I will tell you now, DO NOT INVADE GREECE NOW. In your current state, trying to open a second front across the seas will break you. Try to break the Lusotannan first.
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I will tell you now, DO NOT INVADE GREECE NOW. In your current state, trying to open a second front across the seas will break you. Try to break the Lusotannan first.
Okey, here`s mine. There`s also a small AAR if you like to read, down this post.
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I money-cheated for me, in order to be able to bribe seleukids settlements and giving them to the pahlava in order for them to beat the hell of the seleukids once and for all. I just got sick and tired of them being wiped out on the 10 first years. I know, I know, I`m despicable. :grin:
But doesn`t my map look pretty? :grin: :grin: :grin:
The greeks (Epeirotes, KH and lately, Maks) have been raiding tarentum pretty regularly. I have to keep a full sized legion in order to stand properly against them. I got some thorakitai from them as a nice christmas present, the bastards.
There`s something really fascinatig that has been happening in mainland greece. The last 40 years the Koinon Hellenon and the Maks have been kicking their asses real bad (the epeirotes are just watching very amused how both his neighbours blow their teeths out). The koinon hellenon kinda advanced steadily, taking corinthus, chalkis, thermon and then thessaly, but suddenly the maks woke up and leaved the Koinon hellenon with nothing more than Sparta and Chalkis on the mainland.
It was pretty fast and violent.
Sooo, I got a perfect excuse to intervene and save the poor hellennes from makedonian tyranny. They will too late find out that they passed from Herodes to Pilatus :grin: .
The gauls have been very gentlemen with me, and haven`t attacked me, not even once. they started to have problems with the sweboz, so things are bound to get interestin in central europe.
The wars with carthage raged for 30 years, seizing Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Baleares. After that, I decided to put a stop to Carthaginean dominance in southern iberia. I choosed Emporion, from which I started the conquest of punic hispania. It ended with my total domination of western med.
But 3 turns after I kicked the Carthagineans off Hispania, the Lusotannan, my faithful allies (We even had military access with each other) backstabbed me (the bastards) sieging Gadir.
So, here`s the situation: I`m cornered up in a pretty disfavouable geostrategic position, and with some full stacks closing in fast. I`ve been able to make them go back, but don`t know for how long I`ll be able to resist their onslaught. But reinforcements are being amassed in Italia (a full stack legion, with another one that stands by if it`s needed), and will come by sea as fast as they can. I cannot afford a third full legion as reinforcement, since my coffers are depleted, and I`m only making 10k, which is not much for the extension of my domains and the huge threats that I must face...
The lusotannans, on the other hand, are finishing the conquest of hispania (amaizing how they did it btw...), conquering the last rebel settlement (Cantabria), and might even try to pay a visit to their friends, the aquitanians. In sum, a cohesionated geographical entity, solid economy and the largest and most seasoned troops in western mediterranean, since they kicked the carths to the water (With my help) and conquered the rest of the rebel settlements with iron and fire.
And I`ve learned something. Lusotannans can get very vicious sometimes.
Here`s what happened. After I wiped out the Carths, I leaved my cities there with very strong garrisons comprised of local troops (caetratii, scutarii, gestikapoinan, hoplites in the greek cities) and a full roman camilian legion in hispania (ful stack) commanded by a consul, in order to withstand any uprisings, ad surprises that my then beloved lusotannans would spring on me.
So. I spotted 2 spies on Gader (that`s Cádiz BTW) So, my army stationed in Mostia was quicly movilized through the southern coastal path towards gadiz in order to prevent any surprises. I was unable to arrive in time, the guy sieged them and the spies opened the gates. I withstood the siege with heavy cassualties, but lucky me, I had already builded 3rd level auxilia there, so i could replenish my forces with locals. For the time being I leaved my auxiliaries there ( 2 Balearics, 2 Scutarii and 2 Scortamareva ). I took back with me 2 Caetrannan. So, my legion ended with 2 Hastatii, 2 Principes, 2 Triarii, 1 Equites romanii, 1 Curisii and 1 Balearic slingers + my General. 12 units
Good, so my roman legion (lacking seriously in support troops) was unused, and was sitting near cádiz. What can I do? We could go fast towards Mastia on the coastal road. It`s fast, but I`m not in a hurry, and this army demands to be used.
Okey, to make a show of force, and to eliminate any small stacks amassing against Mastia, I took the inland route, through the lands of the betisians, that goes paralell to the coastal road but behind a tall mountain ridge. Besides, I wanted to investigate, because I was sure to have seen a lusotannan full stack with a FM marauding over here, so, let`s take a look and if I find it, eliminate it. A typical Search and Destroy mission...
oh my, who was going to find who....
It was good at first, fought a single unit of iberii velites, and some remains of previous wars, a unit of iberi milites and a very depleted unit of Iberi curisii, so, the road was quite expedit. Where`s my spy? I asked... oh, I should have left him in Gader when I gave them the reinforcements.
Okey, now just a bit more to reach mastia... I right-clicked on the city, all the line on green, okey, let`s go...
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¡¡¡BOOOOOM!!!
"WTF? Ah, a Pop up": You`ve been ambushed, you`r men didn`t knew nothing of the attack, you won`t have time to prepare, you`re fucked... :shout:
I looked at the map, and there was the bastard hidden behind a single pine tree... dang!
Okey, let`s go to the battlemap...
My army stretched in a horrible line, the terrain was mountainous, with some forests, and to top it all off, I was at the bottom of 2 cliffs...
Marvellous sight.
I tried to form a single line with 2 fronts, since the entire enemy army had 1 general, 5 Gestikapoinan, 3 Scortamareva, 5 Caetrannan, a pair of iaovamann, a pair of Cavalry (didn`t quite see which was it, my gues is Curisi) and a full 3 silverchevroned unit of the toughest, meanest MTF on Iberia :
Ambakaro
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My army`s composition was already exposed, a full Camilian legion, (2H+2P+2T+1 Equites +1 General) but with very little allies, so I lacked support troops (only had one unit of balearics) and movile light troops (just two caetrannan).
The worst part of all, is that my army was comprised of the greenest units (the general just had 3 bronze chevrons, a pair of hastatis had 2 bronze chevrons, a principe with 3 bronze, and the rest of the army had no experience whatsoever), since I took the most seasoned troops back towards Italia in order to play their role in the conquest of the Po valley. This was a "what if" unit, and one that should have been supported by allies!!!!
Well, both enemy lines threw their soliferum while I was still triying to organize my men for a back to back fight, so I took horrendous losses, and then they dashed on me screaming "Wololoooooo". They clashed against my thin (and soon very red) line... from both sides... simoultaneously.
It was a mess, but my men were holding pretty good. They even got to organize into solid lines, well able to mantain a battle.
But my general was suddenly impaled by the iberian cavalry that made a thunderous charge on it`s flank (My consul was old, and he had many traits that decreased his HP). He fell, overrun by the first charge, and his personal guard fought valiantly but routed in the end. It was the most severe loss of the battle, and one that fatally decided the encounter: he had 102 bodyguards (he was a consul, remember?).
The battle raged, both sides had tremendous losses, but one of the two caetratii units that I had broke up against the enemy ambakaros... the which, subsequently, clashed on the backs of my triarii (the ones that my caetratii were guarding).
From then, it all went down. All my camilian triarii broke up... they just couldn`t stand fighting against 2 units of Scortamareva each, and then having the cavalry and the Ambakaro clashed behind them, all under a rain of javelins. My equites didn`t existed at that minute, and my Curisii were bogged down trying to free themselves of the mess that was causing the scutarii to my (still holding) right flank, the one that had all my principes and hastatii.
After the triarii debacle, the iaovamann (lusotannan skirmishers) started to throw volley after volley against the hastatis and principes, but that proved too much for the rest of my heavies... they broke up, and most of the rest of my army fought to the death, since they were surrounded.
1 badly beaten principes units, 1 hastati in even worst shape, and some caetratii was all that was left from this mayor ambush. Enemy casualties were high among their caetrannan, but mostly due to friendly fire...
The remains of the consular army retreated towards Mastia.
For sure, the next year will come pregnant of disgraces for roman domains in iberia.
Land comunication links are severed, so each outpost has to fare on it`s own, or trust into comunication and reinforcements transported by a single transport fleet that is available for the whole of Iberia and Balearic Islands... at the mercy of pirates.
Mastia is sure to be sieged next year, but it only has a handful of demoralyzed men, and a large but undependable contingent of allied scutarii and mercenaries to defend itself.
Arsé is poised to fall, since a full stack has crossed the river, and it`s determined to lay sige to the weakly garrisoned city on this summer. Only a miracle can save this condemned city.
Gader is the only city in southern Iberia that can stand a full pitched battle and win it, let alone a siege. But it`s cut off, and will have to fare for itself for a looong time.
Emporion is far away in the north. It has got a good strong greek garrison, and a greek general (an Ion Greek, bribed from the KH :grin: ). It will be our last ditch defence against the spanish hordes... our final stronghold, should the romani forces need regrouping in order to counterattack and regain what`s rightfully ours.
Back in Rome
The end of that spring, a full polibian legion, comprised only of romans (4 Hastati, 4 Principes, 2 Triarii, 2 Velites, 1 Pedites Extraordinarii, 1 Equites Extraordinarii, and 2 generals, one being a seasoned soldier, the other, a young star in accension in the Cursus Honorum -the identity will be revealed later on), were silently boarding transport ships on Ostia, with the entire of the republican fleet as escorts (1 Quinquerreme //52 ships, 3 triremes // 156 ships. Total Ships= 208 man of war, + a transport fleet).
Their mission = To hire mercenary support troops in gaul and in massilia, to arrive into Emporion, march southward, to teach the Lusotannans a lesson they won`t forget, sabilize the war-torn theatre, and, ultimately, to pacify the region.
3 months earlier, another transport ship sailed towards hispania, loaded with spies, diplomats and assasins, in order gather information on our enemies, to sow dissent through covert activities on Lusotannan domains, and, hopefully to incentivate rebellions that will disrupt the menacing confederation.
Another legion, one that was going to sail towards the pelloponese, has an uncertain future, and will stand by, expecting the development of circumstances.
Should our second legion go to the pelloponese, or should it go to reinforce the first one, into hispania, in order to mantain Roman holdings there???
If I make an AAR, I`ll post a poll, in order to give to the comunity such desitions. :grin:
Cheers!!! :grin:
PS: This post was on the previous page, so I edited it and placed here BTW, so consider that Gonzo`s opinion is for this post.
Update Roman campaign: old situations.
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220 BC
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210 BC
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204 BC
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199 BC
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I like what the Sweboz and Ptolemies did in your campaign
but what is Pontos trying to prove with its scattered expansion?
serves them right for getting greedy and not worrying about the homeland
200 BCE... Delendo Carthago estis , as it were.
The Iberians have finally thrown off the Carthaginian yoke thanks to Roman liberators, but likely have schemes of their own..
Macedon finally betrayed us and has attempted hegemony in Greece, but Roman policy is one of enforced peace in the region, and thus several "allied states" have been turned into full Provincia Romana because like little children, the greeks cannot police themselves.
The Aeudi Empire is becoming quite strong, and worrisome..
The Ptolemies have their own problems from Bactria and the emerging power of Saba, let alone the naval-war theyve been fighting with Rome for the past 3 years.
The Getic Alliance is strengthening itself quite nicely as well, and forming the core of a would-be great power in central europe.
Massalia and Syracuse remain independent.
The Parthians and Saka are Bactiran protectorates, and the Hai have invaded the Scythian mainland.
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Warning: I did alot of interfering with the other nations.
I am playing as Senatus Populusque Romanus.
Everyone knows how it looks at the beginning. By 264BC both Seleucia and Baktria decide to attack those north of them (saka took Bin Kath first turn but eventually lost it). When Palhav was attacked, i decided to intervene and bribe a couple Baktrian armies and attack Seleucia:
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I decide to take two settlements from the Seleucids, give them to Parthia and then restore peace with Seleucia. By 258AD the First Punic War starts. Romani (lead by the Scipios) wins, taking Corsica, Sardina, and Lilybaeum then turning to finish off the nearby greeks. But though the war is won the Barca family manages to flee back to Africa and plot revenge. Elsewhere the big three (eastern greeks) take off. HK and Sweboz do pretty well too:
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Seven years pass and the Second Punic War get an early start, the Gessius family leads a legion down the coast of Iberia, making both allies and enemies. Parthia takes there first and only territory and I take my eastern army to help the Saka. After what I can only assume was an epic war, Seleucia loses many valued territories and surrenders to the Ptolemaic dynasty and peace insues in Alexander's empire:
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With the Second Punic War over and Carthage in their place, Romani, lead by the appropriately named Victor family, turns to their old enemy Epirus (now lacking Pyrrhos to lead them), then on to Pella to help their HK allies defeat Makedon. Though once their enemy was gone, the greeks sought out new foes and quickly fell to the supperior Roman armies. Assistance for Saka against Baktria continues. Aedui becomes the major power in Gaul. Sweboz starts a war they can't win. And Ptolemai fails to conquer the Arabs:
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Within a decade all things start looking up for the Romans. The Third Punic War is over. Scipio Africanus rules over the devistated Carthage and Rome starts to make claims in Asia. Up north the Germanic-Celtic War continues. Also I help Getai and give them Sarmasugenthusa. And of course I continue to keep down Baktria:
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Soon the sandwars start and my long time friends (though not allies) attack Lepsis Magna. They are quickly chased off by the vast Scipio family and soon after Kyrene falls. Due to poor planning, the Ptolemais leave Asia poorly defended and my veterans from Greek(lead by Victor), Illyria(lead by Blasio), and Thrace(lead by Glycoricus) wash over them for a decade. In Iberia, the Lussatanii declare war on my for walking past an ally's town and soon both ally and Lussatani fall. Elsewhere I help my German allies fend off the Aedui and auto_win three full stacks of rebels on the Casse border. Though I begin to regret helping Saka and Getai:
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With time the Romans realize the threat of the Ptolemaic lapdog: Seleucia, with their five full stacks on the Roman border. And Rome starts her first "offensive" war, preempitively striking at the tiny village of Ipsos. Though with Ipsos fallen and Mazaka beseiged by the elderly Blasio, the Seleucids sue for peace, and reluctanly surrender town cities in Cappadocia. The war with Seleucia last only a couple years:
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"Along the Iberian-Gallic border there has long been peace, free trade, and in fact an alliance. But barbarian don't respect alliances, laws, or peace. And soon the hordes of bearded, soap using, trouser wearing animals come knocking at Roman gates. But all is not lost. Over the alps there is a man who has fought off the hordes of Gauls his whole life, in fact his family has fought them off for generations. And so this grizzled man and five legions march off to Gaul to teach them to be civilized. His name is Pavo..."
In sumation: Arveni betrayed me and they fell. Also another decade of warfare passes in Asia and Syria: The last of the Blasio family conquers Pontus. And the Victor family pushes the Ptolemais back to the Nile and sets up a Jewish client kingdom. Elsewhere Casse and Sweboz explode with power:
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And that is where I quit today. The battle in Gaul is epic though. One general is going all around winning fight after fight, leaving his brothers and cousins to govern. (One of his cousins had a silver bar of experience but still had the trait "Green" since he fought along side his cousin for years but never lead.) But the guy himself, the new Caesar, is great: Int/Char/Vig, was educated, Conquering Hero, Populus, member of the Senate, Conquerer of Gaul, actually has 4 command stars, though his is a Pleb (He can't be the one to trigger the "Marian" reforms in a couple decades).
If don't find it surprising that in zaknafien's last picture (ca. 190 BC) Gava-Mazsakata is one of the last eleutheroi' villages. That garrison is really hard to beat, lots of horse archers defending it.
Heres how my map looks in 189 BC.
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The Casse are still stuck. I cant see them getting to the mainland. Do they actually have the capability to build a navy?
The Aedui are surviving somehow on rebellions. Before the Romans/Carthies/Epirots manage to destroy their last settlement, another one pops up somewhere else...
The Carthaginians are steamrolling everyone in their path. The Lusotanns held them in Iberia for the best part of a century, then collapsed, allowing dozens of full stacks of elite african swordsmen to flood into Gaul. They butchered the Roman garrisons, and are now pushing accross the Alps, Hannibal style. Unlike Hannibal, they are also pushing north. Its unlikely the Romans will be able to withstand them, as they have only got Polybian troops.
The Romans were doing well, having pushed the Germans back into eastern europe, and mopping up the Gauls. They have constant border wars with the Epirots, who keep trying to invade the heel of Italy.
The Sweboz were pushed out of germany, and are clinging to life along the Baltic. None of their neighbours are giving them any rest, though no doubt the Romans will be easing off a bit now due to their own troubles...
The Epirots were doing extremely well, until they foolishly decided to invade Nikaia. I responded with a decisive strike with an army I had built in Crete to attack Egypt. Instead I sent it to Sparta. With the help of a super spy I took Sparta, Korinthos and Athens in 3 turns, after which they sued for peace. I agreed, but the fools then attacked again, so I took the rest of Greece. I made peace again, and so far it seems they have learnt their lesson...
The Steppe nomads are not doing a lot, Sauromatae being proterates of Seleukia and Saka never did anything all game.
Bactria were on the verge of extermination, and I gave them a couple of settlements to try to keep the Seleukids off my back. However the Bactrians wont take Bactra off my hands for love nor money. Idiots :wall: To top it all off they have broken their alliance with me to support the Saba :dizzy2:
The Seleukids are a very powerful force in the east. They have Bactria on the ropes, and wont leave my settlements alone. The fact that I havent attacked them, and keep decimating their invading armies doesnt seem to figure...
Saba were my allies until I took Petra, but now have foolishly decided to attack me. I think a punitive expidition is in order to sack their cities and teach them the error of their ways :whip:
The Ptolies were given an extra decade of life by the foolishness of the Epirots, however once they broke our truce and attacked Sidon, I responded with force. Bostra, Heirosolyma and Petra fell in short order, and my most powerful army is currently sitting in the middle of the Nile delta deciding whether to attack Alexandria or Memphis. Either way, its going to be a slaughter... :egypt: --> :skull:
Hopefully I will be able to carry on playing, as having got this far, I have now suffered 3 CTDs in quick succession during the AIs turn, something which I havent had before. Either way, Im going to have to slow down the crazy expansion soon, as distance from my capital is starting to mess with the loyalty of my far-flung empire. Once I take out egypt I will take a break from conquering, me thinks, and send out 'mercenary' armies to screw with some of the more distant peoples of the world :charge: :duel: :laugh4:
Out of curiosity where is your capital? I'd think someplace in Syria or central anatolia would make the most sense.
My capital is in Tarsos, which is pretty central, if not slightly to the left of the center of my empire. The reason being that I have lots of family in the east who have management and order bonuses keeping those cities happy. Greece is however mosly full of mercs and hoplites from my client cities there, and only one family member in Byzantion who's main function is buying mercs...
The problem I have is that whenever my family members die in the remote corners of the empire, their city goes straight into revolt. Bactra is for example a vast distance away, and totally isolated, however the stupid Bactrians wont take it off my hands.
Good news is I have found the source of my CTD (the Saba - whenever I attack them or they attack me it CTDs). It doesnt appear to be fixable, however I have bribed them into becoming a protectorate, and I will ruthlessly bribe their armies into non-existance and spy their cities into revolt so they are too busy to come bothering me...
First off, I want to thank the EB crew for an incredible product. I've never been so happy to be sick and have time to game.
Playing Romanii, VH/M, using BI.exe (for some reason, RTW.exe launches Civ 4 Warlords after I installed EB. No, not a shortcut issue, the honest to Gods executable :wall: )
My world, unfortunately stuck due to a recurring CTD. Pahlav took and then completely abandoned a city that's revolting to the beige folks (can't begin to spell them from memory yet, haven't played in their sandbox yet). There's a merc unit available for hire in the province, so I suspect the merc-loyalist rebellion issue. I'd love to be able to teleport my general in there, hire the mercs, disband them, and teleport back home, but I can't get move_character to work with my three-named generals. :help: Some syntax assistance would be gladly repayed in beer.
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I seem to have gotten a different set of AIs than you guys, as it's only 258 BC (so the starting generals are still alive and keeping the strong independent garrisons at home). The Casse have created England (Cassland?) in just 16 years. The Angles and Saxons will have their work cut out for them one day. Except for the fact that they're already part of the mighty Sweboz Federation along with the Danes.
Averni did expand, Lusatann and Epriote have tried too, sort of. Both wore a town down to a general and less than 10 defenders, but attacked with such paltry forces that they lost or retreated. KH tried to take Tara from me via naval invasion and got spanked, but rallied and seem to have Makedon on the ropes.
Qarthadast "helped" me take Region, and never forgave me for the losses they took leading that attack while I sat back and watched. War started when they wanted Syracuse and didn't care that I was paying them tribute or that I'd taken it the turn before. I forgot about the influence loss from failed negotiations, and drove a Natural Born diplomat to -4 influence trying to get them to accept peace. Even in this last turn, they saw no reason to stop fighting despite being driven totally into Iberia!
Peace has held along the AS northern borders and every nation on that front has benefited. AS and the Sabae allied against Ptolies, but that seems to be basically a draw as far as the majors are concerned (Sabae like it though). Baktria has gone east instead of west, and is threatening Pahlav. If that changed, that might break the Diadochi stalemate, probably not in AS favor.
So, here things sit, stuck only 16 years in, at least until I can get a console command syntax tutorial. I just thought I should post as I'm getting what seem to be atypical results. Nerf weapons can be deadly too and should be used with care:laugh4:
As I've seen so many of you go through the effort of presenting us your fine game experiences, which I read with delight when I'm not playing, here's mine:
This is my war
This is my battle-field.
Where fire crossing water...
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Playing as Sauromatae.
We Sauromatae have it very hard. Large area to cover, constant rebel uprisings that defy the king's rule and no mentionable source of income. Trade is poor, fertility is poor, resources are scarce. Basically we live off the livestock we herd. But we're brave. And noone can match our skill with the bow on horseback.
In the first few turns I've built merely one horse archer unit, a few buildings, then assembled my few, but fierce armies and marched west to secure more pastures for our herds. The army upkeep was extremely high and in two turns I was in deficit, that just kept growing till I was so deep in red, I never thought I'd get out. But troops were faithful and in following turns we stormed Gelonius and Tanais and beseiged the Hellenic Olbia. Noone could withstand the might of our onslaught and we drowned them in a rain of arrows. We left none alive.
I sent diplomats and spies to explore the world and make useful contacts. Soon I allied with the Getai and started paying them a little tribute as sign of good will. Our diplomat went the the great city of Rome and allied with their growing empire and offered them tribute as well, while others went to Greece, Persia, Africa. All called us friends and we sold them maps of our travels. 1000-2000 mnai from each major kingdom every now and then helped bring our budget in balance. Trade with Pontus and the Seleucid Persians commenced from our newly captured provinces by the Black Sea and we were finally making a profit. Occasional large donations from our friends Romans (gifts from 9000 to 30000 mnai) allowed us to invest in the infrastructure of our growing settlements.
The Hellenic cities on the Crimean penninsula were a disgrace on our sacred soil too long. We beseiged Chersoneos and after two and a half years of starvation the city surrendered to us. We were merciful and spared the lives of the survivors and merely enslaved them, but up to this day they're hostile to us and we need to maintain a strong garrison in the city to keep them from rebelling. Maybe they should have been killed. We just began a siege of Pantikapaion when word came that a large Greek army was marching towards Olbia from Kallatis. Either they came at the plight of their Crimean Hellenic brethren, or they were merely greedy for our pastures...
We had built a small northern army in the meanwhile that took Gava-Thissakata and Gava-Yugra (which added a welcome financial boost in a shape of a mine) and already started a march eastwards to expand further, but we recalled their orders and called them on a long march west to come aid in the defense against the Greek invasion. We abandoned the siege of Pantikapaion and rode west to meet the Greek host. Choroatos, son of old Babai, governor of Olbia, bravely defied the Greeks with a warband of 100 horsemen blocking a river passage, where the Greeks first openly attacked him. His men fought fiercely, inflicted casualities on the Greeks, then retreated. They repeated the same several times, thus weakening and delaying them until relief came. When it came, just the night before the battle, the Greeks were reinforced by several companies of treacherous Skythian horse archers, our cousins, who fight like us, and it was them who inflicted some casualities on our army, but were in the end like the Greeks trampled under the hooves of our horses, while we took the head of a Greek prince.
Our people cried for revenge for this invasion, so we marched south on Kallatis and besieged it. Greeks sent a relief force, and the city garrison sallied and our riders were attacked from two directions. But with speed and maneouver they again destroyed both (approx. half-stack) hoplite armies in one heroic battle and then entered Kallatis unopposed. Men were put to the sword, women to our warriors' tents, loot was plentiful and the temples to their foul gods were burned. But their foul gods in the meanwhile brought a terrible plague onto our city of Olbia which decimated its population and garrison and alas even claimed the life of brave young Choroatos, and as reinforcements could not be sent to Kallatis to hold it against a possible Greek counterattack, we abandoned the city, loaded up wagons with plunder and retreated north. We had given Kallatis to our allies the Getai to keep our border secure from the Greeks, paid 5000 mnai to Epiros to wage war with Greeks (and they took some land from them and settled their allies Gauls on it), and we forced Greeks to accept a ceasfire, paying 30000 mnai in war reparations. This war ended well.
The army in the west then marched north and subdued the woodsmen of Gawjam-Bastarnoz and Gordu-Neuriji, adding their lands and peoples to ours, while the north-eastern army that reached Black sea by now, reinforced by troops from Chersoneos resumed the siege of Pantikapaion, which also surrendered in 2 years.
We had also made allies of Seleucid Persians, though we do not trust them, but we trusted the Haikakan Armenians even less, and sure enough another war broke out as Armenians were spotted advancing north from their mountains into our steppes. The army that took Pantikapaion was sent east and twice we fought Haikakan on the open plains south of Uspe and twice we sent the heads of their princes to their father, though their armoured cavalry was a hard trial for our horsemen. We then counterattacked and took Kotais, claiming it for our own.
Now we stand here, still at war with Haikakan, with the sea of greedy Persians south of us, just waiting to sever our fragile alliance when they're done crushing the Greeks, as they have already done to Makedonians and Pontus. We offered coffers of gold to the Baktrians to wage war on Seleukeia, but they're too afraid, while the Egyptians seem to weak to wage anything but a defensive war. Romans still supply us with gold, which is good, but with only two proper armies of brave steppe horsemen (and several small garrisons of local footmen city garrisons to prevent rebellions), we're in no position to tackle the might of the treacherous Persians.
The omens are unclear and whether the gods will be on our side in the upcoming events is yet to be seen...
Really enjoyed those two descriptions Pode and Triglav. :2thumbsup: Hope you are enjoying the difference in the nomad system vs. the regular one Triglav. Haven't seen much mention of it since the 080 release.
And, with the benefit of sleep, food, and drugs (all of which are great but not so great as being able to breathe) I remembered that I DID get a different set of AI's. I did a quick and dirty EDU hack and reduced all recruitment times by one turn. (I'll be more selective about doing this only for militia / levy / bottom tier units once I learn how to tell which units those are. EB's EDB . . . tome . . . has me a bit intimidated and I haven't cracked it open yet)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pode
Anyway, presumably the reason I'm getting such different behavior is that when my AI's ask for troops, for the most part, they get them. From this I assume that a larger starting army relative to local free folk in vanilla EB would make the Sweboz and Casse more active. I suspect that my Lusotanns gambled too much of their starting pop on an army or two that lost, otherwise I think they'd be players as well. I <know> that's what happened to my Epriotes, 'cuz I did it to them. :2thumbsup: Why the Geats of all people should still be content to be, in Zaknafian's immortal words, "lumberjacks and turd farmers" I have no idea.
So no takers on that offer of beer for a console syntax tutorial? Hmm. Off to scour the forums again I guess.
<Edit> VICTORY! Three named people must have their second name (all lower case) added to their first for console command use. Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio adopted the alias of Lvcivscornelivs Scipio, chartered an extremely fast ship for the Black Sea coast, rode a string of horses to death into the Caspian steppe region, hired the merc horsemen there, slew them in their sleep that very night, rode their horse to death back to his waiting racing ship, and managed to return to Roma before three months were out. Not only did this not drive him mad, it prevented the mercs from suffering a crisis of loyalty when the steppe region revolted, thus saving the world, for, as it is becoming widely known, when mercenaries have such crises of loyalty during revolts the world explodes. :D
Alas, real life is making demands, so it will be a while before I can post my 20 year update in summer 252 and get on a regular schedule of screenies, assuming there's value in me posting such feedback considering my use of zero-turn recruiting.
You want to move a general? Use "show_cursorstat" to find a location (lets say 150,253) then move the guy using "move_character "Firstnamemiddlename Lastname" so to move me it would be:
move_character "Marcvsavrelivs Antoninvs" 150,253
For Roman names remember to put quotes and combine the first and middle, not capitalizing the middle.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...rYards/233.jpg
I'm Carthage *if you can't tell*. Dam dirty romans, I hope you have fun in your new swiss kingdom, cause italy is mine! ~D It's the year 233.
Everytime I try to put the IMG tags in they dissapear when I save my edit!
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/maeast/227.JPG
Here is my campaign as SPQR. It is 227 BC and currently I am at war with a number of nations but primarily my long time ally the Aedui have turned against me and we are having a nasty fight in northern Italy.
As for the other factions:
Carthage has been destroyed by me.
Lusotanne have practically done nothing.
Getai have done nothing.
Casse have done well to take Britain but will they ever invade?
Aedui and Sweboz are powerful (Note Galatia).
Makedon has been reduced.
Allied Greeks have been reduced to Rhodes and any provinces that rebel to them.
Pontus is rich.
Baktria has Pavlava and Saka as their protectorates.
Sarmatians are doing well.
Armenia is hanging on.
AS are down to 1 province.
Saba was doing well but the dirty Ptolemies are running all over them.
Speaking of which, they are my only ally (Ptolemic Egypt, I hope it lasts).
So far Baktria is not at war with the Ptolemies, but I hope they get started soon and waste LOTS and LOTS of resources while doing it.
My stragetic goals are to built up Byzantium as a fortress against Eastern powers coming into Europe. Also take all of Iberia. Finish off Epirus. Go into Gaul.
Perhaps by that time it the Marian reforms will have passed and I can take on my greatest foe: Ptolemic Egypt.
My foreign policy has been as such: Take alliances when offered. Take territory by attacking Allies enemy (ally with KH, attack Makedon and Epirus across the water, ally with Aedui, attack Averni).
This did not hold true with Carthage. When they started marching two stacks into Italy from Sicily I broke off Military access treaty. Next turn they kept advancing I broke off all treaties. THEN IT WAS ON! It was on until I completely finished them in Mastia (South East Iberia).
Wow, Pontos is behaving quite oddly, I looked at your old post, and noticed a pattern, they gain terriotory, they lose one province than gain another, then they lose 1 province to rebellion but instead of defending, they attack,Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleo
And because of these things, they completely changed homelands.
Indeed. The AI seems to not care about garrisoning its newly conquered cities. And nothing really seems to be able to stop the Ptolemy juggernaught.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olaf The Great
and a few new shots:
178 BC:
https://img483.imageshack.us/img483/...me178bcjr1.jpg
158 BC:
https://img483.imageshack.us/img483/6247/rome158uy4.jpg
I have to fight too many battles, thats sort of boring, very boring, so ive been autoresolving a little bit with auto_win on :shame:
It's good to see the Getai defeated someone for once, but is india still rebelling to parthia? And wow thats really strange how germani was able to take the steppes like that.
Awh, I was hoping Pontus to last longer, awh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleo
I reccomend helping the Saba to defeat Ptolemy(notice how they seem to be a pain for the Ptolemies?
And when did you take over Gaul?
Nah, Saba is too weak. I'd prefer to ask Baktria, already my allies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olaf The Great
The Aedui were my good allies, until they finally managed to take the final Arvernii city around 170 BC. The next turn they sent 4 full stacks towards Segesta, Mediolanum, Emporium and the town in northern Iberia. I was expecting that so I had 4 legions (II, IV, VI, VII) standing by (one for each city).
What a massacre that was. 2 years later the Aedui had lost half their cities, another 5 years and they were gone, they refused becoming a Protectorate so I absorbed them into my great roman empire (ehh.. I mean republic :sweatdrop: ).
Yeah those Sweboz sure are doing great, right now they are trying to take over Saka territory :laugh4:. Give them a few years and they'll start conquering China.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fondor_Yards
What's Sweboz's relationship with Ptolemai? Turn those two giants against eachother. :smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleo
Good idea, unfortunately they are long allies.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
Are you fighting the Sweboz? What are your next expansion plans? I guess if you are at war with the Ptolies, then Anatolia is the next logical step.
Its interesting the way you have essentially got four big players, east, west, north and south. Are the Getai still independent? Who is fighting whom in your campaign?
ah! Saka and Bactria seem always do better than Pahlav....:furious3:
Saka never seems to do much. They are always stuck in the top right two provinces, and usually end up as protectorates of Bactria. I agree that Pahlava is too weak though. They should be kicking the Seleukids, not getting exterminated by the Bactrians...
I am at war with Getai and Ptolemies and I hate Ptolemy butt. I am currently still training legions as replacement for old polybian legions, when I am done Ill have 2 in Gaul, one in northern Italy, 4 in Greece (2 to defend against Getai aggression and 2 to invade Asia Minor) and 2 in Africa to push East into Egypt. I want all Mediterranean trade to be Roman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kugutsu
I havent had much to do with the Sweboz as of late, I destroyed so many of their armies around 200BC, I guess they got scared :yes:. They are allied to Getai and Ptolemy (my enemies) so I guess they'll attack soon.