Well the Genos Klerios' (red-brownish faction) italian armies are made up mostly by Hastati and Rorarii, so it will be like conquering Roma again. :beam:
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Well the Genos Klerios' (red-brownish faction) italian armies are made up mostly by Hastati and Rorarii, so it will be like conquering Roma again. :beam:
im new this is my empire, im playin the romani
206 b.c. i hit marian reforms and 203 b.c. i got my first cohors reforma unit.
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180 bc gauls, germans, and the ptolomies are wiped out and the casse are on a last stand.
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172 b.c. my allied buffer state the AS turned hostile i respnded with invasion and captured persopolis, same time 3 legions are saling their way to conquer the sabaens of arabia.
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Welcome to the forums Fulminatrix!
That's a good looking empire you have there! Are the Getai and Sauromatae still neutral or allied towards you?
~Fluvius
the getai were my allies but they turned nuetral once i was at war the AS since they are allies 3 of us formed a triumvirate before. The sauromatae has been always been neutral they at war with the getai. And the getai are dangerously getting stronger i might take the first strike at them soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
163 b.c. i got the romani victory conditions, the expansion stops for now until i get to the augustan reforms. It's a long way to 125 b.c. -_-
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anyway i think the augustan reforms should be moved to 135-133 b.c. because that is the time when tiberius gracchus proposed the land reforms.
forgot to add marcus germanicus died just 1 turn before the victory. :( he fought more than a 100 battles and haven't lost. He died peacfully somewhere in western russia.
He was vanquiser of the galli, britons, dacians and conqueror of germania. he was 69 years old.
The Augustan Reforms don't just appear in 125 BC, do they? There are several requirements to achieve.
i already got 2 young people with high ambitions a 22 year old and a 25 year old Im sure one of them will make to 125 b.c. to make the refroms.
Yep, it's me again, and I'm back with a new, albeit currently small, empire. I've been playing musical factions the past... well, pretty much since my last post, and the games I have stuck with longer than a few dozen turns turned sour very quickly, almost invariably thanks to Arche Seleukia's uncanny ability to sense when my capital is ripe for the taking. Anyway, without further a-do...
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As one can see, I'm playing as Koinon Hellenon, and compared to my previous attempts at this faction, it has been... rather eventful, to say the least.
Near the beginning, I had to pull of some three or four heroic victories to prevent Athens from falling to Makedonia, since Pyrrhus meandered off to have a tea party on the Ilyrian Coast or something. Unfortunately, I only have a screenshot of the very first one...
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Admittedly, the Heroic Victory above was a bit of a fluke, as the arrow towers inflicted a good portion of the casualties on the main army, and all of the casualties on their reinforcements. The later Heroic Victories were open field ones, although the numbers were close enough that the battles didn't spawn a famous battle site.
Later, I allied with Epeiros, as, well, the enemy of my enemy is friend, yeah? After I allied with them, things were peaceful while Epeiros and Makedonia more or less stalemated each other. Then, after about five or so years, Pyrrhus decided to return from his tea party and lay siege to Thermon, which I regret to say put an end to anything resembling peaceful relations between us until fairly recently.
Having built up a considerable treasury, I drafted an army and got to work bringing the rest of Greece under my sway, starting with Demetrias. The battle for Demetrias was... anti-climactic. In fact, that city had an extremely small garrison, so I just auto-resolved. Next came Thermon, which previously possessed a full (or near full) garrison that had been depleted to next to nothing by repeated attacks from Pyrrhus. Again, I auto-resolved it.
Next, I went for the capital of Epeiros, Ambrakia, but on my way, I was intercepted by two armies; one with two and a half thousand troops, and one with three and a half thousand. Thankfully, I held the terrain advantage and pulled off two heroic victories with acceptable losses, although my army was at about 2/3 its initial strength by the time I reached Ambrakia. Unfortunately, the Epeirote capital possessed next to no garrison--one of the armies I had defeated during my journey had been its garrison--so I auto-resolved. After this, I hunkered down for about half a decade to build up my infrastructure and reinforce the garrisons of my three new towns.
Once I stabilized my new regions and replenished my army, I proceeded to take to take... uh... the Epeirote city directly north of Ambrakia, and the Makedonian Capital, Pella. No real notable battles, since Pyrrus by this time was busy fighting the Romani, and the bulk of Makedonia's forced were concentrated in the Balkans.
Since taking those regions, the only military activity on my part have been defensive responses to Epeirote and Makedonian incursions into my lands... and pre-empting Ptolemaioi invasions directed towards Rhodos, which they really seem to want. Invade, get repelled, sue for peace... rinse and repeat every half a decade.
Unfortunately, the relative peace I've maintained since taking Pella was shattered shortly after Pontos took Byzantium. Despite years of good relations, they immediately invaded me with two stacks--one full and the other partially filled. However, they had the misfortune of clashing with the veteran army from the wars with Epeirote and Makedonia, which would be the very same army in my first screenshot. They were, of course, repelled.
Other than Pontos, I am currently at war with... hrm... Arche Seleukia, Makedonia, and the Ptolemaioi. Epeiros agreed to a ceasefire with a bit of... monetary persuasion, and shortly after the hostilities between our countries came to an end, Epeiros became a protectorate of the Romani, which is an unnerving development, as I was using Epeiros as a buffer state. The Romani may be my allies, but it's only a matter of time before they turn their attention eastward.
Still, I'm going to keep 'em around until they activate the March of Time, so if they declare before that happens, I'll just fight a defensive war until it does.
Just roleplaying Pontos, and wonder, why are the victory condition of them is creating empire that intruding far into Baltic lands rather than reviving persian empire...
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eating up the Arche in a blitz were a hard feat in the beginning, but when it comes down to antioch, basically that will be just throwing panda Phalangitai and Pontic Thorakitai down all the way to Persia.... as well as spam many archers in the way.... ^^
Wow Fluvius would be proud of that blitz!
Oh and Pontic VC's are as they are I believe because many of their later leaders saw themselves as defenders of Hellenism more than Persian influenced. Still a mixture of the two but with their eyes towards the West a bit more than the East. Remember Mithradates planned to unite Hellas against Rome but AFAIK Pontic forces never ventured much further east than Armenia or Syria.
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Oops, good catch. Dumb typo while rushing. Fixed
that wasn't exactly blitz with extreme efficiency though, I was lucky that those ptolemaioi are busy fighting AS, and they just ceasefire too late, when I allready took antioch and some cities nearby simultaneously (they are ill garrisoned, even with pantodapoi-haploi-peltastai-skirmisher-slingers army, no one will got difficulty conquering cities that was only guarded by one or two phalangitai, especially when they are too dumb to let themself eat the bait, and left city square to caught some depleted skirmishers, only to found out that their city square was taken by some sort of cavalry in 3 minutes (I know that was silly exploit, but I admit doing that when I took Pergamon, Antioch, and Babylon, maybe some others also, but in the east, after taking whole mikhra asia, and not conquer rebel stacks separating me and hayasdan, as well taking antioch, my economy was getting better and I can finally spam countless numbers of panda phalangitai, pontic thorakitai, as well as churning out galatikoi kuraothoroi for heavy line infantry), and a phalangitai half stack were just stand in north levant, beating ptolemaic stacks by stacks that was churning endless galatians, led by 9 star Herakleothes that lead initial Mikhra asia blitz (9 star generals are really awesome in field battle), and after some times, the Ptolemy was looks like to be broken flat, and they ask for peace and 7XXXX minai for that (just recently sacking halicarnassos, including taking down collosus, taking down arthemis temple for economic boost, as well as destroying several wonders in the process), I just barely reply that with "become my protectorate instead and we'll gave you the money", and they accept that (stupid ptolies), and of course, that gave me a big boost in economy from that protectorate thingies, and they just broken more and more, so that's why in the last 5 or 6 years, I manage to sonquer almost all the remnants of persia. I'm so lucky (but every roleplayer will now complain for that barbaric acts I've done)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin
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My mighty Pahlava, 144BC
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1) I destroyed Saba just recently, they send stack after stack on me, and sacked population of Charax: this is our Persian revenge!
2) AS is so weak that all they can do is send some fullstacks of pandotapoi: i destroy those armies with 3 8-chevroned units of pandotapio phalangite on autoresolve.
3) Pontos attacked me so i invaded them: Nikaia is their last settlement which i don't want to conquer because KH declared war on me and Nikaia is a perfect buffer zone between Pahlava and KH
4) Hai attacked me, now they're my protectorate
5) I'm powerful as hell :knight:
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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
~Fluvius
i finaly got the augustan reforms i have been waiting on this for months feels good!!! The selecuids and pahlava and sauromate are gone only 2 factions left the saka and bactrians they are warring each other for a very long time now. Im just leaving them alone and slowly focus on building up my new areas and replacing the old marian cohorts with imperial ones.
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my first praetorian guards fresh from the boot camp.
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Is the grammatical and orthographical sub-mod for EB still active/around? Look at the Avgvstvs trait and read the first line. It reads:
What it should say is the following:Quote:
This man is the ruler of the Roman empire, one of the most powerful man in the world.
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This man is the ruler of the Roman empire, one of the most powerful men* in the world.
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~FluviusQuote:
"and later it become the most important of the titles"
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Tiberius already begun to use it when dealing with foreign affairs and later it become the most important of the titles that designated a man as Emperor of the Imperium Romanum.
Orthographical. I wish I had that thread bookmarked.Quote:
Tiberius already begun to use it when dealing with foreign affairs and later it became* the most important of the titles that designated a man as Emperor of the Imperium Romanum.
Ok, so after 3 months of schoolwork (during most of which I had no access to a computer capable of playing EB), I'm finally back to finish off my AAR of the Roman Republic. For those of you who might need a refresher, here's the linky to my last post, which ended with the Triumph of D. Iulius Caesar after his victory in the civil war. Anyway, here goes...
Endgame: Or, How to Win Friends and Destroy the Republic
“He's a tyrant, Sulla,” the first man stated bluntly.
“And yet he's been remarkably benevolent...” his companion scoffed at the assertion.
“Our ancestors ordained that there should be two consuls, to be replaced yearly. They founded our constitution in this way to prevent any one man from establishing a tyranny over the Roman People!”
“We've had Consuls serve successive terms of office before. Remember Lucullus?” the companion posed his point as a rhetorical question. Of course they both remembered Lucullus, the popular politician who had prosecuted Rome's final war against the Carthaginians and had reformed the army to allow the proletariat to serve.
“Lucullus also had too much power, but even he did not win his consulship in a civil war and maintain it for himself for five consecutive years,” the first man inveighed. “Caesar is destroying the Res Publica that has been handed down to us from our ancestors. He is sneering at the customs of our ancient race.” His voice was almost a yell, his handsome features, only slightly wrinkled by age, were distorted with righteous anger.
“But look at his deeds,” the second man's argument was faltering. “He has expanded Roman control to encompass the entirety of Gaul and has established colonies of citizens there. He has created hundreds of jobs for the proles in his building projects – why his Amphitheater alone employed over two thousand of the plebs.”
“You would barter away your constitution and your liberty for a few colonies and an Amphitheater?” The first man asked incisively. “I know you better than that, Sulla. Yours is an ancient name. The good men will rally around you. You must kill Caesar.”
“Your name isn't any less ancient than mine,” Numerius Cornelius Sulla responded defensively. “Your ancestor was Appius Claudius Caecus. If you hate Caesar so much, why don't you kill him? For that matter, if you hate him, why did you help him achieve power in the first place?”
“When I allied myself with Caesar, I did so in the mistaken belief that he was a good man,” he responded smoothly. “If I had any inkling that he would keep the consulship as his private possession, I would never have done what I did. As for why I do not act myself, I am too old. Revolution must come from the younger generation, from your generation.”
“Are you so sure this is for the good of the Res Publica?” Sulla asked. “If we kill him, who's to say another won't rise to replace him?”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
“I'll think about it,” Sulla said hesitantly.
“We'll talk more about it later,” the first man said delicately.
The rule of Decimus Iulius Caesar Gallicus had indeed been unprecedented. After his triumph in the Fall of 125 he had kept his legions camped just outside the pomerium, a move whose message to the Senate could not have been clearer: Caesar's will would be obeyed, or there would be consequences. Nevertheless, there were no deaths in his consulship, and the conqueror of Gaul made a general amnesty one of his first directives as Sole Consul. After this he began a vigorous program of public works, including a fresh aqueduct, a rehabilitation of the perennially seedy Subura and the construction of the monumental Amphitheatrum Iulium. Rome was changing, this much was plain, although no one knew what was to come.
In Fall of that Year, Caesar ran for Consul again, a move which caused much resentment among the Senators. He won easily, the spoils of his Gallic Campaign and the power of the Caesarian Party greasing the wheels of public opinion. This victory was accompanied by radical new legislation which gave Caesar the right to hold the Consulship without a colleague for the next decade. The Senate was uproarious until Gallicus calmly asked who would like to speak against the motion. The Curia fell silent, and the Senate meekly voted for the bill.
During this time period, C. Claudius Pulcher came to the fore as one of the Consul's chief lieutenants, and was awarded another Praetorship in 124. Caesar's other most prominent supporter, A. Cornelius Scipio, was rewarded for his loyalty in the Civil War with the Proconsulship of Gaul, even though he had never served as Consul in Rome. Over the remaining years of the 120's BCE, resentment, particularly among the Senate, steadily grew. If Caesar noticed, he must not have cared. Business and politics continued as usual, and Pulcher accrued greater and greater power as Caesar's subordinate. Some advised Caesar that Pulcher was too ambitious to be trusted, most especially the Consul's twenty-year-old son, Caius, but the trusting old man dismissed such fears.
On the Kalends of September, 120 BCE, Caesar was making his way to a meeting of the Senate. Pulcher was not with him, but instead had sent a message claiming to be incapacitated by arthritis. Caesar had sent a note wishing him well and was now deep in conversation with Nm. Cornelius Sulla, and his brother Titus, and surrounded by a throng including P. Papirius Crassus, the brothers Manius and Titus Cornelius Scipio, their cousin Servius, A. Iulius Iulus and K. Iunius Silanus. As the crowd reached the steps of the Curia, the brothers Scipio, standing behind Gallicus drew daggers and stabbed him in the back, piercing his kidneys. As the old man screamed, Silanus and Iulus both drove their own knives into his stomach, Servius Scipio stabbed him in the side while Crassus and Titus Sulla pierced his chest. Finally, Numerius Sulla stabbed the Consul in the neck. Covered in blood, Caesar slowly fell on the steps.
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The assassins shouted their victory to the surrounding crowd, but were met with stunned silence. The first to make any movement were the attendants and friends of the Consul, who ran into the Senate house and broke up the furniture into clubs. They then returned outside and threw themselves at the murderers, beating them ruthlessly with the remnants of the Senatorial furniture. At this point all hell broke loose as the surrounding crowds joined the fray, some fighting for the assassins, others joining with Caesar's friends. Caesar himself lay dying on the Senate steps, all but ignored as civil violence broke out all around him.
Several of the assassins died during the fray, but by luck, most of them escaped the mob. Nm. Cornelius Sulla found himself close to the house of Pulcher. Seeking shelter inside, he was greeted by Caesar's lieutenant. “It's done,” Sulla said, panting. “I've followed your advice and killed the tyrant. The Res Publica is safe.”
“Excellent,” Pulcher smiled. “What has the reaction among the plebs been?”
“Some of them are a bit angry,” Sulla replied. “But they will realize that it was all for the best.”
“I cannot tell you how much that pleases me,” Pulcher moved forward and embraced the younger Sulla in a hug. Sulla began to return the gesture, but suddenly felt a stab of pain as Pulcher smoothly slid a concealed knife between his ribs. Sulla gasped audibly. “You have saved the Res Publica.” Pulcher stabbed again. “The rule of law has been restored.” He stabbed one last time and then let Sulla drop to the floor. Turning to his freedman he said dismissively, “put the body some place where no one will find it.”
Excellent writing, my friend! :2thumbsup: Let's hope those nasty assassins get what they deserve... :skull:
Oh they will...as I'm playing it right now, about half of them are about to fight a battle against Caesar's son. -M
My current Romani campaign, 150 B.C.
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From East to west: The Carthaginians are the new Iberians, they almost went crazy in Gaul but I took the African cities and gave the Aedui a lot of money every turn.
The Lusotannan are down to just Burdigala after a hard-fought war between them and Carthage.
The Aedui killed the Arverni early on and had the Sweboz as protectorates once before. They would have died against the large Carthage stacks, but diplomats intervened and saved them. As of now they are beginning to push into Iberia against Carthage.
The Casse are sitting pretty on their island
The Sweboz lost the war against the Aedui and now they sit and try to take on the rebel super stacks. A couple settlements revolted to them but they haven't expanded or tried to attack anyone.
Me: I took Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia early on, then went to war against all the Greeks. I started with Epeiros, then invaded the Koinon by sea, and the Maks betrayed our alliance. Only Epeiros remains on the Greek mainland, and the Koinon died before I wanted them to. Then I bummed around for a bit, building up and watching the world until the Carthies attacked through Gaul at which point I launched one failed campaign into Africa. My second attempt went far better and after a 14 year war I kicked them out. Once I took Lepki, the Seleukids betrayed me and now I might just send some armies over and take Egypt from them.
The Getai have been good neighbors and are former allies. They went south against the rebels then north against the Sauro's and have kept them in check along with Hayasdan.
Epeiros was once mighty, but no longer. They sit in Byzantion mourning their former empire.
Makedonia was forced down to just Mytilene, but now they've grown. They single-handedly took out Pontos and I had to stop them from killing off Hayasdan once before. I couldn't be bothered to save the Armenians a second time, but they might just expand and take the lands east of the steppes.
The Ptolemies no longer exist thanks to the Seleukids. They were beaten down to just Salamis and launched failed naval invasions that surprised the hell out of me. They managed to take Rhodes for a couple turns before I nabbed it back. Then they lost their last family member and disappeared.
The Seleukids are a somewhat comeback story. They lost Antioch before even a year was out, but from Damascus and Edessa they took it back and rampaged throughout the Ptolemaic lands, squashing them, the rebels, and the Parthians. Right now I'm at war with them and have to bribe a lot of armies coming my way.
Sauromatae are surviving only because of rebellions and luck. They look to be on their last legs because they can't even expand anymore.
Hayasdan is on its last legs as well, losing both Armavir and Mtishketa in the same turn. hopefully they will survive a bit longer because I think Makedonia is coming east at me.
Parthia has stayed alive because of rebellions and never has more than 4 or 5 settlements to its name. I expect they'll survive for a while yet, but they'll never thrive.
Baktria! my favorite faction in this campaign. they were down to 3 regions, 2 indian and 1 eastern, but they fought their way back into supremacy against the Saka. Once Baktria regained their capital the Saka had no chance and were slowly beaten down. I thought they would end up like Parthia, but no such luck. They were killed off while I was fighting in Africa.
Edit: The Sabaens are holding off the Seleukids by virtue of rebellion and large homeland stacks. The Sele's managed to threaten the Saba capital once or twice but nothing came of it.
So there you have it. It's been fun and I've been moving slowly trying not to kill of factions myself, although I may have to in order to keep my borders safe. I'm at a point now where I'm not sure where to go, so if anyone has a suggestion I'm willing to hear it.
In the immortal words of Cato the Elder:
"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." [Therefore I urge that Carthage ought to be destroyed.] -M
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He has made an end to the countless civil wars and gave the roman people peace and unity again
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He has made an end to the countless civil wars and given the roman people peace and unity again
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He made an end to the countless civil wars and gave the roman people peace and unity again
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yeah, taking stone walled cities after cities in Hellas proper is notably harder than assaulting wooden walled cities that scattered along the north Nomadic lands, you still better than me fluvius :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
but 10 years could made a big difference, looking for now secure Asia minor that could be relied to pump out Pontic Thorakitai and Galatian Nudists every turns
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Caius Iulius Caesar surveyed the battle unfolding in front of him calmly, affected only by the slightest hint of apprehension. It was impossible to tell which side the struggle was favoring. It wasn't just the dust being thrown up by the two armies, although that was not an insignificant factor. Rather, it was the fact that both sides were alike in almost every way. Both were of Roman - or rather, Italian - extraction. Both were fighting in the cohortal formation of the Roman legions. It was even likely that some of the soldiers on his side were the brothers or cousins of those on the other side. Looking at these soldiers of common blood fighting, it was difficult to tell who was winning and easy to forget why they were fighting in the first place.
They were fighting for the Res Publica, for the memory of his father, Decimus Iulius Caesar Gallicus. Rome had been shocked, two years ago, when the Consul Gallicus had been killed on the steps of the Curia on his way to a meeting of the Senate. The murder had been followed immediately thereafter by a massive street brawl between the supporters and enemies of his father and the battle had enveloped the whole crowd. Several of the assassins had been killed in the ensuing violence. Even though his body had not been found, it was assumed that their leader, Nm. Cornelius Sulla, must have been killed there as well, for he hadn't been seen since.
In the wake of the murder, Claudius Pulcher had offered to take Caius into his protection, citing his close friendship with the young man's late father. Caius had not trusted Pulcher while his father was alive, though, and saw no reason to trust the crafty old man now that Decimus was dead. Leaving his family's town house, he had fled to his father's legions, camped just outside the city. When he announced the murder to the troops they had been almost mutinous, pressuring Caius to let them
loose on the city to kill the murderers. After a moment's consideration, however, Caesar had demurred. At that point he still did not know everyone who had been involved, and without such knowledge, the situation would undoubtedly have turned into a bloodbath - a bad way for his father to be remembered and an even worse way to begin his political career.
Instead he had delivered a rousing speech and persuaded his father's legions to march north with him. From a distance he would be more able to observe political events as they unfolded, would be closer to his father's old friend, Aulus Scipio, and might even do some good for the Res Publica by discouraging a warband of Helvetii who seemed poised to attack the cities of Cisalpine Gaul. In his camp near Mediolanum, more news had come to him. Pulcher had taken charge of the four legions in Campania and the remaining assassins, realizing that the political situation was now well out of hand, had fled. T. Cornelius Sulla and T. Cornelius Scipio had departed from Brundisium for the east, most likely to seek the aid of N. Papirius Cursor, who was fighting a hard-won campaign for Mesopotamia against the Bactrian Empire, as well as the tribes of the Saba, who had just broke their treaty with Rome. Pulcher was said to be in pursuit, but with four legions he was unable to match the pace of the assassins. P. Papirius Crassus and K. Iunius Silanus, meanwhile, had crossed over to Libya, hoping for aid from Tb. Cornelius Scipio, who had just completed the conquest of Upper Egypt.
Now that the situation had revealed itself, Caesar's course of action was clear. He ordered his men to break camp and marched down to Capua where the Tyrhennian fleet was stationed. Using what little authority he had as Quaestor, he commandeered the fleet and set sail for Kyrene. And now he found himself in the plains east of the city, fighting Scipio and the two assassins.
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“Let's get a closer look,” he nodded laconically to his bodyguards. Ahead and to his left he noticed a breach in the lines. Leading his men, he charged through the gap, finding himself behind enemy lines.
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At this closer vantage it was easier, both to see where the fight was going, and to give aid to his soldiers. Selecting an area in the fighting where the enemy seemed to be particularly stretched, he charged their rear ranks, retreated again before they could respond, and repeated the process until the hapless legionaries panicked and fled. From here he signaled to the centuria he had just aided to go to the aid of their fellows who were still fighting, before he continued on to another weak point in the enemy line and battering them.
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Before long, the enemy's center was in full rout, and, remembering Herodotus' description of Marathon, he took care to instruct his men not to pursue the routers, but instead to concentrate on the wings.
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Fighting there too was harsh, as his men had just been charged by Kaeso Silanus' bodyguards. Diving in with his cavalry, Caius launched a vicious counter-strike against them, and they were slowly enveloped, caught between the cavalry and the infantry. The last to fall was Silanus, who was stabbed in the throat and fell off his horse to be trampled in the onslaught. “Sic semper sicariis,” [thus always to thugs] said Caius, more for his own benefit than for anyone else's. In the end, the battle was won. Stripped of his army, Tiberius Scipio surrendered himself to Caesar, who pardoned him and bestowed upon him many gifts in honor of his campaigns in Egypt before sending him home to Rome, alone but unharmed. P. Papirius Crassus was found dead, late in the day, apparently having chosen to fall on his sword. Of the enemy soldiers, Caius used some to recoup his own losses in the battle and sent the rest to Alexandria to serve as a garrison for Egypt.
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Now it was time to march east, for two assassins remained, as well as two invading armies of easterners and a man who might be a friend, but just as well could be a foe.
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The first shot is epic! Could you upload this in the original quality? Would be a great wallpaper...
XSamatan
Pahlava, 123BC
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where is the Saby'n Jeb? if you kill em, why are u let their homelend empty? Sprinkling salt on Arab lands?
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:wink: -M
Yup, i destroyed Saba, sacked their population and tear every settlement of their to pieces (the wonders i didn't touch).Quote:
Originally Posted by Cute Wolf
at least if you keep them, you could gain extra 10000 minai per turns from those mines
Didn't play for a while. Here is my current Sabaean Empire.
Western front
Trying to fight my way and gain more territory in Egypt. But the Ptolemaioi is too strong in economy. They can recruit stacks of medium and elite units, at the same time depleting the mercenary pool.
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Eastern front
I allied with AS, accepted my help to attack the Ptolemaioi and gain military access. I sent 2 generals with a full stack army try to sneak in and sack seleukeia and baylon and divide their attention on my western front. I paid up Persian mercenaries and add up my army into 2 full stack ready for the mission. But then the enemy suddenly show up from all direction (I had my spies scanned the area) destroyed one of my army stack. Leaving the other stack fighting their way not into Seleukeia and Babylon, but rather their way back to home territory. It's lucky they did make it back home after several turns, only 40% men survived.
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This is the army fighting their way back home while the ration is from rationing to starving.
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Northern border
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Some battle screens
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Nice Empire - yeah, I think the AS tend to have it easier when it comes to fighting the Ptolemaioi: Alexandreia is pretty close to the Seleukid border, and once that city is gone, the Ptolemaioi becomes significantly weaker as they're unable to produce their best units. -M
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It seems I can't win the war against the Ptolemaioi easily by force, I need a better plan.
Proceeding east, Caesar landed a week later in Iudaea with his four legions, only to find the province in a state of crisis. The tribes of the Saba had recently invaded the Levant and already besieged more than one city in an attempt to loosen Roma's grip on the region. Pulcher had come through six months before, and his arrival had provided some relief, as the Saba had been forced to lift the siege, for fear that his four legions might fall upon them. Pulcher's aim, however, was to kill Gallicus' assassins, and as soon as the Saba had lifted the siege he had moved on to Mesopotamia, effectively leaving the situation unresolved. As much as Caius was tempted to follow Pulcher's example and ignore the problem in favor of vengeance, he knew that revenge would be small comfort if the entire region fell into chaos. Thus he decided to divert from his plans to deal with the Saba. Engaging them in the wooded hills southwest of Bostra, Caius found the Sabae to be tenacious, despite their lighter armaments, and for quite some time he was unable to flank their force. Finally though, once a few units had routed he was able to maneuver his bodyguard, Gallic auxiliary cavalry and a few cohorts and partially surround the Saba army, who were slowly worn down and destroyed.
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Their general's bodyguard being were last to fall.
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It was as the legions were reordering themselves after the battle that a messenger from one of the informants Caius had inherited from his father arrived: C. Claudius Pulcher was dead. None of the locals seemed to know any of the details, though in truth, Pulcher had died marching through Mesopotamia. He had contracted a dreadful disease that caused his bowels to rot, a clear curse from the gods and a sign of their disfavor. Thoroughly spooked, the men had refused to march any further. Pulcher, already weak, somehow managed to leave his tent to address them. He was delirious and railed against his men, calling them treacherous curs. They, in turn, became unsettled and began muttering angrily. Visibly growing weaker, Pulcher began to rant incoherently and the soldiers were becoming more agitated by the minute. Finally, in mid-sentence his voice faltered, he swayed for a moment, collapsed and thereupon expired.
Command of the four legions was given to Sv. Atilius Balbus, Pulcher's subordinate, who seized command by promising to march the legions home. Thus, making an about-face, the legions of Caius Claudius Pulcher began to make their way to Sidon where a fleet could return them to Italia. It was on this march that Balbus' forces met those of Caius Iulius Caesar, which were advancing through the aluvial plains to dispense with the two remaining assassins.
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The leaders of the two armies advanced on horseback, meeting half-way between their respective battle lines. Caesar spoke first, thanking Balbus for his services in keeping the men in good order and bringing them to meet their new commander. Somewhat insulted, Servius stated that he had not marched the legions through Mesopotamia to give them over to Caesar, and asked what qualifications for Imperium Caesar possessed that he himself did not as well. Caius was taken aback, but rallied and responded evenly that both his legions and those of C. Claudius Pulcher had last been under the command of his father, who was now worshiped as a god in Roma, and that he knew of no better man to command a god's legions than the god's son. Balbus scoffed at the divinity of Caesar Gallicus, whereupon Caius responded coldly that Servius' theological beliefs were irrelevant, but that he himself nonetheless had every intention of taking command of the four legions previously under the command of C. Pulcher. At this point, Atilius Balbus spat derisively at Caesar before he and his entourage turned and made for their battle lines.
Caius too returned to his lines and instructed his men to hold their ground and fight if Balbus' legions showed hostile intentions - which, he confided, they probably would. His suspicions were confirmed moments later, as the opposing army began to advance upon them. When they came into range, Caesar's legions cast their pila and charged.
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The enemy was possessed with a mad desperation, which swiftly turned to panic when Sv. Balbus was killed in the center of the fighting. The enemy legions had retreated to their camp within the hour and surrendered shortly thereafter. Caius ordered them to expand their camp to be large enough to also accommodate his own men and then camped the eight legions together. Caesar's mercy and the presence of his well-disciplined men had the effect of improving the morale of the rebellious legions and inspiring loyalty in them.
Meanwhile, Caesar set about devising a means to deal with Nm. Papirius Cursor - the proconsul of Mesopotamia - and the assassins he was sheltering. A battle was out of the question. Morale among the four legions he had "acquired" from Balbus was improving, but still nowhere near the point where they were combat-ready. Furthermore, Cursor was already in the middle of a war with the Bactrian Empire. If he and Caesar were to come to blows now, there was every likelihood that Mesopotamia would be lost to Bactria. Even if it wasn't, Cursor was a skilled commander, and his death would undoubtedly be a setback to the Roman war effort in the region. Thus, Caius concluded, diplomacy was his best tool. He sent a courier with a message for Cursor. In it, he informed the proconsul that he was here to avenge the death of his father. Mentioning this was of course just a formality, as he had no doubt that Cursor knew very well why he was there. He told Numerius that he knew the murderers were being sheltered by him, but that he had no desire to bring his eight legions to bear against a faithful son of the Res Publica. In exchange for the assassins, he offered his friendship, and aid against the Bactrian Empire. Beset as he was on all sides, Numerius Cursor agreed to most of the terms. Five days before the Kalends of May, the assassins, T. Sulla and T. Blasio, held a symposium, their last night in the land of the living, and ended it with a round of Pompeian wine laced with arsenic.
This business dispensed, Caesar sent emissaries to the king of Bactria. He lamented the breach that had been made in their friendship, but noted critically that the King had been the first to resort to violence. He informed the king that he and Cursor had twelve legions between them and that if a peace was not brokered they intended to expand further. As terms of peace he demanded no indemnities nor additional land, merely an official recognition of Roma's hegemony over Mesopotamia on the part of Bactria. Pressed on other fronts by the insurgent Parthian kingdom, the King agreed.
Since matters in the east had now been put to order, Caesar endeavored to return his legions to Italia. As a guarantee against further Bactrian encursions, he stationed the legions obtained after Pulcher's death near Babylon so that they could be at Cursor's disposal if needed. Then he proceeded west with his four legions to Antiocheia where his fleet was awaiting him. From there he set sail for Brundisium, stopping on the way to annex the island of Rhodos, the last foreign shore in the Mediterranean.
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From Brundisium he marched north for Roma, and when news of this reached the city, many resigned themselves to another absolute ruler. In this they were to be surprised. When he arrived in Latium, Caesar circumvented the city and made for the Field of Mars, where he set up camp. He recognized the illegality of entering the city while commanding an army, even if the army wasn't with him, and so sent a messenger asking the Senate to convene in the temple of Mars outside the boundaries of the city. At this meeting he informed the Senate that he had brought the Res Publica to peace and stabilized her provinces. The Senate applauded him and offered to make him Consul for life, but he demurred.
Caius had been busy in the east, but not too busy to consider the future - or, for that matter, the past. He had loved his father, but he had known that Decimus' domination of the Consulship for five consecutive years had not been popular. It was undoubtedly the reason he had been killed, and Caius had no more intention of having the same fate than he did of giving up power, so instead he asked three things: first, that in honor of his achievements he be given the old title of Princeps Senatus, which would allow him to speak first on any issue; second, that he be given the powers of a tribune so that he could continue to advocate for the peace and stability of the Res Publica; third that he be given overall command of all proconsular armies, so that he could continue his work of stabilizing and expanding the provinces. The Senate, relieved that Caesar had no intention of holding the Consulship hostage like his father, accepted.
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The new Princeps swiftly began a program of military reforms to bring more efficiency to the army. In his estimation, the old Lucullan Cohorts fought well, but were difficult to recruit in the provinces, due to the smaller population of Roman citizens. To remedy this he standardized the auxilia that had often fought alongside Roma and made them a regular part of Roman armies. They would be equipped to nearly the same standard as legionaries and would receive citizenship as a reward on their retirement. He sent his father's re-equipped legions north to garrison Panonia, with the exception of one legion's worth of his best veterans, who were reorganized into a bodyguard force that would be named for their proximity to Caesar's military headquarters, the Praetorium.
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Just so you guys know, this is going to be my last post about my Imperium Romanum - I may not have achieved the faction objectives, but I've played the Romani before and seen the victory screen, so that wasn't really my objective in doing this little project. I may return to it at some point, but I'm ready to do other things in EB, and, at any rate, I've accomplished my objective - role-playing the Romani to the Augustan era.
Next up...
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Things are going pretty well for me:
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Olympiades is perhaps the best FM I've ever had:
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Seriously take a look at those traits: Insanely Brave, Demagogue Absolutely Just Infatry Commander of Genius, Logistician. On top of that he has no bad traits whatsoever...
And the rebels are just plain evil:
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Man, you really struck the jackpot with that character! Those are some of the best stats I've ever seen. Keep on fighting those treacherous rebels! Your Basileus' justice will win the day. -M
Arthur, king of the Britons - May I ask what those modded units are in your second picture?
@Mulceber, They will hang! :hanged:
Looking forward to seeing more on your Seleucid Empire. :beam:
Glad you asked! :beam: They are called Xipphospherontes Thorakitai Makedonikai ( Sword-bearing Makedonian Thorakitai/Armoured ones), Basileus Olympiades experimented with the concept while campaining in Iran and he plans to make them the rank-and-file troops - replacing the now outdated regular Thorakitai - of the Makedonian Empire after the the Civil War is over (since it's a bit hard to make empire-wide-reforms while fighting a civil war of this size). They are basically Hellenistic LegionariesQuote:
Originally Posted by MButcher
Here's a link to the mod (I didn't make it):
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...other-things..
Pahlava, 105BC.
I'm at war with almost everyone: mighty Carthaginians, Baktria, Romaioi, Lusitanians.
https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3414/pahlav105.jpg
God i hate AI expansion
Holy crap that's a lot of Lusitanians
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What the... How did the Lusos grow that big?
Anyways, great parthian empire. :wink:
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Though I'm sure their armies are full of Lugoae
Good Parthian Empire Jebivjetar. :)
@ Anubis: i ain't no lover of AI behavior either. Anyway, the good thing in this random AI expansion is that i had opportunity to fight SPQR and the Lusos with Pahlava (the latter besieged my Byzantion, and captured it twice: the city, on my surprise, revolted back to me in both cases).
@ Brave Brave Sir Robin: i wish they had those levy spearmen in their armies: in fact, they attacked me with a bunch of Rhaetic axmen/Luso light inf./Luso medium inf and many other of their native units (silver and gold chevroned: real pain in teh ass): it was somewhat challenging to fight them off, especially when the battles were fought in the woods near Byzantion, where my HAs couldn't perform well.
@Strategos Arthy: ty! As for your question: Lusos went on steroids at one moment and easily vanquished Aedui and Arverni: i guess some powerful gods are on their side :D
@TuCoT: Ty :)
I like how despite holding most of Europe, the Luso still haven't managed to take that Carthaginian settlement in southern Spain. They always seem to ignore it.
Oh, they took it, but the settlement revolted back to Carthage. As i'm at war with both Lusos and Carthage, they send all their troops on me and only me, despite the fact that they are at (formal) war between each other too :no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris_
Don't be surprised if they declare a ceasfire, and ally the next turn... That often happened to me, when playing Pontus... The AS and the Ptolies would declare an alliance and team-up on my 3 province kingdom :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jebivjetar
Hehe, happened to me on my Hayasdan campaign too. I'll post pics soon.
https://i173.photobucket.com/albums/...3-24-24-31.jpg
A new campaign I started not long ago, it's on VH/M and the year is 245 BC. Care to guess who I am? :P
makedon...
I'm gonna guess KH. -M
Ptolemies.
Saba.
Isn't it obvious? Arvenni.
Sweboz.
Eleutheroi :D
Either KH or Maks. Im gonna go KH.
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This is my Patient Pontic campaign that I have betrayed because I missed my Horse archers and Catas :laugh4:
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and this is mt return to my lovely Horse archers.
I stopped my blitz and at the moment I am quite busy wşth the united forces of AS and traitor Ptolemy and Saba.
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I had stopped my blitz but I think Ptolemy will not allow me to live in peace until I repulse them out of asia.
I'm in my first campaign where I'm using move_character to keep empires alive (and having a lot more fun by doing so!), instead of boring myself to tears with hell-for-leather expansion. This is a Makedonian H/M campaign in 247 BC:
https://i873.photobucket.com/albums/...ak247-zoom.jpg
The two empires that I've helped so far:
Koinon Hellenon: I conquered their homelands in 270 BC, leaving them only the island of Rhodes. When they got Halikarnassos by revolt from the AS, I moved their "lost army" from Crete to Asia Minor help the revolution. So far they've kept the AS at bay. Note that Pontos took Ankyra on their own, and are now busy churning out Celtic troops.
Epeiros: I conquered their homelands in 267 BC, leaving them only Taras, but I also moved their final defeated stack over to Italy. They used this stack to take Arpi, and then spent a decade trying to take Capua. While this was happening, the Romans slipped down south and captured Taras. So I sent a troublemaker FM to Italy with a few Greek mercenaries and a big warchest to hire more (I actually tore down the Athenian Acropolis to fund the expedition). He was defeated, hired even more mercenaries, finally conquered Taras, then gave it back to the Epeirotes and marched on Capua. Many tense battles later, he captured Capua, sacked it and gave that to the Epeirotes as well. Now my FM has returned to Makedonia, and the army he led is gradually dispersing outside Capua (I disband one unit per turn, as Epeiros builds up strength and can stand on its own feet again).
Sounds like a nice game, FriendlyFire. However watch out that the Epeirotes dont grow too strong, or else you will miss out on the Hysteroi Pezhetairoi.
~Fluvius
Hermolaos - the uncle of the Basileus - leading the Western Olympiades-loyalists that have been cut-off from the East, is making some progress in Iberia, and to secure victory in the West, he in his drunkenness, strikes a deal with the now-unified Gallic tribes; In return for seeding the remaining Gallic lands to Vergalla, the Gauls promise to aid him and the Arche Makedonike in the war against the Genos Klerios and their Iberioi allies. He also strikes an alliance between them, on Arche Makedonike’s behalf.
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The relatively young Vergalla Vollorix, Convictolitavis moc Dejotaros
is hardly a trustworthy man, being known to many as a man of deceit and also being a source of concern for the more wise members of the Makedonian Royal Family:
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Olympiades have his hands full with dealing with the rebel scum in Asia, and cannot at the moment spare the troops to deal with this issue in the West. He also feels that the internal power struggle should be resolved before starting another war. Reluctantly he sends couriers to Convictolitavis telling him that he agrees on the terms set up by his uncle, though in private he woes to one day deal personally with his confused, senile and drunk uncle, along with the wretched Celts in Gaul.
To counter Genos Klerios massive troop deployment in northern Italia Olympiades gives an army to the young and promising Attalos, the first army not commanded by the Basileus himself using the Xipphospherontes Thorakitai Makedonikai as its backbone:
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In the East however, things are far less complicated with Olympiades obliterating every army that oppose him, though showing his mercy for those who surrender before him. He also makes sure his army raids and pillages as little as possible, hoping to win over the locals by other means than brute force alone. By the ninth year of the Civil War (136 BC), opposition is all but broken in Asia Minor.
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Also in the same year, Carna, the last (Olympiades Loyal) Makedonike client kingdom in Arabia falls. No longer having an excuse to kill one another the Saba Confederacy sends envoys to Olympiades, suing for peace. Olympiades agrees, seeing the futility of War against a nation he doesn’t share borders against.
In 136 BC, things are mostly going Olympiades way, the finances are restored, his enemies are fleeing or surrendering before him, but there is still much to do before he and Makedonia can truly feel at ease. And so he marches on:
https://i760.photobucket.com/albums/...picversion.jpg
Ps Comments on this not-so-consistent pseudo-"AAR" are appreciated.
Looks like Olympiades truly has his hands full. Good ending, btw, I liked the picture of the troops ending to punctuate it. -M
Can you tell me the code for the purple color that macedon has? I'd like to use it for Hayasdan because it blends too much into the ocean
I usually just increase the green a touch and decrease the blue to create a tealish color (kinda like in vanilla), to stay at least somewhat true to the original colors.
Thanks, btw are you getting any time over for that Arche Seleukeia campaign of yours?Quote:
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It's either 102 0 102 or 102 0 51 - I don't rember, sorry :shame: -, also I'm not at me EB computer, so it will take some time for me before I'll be able to look over my EB files. I'll try and get and get back to you later though.
It's 102 0 102.
Since my last post, I've started (and dropped) a number of campaigns, but the only one that's noteworthy is my most recent attempt at Hayasdan. It's on hold for now, as I became rather annoyed at fending off constant attacks from Baktria and the Ptolemaioi...
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My Orontid Persian Empire (has a nice ring, if I do say so myself) stretches from Mazaka in the West all the way to Persepolis in the east.
I've fully implemented the Persian reforms for every city east of--and including--Seleukeia & Babylon, except for the one directly north of Persepolis, due to my lacking the other cities required to implement that expansion tier. Oh, and Edessa hasn't been reformed yet, due to the same reason.
Despite this, it's the closest to the "center" as I can get, so it was my Capital when I put the game on hold.
Oh, and look at Italy. It's amusingly ironic that the faction colours there happen coincide with the modern Italian flag's colours, thought Epeiros' green is a bit dull. Still, it made me chuckle.
Anyway... on to my current campaign.
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Playing as the Romani, obviously. I'm not really attempting to expand historically, nor am I trying to expand all that fast.
I'm currently at war with the Aedui and Epeirotes, although they're very low intensity wars. The Gauls are busy fighting a losing battle with the Lusitani, and the Epeirotes, oddly enough, apparently want to kill the Getai more than they want to kill me.
Epeiros originally owned Dalmation and Segestica, but when I attacked Epidamnos, they sued for peace the next turn. I renegotiated the deal to include Dalmation, Segestica, and Epidamnos, expecting them to turn me down, but they agreed to part with those cities, albeit with ~80k mnai added to the deal. I immediately garrisoned those cities with free legions I had sitting around (gotta spend the copious amounts of cash I make somehow... ~65k army upkeep and counting, yet I still make 30+ thousand per turn,) expecting them to attack.
They did, of course, but only against Epidamnos, albeit it was a full-stack... with like Chaonion Agema, too. I won with ~300 losses to their 1400. I was quite impressed that my Polybian Hastati managed to hold the line against those Chaonion Agema, and with acceptable losses--one unit lost ~70 men, while the other lost 10-20 each. A few of my principes managed to get 100+ kills with just javalin spam, too.
In any case, Epeiros doesn't seem too dangerous at the moment. No, I'm worred about the Lusitani, who all of a sudden went berserk and started steamrolling the Aedui. Why, just four or five turns ago, the Pyrenees was (roughly) the border between those two... and then *BAM* like... five or six full stacks poured out of Iberia and just ripped right through everything in their path. :shocked:
I believe it would be prudent to strike at the Lusitani now, before they take all of Gaul. Any suggestions as to the route I should take? I could cut across to the Atlantic from Massilia, then north to... er... Britanny. Alternatively, I could just invade Iberia itself.
Is that campaign map EB? its graphics is different from the EB i have or is that from Alex.exe or BI.exe?
Yes, it's EB. The different graphics are due to a modification that replaces the default EB campaign map textures with ones from Roma Surrectum.Quote:
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Huge images.
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Having an issue with getting screenshots from my current EB 1.2 BI.exe game. I've got screenshots before, print screen and copy to paint. Or get the tga's from the folder and convert them over to JPEG. But either way seems to be giving me a black screen in the photo's now. Anyone encountered this before and know how I might fix it?
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Yes, I did have AA on. Thanks for that. Didn't even realize I had set it.
This is my sweboz game currently. Date is about 225BC give or take a year. Original goal was control of the baltic but the Sauro's developed a rage that I would choose to border them and declared war. I went east and liberated Gawjam Basternoz and took up to Gelonus and Olbia. After that they agreed to a ceasefire, trade rights and then an alliance all in the one diplo screen. A turn later and both Getai and Rome decided that I was their new target. Rome took Vindobona since I was out of position but is currently under seige and is filled with apeleuthoroi; not a chance against my germanic naked fanatics and chatti spearmen. The getai are seeing the other end; they were unable to take any towns and they are just about to face both my main army from the steppes (almost all baltic troops...archer heavy) and my rebel town killer that just took Ak-Ink by seige without an AI sally because it was large enough. Beautiful pincer attack.
https://i997.photobucket.com/albums/...swebozgame.jpg
War goals are a bit vague. I want to destroy the Getai because I don't like them very much and because that was my original war direction for later with my rebel killer army. I also have a wierd pleasure in holding Byzantion as the Sweboz.
As for rome, I think I'll take that little eastern bit they have between me and the Epirotes but leave them the Po valley region and as much of gaul as they want for now. This will be a world conquest in the style of Fluvius Camillus if I can hold my nation together long enough. Will be nice to see a world conquest Sweboz but I am worried about public order in the long term. Game play speed is a sort of rushed roleplay. I am managing my family members and not adopting much/at all anymore and essentially only warring when I find a partially justifiable reason. Progress will be sort of slowish mainly as I need to consolidate in order to keep the empire together in the later years.
EDIT: Of note around the world:
Pontus was a major power holding Asia minor up to Tarsus and Trebizond. They have since begun a minor collapse with Getai taking Byzantion what I think was a Halicanassus KH rebellion but might have been a naval invasion and the Macedonians becoming their traditional unstoppable force once they lose macedonia proper. The AS has recovered well and held up to Ankyra until just before this screenshot. Maybe pontus is coming back?
Saba has been fighting hard. Both rebellions and actual conquest. They did hold Sinai region and Gerrah and charax but have since lost a small amount of ground. Its actually hampering the Ptollies alot, I have been checking up with toggle_fow and seen some massive fullstacks kicking Ptollie arse.
Parthia was a giant before but has since lost almost everything as the AS recover, mostly probably because the Ptollies have stopped attacking as they fight back and forth with the Saba.
Epirus WAS dominating but the KH is on the ascent. Taken about 3 towns in greece in the last 10 turns or so.
Everything else has been pretty boring.
https://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1198/makedonia.jpg
This is my Makedonian empire around 266, my primary target was Pontus (who took Byzantiun), bu then I was attacked by the Getai (who had an awesome development), who attacked tylis, I offered them a ceasefire with the condition of giving me one of their towns, and they surprisingly accepted, now I'm fairly well with them, I bought something like, four regions, and I'm in doubt whether to attack pontus or keep buying Getai land until they are weak enough for a final attack.
Given the fact that both the Barbaroi and the Getai are in Eastern Europe, I think I'll need to dispatch some more full stacks there, I have one at Naissos now.
Glad to be of service.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blxz
In regards to your campaign fighting the Sauros with the Sweboz? Good thing you have access to Baltic Archers; otherwise it would be a nightmare fighting the Sarmatians with such an infantry-focused faction.
I notice that the Arverni are doing pretty well for themselves, which pleases me. It doesn't happen nearly often enough, IMO. They usually hang on, but just barely. And sometimes, especially when I'm a faction that's nearby, they end up getting wiped out within 10~20 years, like they did in my current Romani campaign.
Dang, that's some impressive AI expansion for so early in the game. What difficulty are you playing on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltie
Still, that's a very secure base for further expansion, although I'd take Serdike as well, if only for the awesome Thracian units one can train there.
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Anyway, a small update on my romani campaign. I made peace with Aedui, then allied with them (...and got military access with a bit of financial incentive,) which apparently pissed of the Lusitani, given that they attacked me a few turns later. I repelled the attack, albeit with high-ish (30%) losses, mostly because 1. That was my first time fighting this particular faction and 2. That stack was filled with highly experienced (3 bronze chevron and above) troops. Several more attacks ensued, all of which were repelled.
Once those attacks had passed, I launched a counter attack at the nearest Lusitanian town: Gergovia. Now, that town had an absurd garrison--very experienced--so I had to starved it out. The problem? It would take seven turns, and there were 10+ enemy half to full stacks in the area.
Thankfully, I had three legions stationed on the border, with another two on the way, so I besieged gergovia with one of them, while the two others blocked all possible approaches from the south. What ensued was seven turns of lopsided victories, which ended with me taking Gergovia, then suing for peace in exchange for Tolosa.
I'm playing Vh/h with the Realist Movement Mod.
Serdike has almost a full stack of thracian troops, If I besiege it, I'll have to wait, and I don't want to, I don't trust the Getai, but I'll do it sometime.