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Called a ceasefire with gaul. It lasted for a few years. I guess gaul felt they were ready push me out. I dont think they were though. So I retalliated by attacking gergovia.
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Now to deal with their so called reinforcements.
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Brutii beat me in the race to gain a protectorate.
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I really do hate this bug. Everytime I try out a mod this always happens after every battle. Anyone know how to stop it, I know how to fix it in game, but I want to stop it from happening all together.
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Edit: Nevermind I think I figured how to fix it.

More Protectorates.... And thats some oil slick you have there.

My first ever sighting of a Cataphract unit.
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Straregically Brutii forces are moving clockwise..up through Trace, east across russia, south through Armenia. There they meet up with the mostly infantry armies moving through Turkey. Once Armenia and Perthia are gone it will be south onto the Secloids and Egyptians. I choose to do my first suicide this turn in order to bring more forces into the Italian region in preparation for Roman civil war.


Cat's in action. I let them charge my missile troops...:inquisitive: I had to see them in action you understand.
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You move really fast in your campaigns, Severous.

Ive been steadily building my forces since destroyed the Senate. Naturally, the Julii have grand designs of their own!

Training Urban Cohorts for garrison duty in Rome.
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I play real slow..months to do a campaign..but the game is reasonably fast - taking few years of game time. I may play different next time...holeing up in a small area...turtling I think its called.

I see you lost a city in the eastern med..tut tut..:oops: Send forces back or do you have good garrisons?

Patavium under blockade...perhaps a sea born invasion against those weakly held cities (with spies inside to open gates) would cripple the Julii ? Exterminate Patavium once you get it for a big cash boost and freedom from its squalor induced disorder problems.

Playing EB Koinon Hellenon now, my first serious EB campaign. It's 259 BC and I have managed to keep all my 3 starting cities, kept the Ptolemaics as allies and Epirotes as neutral and almost eliminated the Makedonians. I've captured Demetrias, Chalkis and Korintoi, but I've had trouble with the full stack in Pella while reinforcements keep on coming to break my siege, wasting years of my time. The problem is that the KH are absolutely hopeless in sieges, being rubbish on the wall and too slow to avoid the gates' arrows. The Epirotes have been beaten back to their 2 holdings in the Balkans, which I'm intending to take out as soon as I have Pella, and then focusing my efforts on Rome.

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I see you lost a city in the eastern med..tut tut..:oops: Send forces back or do you have good garrisons?

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No, I actually took it and then let it rebel. Im only taking coastal cities in this campaign. That one was controlled by Pontus, and I wanted to end their influence in the area.

Did the same to Ancyra in Asia Minor. Took it, exterminated the population, then sent it back to the stone age before leaving. One of these days they really should accept my offer of ceasefire and trade right..

Hi Garvanko

I didnt look close enough. Sorry. I didnt see that there was a thin piece of land in between that rebel city and the sea. I am unfamiliar with that end of the map as ive only played Julii in the western end on the map...until now

My Brutii campaign is meant to address that lack of knowledge. Its getting close to that area. I am fighting all the eastern factions for the first time ever and seeing many new types of troops.

I am at war with Armenia and Perthia. Neutral with trade rights with all others. Sufficient Brutii forces are at large to complete the destruction of Armenia and I hope Perthia. Secloid and Egypt are next on the hit list. My biggest army is in a fort west of Antioch. Lots of enemy ahead. I want more cavalry at my command before I go up against several stacks of enemy.

So whilst I wait for my other forces to capture Armenia and Perthia I am using spies in Antioch. Those two have been enough to cause unrest and so damage the troops inside.

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I had been expecting Egypt to attack from the south. Wanted them to wear themself and the Antioch defenders down. Maybe I could march against the weakened survivors. That hadnt happened for 2 turns and I am now impatient to march. So my diplomat had a word with an Egyptian general and greased a palm or two.

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In the end 3010 denarii was enough to get the Egyptians to agree to attack the Secloids

After that piece of diplomacy I stood back and over the end of turn watched one Egyptian attack fail. Egyptians have more forces coming up. Kill each other..go on..do it.

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Notice my own army north west of Antioch. That was 79 Archers and 54 Equites sent to take out a single rebel Eastern Infantry unit. They did that without loss and gained a good 'Man of the Hour' (5*/2m/1i). The new general recruited all available mercenaries..including 2 two types Ive never used before. Not enough room in my fort for all these. Going to have to do some reading up on what these troops can do and send the weaker troops back to Tarsus. I want to see at least one other turn pass before I attack here...want to watch those Egyptians have a big fight over Antioch.

Dilema now is do I withdraw a spy so there is no more unrest in Antioch...and does my navy declare war and start the blockades that will help cripple Egypt. Loving this campaign.:2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Severous

After that piece of diplomacy I stood back and over the end of turn watched one Egyptian attack fail. Egyptians have more forces coming up. Kill each other..go on..do it.

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Notice my own army north west of Antioch. That was 79 Archers and 54 Equites sent to take out a single rebel Eastern Infantry unit. They did that without loss and gained a good 'Man of the Hour' (5*/2m/1i). The new general recruited all available mercenaries..including 2 two types Ive never used before. Not enough room in my fort for all these. Going to have to do some reading up on what these troops can do and send the weaker troops back to Tarsus. I want to see at least one other turn pass before I attack here...want to watch those Egyptians have a big fight over Antioch.

Dilema now is do I withdraw a spy so there is no more unrest in Antioch...and does my navy declare war and start the blockades that will help cripple Egypt. Loving this campaign.:2thumbsup:

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Attack Salamis! And keep Antioch as your main buffer zone.

Thats a great MoTH you got there. You'd expect big things from him!

I've started again as the Seleucid Empire for some fun and I have just took all of egypt's settlements so they are no more. Here are some screenshots.

My Hoplites wait for orders.
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In this one teh egyptian spearmen get taken down from far away using my horse men.
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The battle take a while so the Egyptian archers decide to play a little game of who can jump the highest...
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Heres the result it was a semi hard battle now I know why egypt take the seleucid towns quickly.
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This happened which has not happened to me in a very long time. I adopted a general who now has around 6 stars...
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Great thread...:2thumbsup:

It inspired me back to vanilla...

I always liked the feel of vanilla (even over EB :shocked:) but the lack of historical accuracy/weird AI/mediocre skins always left something to be desired.

Plus after the first 10 years, the campaigns got repetitive and boring...

99 million denarii, Bombasticus Maximus? A bit over the top? LOL

Thats funny, you lost all your generals except your faction leader. lucky you still have some underage grandsons.

Well these will be my last posts for a while, as I leave for basic tomorrow. Decided to play my last campaign as my favorite faction the greek cities. I abandoned all my settlements that weren't in greece and I even abandoned thermon. Went to war with macedonia and got an alliance with the brutii. Had a stalemate for awhile, trying to see if the brutii would attack macedon, I just stood around building my cities for a few years. Eventually I had to force the brutii to declare war on macedon by using them as reinforcements in the battle for larissa. My original plan was to wait for the brutii to attack macedon, cancel my alliance with the brutii and then offer an attack on the brutii in exchange for macedonia's surrender. Didn't quite work out how planned though so I had to take action.
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Macedon had mostly calvary, like 7 to 8 units of light lancers. A rather difficult battle figuring The only calvary I had was my general, and my reinforcements consisted of 4 units of wardogs, but some how they did manage to kill the macedonian general, the reinforcements that is.
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Macedon finally gave up after I took larissa and thessalonica. At first I just demanded they become my protectorate and they said "we have nothing to offer in return", a change from the usual "freedom is a precious thing and is not given up lightly". So I demanded again in the same turn, this time offering them larissa, thessalonica and 20000 denari, they accepted.
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Have ended my Brutii campaign and decided to follow Telys (All the best, btw!) in trying out a mod. For starters.. Terrae Expugnandae 4.0

Hope to get some screenshots later tonight or tomorrow!

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99 million denarii, Bombasticus Maximus? A bit over the top? LOL

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Yeah I want too see how much I can raise it too I am getting around 2000 denarii a turn. :laugh4:

Now I'm playing 2 campaigns

Here's a screenshot from my most recent

I followed a guide here on this forum and i attacked the senate,brutii and scipii in the first turns

Those carthaginians are crazy! I think that in the future they will march into Gaul

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Are you playing a mod. How did you take rome that early?

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Are you playing a mod. How did you take rome that early?

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Forced civil war. Multiple assassination attempts of senate family members will cause them to outlaw you, I think. It does for me.

I was right! the carthaginians are marching into the Alps, here's Hannibal followed by his sidekick general Hasdrubal LOL
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I must be prepared to face him :laugh4:

Diurpaneus

Maybe Carthage should be assaulted in its weakly held cities ? And blockaded on its ports. Short of cash it couldnt replace losses from fighting the spanish and Gaul ? do you autocalculate your batles ? You seem to play fast.

Picture from my assault on Antioch. 2 Ballistea can just get in through this type of wall. For some reason I cannot target the gate until the gatehouse is destroyed. It takes a lot of time to destroy the gatehouse. I moved my Ballistea in closer once the tower was 100% destroyed...only to find it was not destroyed. Fire bolts rained down on me and before I could turn around and get out three of my four artillery pieces were destroyed.
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My sole artillery piece fired on the gatehouse again and whilst the '100% destoyed' message remained I could see a difference..a large piece of the towers fell off. It really was destroyed now. I could move in closer to make every shot count.

So if attacking towers...make sure they really are destroyed before you get too close with something valuable.

Gained 5 new enemies this turn. Making 9 in all. The new enemies were Selecoid, Egypt, SPQR, Julii, Scipii. I dont need to worry about any of those factions do I :sweatdrop:
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I have the one remaining Selecoid town under seige. In striking distance of the last Armenian town. Have two armies posed against northern Italy and one in southern italy. Have an army seiging Messena in Sicilly (vs Brutti), forces ashore in Cyprus (Vs Egypt). Am blockading 6 ports, 1 Perthian, 2 Scippi, 3 Egyptian. Egypt will beseige Antioch over turn end and Gaul will march 2 stacks through transalpine gaul.
It really feels like 'Rome Total War'.

Started my war against the romans. My forces attack a brutii army.
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Still have yet to lose a battle.
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Made a deal with gaul. I gave them 15000 denari to attack the julii, they still haven't after a year. I'm afraid I may have to attack them to teach them a lesson.
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Well I'm out. I will return in 5-6 months. Hopefully this thread will still be here, but I doubt it, and if it is gone I assure you I will revive it. By then mtw 2 should be out. So farewell and good night. :bow:

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Originally Posted by Telys The Conqueror

Forced civil war. Multiple assassination attempts of senate family members will cause them to outlaw you, I think. It does for me.

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Well how because you need a assian and you don't get one at the start of the game. By the time you have one the other roman families have already expanded.

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How do you get someone to become a protectorate and what benefits does it have?

Offer it to them in diplomacy. Usually you'll have to give them quite a bit of cash (large percentage of your coffers), some of the land you've taken and that should be it. They give you part of their income every turn, cannot break their alliance with you and their regions count as yours (so you control their land without having to fight them). Oh, and you have to be at war to demand they become your protectorate. They should be losing as well, otherwise they won't accept.

My first full campaign as Rome in the Terrae Expugnandae 4.0 Mod for RTW.

Victory conditions - hold 70 provinces including specific targets like Carthage, Macedonia, Gaul etc.

So far, ive spent the first ten years building up my forces in Italy, and trying to consolidate. I also decided to start a war with Epirus to the south - they wouldve attacked me sooner or later. Problem is, they have Elephants.

Screenshots (inc. oil slicks!)
Had a spy at Tarentum. With main enemy army (and Elephants!) down at Croton, now was the best time to attack!:idea2:
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The Spy opened the gates when I attacked. Tarentum was taken, and on the next turn, I was able to quickly push more reinforcements to the front. Fortunately, Pyrrhus held back on any retaliation.
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In the north, time to end my early Alliance with Gaul. Should I go left, or right?:juggle2:
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I'd say save the noble people of Genua :2thumbsup: Then take the rest of france and spain so you don't have to worry about the later on and can get quite alot of money off then which I am guessing you'll need againist the germans.

Take the Balkans first, they're more rewarding financially and prevent the rise of any major Greek threat. Barbarians are no problem to take out if you manage to capture the Greek money making machines.

Left or right ?

Why not both ? Enemy strength looks weak and yours is massive.

If you had the money I would consider hiring mercenaries in that turn and sending them to fight for the towns. At the least they could start the seige and build one ram for use in your main assault next turn.

Patavium, unless modded, grows big and can contribute a lot to your finances.

Well, I went for Patavium and Croton.

Croton I seiged it with two armies. Pyrrhus attacked, but I won the battle and took the city. Same again for Patavium - however, here, I let the AI place a large garrison in the city before seiged it for around five turns. Again, AI reinforcements arrived to relieve the seige and again I was victorious.

So now I have control the south and have a foothold in the north. Next few turns I will consolidate economically before I go for Sicily. Its largely held by rebels in the east, while Carthage has a province in the west.

Few things Ive noticed about the Mod.
1. No more spamming armies by the AI - troops generally more expensive than vanilla RTW
2. Can't recruit peasants, so Im recruiting Town Watch again for garrison duty. HOWEVER, you need a first level barracks to do so. Pays to have this in mind if you're about to seige a town which needs a garisson quickly.
3. 2nd level barracks gives you the full tech tree of Infantry - so Triarii are available right from the off. This is a GOOD thing, imo, as it leads to more balanced armies, and less spamming.
4. Recruitable Generals - Ive trained two already, both came with two stars. Im betting I can train better ones once I build academies
5. Battles last longer, and formations from DarthMod are fantastic.

Very good Mod. Recommended.

Btw: I think I'll go left and pound the Gauls a bit more. It just seems right. Taking Sicily should improve my economy. Im making about 6000d profit at the moment. Playing H/M.

Hey Garvanko, the mod's not historically unrealistic, is it?

I don't mind too much about historical accuracy, but I like a bit in there.