Hi,
I've seen all the great campaigns here... and have started one of my own :laugh4:
Currently as the Brutii,
I will post some screenshots soon
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Hi,
I've seen all the great campaigns here... and have started one of my own :laugh4:
Currently as the Brutii,
I will post some screenshots soon
No, its not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
Only major change is that there is now only one Roman faction, while the Scipii and Brutii have been converted into the Baktri (located to the east of the Seluecid Empire) and Epirus (Southern Italy and parts of Greece).
Pretty accurate historically, I think.
Your best bet is to ask the person who made it.
I have started yet another fun expansion with the greek cities. Here's few screenshots.
The Spartans recieve a moral boosting general speech aand await their orders.
https://img195.imageshack.us/img195/...oosting.th.png
In go the archers to weaken the enemy.
https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/...heenemy.th.png
The rebel hoplites come out to fight.
https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/...ofight5.th.png
And meet the welcoming spartans.
https://img176.imageshack.us/img176/...tans8bx.th.png
the Spartans kill the enemy general as he charges to his own death.
https://img181.imageshack.us/img181/...general.th.png
So the hoplites are destroyed so I send in the archers once more.
https://img197.imageshack.us/img197/...nethere.th.png
The enemy respond by starting a skirmish.
https://img181.imageshack.us/img181/...mish5yn.th.png
Death by arrow fire. :laugh4: This one actually looks good.
https://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4852/ooof1dj.th.png
More tomorrow maybe when I fight the house of brutii.
O and something I forgot to add. How do you know if your a member do you get a PM? also how come I have not become on yet I have seen people with less posts than me and they are members.
Maybe they were tracked as members by an admin.
I'm sure that you will get the membership soon
i dont think just post count matters, i think the length of time youve been a member is important too :)
Anyways, here is a screeny from what i think is my favourite campaign so far. It was played on Rome Total Realism 6.0, i played it on and off since the beginning of November and finally finished it about 3 weeks ago.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...zy/Victory.jpg
Look in the bottom left of the corner and you can see the extent of my empire. I was in the middle of a full scale war with Macedon, Carthage, Germania and the Sarmations and fighting the war on about 4 different fronts.
This was played on Hard campaign setting and Normal battle setting.
EDIT: how do i make the screeny smalelr like everyone elses?
Since completing my Gallic empire i have started a new campaign on RTR 6.3 as the Sarmations. Nothing much to report so far, squished a few rebel towns and armies and have recently been betrayed by my Thracian allies :no: so far my wrath has been rather terrible for them :2thumbsup:
Playing on V.Hard campaign, normal battles.
I'm playing Sarmies in BI myself (H/N). It's 400AD now. I sacked the Balkans before settling in Constantinople, Thessalonica and Athens. Have them under control (for this decade... but pops are creeping up again) and put together my first army of conquest (post-horde) and crossed into Ephesus, dodging rebel and Eastern Roman fleets. I had to deal with about 4 small bandit stacks just as I was about to leave. Before that I hadn't seen a one. (How do they know?)
I'm beseiging Ephesus now. It's got some nice buildings (though the culture conflicts are gonna be a pain!) so want to see what I can actually make with some of those (probably nothing, haven't experimented before as Sarmies). It will give me a base in Asia if I can keep the incoming armies from breaking the seige. I caught a couple breaks. My spy managed to catch the plague down in Sidon. So... he visited a few cities before he got well... Suddenly the Easterns had a minor civil war resulting in Ancyra and Sinope going green. Maybe others too, but had pulled my spies back to watch for incoming armies. Those two cities flipping will at least cut down the available reinforcements, and will probably draw off some armies that would have otherwise come to welcome me to Asia.
I did catch two half stacks (with my half stack) at the river crossing NE of Ephesus. The first was easy, a typical bridge engagement with horse archers (slaughter on the bridge followed by a warlord chard or seven just as the disorganized units stepped off the bridge: routsville). The second was supposed to be similar, but there were 4 faction members in the stack! And then the remnants of the first battle, about 100 of them, came back and they tried to hammer and anvil me!
They tried. I charged the bridge and wiped out the smaller force, then swam and rode across (horse archers refuse to use bridges: "boss, we don't need no steenkin brieedges!") and set up a bridge defense on the other side. The silly heavy cav made it very iffy. I got lucky and killed the general just 30 seconds after I hit withdraw to wait a season to finish them. So sounded the rally, and pulled back together in time to rout the rest. That was exciting. Losses not bad, but it sure LOOKED bad at the time. I was scattered all over the field from fleeing chargind heavy cav. I lost 50 or so to their 500. My general's unit took a pounding, was down to 8 from 25, and he actually withdrew before I rallied the rest to shoot up the now routing remnants.
My economy is still fragile (darned pirates and Eastern blockaders! Like my little rubber duckies can fight those behemoths!) I'm in the black (almost 60k still, but down from just over 80k from sacking the Balkans), but all my building is from capital. I am supporting my current army from income. If I can take Ephesus I should be able to support another army though. I should pull some more capital out of it too, but that will have to go back into it for repairs, I suspect. I like having a reserve in case I need to do some defensive bribing.
Once I take Ephesus it should get easier. I plan to head east and south to build up before taking on the Huns, Westerns and Rox for the victory settlements. I am allied with the Eastern greenies, and hope to keep them friendly at least until I'm confortably settled into Ephesus. If they are blocking my expansion path still at that point, I may swing out and grab the islands (if I can dodge the pirates!). Salamis would be a good base to tackle the eastern coast cities (rich! yum!). Sassies aren't doing much as far as I can tell. They won't sell me maps, so I'm not current on that. Must send out more spies...
Babies are a real problem. I had one during the horde years, which surprised me, and zero since I settled down to be city boys. But just built a Pai temple and got a physician and a wise woman. I'll pass those to my youngest factioners and cross my fingers for 20 turns. If nothing it's time to train generals and throw some "leaderless" troops at rebels and small forces to try to adopt some.
I wonder if all that horseback riding doesn't affect male fertility in a negative fashion...
Hmm, I can see Ephesus has Kydonia as a trading partner. Guess I will have to take that next. Should be easy, pirate doging aside. Think I can make it from Athens in one season, just have to time it for clear seas.
Okay, back in the saddle. I must restore my beloved Sarmies to their rightful fatherland (with a few bonus territories to serve as a buffer against future invasions, of course!)
402AD and getting tense. There's a parade of Eastern armies passing Tarsus heading north. Hope they are aiming for the rebel cities! But had to beat back another small stack at the bridge (with a quarter stack I threw together with my long-in-the-tooth faction leader, Rumo the Cunning, and snuck across the Bosporus under cover of darkness) and a second smallish army should jump me this season... that makes 4 total so far. 4 more seasons for Ephesus to fall (What? Seige gear? That requires hikers! We're horsemen!). I don't seen anymore within 3 seasons walk or so.
Meanwhile, I just saw two Western Roman stacks turn up in the Sidon-Antioch corridor! (And the plague died out, darn it!) They are allied with the Easterns, but don't appear to be at war with anyone in the eastern Med... Dunno what's up with that. I'm at peace with them... so far. They don't seem to be coming my way. May be heading east to hit the Sassies at Hatra (I hope!) They are not at war with them yet though.
If I can get Ephesus, I can do some recruiting and be back at full strength for any more incoming. It's pretty big though, not sure I can occupy it without rebellion even if I make a neat little (compared to Mongols!) pile of skulls in the city square. I may have to beseige it again. But one season of recruiting will help.
And the plague turned up in Constantinople. Mixed curse. Pop was getting out of hand, but it's also my main production center so have to put unit building on hold for the moment. Don't want to spread it.
I see a full stack of Goths to the north too (we're allied though... at least I think we are!) They actually managed to hold their ancestral settlement, or take it back fast. The Vandals and Huns got into it pretty big, I think. I'd allied with the Vandals as I fled the Hun hordes. The Vandals only hold one region as far as I can tell, Arles. Hope they hang in there to keep some attention away from me. (Hard to get maps out of even friends now, and I hate paying for them when my denarii stream is flowing downhill like a waterfall.)
The Huns are parked in Sirmium, and nowhere else as far as I can see, so I will have to root them out at some point. Just saw three mini armies head towards Thessalonica, and me with everything but garrisons in Asia! But I THINK they are heading for a bandit army that's been just on their side of the border for years. I'm at peace with them and hope to stay that way. If not it will be scramble time.
Treasury under 50k now, erk. (had to repair the expensive city plumbing in Constantinople since I can't afford for the plague to last too long).
Well, no factioners in the Hun mini armies, so I can always resort to denarii.
.. I hope. Hunny, could I interest you in some money?
No babies. I never thought I'd want babies so badly...
my Seleciud Empire is Fighting like Heck againt the Egyptians and Pontus.. I had 1 General unit,40 or so guys in it(pretty good gen) and he kill 360 men out of a 610 or a 618 army.. Sassdians are fighting a bloody War against the Eastern Roman Empire..I got some cool shots to post later..
btw,I love that "neck" screenshots,god,that must hurt..
I had a guy get hit and do a backflip just as the Vic Screen came up,jsut it hurts when you got to stay in that postion in a Vic Screnn,lol.
Congrats Wishazu! I think membership is decided by how active, useful, friendly and contributing you are. Not just any spammer who stays here for a week will get membership, will they?
That to me?Quote:
Originally Posted by BHCWarman88
It's 413AD and ERE REALLY is mad at me still:
[IMG]https://img274.imageshack.us/img274/4738/00029ei.th.jpg[/IMG]
A season or two behind that is another, with even more camels than this one, and behind that a third. I tried to take Ancyra, but the swarm began, so fell back to the bridge again.
This was the result of that first battle:
[IMG]https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9859/00034aj.th.jpg[/IMG]
Fortunately, Ephesus is a season south. So as long as they only come once a year I can rebuild my beat up Alan Noble Cav and recruit a few replacement horse archers.
And what I love about this faction... here's a small action in the hinterlands of Macedonia against three units of heavy infantry:
[IMG]https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4343/00001hm.th.jpg[/IMG]
And the result of that:
[IMG]https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3679/00010nc.th.jpg[/IMG]
Still haven't won a campaign with them, but I keep coming back for more. Doing the best that I ever have this time, but think the clock is gonna run out on me. I hold 5 territories. The Goth horde (re-horded!) is beseiging Salona, the Huns are settled into Sirmium, the Sassies hold Kotais, and beyond that I still need 7 more territories.
The third shot is great, vonsch. Might go back to BI once I finish my Roman campaign in RTW TE 4.0.
There is no membership ceremony at all. Basically, one day you will notice that you suddenly have a membertag under you name. Like Tiberius said, promotion is not based on postcount but on participation. All that is required is a bit of patience, and that you post regularly in a friendly and helpfull manner. Spamming will, at best, delay promotion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bombasticus Maximus
Ok I am thinking that I will become a member as I have not spammed or been unhelpful. :2thumbsup:
I'm sure you will bombasticus. ~:)
Ludens: I got a PM from Kukri when I was promoted though, and it seemed automated to me.
My RTR Sarmations campaign is going well at the moment, no screenies yet(i dunno how to make em small like everyone else). I have 2 standing armies, 1 occupying a newly conquered city on my extreme eastern frontier and the other occupying a newly conquered city(formerly Thracian) in the west.
Back in the East my Armenian allies have sent a half stack army through my territory(they can only intend to betray me) my local commander in the nearest city hastily recruited a few mercenary units to hold the only chokepoint before the city of Campus Allanni- a bridge. The two armies have feaced off for a few turns so far, it appears the Armenians are unwilling to betray me so i may have to attack them in order to remove them from my territory :(
Back in the west i have a small raiding party of 2 Hippeis Toxotai (Horse archers) moving about mopping up small armies of thracians trying to reinforce their now faltering frontier with me. These guys are heroes :P these two units who started as totally raw with no upgrades at all have fought about 7 battles against enemy forces, sometimes being outnumbered as much as 8-1 but always winning and so far not a single man from each of these armies has survived :) both units now have double silver chevrons.
The last thing that happened before i saved last night was Macedonia attacking me by blockading a few of my black sea ports.... gits!!!
Best campaign so far is my current Brutii one.
First time round with RTW I played the Jullii faction and then didnt go back to the Roman factions till now and must say this Brutii campaign has pleasantly surprised me.
I had gained control of Appollonia and Salona quickly and then rushed south down the Greek coast to besiege and capture Thermon as requested by the Senate and from there I could see Athens and Sparta were lightly defended by the Greek Cities, so I scrambled together what forces I could to lay siege on them before my Macedonian allies could make a grab for them from either Thessalonica or Corinth.
Once those objectives were met I slowed things down on the expansion front and settled down to build up my holdings and to reorganise my troops when Thrace declared war on Macedon. Initially I refused a Macedonian plea for involvement in the fray but a turn or 2 later I reconsidered as Thrace seemed to be getting the better of Macedon and the last thing I wanted was a powerful and expanding neighbour.
I sent off my 2 full stacks north from the Athens/Sparta area, where they'd been retrained etc, and headed towards Bylazora which the Thracian barbarians had taken from Macedon and once arrived one army lay siege to the city whilst the other took the field against the other Thracian army outside the city walls and destroyed it...utterly! The victorious Generals reward was a long march toward Tyldis, more on that in a moment.
Whilst my armies had moved north and egaged the Thracians, I had begun quickly building more troops in Southern Greece and also Tarentum and Croton (a quick ferry trip over to Apollonia etc) in order to ensure a steady stream of reinforcements for the battles against Thrace when my spy in Larissa "informed" me of the lack of a Macedonian garrison while another spy in Corinth related the state of affairs concerning its defences.
This information gave rise to a great deal of thought on how I should proceed, should I stab my ally in the back with the very troops that were initially built to come to their aid or should I ignore this "gift" right in front of my eyes and press on northwards to crush the Thracians totally.
Unashamedly, I opted for the former and marched a couple of detachments of Town Watch into Larissa to lay claim to the city in the name ofBrutiiRome~;) and the freshly raised Army originally bound for the north stormed through the opened gates of Corinth!
Round about the same time as I made my decision to take on my erstwhile ally, the army that earlier marched towards Tyldis had finally arrived and had as expected laid siege to the city trapping a 3/4 Thracian stack led by the Faction leader no less. Things were looking good despite now fighting 2 enemies, my former allies were in disarray and Bylazora had just been stormed
and taken from the Thracians and with Tyldis under siege I thought I had the time required to reorganise the victorious armies in Bylazora and Corinth for redeployment but alas the myth of Brutii invincibility was crushingly shattered by a large Thracian host who came to the relief of their King.
The army outside Tyldis broke off the siege but were cornered and had no option but to fight the two large bloodthirsty Thracian hosts. The legionaries resigned themselves to a last stand after a stirring speech by Decius Brutus, their General, and postioned themselves for the storm ahead. This brave legion fought like lions and only under the sheer weight of numbers did they give way to their revenge seeking foes. Decius Brutus was last seen charging into the mass of the Thracian horde and died like the true Roman he was!
This defeat and the complete destruction of the army suddenly left the decision to attack Macedon look a little hasty although the denarii from the capture and extermination of the populace helped finance the raising of more troops from the Greek peninsula to try and regain the momentum that was stopped at Tyldis. In the short term this was achieved by the new troops marching north from the recruiting grounds in Greece and conquering Thessalonica only to see the Thracians besiege Bylazora!
A relief force was hastily assembled from what troops I could spare from Thessalonica and those just landed near Apollonia and dispatched to end the "Thracian problem" at Bylazora.
As one problem was solved another would rear its ugly head, Macedon launched a counter offensive towards Thessalonica, putting the city under siege and defeating the heroes of Bylazora who were sent from the relief of one siege to the relief of another and ultimately defeat. Disaster was looming and troop production and the construction of military buildings across Brutii holdings was sent into overdrive to try and avert the grave danger facing the faction.
The next army to march north to relief Thessalonica reached its destination and attacked the besieging Macedonians and had learned its lessons well from the previous engagement. Thessalonica was saved at the bell!
Macedon was finished as a military power with this defeat and it was only after a short period of reorganization of the legions that Macedon was destroyed completely after the fall of their last province of Byzantium.
I now had more than enough troops in the general area to finally go after the remaining Thracians and their eradication coincided with the death of my faction leader.
It was at this point I realised the heir, or rather new leader, was getting on a bit himself and would really only be a short lived reign so I perused the family tree to see what my options were in terms of the new heir. Upon looking thru the family tree I noticed a young chap called Caius Brutus who had better "prospects" than the current new heir and was of reasonable age to give long service to the Brutii as leader upon the death of the stop gap Leader.
And so it came to be that Augustus Brutus,Governor of Larissa was disinherited for Caius as faction heir and within a matter of years Caius took control of the Brutii faction in his own right and presided over the most momentous events in the history of the Brutii faction in a 30+ year reign.
to be continued...
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Summer of 249 BC
- Break the Egyptian army besiging Antioch
- Destroy the Seleucid faction by capture of Hatra
- Capture Cyprus from Egypt
- Capture Messana from a dog garrison
- Capture Arrentium from the Julii
- Destroy last Egyptian fleet
- Bash 3 rebel armies
https://img199.imageshack.us/img199/...49s66vv.th.jpg
whoa Severous!
i wish i could take up a all-out take over of everything.
i can't wait to see more of your campaign! :2thumbsup:
Yes, I think you will be a member quite soon as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bombasticus Maximus
This is probably because all .Org administrators are androids.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiberius
Hey all, ~:thumb:
I havn't played Rome Total War for quite a while now but a few hours ago I decided to give it a try again, so I downloaded the Terrae Expugnandae mod and I must say that for me, that mod blows all other mods out of the water.
Anyways, I have just started a campaign as the Carthaginians (Hard campaign difficulty, Medium battle difficulty) and things seem to be going well even at this early stage. I have kicked the Rebels off of Sicily and built up my settlements on Sicily in case any Romans decide to land their. However I havn't yet built up any form of a Navy and the few ships I did start with were all obliterated by large and numerous Rebel fleets.
https://img45.imageshack.us/img45/46...e0023gv.th.jpg
https://img116.imageshack.us/img116/...e0033gm.th.jpg
https://img45.imageshack.us/img45/97...e0055cu.th.jpg
As far as diplomacy goes I am currently allied with Egypt, Dacia, The Thracians, Numidia, and The Greeks (whom I am constantly giving money to in order to help them in their war against Macedon). I was also allied with Iberia until they betrayed me in 262BC so now I am making them severely pay for their betrayal.
https://img45.imageshack.us/img45/94...e0045le.th.jpg
https://img141.imageshack.us/img141/...e0015ha.th.jpg
That's all that's happening at the minute but I'll keep you updated.
Nice to see you back on total war Taurus, even if it is just a campaign :)
Post something on our forums about this mod mate, it looks interesting...
The Terrae Expugnandae mod is great. Ive gone pretty far in my Roman campaign. I now hold the whole of Sicily, Caralis, northern Italy and have also kicked the Epirots off southern Italy and back to Greece.
Ive also just taken Carthage.
Here's a screenshot of a battle defending the bridge at Carthage, from the angry Carthaginians. i did take their capital, after all!
https://img154.imageshack.us/img154/...ence8lb.th.jpg
And they rout. As expected.:no:
https://img68.imageshack.us/img68/62...ting5hc.th.jpg
I have an Alliance with Macedon so I may wait a while before trying to take Greece. Right now Im going to focus on consolidating my grip on Africa, and taking on the Gauls - finally!
I want a challenge when playing an unmodded version of RTW who do you think I should be?
Play the Spanish.
Now thats a challenge. I will start tomorrow on medium/medium as I don't do well on the money side. Which way shall I go into france or africa?
Expanding into Gaul is more fun. In my opinion.