Parts 1 & 2 of my write-up have been posted. Parts 3 & 4 should be done tomorrow or Friday.
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Parts 1 & 2 of my write-up have been posted. Parts 3 & 4 should be done tomorrow or Friday.
Good read TinCow, :book: , looking forward to the next parts.
My mind is now turning to who/what to do for the next PBM....I know its still quite a way ahead but I've got lots of playtesting to do before I decide on a short list of Faction or even what version of Rome:TW to use.
Gonna be a busy bee :coffeenews: :stupido:
But we're doing very well here and deserve a nice group hug...~:grouphug:
Part 3 is up now. Part 4 will be done tomorrow.
I have been pretty uninspired to continue, so sorry for the wait. I will play as soon as possible, and should finish in a week.
As long as we know you're still around and intend to play, that's all that's needed.
Just to let the Players "in waiting" know, I have PM'd Gaulgath for an update. Progress needs to continue so I await his imminent update on his progress in the campaign.
:2thumbsup:
Well... this is a sticky wicket.
Sorry for the wait guys. I was pretty uninspired to play RTW for a while. And I couldn't show you my progress because my internet connection was down. My CD drive has also jammed, and I can't get RTW into it. :no:
Hi Gaulgath ~:wave:
You have had the download for over 2 weeks now and twice you have mentioned that you were "uninspired" to continue. I appreciate you are also having problems with your computer as I am in a similar position. To keep PBEM's from stalling we need players who have a genuine interest in completing their reign. Should we let someone else take over the reign and if you get your problems sorted out and become a little more "inspired" then you could rejoin later?
@Braden, sorry not trying to do your job mate, just a suggestion ~;)
:charge:
I am ready to step up to play if you need me.
Have today and tommorow to play :2thumbsup:
If it is me do I have constraints or can I go for Rome in whatever way I see fit ?
I think YAKOBU is quite right.
Severous - why don't you download TinCow's save game and start playing right now?
Hopefully Braden will give this the ok retrospectively. But at least you will have some fun today and tomorrow.
Ok then! Go ahead, and have fun with it Severous! The good news is my computer is fine now. ~:)
Hi Gaulgath. Great that you got your computer working ok. :2thumbsup:
Ive done a couple of turns now. Had my first full stack v's full stack battle for a long long time. Dont have many of them so I took lots of screenshots.
Hi Severous ~:wave:
Just a note in case you missed it: If you are taking Italy from the South you can only conquer as far as Capua and Tarrentum. Any further conquest needs to be from the North working down.
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Hi Yakobu
Thank for the interest and comment. I clocked it. So expect to have many fights holding against SPQR whilst my other troops work their way around Spain/France.
Special task...Elephants are on their long march.
Simon, thanks for keeping a “tab” on this in my short absence. Had internet issues over the Bank Holiday weekend….and being a holiday I couldn’t get any tech support!
Anyway, as a note for ALL players: I will be moving house in the next two weeks, unfortunately this means I will have to source a new ISP so I will only have net connection at work.
Gaulgath, glad you sorted your computer system now. Problems I’m sure I’ll mirror when I do my planned upgrades shortly.
Severous – that’s great news! I will be utterly on top of this PBM now so, any issues and questions you have feel free to PM me or post here.
Hi
I have been playing for a week now and taken 201 pictures. Most of which are in the thread.
Ive got a Gladiator Uprising to report tomorrow which includes Egyptians and Amazons.
The campaign position is becoming strong. 30,000 in the bank and two Roman factions out of the game. We have several spies, an assassin, Onager,Quinmarine, 10Star leader, War Elephant,Sacred band infantry,peasants(lots)...etc.
I am ready to hand over now despite my 60 year old faction leader still being alive. Im sure I can go kill him if I need to but he is a useful govenor and he would be a waste to kill just to pass the campaign on.
Is there anyone who wants to take over ?
I will play on....but now ready to hand over.
Hope people have found the pictures and story interesting.
Regards
Ps. Pity the thread jumps around so much as it loads up the bigger pictures.
That sounds like a major effort, Severous. :bow: Please can you zip your savegame and upload it?
Last I checked, the play order was:
Menelmacar
Zomby_Woof
Simon_Appleton
Mount_Surbibachi
Dutch_Guy
But I haven't seen much of Menelmacar lately. Braden might want to PM Zomby_Woof.
Hi
I didnt see the reply above and played on today.
My faction leader died in a riot.
Thread updated and ive now uploaded the save game:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/HornsofBull222s.zip
Have PM’d Zomby_Wolf will await response over the next 48hrs
Severous,
Well done! Good game my friend, to be honest we don't look that far away from completion now thanks to the last three players. :2thumbsup:
Just a note to say I have picked up the savegame and got to 220 Summer.
It's a more interesting situation than I feared, as the fact that we cannot attack north from Capua leaves our strongest armies with nowhere to go.
The faction leader is about to leave Spain with the elephants, but he has only one army. The rest of the troops are locked up garrisoning very disloyal settlements. I will probably have to send one army from south Italy to keep the Gauls off his back as he marches on Italy. The money situation is getting tight, perhaps because I am splurging on mercs (to be historical).
It's been a little hard adjusting to vanilla RTW battles after spending most my time with BI, EB and RTR. Some of the deficiencies of the vanilla game that everyone complains about do stand out. Perhaps especially for Carthage because their infantry are rather weak. Enemy lines seem to melt quickly. But enemy generals are monsters - one chewed up three of my infantry units, including one Poeni infantry. I should not be surprised, as I've seen that with Silver Shields in the Seleucid campaign but it is not what I've got accustomed to from EB and RTR.
However, I'm trying to run fairly historical Carthaginian armies[1] and that does entail a lot of variety. So the battles should be fun, if a little bloody for us.
[1]Some rules of thumb:
1 general
1 elephant
No more than 4 cavalry, only 2 heavy (long shield, SB); the rest light (round shield, Numidian, barbarian merc).
max 1 each of Sacred Band infantry and cav (still unhistoric, but they can represent our best troops)
2 slingers max
6 spears (Libyans, Poenic, merc phalanxes, SB)
4 swords (Iberians, Gaulish & Spanish mercs)
2-3 javelins
No more than half the army Carthaginian - the rest mercs, Libyans, Iberians etc
I thought maybe our Italian army could launch an attack on the Gaul on the adratic coast. March up that coast and assault Patavium. Help clear the way of Julii armies for the faction leader approaching through France.
Money was easing in the last two turns after those big Roman city captures. If you engage in much toop building or mercenary hires you could tip the finances into the red unless expansion also occurs.
There are plenty of low quality troops around.
Good luck.
Just a note to say I am up to 214 Summer[1], currently besieged in Mediolanium, A lot of hard fighting awaits between here and Rome. IIRC, the faction leader is 48 and we hold only around 24 provinces.
[1]This PBM has been a little squeezed out by the time required to oversee the Will of the Senate one.
Glad its still progressing. Hope the elephants for the special mission are safe.
Yes, they are - there was a tense moment when my elephants were among a lot of legionnaires throwing pila and I suddenly started to wonder what I was doing. But they all surivived and then I realised they were not the elephants for the special mission anyway! ~:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
I've made it to Rome with the elephants in tact. I'm thinking of stopping here. The faction heir is 52 and we are far short of 50 provinces, but the rest of the campaign looks like being a slog.
The savegame is romefalls.zip, so anyone who wants to take this campaign further can download it and play on.
I'll post a write-up in a few days.
I may interject a ruling here where; as long as we’ve completed our other objectives; the “Obtain 50 regions” objecting will be unnecessary.
So:
Have we captured our target regions?
Have we eliminated our target factions?
Do we control Rome?
If the answer is “yes” for all these I will close this campaign as a complete success as I am long a believer that a good campaign does not require 50 regions to be held but rather to reach that “critical mass” where defeat is near impossible in the given game settings.
Another Note: I am currently without a home PC, I installed some hardware and the PC died as a result (being looked into now). So, whilst I’ll have my new net connection at home this week I won’t have a PC to use it!! (damn!).
My aim is to playtest for two new campaigns:
1) an RTR based one
2) a BI based one
Once I have a working PC at home I will work towards setting up both these if possible.
As of the savegame I uploaded, we controlled the Rome and the regions. I did not realise Numidia was a target faction, but playing on a couple of years, we take their last settlement (and knock out the Julii).Quote:
Originally Posted by Braden
Sounds good. I would recommend checking out Goth's "all factions" mod for BI (or even his Julianorum mod if you want to do a mega-Roman campaign). It brings the game up to (about) RTR standards - with very nice unit graphics - and makes the hordes more threatening. You can find them on the RTR forum on the featured mods sub-forum.Quote:
My aim is to playtest for two new campaigns:
1) an RTR based one
2) a BI based one
Once I have a working PC at home I will work towards setting up both these if possible.
Econ21 - can you finish that last little thing? Seems odd to pass it to a new player if that's all that's left to do.
I can declare the PBM a success then!
There you go, Numidia destroyed - plus elephants resting in Roma.
https://img148.imageshack.us/img148/...hageend7gf.jpg
I hereby formally Close this PBM as a Major Victory!!
- now everyone cheer. Go on!