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Finally on a fast connection and got to view the feb. 10 updates. It is really absolutely amazing how you have kept up with everything QK. Simply spectacular. It's too bad we have a new build now. :grin: I have very very very much enjoyed it mate. :2thumbsup:
I'm glad you could read the updates with your fast connection now and enjoyed it, Telekos! Thank you for the feedback, it's appreciated truly! I'm shure, you'll have a lot of fun with your new highspeed connection now...
Though I'm very anxious to download the 0.81 version, I decided to go on with the Koinon Hellon story first. It maybe outdated in it's Betatesting-aspects now, but the whole thing at least deserves a proper ending in my opinion. Maybe I'm going to play it until victory, I don't know. But the 202-update will come for shure.
Hello, this is a minor update, which had to be written because of thrilling incidences, which happend in the world according to the Koinon Hellenon lately.
It's called:
The doom of the Epirotean League / The movement of the glutton
The year of 211:
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Apolonios Aiakides, King of the Epirotean League
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Soon after Taras was donated to the South-Roman-Empire by a self-willed Koinon-General, the southern „Consul“ Cheiron orders his forces towards the Metropoleis of Capua and Arpi, which is the residence of the Epirotean King Apolonios. Cheiron himself preferes not to join in the fights but to supervise the operation from his comfortable hometown Lilibeo.
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Meanwhile in the cold cold north, an aging man sits in a smelly hinterwald-village and feels sick.
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The man's name is Amulius Favonius „Corpulentus“ „Augustus“, the cruel, whose swebic cook dared to serve a rotten otter roast lately, causing the sickness of the mighty glutton. Augustus would have let this cook be crucified immediately, if only a suitable substitute for him would be in sight.
210:
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Messengers bring the great news from Italia. Augustus makes a decision of some gravity: After nearly thirty years of residence now the time has come to leave his beloved Gawjam Hattoz. Cook adieu! He, Amulius Favonius Augustus, would personaly free Roma from the greek obstruction. History would remember him as the most glorious Roman Consul, who ever was carried across the earth by strong men. As a hero he could constantly taste the the famous wonderworks of the roman cuisine in honour for the rest of his life.
Straightaway the cook is crucified and the consular sedan is taken out of the dusty garage.
209:
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More glourious news from Italia. Arpi and Capua are now parts of the South-Roman-Empire. King Apolonios is dead. And Roma herself is under heavy oppression, though no nobleman leads the army besieging the metropolis. (Cheiron finally realised, that the unification of Roma would mean: No more South-Roman Empire, which means: No more South Roman Imperator. But it's to late to stop the developement, so the unlucky Renegate decides to stay Lilibeo an await the things to come with silence)
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In the north, Mediolanum is besieged by Roma too. It's the last stronghold of the League in northern Italia and the Residence-town of the new Epirotean King.
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But what kind of a Greek is that King? Caius Poenius Ingenuinus, who was bribed somewhere in the plains of the Po years ago, has made a stunning career, which now is crowned by the doubtful dignification to be declared as king of a crashing empire.
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Meanwhile the divine designated liberator of Roma got somehow lost in the territory of a decreasing roman Klient-Kingdom.
208:
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Finally Augustus and his exhausted sedan-carriers luckily found a safe Roman village. It's Aventicos at the gaulic borders, ruled by his grandson Gnaeus Blasio. While the sieges of Mediolanum and Roma fail, Augustus is disturbed in his rest by news about a swebic revolution in Gawjam Hattoz, led by a cook, who is told of as the legendary crucification-escapologist of the northern forests.
207:
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After spending the winter with his corpulent grandfather, Gnaeus Blasio leaves the town with his whole army for some reason. Augustus himself is not interested in Roma or Italia anymore. His yearning goes northwards, where Gawjam Hattoz, his precious home, is now in possession of the Aedui. The displaced Consul slowly starts to distrust his own senses. Also his subjects distrust them by the way.
Meanwhile in Italia the Roman captains lost the hope, that Augustus or even Cheiron would appear on the battlefields and help them with the tricky job of besieging epic walls.
206:
Nothing happens. At least nothing in public.
205
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But in the underground, decisive things are commited. Hirrus, a skilled murderer, puts an end to the life of the crowned renegate of Mediolanum. Next morning the people of the town declare themselves as independent. Maybe not a very clever decision.
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So now the Epirotean League has got a new king......
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which is the very last one. Together whith over 30.000 faithless members of the infamous plebs of Roma, who refused to rebel against the Greeks in the last decade, Proxenos Aiakides is killed within the crumbled walls of Roma, which now is the centre of a unified Empire again.
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No more south and north but, (with, to the anger of the Consul, a little exeption) unified Roma.
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Epirotean and Roman development in comparison.
And what does the Koinon Hellenon do, while all this is happening?
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It marchs the aegyptianm deserts...
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pushs back the Hayasdan....
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fights against the mighty Arche....
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defeats itchy dwarf attacks....
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and looks with great worries at the new, silly and dangerous habits of old King Haimon.
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Meanwhile another old King, who already started to be a living legend, of whom hardly anybody had caught a glimpse in his life, celebrates a great comeback. But this is another story, which will be told on another day (probably in the middle of march, sorry, not possible earlier)
See you then,
yours Quirinus Kuhlmann
Take your time, QK. This is worth the wait.
can only agree, this is one cool AAR :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ludens
Now this is really epic! An epic AAR not only, but also some epic stories - I never thought Roma would be able to reconquer Italia. The image with the bodies in the river is terrific.:laugh4:
So take your time and I think the next update will be as hilarious as the other ones. :2thumbsup:
Yep, one of the most incredible Romani traits is not that they lost every battle, far from it, but that they kept coming back even if their enemies thought they were down for the count. Same in here, I suppose!
It looked like Epiros didnt even have any armies to oppose the Roman reconquista, other than the small city garrisons. Why is that?
Wow, incredible. That was a hell of a comeback, and well documented and told Q, thanks! The cook rebellion was brilliant, hah. Loved the shots of KH's goings ons too, nicely implemented. Had a chuckle at King Haimon and his newfound love of life. Great stuff my friend.
Not to disappoint all your fans, but I would recommend starting an 0.81 campaign sooner rather than later. Maybe after the next update? Or maybe after a quickfix is released or something. It seems like a decent stopping place, after the turn of the century... sort of. It doesn't seem fair for you to have to continue and 0.8 campaign when the rest of us are enjoying the new release. Anyhoo, in either case I'll be reading with great interest. Thanks for a great thread!
Those pics remind me of that fifth century Athenian stele where they honor their dead who have fallen in just one year in Egypt, Greece, and maybe Italy fighting - all from one polis, in all those distant areas.
Thanks for the great response!
Ower, Ludens and Nixalsverdrus:
I'll take my time and then the time of the Koinon will start rumbling again like an old steam engine.
Keravnos and Germanpeon:
I think, my General signed the death-sentence to Epiros, when he gave Taras to the Romans. Over half of the Epirotean forces died in the siege-battle at her walls before. THe other half was was smashed between several roman forces in northern italy.
I had the feeling, that Taras became kind of a puffer-state between Epiros and Roma, so I gave it away to see what happens. I gave it to Roma, because Epiros is at war with me and mabe because I wanted to see a few real Roman Legions in the game again. (Currently Roma builts Hastati, Principes and Triarii at least, so my plan worked)
So, it was partly my falt, that Epiros was so helpless. Anyway, nobody forced these greeks to crush their armys on my walls.
Wonderland: Maybe you're right, I will think about it.
Teleklos Archelaou: I would like to see this stele, is it to be found somewhere in the internet?
I had read from the begining of the year...
My opinion is the same...Simple amazing...
As i said...is like a movie...
i saved the pages to my computer in order to read whenever I want...
Congratulations...
Ah!and what is strg/alt/entf that you wright in previous thread?
Um, when will new installments come out?
This is the greatest peice of literature I have ever read, PERIOD.
To echo K COSSACK's question, are you still planning on releasing any new installments QK?
Tahnx for the requests. I'm planning to release one last chapter of this and then will start something new and completely different with the new 0,81 patch. This will be a story, where the fog of war will not be turned off at any time and it will be about the Sabyn Jau. Sorry I didn't have enough time to play and release in the last weeks. The last chapter of the Koinon will hopefully come in the beginning of April.
Well I would like to thank you for what you have acompolished in this storyline.
You have actualy inspired me to play as Aeudi (SP?)
Quirinus before starting with the Sabyn you might want to check out this thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=81280 apparently both the Hai and Sabyn are still missing some buildings. The Sabyn are also missing the desert irrigation building which dosen't make sense. They were adept desert farmers after all.
Also the Sabyn can't train their generals bodyguard equilavent unit from the highest tier barracks unlike most other factions.
The highest tier Sabyn barracks dosen't produce any extra unit as far as I can tell.
Loved you AAR by the way. IMHO the two best AAR:s ever written for EB are yours and Artaserse's Wasteland.
It's a shame your quitting this AAR. You've managed to immortalise the Koinon, dwarves, old man Corpulentus and even the passive Casse and Sweboz.
Yep. Great AAR, very well documented and written. I just loved the Roman comeback.
Indeed this was (is) one of the best AAR's I've seen. I've started a KH campaign now with 0.81a and had some cool things happen, wanted to maybe write up an AAR but I almost don't feel right about it, after this awesome one about the Greeks. I look forward to the final installment. :2thumbsup:
Once again thank you for the reply. I'm deeply honoured, especially by you, Alkiviadis, because you saved the files on your computer. I'm planning to do the same thing with the Waste Land, to prevent this great peace of art from disappearing.
The Errant: Thank you, I will check out the threat and think over my decision about the Sabyn Jau.
Anyway, my decision, to end this story with the 202 update, has also something to do with the huge number of storylines, which have to be followed and with my lack of time. I'm eager to do something more linear, which can be updated more often. Hopefully the Jau are fixed, when I'm ready to start the new one.
The whole 202 update will not be ready before the beginning of april, but as a litte teaser, I will post the prologue in about half an hour.
The world according to the Koinon Hellenon
Cut 7: The long farewell
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Prologue: Diadochii Troubles
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Map of the Koinon Hellenon
As the years went by, Koinon Hellenon was growing stronger and our beloved King Haimon, who might not be the smartest of all Kings, was growing older. In 204 BC the aging warmonger was campaining the southern nile-region with his men, happily kickinig the asses of his favourite enemys, the Ptolemaian Fake-Pharaonics. Every morning, against the strong advise of his personal butler, Haimon took a fresh bath in the Nile, not caring for the notorious river-crocodiles, who shared the waters with his divine body. And so it happend as it had to happen. A huge amphibic beast, descendent of Pharao Ramses II favourite pet-crocodile, grabbed hold of our beloved hegemon, the water made a sound like „blurrbh“, and King Haimon, who might not have been the wisesd of all kings, but for sure was the most glamouros of all, vanished between the waves and was never seen again.
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Last picture of our King Haimon Lakedaimonios, which fate should repeat itself more than 1000 years later, when King Barbarossa disappeared in a river too.
Now unfortunately Haimon had not cared too much about the question, who would follow him as king in the last years. So his former friend Nikodromos Attikos, who once was a honorable conquerer of Minor Asia, but now hung about in the cultureless village of Kotais for the last 20 Years, was declared as King of the whole Koinon.
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64 year old King Nikodromos, a doubtful oldtimer who can't remember his better years.
King Nikodromos, whose grim against Haimon and the Lakedaimonides grew throughout the boring decades, then made a decision, which caused heavy rotation inside of the wet grave of our dead Hegemon: Knowing, that his reign will be a short one, he refused to declare Haimons son Soson Lakedaimonos as his heir. Instead of Soson, the governour of Tarsos, Hagasidamos Hyperteleatos, is now our new heir. So the eldest son of the perhaps most indignified man of whole Koinon history, Ponponious Hyperteleatos, is now Heir of the mighty Koinon. Holy Zeus!
Although this man seems to be of surprisingly proper virtue, this decision is an unbearable cheeky threat against the noble family of the Lakedaimonides.
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Heir Hagasidamos, a man of some proper virtue
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Soson Lakedaimonos, left out again and raving with grim
„Not only is this man the son of some smeary beast“, Soson screamed, as the bad news reached Alexandreia, „also his ancestors are from the stinky isle of Crete. This is unbearable. I'm not and not and not amused. Not at all! Butler, bring me my hippopottamos-whip! I'll whip myself in shame, to clean my poor head from all this indignified mud!“
And so he did. After having whipped himself for a good while, his mind became clear again, and so he called for the messenger, and told him give the following mail to Hagasidamos:
„Dear Cretan. So, as my father sank into the muddy floods of the river nile, you seem to be in charge of a throne, that legally belongs to me. And you know what: I'm incredibly angry about that. Therefore I have a suggestion: Let's see, which one of us is the conquerer of better skill and honour. Let's take possession of the syrian coast. Let's meet in the town of bostra then and let the people of this place decide, which one of us is the most glamouros man of the Koinon. The winner shall be king, the looser has to retire himself on the stinking shores Crete for the rest of his life.
Sincerely yours Soson Eurypontidos Lakedaimonios of Sparta“
And so it was made. Hagasidamos, offended as a cretan garlic-sausage, ordered his military machinery eastward and glouriously reconquered Edessa and Antiocheia for the Koinon. His assistent general Timaginedas heroicly pushed back the Seleucids at Karkathiokerta, but was thrown out of this pathetic village by a n Arche-loyalist revolution in 203. Meanwhile the Heir, who indeed is very glourious („for a crete“, as Soson admitted lately), stands at the walls of Damaskos, an Arche-Enklave, that is strongly defended by a certain Nicator the Lame.
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Our Heir at Damaskos.
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Situation at the eastern borders.
Meanwhile Soson Lakedaimonios took his two little brothers Kallikrates and Kritiboulos for a campaingn into the holy lands of Iudäa. After several battles he reached the walls of the mighty Hierosalyma.
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Brother Kallikrates
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Brother Kritiboulos
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Soson at the walls of Hierosalyma.
He managed to take the town, but, as the iudäan sparrows chirp from the roofs of the hebräic metropolis, this victory was only a close one. Sosons skills as a warriour are obviously „not even quite well“, so the birds chirped on. Nevertheless, the decendent of Haimon, the Great is still shure, that he will be the winner at bostra.
Meanwhile at the dwarfland-borders, another sad incident occured in the year of 204. Our hero and main dwarfwhipper, the great Manthios Thisbios has taken the eternal path to meet his doubtful ancestors. It was just after the order to return to Sparta for honouros retirement and pass over the dwarfhunting license to a younger general reached him in the filds near Nikaia. Thisbios drank about one gallon of halluzinogen dwarf-ale that evening and then, with the full moon shining on his dented helmet, he jumped off a rock, attempting to fly away. Here is a last picture of him:
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The great Manthios Thisbios
Now, as celebrations are held all around the dwarflands, a honourable follower was chosen to protect the Koinon mainlands from itchy dwarf attacks. Here he is:
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The gloomy Euneos Thisbios, son of his nortorious father......
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...is taking over the hunting-dutys at the dwarf-frontier
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Now here is a painting of young Euneos' first battle against the dwarfes:
So, this is, what happened to the Koinon Hellenon in the last years. Now, with the year of 202, the long farewell begins. 202 will be the last year to be reported to you from the world according to the Koinon Hellenon. Many loose ends will remain but progression of the divine game of Europa Barbarorum is merciless and the chronist is too eager to try out something new in a new and different world.
So watch out for the report about the rest of the world in 202, which will be released, when the year is plaid, the pictures are made and the text is written.
Yours Quirinus Kuhlmann.
Thank you for psoting the Prologue so fast QK. What is Waste Land?
The Waste Land is Artaserse's (aka. Obelics on the EB forum) iconic masterpiece of an AAR posted on the RTR forums. Part of it's posted here on the EB forum too, but the complete set can be found on the link below.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaesarAugustus
http://forums.totalrealism.net/showthread.php?t=469
There are AAR:s and there are AAR:s, and then there are true pieces of unique art that surpass our ability to praise fully. The Waste Land is one such piece. The World according to the Koinon is another. :bow:
The Arch isnt evil
lol pharaos reservation! great work!
Excellent update as always.:2thumbsup:
I never thought I would see that day. Thanks for the update QK! It's good to catch up with old pals... only to find out that they're all dead or dying and new blood is taking over. I find this to be a very appropriate place to end the story (after the upcoming full installment of course) seeing as it's the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. We await the conclusion. :bow:
Great update! Nice to see it's back.(if only for a bit)
I have truly enjoyed reading this AAR. Spectacular work friend:2thumbsup:
I like the idea to show the world as the greeks saw it, as a plain discus with water around it. Can't wait for the rest, although it's sad...