiliating defeat upon Amazonia that left thousand of Amazons as captives. Yet these Women would escape and make their way north across the sea to become the Valkyrja. Now we have come full circle, to take our revenge for over a thousand years of blood. The world of men shall fall...
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The Greeks start on the low ground, I intend to keep them there.
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I start with their General, sending out a unit of Drakones to assist Molpadia in running him to ground.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1374.jpg

He is cut down.
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In the meantime the rest of my army was forming a line across the hill in front of the Greek army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1376.jpg

Then my cavalry swept around behind them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1377.jpg

Trapped, they were annihilated by my Agema Archers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1378.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1379.jpg

Here is a pic with the Fog of War turned off. The Britons and Iberians are slugging it out over what was once Gaul, and the Romans are finally moving against what is left of the Gauls in northern Italy. The Gorgons still dominate North Africa, but a full stack of Carthaginians has landed near Carthage to take it back.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1380.jpg

That damnable Rebel fleet has made its way into the Black Sea, and continues to haunt my navy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1381.jpg

I have had over a dozen battles with them. Every one ends like this. At least I am slowly whittling them down.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1382.jpg

Hmm, it looks like the Egyptians are going to attack me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1383.jpg

In the east, The Army of Armenia has built a fort in the pass north of Kotais while they wait for their newly raised infantry to come up to join them. The Amazonians came north to attack them, and Marpesia sallied against them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1384.jpg

She starts with their cavalry.
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Then surrounds them.
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The Amazonians are crushed.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1387.jpg

Finally, in the west Molpadia turned and advanced upon Athens, the most hated city of the foul Greeks. She found three Greek armies waiting there. The smart thing to do would have been to attack at night and only face one army at a time. But there is something very satisfying about taking on three enemy armies at once. Besides, what is a War of Vengeance without at least one massive effusion of blood? Molpadia attacks them all.
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Here comes the first Greek army. You can see their capital in the distance behind them.
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I send my cavalry out ahead to shoot up the approaching Greeks. Molpadia found some Rhodian Slingers on their left and charge in after them. This brought her dangerously near to the second Greek army that was quickly coming onto the field.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1390.jpg

Molpadia ran down the Rhodians and continued on to smash the Cretans and Rhodians in the second Greek army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1391.jpg

Oh oh, a unit of Greek Heavy Cavalry is closing in.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1392.jpg

A fearsome battle ensues with them.
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The Greeks do not break, and now the rest of their army is closing in from both sides.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1394.jpg

Molpadia routs! The shame of it! She would fleet directly off the field.
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On the other flank, my remaining General Lampedo is running through the Greek Peltasts and Heavy Peltasts there.
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By now the infantry were slugging it out head to head.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1397.jpg

The Greeks are coming around my flank. But Lampedo is behind them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1398.jpg

She charges them from behind just as they wrap around my left.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1399.jpg

There goes the first Greek army.
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There were still two Greek armies to go however.
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Here they come!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1402.jpg

There they go.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1403.jpg

My archers are now out of ammunition. From now on it will be the fearful work of swords.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1404.jpg

The next two Greek armies hit me at once, especially on my left flank where they are coming in almost behind me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1405.jpg

They have Spartans leading the way there too.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1406.jpg

On the far right, Lampedo is rushing from one area to another to prevent the Greeks from turning the flank there.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1407.jpg

Back on the left, I throw everything I have against the Spartans, surrounding them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1408.jpg

A unit of Greek Heavy Cavalry charges in at my Drakones there from behind. Thankfully I was able to turn two of them to face them just before they hit.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1409.jpg

The Heavy Cavalry is driven off, but the Spartans will not break. They are made of iron.
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Finally, with Lampedo herself closing in they give way.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1411.jpg

So what do these Greeks think they are going to do, scare us with a ham sandwich?
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I have now thrown my entire army (what remains of it), against the Greeks on the left.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1413.jpg

There are a lot of scattered infantry battles like this one. Their Rhodians are very tough in melee. Eventually they would be mopped up.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1414.jpg

It was time to silence those Onagers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1415.jpg

The Greeks were not finished yet however. They still had one last roll of the dice.
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I meet them head on and destroy them.
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Heroic Victory, and that one really felt heroic. Over 7,000 dead Greeks and 1,500 dead Amazons.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1418.jpg

Nearly 1200 kills for my Horse Archers alone. The Agema Archers averaged about 600 each.
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This leaves Attica and the Peloponnese bare of defenders.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1420.jpg

One last update before bedtime.

The Western Front is anything but quiet. The Germans want Vicus Gothi back. Myrine sallies to contest the issue.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1421.jpg

This is what the Valkyrja think of the hairy savages.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1422.jpg

This German thinks he has escaped.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1423.jpg

Not!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1424.jpg

Victory.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1425.jpg

The same turn, Maia the Cunning rode from Vicus Marcomannii to deal with another German army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1426.jpg

So this is what it takes to be a Blasphemer.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1427.jpg

I send the fool to meet the Gods he did not believe in.
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Victory. Now all is quiet on the Western Front.
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I have finally run the Rebel Fleet to ground (erm, to water?).
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After hounding me for over a decade, the pirates are finally sent to Neptune's Locker.
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In Greece, the War of Vengeance continues. I divide my army, sending half of it to lay siege to Corinth, while my Onagers move up to Athens.
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Lampedo assaults Athens that turn. Within are the survivors of the Battle of Attica. The most hated city of the enemy, it was Athens led the Greek Alliance that destroyed the Gorgons a thousand years ago. Now the Greeks would pay for their crimes.
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These are what Spartans at silver experience are like. Yikes!
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With their missile troops, a head on assault would be suicide. So I opt for the indirect approach, and march around the city to another wall.
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My Onagers had created a breach by the time the rest of the army got there.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1436.jpg

These foolish Greek Cavalry tried to contest my entry.
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Now it was into the depths of the city, where the Spatans were marching to meet me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1438.jpg

I give them an Amazon greeting.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1439.jpg

Then it was hand to hand.
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They were crushed!
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My spear women caught sight of the Greek General approaching from the other side of their temple.
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He turns from my infantrywomen and heads for the square instead. But I have sent Lampedo and my Horse Archers ahead to block him.
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The Greek is cast down at the very feet of his dark gods.
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These Greek swine thought to stop us in the town square.
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No more would these war pigs have the power.
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No survivors.
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Athens was no longer a city. It was now an altar, and the men of the city were the sacrifices.
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Molpadia brings the Onagers up to Cornith, and attacks the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1449.jpg

I love how cavalry units can throw their javelins over stone walls to hit the enemy on the other side.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1450.jpg

The first unit of Armoured Hoplites is quickly routed as my women enter the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1451.jpg

But there is a second unit of Armoured Hoplites approaching. I send some of my infantry and archers through the second breach in the wall, to their right.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1452.jpg

The Greeks turn to engage the newcomers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1453.jpg

This leaves their rear open to my troops who entered through the original breach.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1454.jpg

The Greeks are squished.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1455.jpg

Then it was on to the square for a bacon dinner.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1456.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1457.jpg

The walls of Corinth are washed in Greek blood.
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I had forgotten about the Wonder. This is my first of the campaign (I really need to edit that text about the hero of Rome...).
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The same turn, Molpadia sends a small force on ahead to lay siege to Sparta. They cannot take the city, but will prevent the Greeks from recruiting any more units within, and if I am lucky they might sally.
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I was not lucky, so next turn Lampedo brings up more women and assaults the city.
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The Greeks waited for me in the square. My Agema Archers draw them out.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1462.jpg

Then my cavalry hit them from behind and trapped them in the street.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1463.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1464.jpg

The screams of the dying are played as a symphony in Greece.
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It looks like I am at war with Egypt, and Parthia has broken our alliance to remain on Big Yellow's good side.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1466.jpg

Here is why we are at war. Egypt has blockaded Athens.
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Well, this means I no longer have to wait for that Egyptian army outside of Myrina to attack me. I attack them instead.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1468.jpg

The Egyptians have excellent ground. I really do not want to attack them up that slope.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1469.jpg

So I sit back and wait to see if they will come down, and their second army comes on the field. They look like they might come after me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1470.jpg

I send my cavalry out ahead to soften them up, targeting their horsemen first.
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They countered with Chariots, which I promptly took on a Scythian Horse Ride and routed. But they had been able to get into my second General beforehand, killing quite a few of her bodyguards.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1472.jpg

After that their second army went up the hill to join the first.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1473.jpg

Well, there is nothing for it then. I go up after them.
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They come at me as I crest the hill.
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The Chariots on the Egyptian left vastly overlapped my right. So I sent my Beserkers in to hold the line.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1476.jpg

Then I found that the Egyptian Chariots had gotten into my cavalry and second general on the left. Yikes! I quickly pull them away and send my Agema Axewomen over to lend a hand.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1477.jpg

Back on the right, the Berserkers have cleared the way for my cavalry to sweep around the Egyptian flank.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1478.jpg

Then in the center the Egyptian General was laid low by my Drakones. My spear women are going through the Egyptian infantry like a hot knife through cotton.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1479.jpg

My Berserkers were having problems with their phalanx troops however, so I sent some cavalry over to lend a hoof.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1480.jpg

Both Egyptian armies were crushed.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1481.jpg

Victory.
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But at a heavy cost. My second General was killed in there somewhere. I do not even know exactly when. Just that it was sometime after I swept their left flank. That is the problem with fighting Egyptians. You never know when you are going to look over and find a General being swamped by their Chariots.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1483.jpg

After the battle, one of my stinkers found that Heraclea was devoid of a garrison, except for a lone Amazonian General. He relieved her of her duties forever. Now if I can get some cavalry over there before they can garrison it...
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I looked around a second time, and found that I had a General in the Crimea who was in striking distance of Heraclea. I immediately put her on a ship and sailed her down.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1485.jpg

She takes Heraclea without a drop of blood (well, except for those my assassin made when he put the dagger in the Amazonian Governor's back...)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1486.jpg

In the east, the Amazonians did not attack me across the river north of Kotais. However, I found that I could move across diagonally to the tile beside them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1487.jpg

Then I was able to turn and attack in the open.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1488.jpg

I quickly sweep around their flank.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1489.jpg

Then finish their cavalry.
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Soon I have them surrounded.
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They run for it.
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But there is no escape, and no survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1493.jpg

Next turn Marpesia marches down to Kotais and attacks it.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1494.jpg

I do not want to make a head on assault against those Agema Archers. So I walk around the city to attack from another wall.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1495.jpg

My Onagers opened up the walls ahead of my army, and the Amazonians moved their Chariots over to defend the breach.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1496.jpg

They come out to attack the leading elements of my army. Good thing I have spear women.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1497.jpg

The Chariots dealt with, I send two of my infantry units into the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1498.jpg

I did not have enough Onager ammo to reduce the tower and Gatehouse flanking my breach. So each unit will have to take one before the rest of my army can enter.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1499.jpg

The Drakones went right up into their tower. However, the Agema Axewomen just milled around the base of the Gatehouse being shot at, and then stood still.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1500.jpg

I ordered them up again, and once more they milled around a while again and then stood still while being shot.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1501.jpg

So I order them up again. This time they got off their shields and got into the damned gatehouse.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1502.jpg

Finally I was able to get my army into the city and head to the square. Marpesia took the bulk of the troops down the main road.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1503.jpg

She crushed the Amazonians in the street.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1504.jpg

At the same time I sent a smaller force to the square via a small back road.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1505.jpg

They break the Amazonian infantry there, but still have to contend with their General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1506.jpg

Marpesia and Klymene the Mad rush to help out with that Amazonian General, while my infantry went after their last Armoured Hoplite unit in the square.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1507.jpg

Their General was struck down.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1508.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1509.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1510.jpg

Look what I can now recruit in Tanais! Too bad the city has the plague...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1511.jpg

Big update for this evening.

As the Egyptians are only milling around Tarsus, first Equal Klito the Conqueror marches west to Ancyra. With any luck the Eggies will stay south of the mountains long enough for her to lay siege to the city and assault it.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1512.jpg

At the same time the army from Greece was sailing across the Aegean under a new commander.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1513.jpg

All is quiet on the western front. From a military standpoint at least. I am still spreading plague through the German cities, reinfecting them every time they recover.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1514.jpg

The Sarmatians settled down somewhere? The heart of Egypt no less?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1515.jpg

Yep, there they are. I wonder how they managed that?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1516.jpg

While I have the fog of war off for a moment, I also see that Triton has rebelled from the Greeks.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1517.jpg

Next turn, Hypsipyle makes landfall in Asia Minor and assaults Halicarnassus.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1518.jpg

The Amazonian Militia Hoplites are slaughtered at the walls.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1519.jpg

My Drakones found more of them further into the city however.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1520.jpg

They fare no better.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1521.jpg

Here come the women, the best soldiers they have.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1522.jpg

They rout before I can even spring my trap.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1523.jpg

Then I descended upon the square.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1524.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1525.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1526.jpg

Wonder #2.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1527.jpg

Grr, the Egyptians are now threatening Myrina.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1528.jpg

First Equal Klito marches back and attacks them, but the Egyptians retreat rather than face her wrath.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1529.jpg

Next turn, Hypsipyle wastes no time and marches north toward Sardis.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1530.jpg

In the east, Klito pursues the Egyptians and finally brings them to battle.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1532.jpg

Once again they will no budge from their hilltop, so I must go up after them. I send my Amazon Cavalry in first to engage their Chariots with arrows.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1533.jpg

That got their attention.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1534.jpg

Once they saw my axe and spearwomen they changed their minds however.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1535.jpg

So my Agema Archers treated them to a little barbecue.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1536.jpg

Even my hired pirate scum lent a harpoon or two, and the routing begun.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1537.jpg

Enough fiddling around. I send my infantry forward in a rush.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1538.jpg

Their infantry simply cannot stand up to my own, and their army evaporates.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1539.jpg

Victory.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1540.jpg

I had no idea the Greeks and Gauls had been allied to begin with.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1541.jpg

While Hypsiplye marched north on Sardis, the lead elements of a second, small force I had assembled in Greece landed upon Rhodes. This little force will clean up the scraps in the Aegean that Hypsipyle leaves behind.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1542.jpg

Speaking of Hypsipyle, she assaults Sardis, which is defended by an Amazonian bearing her name.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1543.jpg

I start with slaughtering their mercenary scum at the walls.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1544.jpg

Then it was into the city, where the Amazonian Heavy Cavalry greeted my women with javelins.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1545.jpg

They did not stick around to shake hands however...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1546.jpg

My Amazon Cavalry pursue them to the square, where I had to pull them back to avoid going into melee with their infantry.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1547.jpg

In the main road, I have laid a trap for the Amazonian General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1548.jpg

The women in the front ranks are sent flying by the charge of the Drakones in the rear ranks. There was no escape for the copy-cat Hypsipyle.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1549.jpg

Then it was on to the square.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1550.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1551.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1552.jpg

Wonder #3. I have been fighting on the plains and in Europe so long that I had forgotten that the Aegean was Wonder Alley.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1553.jpg

In the east, Klito the Conqueror sets her back to the mountains and dares the Egyptians to attack her.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1554.jpg

Big update for this afternoon.

The Eggies oblige Klito by attacking her.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1555.jpg

So this is what a Pharaoh looks like. He looks like a dead man to me...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1556.jpg

As I had intended by putting my back to the mountain, this time I have the high ground.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1557.jpg

The second Egyptian army is coming in on my flank however, and because of that they are actually much closer than the original army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1558.jpg

I put some Amazon Cavalry out in front of them to shoot them up a bit as they enter the map.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1559.jpg

Those Chariots get on the map fast, and I have to pull back in a hurry.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1560.jpg

They are stopped by heavy arrow fire.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1561.jpg

But then they turn and attack the two Amazon Cavalry in front of my infantry.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1562.jpg

So I pulled the horse archers back and sent the infantry forward in a rush.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1563.jpg

My Agema Axewomen relieved the Egyptian Captain of his head.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1564.jpg

That cleared away the Chariots from the reinforcing army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1565.jpg

The first army was just starting to come up by then.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1566.jpg

Back on the right, First Equal Klito now went after the reinforcing army's infantry.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1567.jpg

She went through the Eggies like they were not there.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1568.jpg

Then my infantry from the right finished off the scraps.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1569.jpg

But now the Chariots from the second army were coming up, and charged forward at the gap that had formed in my line, exposing my Agema Archers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1570.jpg

My Drakones and Agema Axes got back just in time to meet the Chariots.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1571.jpg

On the opposite end of the field, the first Egyptian Pharaoh was in hot pursuit of two of my Amazon Cavalry, and had them pinned against the red line.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1572.jpg

He catches one and routs it in moments. The other horse archer wriggles free and escapes.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1573.jpg

Now the first Egyptian army was on the run, unfortunately right through that second horse archer that was fleeing from their Pharaoh. That routed them too.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1574.jpg

But now it was the Pharaoh's turn to run like a dog.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1575.jpg

Sadly, the craven Pharaoh escaped, but two of their armies were destroyed.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1576.jpg

In the west, Hypsiplyle moved out of Sardis and was now marching upon Pergamum. It was time to resume the War of Vengeance.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1577.jpg

While in the east a strong Amazonian force was moving through the mountains toward Myrina. Thankfully I have been building up troops in the area and concentrate in the city to meet them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1578.jpg

On the western front, my slinkers have found the German King, who is an unhinged loon. He is the only General I can see in the four remaining German territories. If I can kill him...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1579.jpg

Over the AI's turn, the Greeks attack Hypsiplye east of Pergamum.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1580.jpg

I go straight at them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1581.jpg

The lines clash.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1582.jpg

The Greeks run.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1583.jpg

Their Captain is poked full of holes.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1584.jpg

Scratch one Greek army. They still have another one roaming around the hills north of the city however.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1585.jpg

For the first time in the game, the Romans are the Most Advanced. Could this mean that the Marius Reforms have finally come?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1586.jpg

The War of Vengeance continues in the Aegean, with the assault upon Rhodes.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1587.jpg

I have an excellent view of the colossus from the western wall of the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1588.jpg

The Greeks have left the walls undefended, and I roll a siege tower up to a blind spot between the towers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1589.jpg

Once in the city I advance upon the square from two directions.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1590.jpg

Inexplicably, the Greeks leave the square and advance upon my right hand force.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1591.jpg

I send my left forward across the square to trap the Greeks.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1592.jpg

Their Faction Leader comes back, but is too late.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1593.jpg

Anaea casts him down into Hades!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1594.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1595.jpg

No mercy for Greeks. Only cold steel.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1596.jpg

Wonder #4. This should help my finances tremendously.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1597.jpg

Hmmm, now where did that Greek army get to?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1598.jpg

I bring a spy over to poke around the woods, and he finds them hiding.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1599.jpg

Hypsipyle runs him to ground.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1600.jpg

No Greek can stand against the fury of the Amazons.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1601.jpg

That Amazonian army in the east bypassed Myrina and headed further west for Ancyra. I do not want them reinforcing the already large force the Amazonians have there. So I ride out after them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1602.jpg

Telesilla leads an all-cavalry the army against them. She had not only two more Equals with her, but my first Companions.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1603.jpg

The Amazonian General comes out early, and Telesilla charges right after her.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1604.jpg

The Amazonian flees for her own lines.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1605.jpg

Uh oh! Hoplites ahead! I put on the brakes.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1606.jpg

Look at this, the Marian Fairy has come! Now my Generals will have some serious muscle. Not to mention composite bows. In any case, I pull back to avoid those hoplites you can see behind the two bodyguards.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1607.jpg

The Amazonian follows, and I turn to face her in the open.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1608.jpg

She is finally cut down.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1609.jpg

My Companions were also getting in on the fun.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1610.jpg

The Amazonians were crushed.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1611.jpg

In the west, Second Equal Maia the Conqueror is now on a mission to kill the German King.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1612.jpg

I am fabulously wealthy. So much so I am drawing near the corruption triggers (which in ATW are set to 100,000 and 150,000 denarii). Time to lower taxes.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1613.jpg

Maia the Cunning meets a German force deep in the murky depths of their homeland.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1614.jpg

She leaves no survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1615.jpg

She continues on to Mogantiacum but is unable to lay siege this turn. However, a Heavy Cavalry unit sent from Aquincum is able to. Her infantry lag behind, protecting the slow-moving Onagers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1616.jpg

In the Aegean, Hypsipyle assaults Pergamum.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1617.jpg

Those elite missile troops of theirs will make a direct assault a slaughter. So Hypsipyle deploys her army along one wall and her Onagers along another. Then she marches around the city to join the Onagers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1618.jpg

The entry and march to the square was unopposed. The defenders put up fierce resistance at the edge of the square however.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1619.jpg

The Greek Faction Leader (the latest, if you can keep track of them as they go by), is poked full of holes by my Drakones.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1620.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1621.jpg

Amazons have no mercy for Greeks, only the end of a sword.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1622.jpg

In the east, First Equal Klito the Conqueror assaults Tarsus.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1623.jpg

Once again, because of their elite archers I avoid a direct assault and march to a side wall.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1624.jpg

There were Pharaoh's Bowmen waiting there too however. But my Onagers got them off the wall by destroying it beneath them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1625.jpg

Klito herself deals with them once they are on the ground.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1626.jpg

My women swept the defenders aside as they entered the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1627.jpg

Then it was a steady march to the square, with their Chariot Archers putting down steady fire on my women.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1628.jpg

Then wave after wave of Chariots came at my army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1629.jpg

But my Drakones forced their way ahead.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1630.jpg

Then it was into the square. I would have stood back to fight in the street, but my Agema Archers were not able to get clear shots at the Egyptians because of the buildings, but the Eggie archers were having no such problems from within the square. I unleash the Berserkers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1631.jpg

One of those wild women cuts down the Egyptian General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1632.jpg

With the square mine, the Berserkers continue to the far end of the city to attack more Egyptians, being shot to pieces by the towers all the way of course. This is the first campaign that I have used Berserkers extensively, and I have to say I am not all that thrilled with them. It seems you can get more mileage out of a regular elite axe or sword unit that you can control.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1633.jpg

In any case, the city was mine.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1634.jpg

The men of Egypt are taken away in chains.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1635.jpg

Harmothoe has taken my scratch force from Rhodes and landed on the southern coast of Asia Minor. Her target is Iconium. To the north of her you can see my nearly all-cavalry force from Myrina laying siege to Ancyra, while to the west the lead elements of Hipsipyle's army has left Pergamum and is marching on Nicomedia. You might also notice the new campaign map textures I have imported from M2TW. Expect to see these in version 2.6.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1636.jpg

On the Western Front, the German King sallied from Mogontiacum.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1637.jpg

He somehow became Cunning. But what I notice is that he is not only an Unhinged Loon, but Deranged as well.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1638.jpg

He is deranged alright, he comes out to fight me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1639.jpg

Quite a battle it is.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1640.jpg

Eventually his guard routs and he runs for it.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1641.jpg

He makes it back into the city, and just seconds later Maia's bodyguards shot the last of his men dead through the closing gate.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1642.jpg

That left just the German King. He reformed in the town square and came back for a second time.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1643.jpg

I send off my infantry so he does not feel too outnumbered.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1644.jpg

Here he comes. This guy is insane.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1645.jpg

My heavy cavalry provide some therapy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1646.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1647.jpg

The Germans are put into chains.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1648.jpg

With that Germania is but a memory. I think they are the 5th faction I have destroyed in this campaign.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1649.jpg

Back in the east, the blitz of Asia Minor began with Harmothoe assaulting Iconium.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1650.jpg

Here you see a member of Harmothoe's bodyguard performing one of the 'airs above the ground', the Capriole.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1651.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1652.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1653.jpg

Same turn, Hypsipyle assaults Nicomedia.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1655.jpg

Again, no survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1656.jpg

As always against my sister Amazons, I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1657.jpg

Still the same turn, Telesilla assaults Ancyra.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1658.jpg

There was slaughter at the city walls.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1659.jpg

Then it was woman-to-woman in the streets.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1660.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1661.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1662.jpg

Asia Minor is now completely mine.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1663.jpg

Since the war with Egypt began, I have been using my assassins to destroy their Chariot making ability in their border cities.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1664.jpg

First Equal Klito the Conqueror marches out from Tarsus and attacks an Egyptian army north of Antioch. This draws two other armies in on their side, including the garrison of the city and their Pharaoh.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1665.jpg

Here are two of their armies.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1666.jpg

The third comes on the field directly behind me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1667.jpg

I quickly descend upon them and put them to flight.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1668.jpg

Back at the river, I waited for the other two Egyptian armies to come. I reinforced Klito's army with two more Agema Archers to better deal with their Chariots. Now she has six of them. They will prove their worth today.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1669.jpg

The Eggies even have Merc War Elephants.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1670.jpg

Now they have amok War Elephants.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1671.jpg

The leading elements of the Egyptian army rout before they even make it off the bridge.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1672.jpg

It is not a battle, but an abattoir.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1673.jpg

Time to go after them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1674.jpg

Victory, but once more the Pharaoh escaped. 5 territories to go until victory.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1675.jpg

Marpesia leads the Army of the Steppe against an Amazonian army west of Artaxarta.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1676.jpg

They too have Mercenary War Elephants.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1677.jpg

Correction, they have amok Mercenary War Elephants.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1678.jpg

While my Agema Archers shred their infantry, I slip my cavalry around their flanks.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1679.jpg

Oops, better watch out for those Elephants. Missile cavalry does not automatically skirmish away from amok War Elephants.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1680.jpg

It ended the way it usually does.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1681.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1682.jpg

What is this? The hated Greek Cities have been destroyed? I was hoping to deliver the final stroke myself.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1683.jpg

It was the Carthaginians who finished them off.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1684.jpg

Back in the east, First Equal Klito assaults Antioch. There will be no escape for the Pharaoh this time...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1685.jpg

I set up outside of the square and then let my archers bait him out.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1686.jpg

Then it was a slug-fest with spears.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1687.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1688.jpg

The Egyptians are fitted with iron collars.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1689.jpg

What foul treachery is this? My Briton allies have laid siege to Mogontiacum! This crime can only be repaid with the blood of thousands of Britons.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1690.jpg

It also seems the Sarmatians are in need of a new homeland again.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1691.jpg

Yes, the Egyptians have retaken Thebes. Their horde now moves along the coast west of Alexandria.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1692.jpg

Maia the Cunning had been marching north upon Damme. But the treachery of the Britons forced her to turn back. However, she found an army of German rebels blocking her path.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1693.jpg

I let my archers who could get in range and my Onagers to soften them up.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1694.jpg

Then I cross the river and sweep around their flank.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1695.jpg

The Rebels were smashed.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1696.jpg

Scratch one rebel army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1697.jpg

Maia was able to march back to Mogontiacum just in time for Cynane to sally from the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1698.jpg

The Briton army includes Chosen Men... (this is an easter egg that was already discovered by neo_deus, so I can finally mention it myself).
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1699.jpg

The Britons started on the corner of the strat map, so they head for that corner as the battle starts. Cynane and her Heavy Cavalry run down the stragglers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1700.jpg

The rest of their army does not stop to deploy, but continues for the map edge.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1701.jpg

There was nothing to do but charge and force them to fight.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1702.jpg

Their Chosen and regular Slingers were able to escape however.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1703.jpg

Still, it is a victory, lifting the siege of the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1704.jpg

Back east, Telesilla has taken a small force and landed upon Cyprus. This will be the springboard for the invasion of the Nile Valley.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1705.jpg

Telesilla landed upon Cyprus and attacked Salamis, which was woefully under-manned.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1706.jpg

The Egyptians were simply annihilated by my Agema Archers. Not one ever came near my women.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1707.jpg

Perfect victory.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1708.jpg

Telesilla puts the Egyptians to the sword after seeing how dangerously over-crowded the city was (almost 40k thanks to the Awesome temple of Isus that was in it!)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1709.jpg

The Iberians have offered an alliance, and seeing that we both are at war with the Britons I agree.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1710.jpg

This is a first for this campaign.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1711.jpg

In the west, Second Equal Maia the Cunning sallies forth from Mogontiacum after another Briton siege.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1712.jpg

She gobbles up the Britons at the end of their line.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1713.jpg

While her horse archers intercepted the lead elements of the Britons after leaving the city via a different gate.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1714.jpg

The cowardly barbarians did not stop to fight, but headed straight for the map edge.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1715.jpg

None make it out alive.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1716.jpg

Nearby Myrine led the assault upon Damme with an army heavily comprised of mercenaries (well, heavily for me).
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1717.jpg

Myrine's women crush the only real opposition, the two Rebel Generals.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1718.jpg

No survivors.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1719.jpg

She fits the former Germans with iron collars.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1720.jpg

Here is a shock. A Carthaginian army has landed in Greece and laid siege to Corinth! All I have in the entire region are three inexperienced Horse Archers and a few Generals. This will be interesting!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1721.jpg

Okay, time to fix things in Greece. I begin with dealing with the Carthaginian fleet.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1722.jpg

I move up the two Generals and three Horse Archers I have in Greece, and hire every mercenary in the region.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1723.jpg

Then I attack. I actually have pretty decent odds against them, considering that they caught me with my skirt down.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1724.jpg

I send the Horse Archers ahead of my infantry to soften up the Carthaginians. You can see my reinforcements from Corinth coming in on the left, alongside the Carthaginian flank. They are all Peasants, but will prove to be very important.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1725.jpg

I send my one General and Horse Archer to destroy the Long Shields on the Carthaginian left.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1726.jpg

While another Horse Archer baited their Round Shields into a counter-charge by my other General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1727.jpg

However, this left my infantry wipe open to the Carthaginian General's attack.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1728.jpg

I move a unit of Mercenary Hoplites over to help the Merc Peltasts the General is slaughtering, and maneuver one of my Generals on a wide sweep behind the Carthaginian line and into his rear.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1729.jpg

That breaks their General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1730.jpg

Their horse all destroyed, now I was able to start picking apart their infantry and ganging up on them with my own.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1731.jpg

While all of this has been happening, my Peasants from Corinth have been leading the Carthaginian Sacred Band and one of their Poeni Infantry on a wild goose chase across the map.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1732.jpg

Soon I had the rest of their army wiped out.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1733.jpg

Just the Sacred Band left.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1734.jpg

1500 Peasants charging from the rear will ruin anyone's day.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1735.jpg

My Peasants celebrate. They were instrumental to my victory. Quantity has a quality all its own.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1736.jpg

Victory, the threat to Greece is over.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1737.jpg

In the east, Marpesia marched to Artaxarta, but was compelled to turn to face an Amazonian army that advanced upon her rear.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1738.jpg

Scratch one Amazonian army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1739.jpg

Far west in the murky forests of Germania, Second Equal Maia the Mighty sallied against yet another Briton siege.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1740.jpg

Scratch one Briton army.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1741.jpg

The Sarmatians have settled again.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1742.jpg

There they are in Menelaus Point. Looks like the Egyptians are not going to sit still for it though.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1743.jpg

One of my spies has discovered that Alexandria has the plague. I guess it will not be a good idea for Hypsipyle to attack it (she is in that cluster of three fleets half-way between Rhodes and Alexandria).
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1744.jpg

First Equal Klito the Conqueror assaults Sidon.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1745.jpg

The Egyptians deployed down at the end of the wall, near the gate. Good for me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1746.jpg

I meet little resistance as my troops enter the city.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1747.jpg

Klito chases the routing Egyptians back to the edge of the square, then sees fresh Eggies approaching. Instead of becoming embroiled in a melee with infantry, she continues down the street.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1748.jpg

This leaves the new Eggies to the Drakones coming up behind her.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1749.jpg

But the Egyptians had those damnable Chariot Archers defending the square. I did not want to charge with Klito because General vs. Chariot always = Dead General.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1750.jpg

So Klito and her bodyguard settled down into an archery duel with the Chariots while the rest of the army came up the street.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1751.jpg

Finally I was able to get my infantry into the square.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1752.jpg

That is when I noticed that these Agema Archers defending my breach had decided to advance past the spear women defending them and go into melee combat with two units of Nile Spearmen. WTF?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1753.jpg

I pull the archers back and send my Drakones and Companions in to crush the Nile guys.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1754.jpg

Now my troops were streaming across the square.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1755.jpg

I leave part of the army deal with that Egyptian spear unit in the square, and send the rest to the opposite entrance to block the rest of the Egyptian army from entering.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1756.jpg

I get there just in time to deploy and meet the Eggies.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1757.jpg

Their Captain was chopped down in the shade.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1758.jpg

As always, I continue to the battle to kill every last one of them.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1759.jpg

Now there were just a few stragglers left to clean up, like these Pharaoh's Guards.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1760.jpg

100 men dead in a matter of seconds. I love Agema Archers.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1761.jpg

The rest did not fare any better against my Drakones and Companions.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1762.jpg

Victory. I am not sure where that last one Egyptian is.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1763.jpg

As usual, I Enslave.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1764.jpg

Even after removing half the population as slaves, Sidon still has 17,000 people in it! Here is why, a 5th tier temple to Isus. The women of Eg are most fecund indeed...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1765.jpg

Hmmm, now what is this Roman up to?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1766.jpg

In Armenia, Marpesia assaults Artaxarta.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1767.jpg

A very ugly archery duel ensues at the walls, which I lose a lot of women to. I did not notice that they had so many Amazon Archers when I glanced over the units they had in the odds scroll...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1768.jpg

I knock two holes in the walls and enter.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1769.jpg

Their Captain was quickly cut down in the street.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1770.jpg

The Amazonians quickly counter-attacked my breach.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1771.jpg

But they cannot stand against my women.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1772.jpg

They come down from the walls to meet me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1773.jpg

In the square there were only Peasants to oppose me.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1774.jpg

Victory, but with heavy losses.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1775.jpg

I Occupy.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1777.jpg

Victory! Once again the victory movie does not play. *grrrr* None of the videos I make will work.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1776.jpg

The Tale of the Tape. 60 territories.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1778.jpg

Now some Lists. I am way out ahead in Overall rankings.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1779.jpg

Same with Military Ranking.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1780.jpg

My Production has been all over the place. I have never fully understood what this one means.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1781.jpg

No one is close to me in Territories.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1782.jpg

I am also filthy rich. I am not sure how the Sarmatians got so much money. As far as I can tell they never sacked any cities.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1783.jpg

My policy of Enslavement has put my population through the roof.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1784.jpg

Now some maps with FOW off. Northern Gaul is all Briton, and western Germania a battleground between them, the Rebels and myself.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1785.jpg

Southern Gaul is Briton as well, except for Narbo Martius, which they are trying to take from the Iberians.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1786.jpg

All of Iberia is Iberian.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1787.jpg

Carthage has been reduced to an island empire, existing only on the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, ...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1788.jpg

...and lastly Sicily.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1789.jpg

North Africa is all Gorgon, with Tecape being the western end of Egyptian expansion.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1790.jpg

The rest of Africa is Egyptian, except for the Sarmatians hanging on to Menelaus Point.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1791.jpg

The Levant is contested by Egypt and myself.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1792.jpg

Amazonia, Parthia, and Armenia are all penned in the eastern mountains.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...lkyrja1793.jpg

Well that is it. Stick a fork in me, I am done. *phew* These AARs really get wearing by the end.

Sorry I haven't made any recent comments.........real life has a way of demanding immediate attention despite what us gamers believe:dizzy2:

Nice camp...well done:2thumbsup:

I've a few comments when I get more than two minutes to post:oops:

You have the patience of Job to post such a comprehensive AAR........I get dizzy just posting 100-150 pics with text for AAR's over at the Sword Dojo:dizzy2:

Hi Samurai. Sorry to hear about Real Life. It is such a nuisance.

Thank you for the compliments. AARs do get quite wearing after a while. Especially toward the end when the turns take hours to complete. After about 1500 pictures even I begin to get burned out.

Well I finally got more than two minutes to sit at the computer, and I realize you finished this weeks ago, but here goes anyways.......

In Valkyrja0911 I thought the text was a bit awkward......after reading it several times I guess the male reference is for the assassin ancillary himself? Maybe it's just me:dizzy2:

Nitpicking perhaps, and not really a critique, but the icon in Valkyrja0983 for the Cretan Archer touts the long range of these guys and yet he holds a shortbow:inquisitive:

In Valkyrja0995, what the hell is an experience powerup? Love the wizard stars, tho':laugh4:

In Valkyrja1210.....had to laugh at this one.......Wife Above Reproach (pssst. note to wifey: the guy's Sterile:laugh4::laugh4:)

In Valkyrja1588 the Colossus seems misplaced on land....dunno if the pic is your doing or something already on file.

One other note.....don't know if you can do anything about this one but at the occupy/enslave/exterminate screen the pic is one of (god forbid) the hated Hellenic Hoplites entering the city. It'd be more appropriate (IMHO) if it could be replaced by one featuring the Daughters of the Valkyrja:yes:

Some other comments:

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As these are sister Amazons, merely misguided by aristocratic tyrants, I Occupy.

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Tsk, tsk....is that any way to treat sisters-in-arms:laugh4:

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I would be tempted to pay Admiral Skywalker and his Rebel Fleet to leave me alone however.

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Just gotta laugh at this one, too........reminds me of those @#$% Mongol Light Cavalry in STW....the buggers just won't go away:furious3:

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Their Captain was squashed by an Onager boulder. Onagers miss everything else smaller than a stone wall, but they always manage to find Captains and Generals.

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Ain't that the truth!?! I've seen that happen many times....

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I think in a future version of ATW I will include a colonist unit to facilitate this sort of thing.

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Excellent idea......there's already far too much micro-managing going on and having to shift peasants from one location to another just adds to the tediousness...........

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when I tried to make my Berserkers walk up to join the stack behind Molpadia, instead they decided to walk all the way around the mountain range to the south of them instead, using up all of their movement points in the bargain.

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Has something to do with road traffic in narrow places......I've had this happen too and it's always in the vicinity of some choke-point where the unit you want to move cannot walk around one that is in its path...........

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The Heavy Cavalry is driven off, but the Spartans will not break. They are made of iron.

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"With your shield, or on it" Buggers are indeed made of iron..........

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My second General was killed in there somewhere. I do not even know exactly when. Just that it was sometime after I swept their left flank. That is the problem with fighting Egyptians. You never know when you are going to look over and find a General being swamped by their Chariots.

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Those guys have a penchant for re-rallying before they hit the redline......I've lost units the same way.....you think they're gone, but noooooooo......here they come again:furious3: I always give 'em an escort off just to make sure......and to add insult to injury the little buggers get in a free shot at your unit even after they've crossed the redline:inquisitive:

At any rate, my compliments at nice design work and generalship, both:2thumbsup::2thumbsup:

Hey Reluctant. I just now saw your post. :oops: Thank you for the kudos, and support. I would like to replace all of the pictures you see like those greek hoplites taking the city, but I am not a 2d artist. The best I could do is take some screenshots from the game, but I do not think those would look very good.

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The best I could do is take some screenshots from the game, but I do not think those would look very good.

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I suppose taking any 2d pic of your choosing and converting it to RTW format is out of the question?

The trouble is finding a picture that is not going to look out of place with the rest of the game.

What size, and what format does it need to be? I'm constantly browsing for all sorts of things (when I have time:dizzy2:) and I could send some your way if I come across any that may be of interest:yes:

They actually vary a bit in dimensions, but most are 360 x 160, and all are .tga files.