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Continuing with my Pergamon game
237BC
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I took Rhodos. Sauromatae, Baktria and Pahlava expand. Sweboz continue inexorably on. Makedonia manage to take Epirus, and KH Aitolia. Romans kick Qarthadast out of Sicily.
232BC
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Seleukids expand, most of Gaul now with one faction or other. I gave Aedui Naissos and Singidunum. Casse now have just Wales and Ireland to complete the union of the UK.
Attempt as Pontos to recreate the Byzantine Empire of Basil II, 217BC
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* Arche Seleukeia Satrapy of Dayuan
** Bastarnoladam (Sweboz ally)
*** Sequallra (Arverni ally)
Things are going pretty well in my attempt to recreate Basil II's byzantine empire. In the west, I have invaded the Greek Peninsula and have reduced Makedonia to a puny single-province state based on Thermon. They do however have two fully stacked armies, and I need to replenish mine for the final assault. Waged a triple war against Makedonia, KH and Epeiros at the same time, and as you can see, I have killed of the greeks and are just about to do the same with Makedonia. In the northwest, I have established good relations with the getai, which they better maintain. Don't make me do to Getai what Basil II did to the Bulgars.
In the east, I have conquer all the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire, all but Sidon from the Arche Ptolemaioi, but since the diplomatic status between us is neutral, it will have to wait. I'm going to conquer Edessa, although the Byzantines just held it a couple of years.
Continuing the progression in my Epeiros-as-Pergamon game. A fair bit of FD in the later one, much less so the earlier.
227BC
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Spain bounce back, the Aedui recover a little, I take Ipsos.
222BC
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Carthage get to work in Spain, Rome start branching out along the coast. I take Kallatis and Chersonesos.
214BC
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Much FD involved here in causing the Second Punic War and similating a "Hannibal" invading Italy and causing Capua to defect and Cisalpine Gaul to revolt. Baktria and Pahlava expand at the expense of the Seleukids, though the latter with some help (not Gandhara though, that was a revolt). The AI took Arpi all by itself. I took Pantikapaion.
May I ask what map you have used?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaertecken
I think the opposite of ulterior is citerior. The opposite of inferior is superior.
Looks like it's MAP_REGIONS.tga he coloured.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
My bad, I mixed those two together...Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
That's right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Swordmaster
Thx for the info.
Baktria 240
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Seems to me that in 1.1 AI Makedonia almost always loses out to either KH or Epeiros. In my game even with me (Epeiros) out of Greece, they still don't seem to be able to actually beat KH. Why is that?
Impressive, the Ptolies still holds Kilikia after 50 years into the game. Usually, if the Ptolies hold Kilikia at that time, they have either conquered half of the map, or has just defeated the AS.
Epirus gets kicked out of Italy pretty soon in 1.1, they have the resources to fully concentrate on marching on Pella and Illyria, making life a Hell for AI-controlled Macedonia.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius
In most of my 1.1 campaigns Epeiros uses its Nellies to take Pella in the first turn and often Serdike in the second turn. Then the Maks are screwed. I have seen them coming back sometimes, if they manage to take Pergamon or if they can grab Athens early on.
256 BC. Aedui. RTW.exe. No cheats ´cept toggle_fow and some Perect_Spy (and only to look at what the Baktrians and those guys are doing). No FD (though if the need arise...).
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Arverni: Dead. Mohahahahah! :whip:
Casse: Not much, usual slow expansion.
Sweboz: Damn, looking much to good. These guys are really worrying me, though I have managed to negotiate an alliance with them.
Getai: Not much here really. Slow steady expansion. Been trying to take Naissos for some time now.
Qarth-Hadast: A bit depressing here really. Nothing at all ´cept some African conquests.
Lusitannan: Finally, someone to make me happy. Blitzed all the regions next to Carthage´s and are now going for Emporion.
Sab´yn: Meh. Really, just meh.
Sauromatae: Holy shit! When Foot said the steppes have teeth he wasn´t kidding. Killed of Hayasdan, took Sápmi and Pantikapaion, and are aiming for the rest of the Caucasus and Olbia.
Hayasdan: :laugh4: Owned suckers!
Pontos: Took Galatia early, I was hoping it would revolt to me or the Arverni, but no luck. Not really done anything since then.
Saka-Rauka: Some usual fighting with the Settlers of the Evil East , not much else.
Baktria: Some usual fighting with the Savage Indians of the Evil East, but not much else. Still friendly with the Evil Capitalists of the Evil East and the not-quite-so-Savage Indians of the Evil East.
Pahlava: Going good against the Sele´s, not much else to report.
Arche Seleukeia: Losing the war against the Pahlava. Lost Hekatomplyos to revolt exactly 6 times before the Pahlava took it. Lost Drangiane to rebels. No news on the western front, the Syrians war are at an standstill. They did took Sidon though, but that was years ago, and nothing really came of it. Should be praying that the Yellow Ukrainians and the Wannabe-Xerxes doesn´t gang up on them, or Scythian nobles will be dining in Babylon before the decade is out.
Ptolemaioi: Booooooooring. Took Kyrene, lost Sidon.
Koinon Hellenon: Kicking ass. Driven the Black Diadochi out of Hellas proper (well, apart from a stupid little island that refuses to surrender) and are looking comfortable against Epeiros, though that might chance soon... :inquisitive:
Makedonia: Beaten badly by the Orange Philosophers but are hanging on in Pella. Perhaps not for long though... :inquisitive:
Epeiros: Got driven out of Biggus Grekus by the ILF (Italian Liberation Front) but Taras revolted back and they´re now kicking the ass of those damnded barbarians.
Staying strong back on the mainland, even if they aren´t doing much ´cept taking Serdike. Have an alliance with me that might just prove very, very fruitful sometime soon.
Romani. Took Taras and Rhegion in the first years. Nothing´s gone right since then.
I did some really great campaigning in northern Italy, on both the strategic and tactical level. Anyway, the result was that I took all of Northern Italy, defeated 4 of their big armies and sacked (enslaved, razed every building and left) Arretium and Ariminium. Shortly after lost Taras to revolt. Been trying to attack me, but they´re still weak and I´m doing some very aggresive defending, striking their small armies on Roman soil before they can gather into one big one.
Aedui. Most glorious incredibly great Gallic tribe ever! WOOOOOOOOT111111111111!
Blitzed Arverni and most of Gaul, kicked the ILF´s ass and just made Illyria my clients (L4 Gov, have it in Liguria as well, will probably have it in all non-Gaul regions I take, at least the ones with non-Gaul but tribal regions) and have a Wannabe-Brennos army ready. And no, not the Rome-sacking Brennus, the other one. Might make it as far as Galatia, who knows.
Shit dude, I've never seen the Sauro's do so good before!:wall:
Yeah, scares the shit out of me. Though in just the 2 yearss I´ve played since that screenshot they´ve aleady had 3 revolts that still havn´t been smacked down. They have however taken Ani-Kamah. I noticed in the RV a couple of days ago that Kappadokia has the Nomad resource. I´ll be funny if they take it and start churning out HA´s in the middle of Turkey. Even funnier when my guy in Greece finally reach Galatia, then we´ll have the Gauls and Sauro´s kicking as in Anatolia. Heirs of Alexandros, tremble, your doom is approaching.
Romani VH/H, Alex.exe
The year is 222BC:
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Some notes:
Aedui have taken control over Gaul, making the Arverni their procterate.
Currently they are at war with Lusotannan, trying to take over the Pyrenees.
Macedon is the domanting faction in Greece, at this moment they are besieging the last KH settlement there.
In Asia, Pontos, Ptolemaioi, baktria and pahlava are kicking Seleucid butt. At this speed, I estimate them to go down before 200BC.
This is btw the first time ever that I actually see pontus expanding like this.
Great campaing so far :2thumbsup:
That's some really awesome expansion you have there, especially on the Pontic and Pahlavan parts.
My Romani campaign, year 224 B.C. (RTW 1.5 installed, no BI or Alex)
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I've managed to kick the Carthaginians from Africa, while Lusos are doing the same in Iberia.
Arverni are in a dire situation, being at war with Aedui and Sweboz.
Aedui are fighting Sweboz and actually managed to take a settlement in Iberia (may be Luso-Aedui war is not far away).
Casse are very slowly expanding in Britain.
Sweboz are scary. Taking most of Central Europe and having some Bastarnae town rebel for them. They've already tried to raid Northern Italy, but their two full stack armies were destroyed under the walls of Mediolanum, which I'm turning into an unassailable fortress.
Further to the East, Epirotes are dieing out after managing to nearly destroy Macedonians. But somehow the Macedonians have turned the tide and now Epirotes are languishing in Pannonia and Macs have also killed off KH (only Rhodes left).
Getae are slowly expanding into Thrakia and are not doing anything remarkable.
The biggest surprize are Pontos which have pushed the Seleucids out Of Anatolia, managed to take Byzantion and Pella and are sending decently sized armies towards the last Seleucid possessions in Asia Minor.
Ptolies are slowly eating Seleucids and fighting Saba.
Seleucids are throwing everything they have at Ptolies while they enjoy a ceasefire from the Pahlave who also managed to grab some of the Seleucid territory.
Baktrians are winning against Saka, who in their turn are fighting Sauromatae, which are also attacked by the Haya.
As for my plans, haven't decided yet whether to attack Lusitania or start my Macedonian wars. I'm planning to play defensively against northern barbarians until Marian reforms.
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Pahlava are stopped dead by my policy of fortifying everything I can with stone walls, although they have allied with Hayasdan and Saka, who are both not currently at war with me, but the Hayasdan dont seem to be having much look expanding at all.
Pontus they made the mistake of trying to take Mazaka, so I beat them down and took Amaseia, beating an understrength stack composed of tonnes of Eastern Light Cav and skirmishers, with one unit of Chalkaspides and a couple of understrength units of Pandapoi thrown in.
Another victory for the Pantapoi, I had thought about reducing them just to Galatia, but I have bigger worries.
Ptolemaics: I took all Egypts asian holdings and Alexandria, Memphis and Paranaiton, they seem t obe recovering slightly and keep half heartedly seiging and assaulting Memphis, only to be driven off each time with light losses to my force and huge losses to them, since they seem to love attacking with a ram and a ladder.......
Sauromatae was doing well, took Trapezous which then apparently rebelled to the Koinon Hellenon and is full of a full stack of Im not sure what, as I dont have a spy to spare to go look.
Bactria has broken its alliance with me but hasnt declared war, but unfortunately has overrrun the last of the settlements between me and India, preventing my expedition of doom to secure a supply of Indian uber-archers. Not that I have troops free for that at the moment, but luckily Ive fortified my border settlements with stone walls and large complements of Persian Archers.
The western "barbarian" factions dont seem to be doing much, the Gallic civil war seems to be happening to the advantage of the Aedui at the moment
The real suprise is Getai and Epeirots, especialyl the latter, they have driven Macedonia out of northern Greece pretty much, are seiging the rebel settlement of Thermon and are fighting the Macedonians around Demetrias, although the Macedonians appear to hav elocal superiority of numbers, there are just so many epeirotes, they are fighting the Romans to a standstill in the north and are, as you can see, now loose in Asia Minor, Im at peace with them at the moment, but I may have to delay my Pontus bashing to defend Ipsos and Sidon if they turn agressive again, which they are sure to do.
Saba are doing nothnig as far as I can tell, might give them a tonne of money at some point, if I can remember what teh console command is.
I was also planning on doing an AAR of the rest of this campaign, detailing the sure to be epic war between the Seleukid empire and the Epeirots-who-are-Pergamon-without-modding
Out of what I have seen, Pahlava is taking the "Caspian empire" approach, and from there starts to pour into Medea, and sprawl out to the south and the east (A very desirable, and historically plausible model). Very nice.
Attempt as Pontos to recreate the Byzantine Empire of Basil II, 211BC
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* Saka Rauka Protectorate of Nisa
** Free City of Asaak
*** Aedui Protectorate of Rhaetia
**** Arverni Protectorate of Sequallra
In the east, I only have to conquer Cyprus and Sidon from the Ptolies, then my eastern Byzantine Empire's borders will be secured. In the west, I have to conquer Singidunum and Segestica from the Aedui, and Taras abd Rhegion from the romans, then my reconstructed empire of Basil II will be complete.
With the help of some Forced Diplomacy, I have contained the Lusotanni on the right side of the mountains, though they constantly pour through to attack the romans. In the south, the carthaginians have expanded into Egypt. In the north, the germans have started to come down heavy on the gauls, but I plan to FD their Belgae settlements to the Casse, to stop them. Otherwise, not much is happening....
Casse campaign year 258 B.C. with RTW 1.5 (no BI or Alex) and no mods/cheats (except EB 1.1 and toggle_fow ofc :beam:).
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I'm very impressed with some of the AI expansions so far. The Epeirotes started well enough which was typical, but so did the Makedonians crippling Koinon Hellenon pretty quick (they're down to just Rhodes now), and after a while they turned on the Epeirotes. Although the Maks have gained the territories, the Epeirotes seem to have slightly more armies and could do some damage, depending on the AI, though they seem to be more focused on rebel settlements atm.
Baktria are the other faction performing well. After afew settlements in the region changed hands afew times early on, Baktria came out with the spoils in the end and then managed to take additional settlements from both Saka and Pahlava. Now Baktria's forces are spread pretty thin, but Pahlava and Saka have practically no millitary presence at all. The only people that should give Baktria any trouble now are the AS, who have been pretty quite on that front.
Everywhere else is pretty typical and uneventful as far as I can see.
I've just conquered the last settlement on the British Isle, I now need to decide where to land. I want to head towards the Sweboz and let the Gauls fight themselves alittle longer, but Sweboz has 6-7 full stacks to my one. :sweatdrop:
Same campaign:Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
242BC:
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232BC:
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The Hai are constantly trying to take Aghvan, while they "civilized" Uspe.
The Getai are my allies and act as my buffer against the Sarmatians, constantly warring them since ever.
The Sarmatians have an incredibly strong HA-army in Bastarnolandam. Early in the game they took the Crimea. I had an army underway to "liberate" the Hellenes there, but decided I needed the soldiers more in Pontos instead.
I wiped Pontos out cause they were simply in the way.
The AS betrayed me and decided to make peace with the Ptolemaioi instead, after I bought Nikaia, Sardeis and at last Ankyra from them. They are on the offense against the Parthians.
The Ptolemaioi have control of all of Syria and Babylonia except Antiocheia.
Baktria is under constant pressure.
The Carthaginians finally got it going, the Lusos are almost destroyed.
Arverni are allied to Rome and I must say they impress me the most of all AI-factions in my game.
The Romans are constantly warring the Aedui and I must take care that they do not pour into Gaul and build the famous Roman bloodknot. They just conquered Messana and the Punic war started. I hope for action.
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My Koinon Hellenon Campaign.
237BC.
Nothing too exciting except for
EPEIROTS IN ROME.
They must of got off there asses after I pretty much threw them out of the greek peninsula and beat rome to hell.
Its amazing how good there doing since they have like 3 full stacks just buggering about in north Illyria.
Also Apparently a Bosphorian province rebelled to me, the Saurmotte (I can't spell there name) are sieging it though so I'm just gonna let them have it.
Also is it just me or is the Bactrian Empire starting to look like the head of a cow?
Hah, if Baktria captures that Alexandreia_blahblah settlement, it will look like the Dairy lee cow.
Rilder, don't be too exited about Epeiros' performance in your campaign :smash:
Hayasdan, 225 BC.
(not the same campaign as the one I posted a few pages back, started a new one on 1.1)
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Epeiros destroyed the Romani in 258BC :inquisitive:
At first my Hayasdan empire expanded really fast, but I'm now facing strong opposition on all sides :oops:
The Ptolemaioi aren't a threat anymore, but the Saba have several full stacks in the area, and keep besieging Petra & Damaskos.
The Arche Seleukeia is slowly making a comeback in the east, while the Macedonians recently declared war on me in the west.
In the north the Sauromatae are becoming more aggressive, but nothing too serious so far. I lost Uspe, and they besieged Kotais several times with small armies.
Damn...Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy1991
That is some crazy Epirote expansion.
Bat shit crazy epirotes, and how satisfying to see the Lusotanna reduces to a brown smudge on the tip of the Iberian peninsula.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy1991
I just started a Romani campaign (VH/M), and I'm going to track the AI's progress. So, being a programmer, I made a program that when I press print screen, gets a screenshot, cuts out the map, saves it to a file, figures out the season + date, sticks that on the image, and saves it as a gif. Then I can stick them together later and make an animation out of it. :beam:
When I get further into the campaign i'll link to it.
That looks very nice indeed, Chris. :2thumbsup:
You may wish to upload your program to a mirror and post a link to it somewhere on the forum (EB Unofficial Modding Projects, maybe?) for others to use it too.:idea2:
I will, just need to make some UI improvements, and test it for a bit, to see if any bugs turn up.
If I may, it would be very nice if your program will do the action triggered by some other key than just PrintScreen. It would thus allow to take normal screenshot (i.e. in battles, etc.) and from time to time use your program to produce and AI map. :2cents:
And if it somehow managed to toggle_fow on/off it would be even better, though I do not know if it is possible or worthwhile to do that. I am no programmer at all. :shrug:
You know you can turn fow off yourself in game, hit the ~ key, then type in toggle_fow. Just would need to do that before you take the SS.
*I would also be really interested in that program, sounds like a real time saver.*
Got to 262 BC in the Romani campaign. I just won a big battle against the Aedui, when they attacked Bononia with a full stack. Thing is, over half of the stack were slingers, so the battle got a bit insane, with 1000 slingers on skirmish mode running all over the place.
A link to the animated gif of the campaign so far is below. I kept it as a link as it came out a bit big (~ 2MB!), but it does have 40 turns in it. I'm going to try and come up with a cunning plan to cut down the size (other than rar/zipping it).
Behold, my campaign in 8-bit color! : https://i338.photobucket.com/albums/...seden0/out.gif
@ Fondor_Yards - I know how to toggle fow manually, what I meant was asking whether the Chris´s program could do that automatically.
@ Chris - If that was an advertisement for your program, it could hardly be any better. Excellent job! :bow: It reminded me of the replay-world-map in the old Civilization games. It would be nice have something like that for EB too. It is a bliss to end a long-long campaign and just watch how the world map gradually changes to your color all over...
A suggestion - sorry if it is bothering for you - if the program could be activated by a script, it might maybe even possible to have it activated by pressing the end-turn button. Together with automatic fow on/off the end product could be this wonderful animated map just like you have made. I am just dreaming...:stupido2:
I'll have to look into the possibility of integrating it with RTW script. If what I want to do is possible, I have an idea that would be able to produce high quality replays, without the ridiculous filesize that the animated GIF would produce :beam:
Guys, is it me or are the Romani somewhat weakened? In my Makedonia campaigns so far with 1.1, always have to help them against the Epairotai after I kick them out of mainland Hellas. It also seems that the March of Time takes auwfully long to take place...
Chris, that is an awesome program / utility you have made.
:2thumbsup:
Indeed, brilliant.
Damn, that is really nifty.
I have noticed the Romans seem to be weaker, but thats a very good thing in my book. They used to quickly overrun everyone in Europe, especially taking most of Gaul and Central Europe way too soon. A combo of the rebel armies north of the alps/Boii and other factions actually being able to fight them makes it more interesting.
i need help i dont know where to go to ask this question. when i try to cheat lol i tyope in the code then the unit name for example "Create_unit Arpi Principes 5 2 2 2 2" it says thatt the unit is not rexongized. if you know the units id for the romani can you plz tell me. or if you have a notehr thread that can help me cause its too slow for me to wait a season and my campagin map is dam laggy\
thnx
I suggest you try the main fora and the bugs/support fora. If I may ask why of all threads did you choose this one, plainy a thread without any relevance to your query?
create_unit Arpi "roman_infantry_principes" 5 2 2 2Quote:
Originally Posted by Gester24
not sure about the EDU name though
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Quite some time has passed since my last screenshot at 224 BC, so here's how the things look like in 205 BC.
I've conquered Iberia and the Lusitanians are gone.
Casse did exactly nothing for those 20 years.
Arverni which I thought should be extinct by now, not only defeated Aedui, but seem to be defeating the Sweboz too:charge:
Sweboz left Mediolanum alone for 20 years already and are fighting with Arverni (and seem to be losing).
Getae - did nothing for 20 years.
Epirotes - have tried an attack on Epidamnus, which turned out t be unsuccessful. As it is now firmly controlled by Pontos.
Macedonians are now at war with Pontos and seem to be losing badly. If no one will attack Pontos from the East, the Macs are in for a big trouble.
Pontos - now control most of Asia Minor and are beating Macedonians and Epirotes.
Seleucids - unsurprisingly gone.
Ptolies - control most of the former Seleucid terriories and some more. Now fighting me over Kyrenaika area (lots of Klerouchoi and Klerouchoi Agema are thrown around, but my legions seem to be capable of doing their job).
Saba - fighting a hopeless war against the Ptolies. Nothing special actually.
Hayasdan - being killed by Pahlava and Sauromatae.
Pahlava - fighting Hayasdan.
Bactrians - finishing off Saka, strange, but no war with Pahlava (not for long I think).
Saka - slowly losing ground to the Eastern Greeks.
OMG that Pontos is just Crazy, I love it. The Aedui in southern Central Europe is is your doing or rebelino?
That distant Aedui enclave is a rebellion which happened a long time ago.They are constantly keeping 2 full stacks there doing nothing at all. Actually the Sweboz are doing exactly the same with their enclave with only difference that they keep 3 full stacks there, when they desperately need them fighting Arverni. Tbh, I think those enclaves and big armies that the AI is keeping there, far away from any action, are the reason why Aedui are all but extinct and Sweboz are losing ground to the Arverni. AI is not playing smart here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ower
Man, the Pahlava in Alexandropolis must be shitting their pants all the time.
Here's my VH/M Pontos game at 257 BC with BI.exe.
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Seleucids are being stupid. I wouldn't have expanded as much as I have, but after they first broke our alliance, they sent stack after stack of cheap troops at my main army - my faction leader and some other family members, with a cheap phalanx. So now, all those family members have 3 silver chevrons, and have been fighting off Seleucid stacks for 10 years now. The Seleucids have actually been funding my war against them - every other turn either I offer them a ceasefire/alliance in exchange for some cash, or they come to me offering me money to make an alliance (!). Which they break the next turn.
Also, Rome has taken their Faction Leader and a medium sized army on a boat over to Alalia, and are currently besieging it. KH is filling Rhodes with stacks.
Hopefully things will get a bit more interesting as it goes on.
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2 things
Epirus and Lusotana vs Rome and Carthage and Rome is getting beat by the 2 of them and Carthage can't do anything to the Spaniards
In Greece, Epirus didn't attack pella and Makedon didn't capitalize on that even though they took Athens but troops from Sparta slowly took makedon's territories and Pontus took the ones in asia minor but both factions didn't capture mytilene and Chalkis and see what happened lol
Holy shit, that is one bi... wait a minute. You´re playing as Baktria right? Damn. Please, always inform us of which faction you are playing as.
And what´s up with the Seleukids in Dayuan? Surely you cannot leave them there behind your border like that.
Yes he can, the province keeps the Saka busy for decades, I did it in my Pahlavan game too. It keeps your back secure and leaves you with a single frontline . Very efficient until the Saka take it and become angry at you.Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
Without the "_" underscores, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ||Lz3||
From the Pontos campaign earlier, just finished off Hayasdan, its currently ~249BC. Spoilered because its a bit wide.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Sweboz 250BC.
https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/...weboz250bc.jpg
Not anything tooo insteresting so far.
Looks like KH got control of Southern Greece and Epeiros the North, KH and Epeiros are allied.
Rome seems to have moved West.
Also that army spawning directly east of my north-easternest province annoys the hell out of me, but I supose its for the best so I don't end up fighting bloody horse archers. ( I did get a pretty epic fight out of that stack though. :2thumbsup:)
https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/...n/Map234BC.jpg
There has been some pretty cool progression here.
Aedui: The Aedui have gained the upper hand over the Arverni and have controlled the greater part of Gaul
Arverni: Dying.
Arche Seleukeia: Well, they have been losing ground to the Ptolemaioi and the Pahlava, but they are fighting back against the Pahlava and it's pretty much a stalemate now, but the AS looks like it could reclaim Persepolis and the rest of the Pahlavan domininions. They are ignoring the Ptolemaioi mostly, but this could change since the latter have taken Karthathiokerta.
Baktria: Fighting Saka steppe nomads.
Casse: Nothing unusual here, move along.
Epeiros: Yep, that's me. I kicked Makedonia and the KH out of mainland Greece and have kicked the Romans out of Italia. More info on that later.
Hayasdan: These guys have been progressing pretty good. Even though they have gone into the steppes, it hasn't been drastical and they had at one point conquered Pantikapaion, which they then lost to rebellion.
Koinon Hellenon: Ah yes, these guys are the modern-day Euxeine Alliance (with Rhodos as well), which got Trapezous and Pantikapaion after the Seleukidai (hah!) and Hay lost them to rebellion. They have proven to be pretty fierce still. They at one point managed to take Sinope and were laying siege to Amaseia when the Pontikoi struck back.
Lusotannan: Nothing really unusual going on here. They were laying siege to Emporion at one point though.
Makedonia: When I kicked them out of Hellas, they started amassing their forces in Mytilene, after which they conquered Pergamon, and thus they are now Pergamon. They have looked at Byzantion for some time, but so far neither Pontos nor Pergamon has managed to take the city.
Pahlava: Twenty years ago, they had cut a purple swathe (rain..?) through the Seleucid lands up to the ancient city of Persepolis. It all went wrong when their main force got defeated whilst besieging Susa. This was a crucial turning point it turned out, and they have lost the cities of Hekatompylos, Gabai, and Zadrakata. They are not dead yet and could get back, though much of it depends whether the Seleukidai strike at them or the Ptolemaioi.
Ptolemaioi: For about 30 years there was a stalemate in the Levant. The AS had managed to take Kilikia [Tarsos] while the Ptolemaioi had taken Syria Koile [Damaskos]. A few years back this changed when the AS focused on the Pahlavan threat and started to send its armies there. Ever since, they have been losing ground to the Ptolemaioi in the west. Perhaps this will nudge the Pergamese and Pontikes to finally come out of their shell and claim some part of Mikra Asia.
Pontos: You can't see it in this pic, BUT they have taken (and lost and taken) Nikaia. After losing Sinope to the Euxeines, they have struck back and retaken it. We will see how everything goes now.
Romani: Well, I fought a lot of wars against these guys, and as soon as I removed all traces from them from Italia, they were reduced to Massalia, and so they shall be known. In my game, they are known as Phileromaion Massalia, but I'm unsure whether this is correct Greek, so if you know the proper spelling, please tell me. Anyways, they've managed to take Tolosa and have left me so far, so I'll just see what will happen.
Saba: Well, the Ptolemaioi failed at holding Bostra and Palmyra and they have both rebelled to the Saba, so maybe there will be some interesting stuff here. To represent the alliance between the Nabatu and Saba, they are now known as The Arabian Alliance.
Saka-Rauka: Have been fighting Baktria over the last 30 years.
Sauromatae: Fighting a bit with Hay.
Sofat-Softim bi-Qarthadast (or just Carthage): During my campaigns with my new hero Herakleon Atintan, I gave them Capua as a gift. However, as soon as my campaign was done and I had taken Mediolanum, they decided it would be a great time to betray me and siege Rhegion. Especially the fact that I had disbanded my elite Elephant corps (3 silver chevrons, gah) helped them, methinks. Anyways, with a quick army assembled at Syrakousai I defeated them and subsequently sent a Syrakousan army to take Lilibeo, which succeeded. I then sailed my hero to Sardinia and took that as well. Still, we need to see what I prefer to do now.
Sweboz: Blaegh. Nothing very interesting. Just have been trying to conquer cities close by.
240BC
https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...arverni240.jpg
235BC
https://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...arverni235.jpg
From my Arverni campaign.
SPQR just decided to attack three of my cities at the same time. I guess it's time to sack Rome and take the rest of Italy in the process of doing so.
I'm worried that the Sweboz will take the last two settlements seperating us and will stab me in the back.
The Luso were kind enough to leave that neutral terrain at our border untouched for the last 15 years.
The Seleucids were blitzing across the map, taking everything from Byzantium to Sinai to the Aral Sea to the Indus.
But Pahlava, Baktria and now finally the Ptolies too are fighting back. I may help Pontos a bit, because they are down to their last settlement.
Epeiros had a good start taking Pella, but then got beaten badly by Macedon and came to a halt. They only took Thermon aprt from that.
The Getai are surprising me! And they are about to take some more settlements everywhere along their borders.
The Saka have almost no armies and Baktria is marching a full stack into their territory.
https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/...n/Map224BC.jpg
Aedui: Hasn't changed that much in 10 years. Tried some half-hearted attempts to take Burdigala.
Arverni: Still dying.
Arche Seleukeia: Steadily losing ground to the Yellow D -- Ptolemaic Empire.
Baktria: Conquered Taksashila, lost Marakanda. Still fighting them Sakae.
Casse: Have almost united the British Isles. Perhaps when they spawn they can take the attention from the Aedui off the Arverni, allowing the latter to re-establish itself again.
Epeiros: Best faction ever. Duh. I created a landbridge between Italia and Hellas by taking Patavium, Dalminion and Segestica.
Hayasdan: A bit sleepy, it would seem. Still trying to take Mtskheta with two or three units each turn, heh.
Koinon Hellenon:At some point, they went to take Kotaïs, but they have lost Trapezous. Their alliance spreads over Rhodos, Byzantion, Pantikapaion and Kotaïs.
Getai: Nice, steady expansion. Even though they lost Kallatis, they managed to take all of Thrace (Serdike and Tylis). They might attack me in Pella soon though, I will have to watch my step.
Lusotannan: Uniting Iberia. They might face the combined might of Massalia and Karchedon at some point. We'll see what happens.
Makedonia/Pergamon: Sieging Ipsos.
Pahlava: They still have managed to hang on to those three enclaves in Persia, and are sieging Hekatompylos. Perhaps the tables will turn?
Ptolemaioi: *runs away screaming*
Pontos: Conquered Trapezous, lost Nikaia and Byzantion to rebellion. Fail.
Romani/Massalia: Conquered Burdigala and are looking to Iberia now.
Saba: Well, they are still busy with the tribes in Southern Arabia. Let's hope they can pose a serious threat to Ye Olde Yellowe Death.
Saka: Fighting Baktria.
Sofat Softim bi-Qarthadast: Waging a naval war with me. They are no match for my tetrereis though.
Sweboz: These guys refuse to do anything. To busy with their blonde German ladies, methinks.
https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/.../pontos238.jpg
Pontus 238 BC.
On my front..
I'm at peace with EVERYONE, Except the Rebels of course. Its a bit boring but eh, I was at war with the Seleukids but they just signed a ceasefire.
On the AI front,
Antiochus (I think) is a wasteland, 90% of the time its sieged and switches hands alot.
Other details really can be figured out by looking at the map.
Double post but since people don't seem to be posting I have an update for my pontos game.
https://i155.photobucket.com/albums/.../pontos215.jpg
Pontos 215BC
Iberia: Lusotannon seems to have ousted Carthage and is now warring with the Averni
Gaul: Not much Change, Casse making 3/4 Stack attacks on Sweboz sometimes. Sweboz seems to have made a bit of an advance into gaul.
Italia: Pretty Stagnant, Taras taken recently.
Greece: OH GODS MAKEDONS RUN AWAYYYYYYYY
Getai also doing quite well for themselves
Sarmatia: Heading West.
Asia Minor(aka pontos update) Peace Still Reigns, on the Western front Pergamon and Byzantion were conquered due to Rp reasons. On the Eastern front all province gains except for Karkathiokerta have been Bought (not bribed) from the Ptolmies and nobody has war decced me yet.
Other then that the map can tell you.
Holy hell man. That's one comeback from the Makedonian side.
Ok.. if you guess what faction I am then I'll give you a balloon :balloon2:
:clown:
Autumn 266BC
https://i259.photobucket.com/albums/...romes_fall.jpg
Well definately not the romans, I hope!
Carthage or saba?
No.. I'm not Carthage and I'm not Saba:clown:
But you were close ~:rolleyes:
Makedonia?
I wish .. I never managed to expand that fast with Makedonia.. :beam:
Let's just say.. I am awfully alone in my little island :laugh4:
Casse?
No.. not Casse.. they are too much in north :beam:
Another hint.. I'm located little bit west from the Italian peninsula :clown:
KH I presume?
No.. not KH :beam:
Actually Moros mentioned them already.. so he really should get the balloon :balloon2:
Yes.. I'm Romani.. on the little island called Corsica..
How I ended up there?? Well.. you need to have some skill to loose as a Romani and looks like I have that skill :laugh4:
My southern legion was defeated by the Epirotes because they brought(or recruited?) reinforcements and when I finally attacked them there was too large of a force against me..
Foolishly I used my northern army to attack Corsica (I wanted to spice up my game!).. My navy was defeated by the Carthagian navy and I was stranded on that island. Before I managed to get a new legion the Carthagian army near Lilibaeo came and attacked Capua and then Rome.. Because I was in dept when that happened I had no chance to recruit any units to protect my northern cities and they too fell to the Carthagians.. Epirote managed to get Arpi in the same time when Carthage took Rome..
There is one good thing in this campaign actually.. the Carthage and Epirotes are at war now.. Epirotes took Capua and are heading south against Rhegion(Carthagians just took it last turn)..
Have to say that this have been one of the most interesting campaigns because I have never seen Carthage to become so powerful so fast.. :yes:
Hahahahaha!
Man, that is TOO awesome. You will get a balloon for me, just for the heck of it. Great stuff. :balloon: :thumbsup:
Any chance of uploading your save game? I couldn't mind having a quick go at such a campaign to see if I can pull it out the fire.
I played that campaign for couple of turns so it's 263BC but I'm still stuck on that island..
Rome rebelled back to me just to be taken by the Carthagians again..
I have disbanded most of the army because I never would've get out of the debt..
I have only one family member - Blasio..
Anyway.. I'll upload it to somewhere if you are interested..
Your in a situation where you desperately need to fight back and you disbanded your army? I don't think I'd have the patience, the amount of time it would take to save up and get a new one...
Well, you also need means to move your island off the island so without boats, without shipyard and with debts you are doomed.
Thats great:dizzy2:,Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun
be a napoleon and conquer europe!!
A balloon!
Thank you dear sir. :bow:
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Pontos 200 BC (Previous Update)
Iberia: Lustannon Kicked out Averni (there dead fully now) and are expanding into gaul, but Carthage is trying to reclaim her colonies it seems.
Gaul: OH GODS ROMANS, SWEBOZ AND CASSE .
Greece: Koinon Hellenon dead after there last family member died..
Rhodios. After Koinon hellenon were defeated. The Makedons were quick to move in, lead by a Agregade (sp?) the city defected to Pontos (Yay bribery) Though he underestimated his brethren in Makedon Service who where quick to get Revenge on the upity noble. In the Insuing battle he fought like a true Pontic, killing hundreds by himself before he and his men finally fell. This inspired the Pontic people and united them under the Pontic Heir Phraortes Kianos, and so began the Rhodian War.
Dacia: Makedon making aggressive moves against the Getai.
The East: Hayasdan and Sauromotte still in a vicious stalemate.
Baktria has expanded but other then that still pretty boring.
OMG, the Casse Naval Script actually works!!