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ye whats the deal with that Ak-Ink and Vindobalum (or sumthing) promise you make the Epirotes. I accepted, got the alliance, sent an army, i get there siege the place, an epirote army pops up, i get sallied and attacked and the epirotes dont even help me out there... while im right next to them. really weird. Anyway the rebel army is way to big for my army to take alone (so i did a little cheat to get a catapult to take down the walls) i assault the city and now the epirotes do help. i take the town with huge losses on all sides and then what?... do i have to take only one? or both because i then moved to Ak-Ink and no army popped up to help me. neither did i get any message of thank you or whatever from the epirotes...

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Originally Posted by The Stranger

the epirotes dont even help me out there... while im right next to them.

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I'm not completely sure, but when it spawns in mid-turn, is there on the map, but not present to fight (don't know better words to explain it XD)...

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i take the town with huge losses on all sides and then what?

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The alliance is pretty much a token and the scripted army is there to help you, but there's nothing to gain from the endeavour...

Except, of course, the two settlements themselves. :p

It's really just an RP thing.

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EB 1.2, M/M, Alex.exe with Jirisys' Megamod (movement points reduced back to normal value)

EDIT: the year is 190 by the way....

Has been a rather interesting campaign so far. Pontos held almost everything in Makedonia, Illyria, Thracia etc that is roman possession now (except Demetrias, Athenai and Chalkis which were still makedonian possession) and attacked Italy via sea. For about 5 years I managed to not fight back in their lands but only defended Taras, Arpi and Patavium, but in the end I was so fed up that I gathered four polybian legions (= 2 fullstacks; a legion consists of 1 FM, 1 Velites, 2 Hastati, 2 Principes, 1 Triarii and 3 allied units, I try to standardize them with 1 Pedites E., 1 Campanian Cavalry and 1 Toxotai or Sotoroas) and invaded Illyria.
Within 15 years I managed to fight my way down to Byzantion (got attacked by my allies, the Makedonians as soon as we shared a border so I took the chance and "liberated" the last parts of Graecia as well...).

After taking Byzantion I FD'ed a ceasefire with Pontos (mainly because the republic wouldn't be able to deliver any decisive blows in Asia Minor anyway, in polybian times there aren't allowed more than 8 legions ...)

Lusos, Sweboz and Carthage are allied with me (no FD there, the Pontos ceasefire was the only cheat I ever used in this campaign, I didn't help or hinder any other faction at all).
Aedui are the only faction I'm at war with at the moment, but that will most probably change soon, I'm sharing a border with the Ptolemaioi (Byzantion - Pergamon).
And they have a lot of stacks in Asia Minor...

I finally discovered how to use the print screen so here it is:
Seleucid on H campaign/ Medium Battles

Situation on at the death of the first great King Theodoros:
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My second Great King Nikeratos
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The empire before the death of Cleon the Great who sacked every major city in spain and western gaul before giving them to lusos (who backstabbed me)
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My fourth King Damdas, who although did not conquer as much as the other kings, he did manage to create a stable border for the war in northern europe
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My current King, the young Dikalros, who has come to iberia to teach those lusos a lesson
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It seems you are going for a World Domination seleucid empire. Any reason why you have not bothered with Kart-Hadast?

Attachment 4440Using BI.exe, VH/M difficulties.

Year is 213 BCE, playing as Epeiros. I rushed my first 15 years or so, destroying Makedonia, pushing Koinon Hellenon out of Greece (as well as the conquest of Crete) and then driving the Romans all the way to Segesta and Bononia with Pyrrhos. The reign under Ptolemaios Aiakides was very much a consolidate and gradual expansion. The Romans were conquered in northern Italy (Carthage delivered the killing blow taking back Corsica) while the Seleukid holdings in western Anatolia under Ptolemaios. Unfortunately at this time, Ptolemaic Egypt made a big push from Phoenicia and conquered Antiocheia, Tarsos, and Side in quick succession and despite the 30 years of peace and alliance, thanks to the wonderful AI, war was immediately declared. Ptolemaios dies and Pyrrikhos Aiakides takes the reign.

I roleplayed Pyrrhikhos as a very conservative king. The expansion in Asia Minor was very gradual during his reign. This time period also saw a perplexing declaration of war by Carthage who landed a full stack near Rome (at this time both Messana and Syrakousai belonged to the Eleutheroi so we had no land boundaries). As a result, I conquered Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica in quick succession. I then land a stack near Karthage and take the city as well as Atiqa. Since my ability to recruit in Carthaginean homelands is almost non-existent and I have no interest in their lands, I've only held onto Atiqa and Karthage while having a stack of sea-faring soldiers conquer coastal cities, raze the buildings, and then leave. During this same time period, the Getai, with whom I had shared a border for 40 years and been allies with them throughout that time, suddenly declared war on me but I made short work of them with one stack of soldiers raised in Greece and Epeiros.

Hagesias Aiakides ascends the Epeirote throne and he's far more ambitious than his uncle. The sea-faring stack which has devastated Karthage's coastal towns conquered both Paraitonion and Alexandreia. Basileus Hagesias sends Hermaeus Herakleotes, a former Pontic general (with 8 standing stars, 10 when he attacks) renown for his countless defenses of Tarsos against the Selekids and the Ptolemaioi, on a warpath where he conquers Antiocheia, Phoenicia, Assyria, and Sophene and that's where we're at.

In this same game, the Arverni are a client state of Lusotannia. Also of interest, Saka Rauka and Pahlava are client kingdoms of Baktria. Pahlava barely became a client kingdom a few turns ago so I'm eager to see if Baktria finally turns their attention to the Seleukids. I'd love to eventually meet them in the middle and fight over Persis and Media.

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It seems you are going for a World Domination seleucid empire. Any reason why you have not bothered with Kart-Hadast?

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i have to fight off carthage stacks every few turns cause of kyrene but im saving them until last. I have already raided the coast of africa and they are quiet now. also the distances between their cities are too large

Here is my current Getai campaign in 231 BC. I've accomplished both of my goals so far. One to take and hold the Amber Route and the other to conquer Epeiros. My armies will not include Greek mercenaries, as I've decided to role play decidedly anti-Greek armies. Although, I'm considering garrisoning pike phalanx mercs in cities bordering the Hellenic territories. I've already witnessed the downside of Getai levies defend towns against an enemy with Elite Pike Phalanxes, and it ain't pretty. Dacian, Thracian, Celtic and some Germanic units are only allowed for me.

Getai Confederacy
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...7&d=1331103292

Known world according to the Getai. The Romani are looking like they may want to expand into my newly conquered Adriatic territories. The Ptolemaioi look like they have beaten AS and Pontos and it's only a matter of time before they think of taking Byzantium. Baktria is tying up any Sauromatae armies and is conquering the steppes, and I may need to watch that border with them. The Sweboz have done nothing and the Arverni have conquered all territory west of them (not shown on map).
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...9&d=1331103298

Getai Diplomacy
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...6&d=1331103291

Southern front against my new enemy Koinon Hellenon, perhaps due the fact I destroyed their ally, Epeiros, am allied with Makedonia and share a border with them. My goal is not to conquer Greece, as their roster is Greek and provides no real benefit to me, except Krete, but even then my Elite Dacian archers are arguably better than Kretan archers.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...8&d=1331103296

Seleucid empire on H/M it is now 115 BC after the destruction of the lusotanian empire
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as you can see im still having trouble with one rebel province in the balts. they have about 8 000 silver/gold chevroned heavy german infantry......
also im deciding whethr to invade carthage or briton

You should be able to pull off both concurrently.

March to Lepki, invade Kart-Hadast from Sicily, and cross the strait of Gibraltar. The Casse will probably be a bit trickier since you can realistically speaking only invade from the South.

how do i beat the superstacks??? i seem to be able to destory them with barbarian factions but not with hellenistic factions or rome

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how do i beat the superstacks??? i seem to be able to destory them with barbarian factions but not with hellenistic factions or rome

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The Baltic ones? 10 Silver Shields, 5 Cretans, 5 Hetairoi/Cataphracts/General's Bodyguard. Or switch out some of the Silver Shields for Cordinau Orca. It's not like you won't be able to afford it.

i cant get Cordinau Orca cause i built a type 3 gov in singdium

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i cant get Cordinau Orca cause i built a type 3 gov in singdium

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Well it is not a requirement to be able to defeat those stacks anyways. Using the army as described above without them should still do the trick.

just get a baktra history victory at vh/h
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just get a baktra history victory at vh/h
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247 BC....

How?

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247 BC....

How?

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have a cease fire with saka, Rush the AS as hard as you can.
The eastern provinces of AS are easy to get and most of them have mine.
The AS will send troops to deal with you. But lots of them are small army, which can be destroyed with little loss.
In this game, I faced 3 full stack army before I reached Persepolis.
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I suppose its possible since the shared culture helps negate the long distances. Plus you share local barracks to quickly levy support units.

yes,in the same culture group with AS help a lot.
even so happiness plus building and corruption still cost most of my income.

my fourth Koinon Hellenon Campaign...

turned out to be the most interesting one. ..after having much fun with playin the first time the two celtic factions of Gaul i returned again to my favorite faction i like the best.

vh/vh as i play always ..i dont mind to micromanage battles.

inspired from Chirurgeons great AAR "Journey of the Hellenes" i wanted to try such migration Campaign. main objective was to build up a Thalassocracy - so important Poleis spread on the coasts in the Mediterranean Sea had to be conquered first.
shipped over to Emporion - the first conqest. some seasons later: Syrakousai - which was declared Capital since it lies near the center of the Mediterranean Sea (Rhegion is in the exact center) and because it had such a vast population.

it was planned as a migration Campaign but my diplomat could surprisingly gain a truce and further peace and trade rights with Makedonia in the first turn.
but i reckoned anyway soon to lose Sparte and Athenai since i only had very few units stationed there, especially in the beginning.
but things went there own way for the luck of the Koinon.
Makedonia soon got into serious struggle for Dominance in Northern Greece with Epeiros and from time to time they fight with the Getai - my Ally.

while Makedonia and Epeiros were in constant war with each other - my Koinon could spread out and gain more territories. ..so i never broke that peace with either Makedonia or Epeiros ..and actually not planning to do so. but if they should risk it they will have to deal with a developed and now strong Hellenic Confederacy.

the war with the Romaioi (they attacked me) lasted for six years from 267 - 261BC. ..in wich i also experienced the most painful defeat in all my Campaigns - but which was for the Romaioi a pyrrhic victory.

now its 248BC - my Faction Heir fight against the Lusotannan (again: they were the Aggressors, and after we agreed a truce they attacked a second time ..so now they will suffer)
and the Faction Leader in Mikra Asia against Pontos and Seleukeia. With all the Rest the Koinon has peaceful and prosperous relations. ..the short war with the Qarhadastim in Sikelia seem to be forgotten..

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the world according to the ptolomaics
mod: roma surrectum 2
faction: ptolomaic empire
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*Problem solved*

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the world according to the ptolomaics
mod: roma surrectum 2
faction: ptolomaic empire
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As always thank you for your contribution Pharoah remese II, but in future please only post EB screenshots.

My Roman campaign as old as the Universe itself

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Gives a new meaning to "Taking it slow" .

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Gives a new meaning to "Taking it slow" .

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Thought the same. I took my time building up and micromanaging my cities, especially in Italia, building mines, huge temples and researching the Polybian troops. Also, this screenshot is more than 1 year old and it was one of my first campaigns in EB ;)

with the romans you can´t go slow 1 peninsula is 1 leg but you´ll need at least 2 legs to move on and 3 legs to screw everyone else (i think i just made a poor quality joke)

mines in iberia and in the balkans are or should be your bread and butter

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with the romans you can´t go slow 1 peninsula is 1 leg but you´ll need at least 2 legs to move on and 3 legs to screw everyone else (i think i just made a poor quality joke)

mines in iberia and in the balkans are or should be your bread and butter

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I know, though this was my first campaign more than 1 year ago and I was a complete noob back then :)

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i cant get Cordinau Orca cause i built a type 3 gov in singdium

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