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I'm curious, how many campaigns has everyone completed, and with which factions? I'm fairly new to EB, although I've been playing Extended Greek Mod for close to a year, so I've only completed Epeiros, Koinon Hellenon, Aedui, and Casse. Currently playing Lusotann, which I have to say is significantly more of a challenge than I expected.
0 I lack the attention span
1,5^^ one with the sweboz and in my first KH campaign I just neglected conquering the Victory condition cities near the nile and emporion, so I conquerd whole of gaul and Seleukid lands until Persepolis :D.
Completed one with Rome (Julii) in the vanilla.
Almost completed one with Carthage in RTR.
i hope i will finish my current Baktrian campaign with EB 1.2.
It's hard to complete one campaign: when my empire become too strong i tend to leave.
I put one because I'm about to finish my Arche Seleukia campaign. Just need to take the Greek provinces and India as well as destroy pesky Pahlava. They keep retreating into the steppe...
0.8 Makedonia and Pahlava.
1.0 Epeiros and Pahlava
1.1 Ptolemaioi and Saka
1.2 Baktria and ongoing Pahlava
I gave up a 1.2 Romaioi campaign after reaching Marian reform (too stinkin' rich) and a 1.1 Getai campaign (facing overpowered Lusos in the west and a Pahlava monster in Anatolia).
3 for me.
-Koinon Hellenon 187 BC
-Kart-Hadast 199 BC
-Sweboz 201 BC (i couldn´t wait for the reforms):wall:
Now trying Getai
All of theese with 1.2.....
Haven't been playing EB for all that long, played Romani M/M and realised after a while that it was too easy to be worth completing.
Only 3 campaign completed... Aedui, Ptolemy, and Karthadast
None yet, although I'm close with Carthage and getting there with Pontos and Epeiros. Carthage is too easy so I've mostly abandoned it, I attained the southern half of Italy through diplomacy and control all of Iberia and northwest Africa so all that's really left is crushing the Romans at my leisure.
I have never truly completed the campaign for any faction. I just play until I get bored, so far that has been the case with about 5 factions... Baktria - took a long time to get bored, but fighting an endless Selucid empire can do it, I still have a good save that I can return too. Makedonia - I created a huge Empire, but I almost never lost a battle... I no longer have the save. Epiros - incomplete campaign that was just awesome. I will start playing again soon, although I like starting empires, not finishing with them... KH - I don't think I ever lost a battle with this faction. I became rich, and I overwhelmed everyone within a very short period of time. Saba - tough campaign. Every battle was against extreme odds. It did not get boring in the conventional "too easy" sense, but this campaign needs patience. I lost the save when i bought a new computer.
I don't think that I will ever complete a campaign's victory conditions as I have a house rule about not destroying factions, and I get bored once I have turned a weak power into a superpower.
Zero, nothing, nichts, nadda-yadda. Yep, you heard it right. I just lack the motivation, plus I'm a turtler RPer and then it just happened that a new version always came out.
Maion
Who's the champion that finished 10 campaigns?
1.0: Arche seleukeia.
afterwards I didn't really play much in the way of campaigns on EB. in fact I finished more campaigns on IBFD (2) and RTW vanilla (2) than EB.
I find custom battles more interesting; especially since I get to see the units for their aesthetics:clown:
Where's the 0 option? :grin:
I chop and choose too often to complete a full campaign.
Doesn't sure.... but at least I was sure that I was completed Saka, KH, Sweboz, Baktria, Karthadast, Romani, Makedon, Aedui, Avernii, Casse, Ptolies, Pontos, and Sauro... I have tons of spare time... :2thumbsup:
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Whatt!?! nobody surpass me?!?... oh..... sorry, if this count in any campaign without involving mass-cheating... that only count Saka, KH, Sauro, and Baktria...:wall:
Me too, its becouse i dont have the will to do it. The constant ctds break my flow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasiliyi
And ruined my campaings, for ever. So i never could finished a campaing in EB becoue i was always end with a corrupt campaing.
me too! :stupid:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios
mostly eb released a new version, so i stopped my campaigns and updated it instead of playing to the end. the new features where more interessting for me.
I lose interest or forget to play after awhile. when i come back i don't feel the attachment to the campaign i once did, forgot what was happening, and start a new one.
Only Seleucids in vanilla, actually, conquered the whole map with them :)
Me too in my last Roman Campaign. Then I did a Sweboz one that was almost finished (plus sitting on all the British Isles, Gaul, N Spain and the Carthaginian homelands) when a CTD occured and the game became unopenable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight of Heaven
Just started as Rome again.
Voted 1, with Karthadast. It became boring when I had to battle the Greeks, and so I just landed in Phoinike although it wasn't the best decision strategy-wise and obtained the victory conditions.
I forgot though that I have the VCs long complete in my current Makedonian campaign, but I haven't finished yet.
None. Never achieved VC's.
Almost completed an Arverni Campaign back in December.
Hope to conclude my Sweboz one in the future.
vanilla does not count
This is something else I have been meaning to ask someone. What is the point behind the common "house rule" against destroying people? I don't get it:inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Irishmafia2020
I like to destroy factions, the stupid AI keeps attacking = I destroy the faction with glee. But then again my favoritre factions are Sweboz and Rome, neither were very restrained in destructive power.
too many but do you mean just EB?
I mostly never played except Pahlava in EB.
but for RTW, BI, other mods....
it can pass 20
so you should add more than 20 or ask like "How many campaigns have you completed in EB?
Three!
COnquered a load with Makedonia, almost the world, reached VC.
Conquered the world with Epeiros and Rome.
I am invincible as Pontos and Arverni, but both almost reach VC's.
~Fluvius
It adds to the variety of enemies, I believe. Plus, there are is always the option of renaming/recolouring a faction and moving it elsewhere, thus "creating" a new faction. Not to mention it's nice to see a multi-coloured and ever changing campaign minimap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Exosus
Maion
Did Romani twice, Baktria, Koinon Hellenon, and am just finishing a Getai campaign. Next I'll probably do Lusotannan or Casse.
Wow, surprised to see not that many have completed more than me. I've finished a Arverni, Casse and Swêboz campaign - each one more difficult than the last!
NONE (in EB) About 2 or 3 Vanilla and RTR but I'm not sure. I simply play too many campaigns at the same time - sometimes I also loose my saves or run into comp trouble:wall:
About saving/letting live Factions: some like to, some not. I think I fall to the 2. group, I like to see other factions fall and mine spread.:yes:
Poll needs a zero option. That's my saldo too - sooner or later a well-going campaign starts running smoothly enough (or a badly going one becomes desperate enough) that it becomes a somewhat repetitive and tedious exercise in stack-crushing and ceases being genuinely interesting. At which point I lose interest and start a fresh one with another faction. Apparently I just prefer the build-up phase or something, as I find myself behaving like this in other "build and conquer" games such as MOO 2 too...
Or as my brother summarised his experience with Fallout 3: "The second you hit the level cap there's nothing to look forward to anymore and the thing goes stale."
I would have gone for 0 had there been the option
I must confess to having completed a Brutii and a Greek campaign in Vanilla, yet I just can't get there in EB, though my current Makedonia file seems to be on the way :yes:
well, I can tell you why you didn't finish a campaign: you are too obsessed with moose rights, which no body cares about.:clown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Moosemanmoo
I think that it adds to the challenge, especially as you become an empire. For example if my "ally" Ptolemy Egypt is getting destroyed by Carthage and AS (I was Epiros) then I would offer them land and money in an area where i could control their destiny. If Egypt fell completely, I would use the faction as my own private Foederati, and offer them the occasional buffer area between my empire and dangerous neighbors. Eventually, restoring the Ptolemies to the Nile became a justification for a major invasion of Egypt, from which I benefited immensely. That is one of many scenarios in which I have saved a nearly extinct faction and used them for role playing purposes. Just before Macedonia was destroyed, I gave them land in India(I was Baktria) and they became an Indo-Greek kingdom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Exosus
The point is that the "no faction can be destroyed" house rule ups the challenge considerably and allows for a number of roleplaying opportunities in the game. Some people also want the game to follow a historical path, so they don't want factions destroyed until a set point, therefore they use force diplomacy to keep them alive.
The one thing that mostly deters me from finishing campaigns is the absolutely ridiculous diplomacy on VH campaigns, where the AI will almost NEVER allow you to call a ceasefire with them once war begins. This keeps happening in my Epeiros campaign, where the Ptolemaoi, even though I've reduced them to about four settlements in the Levant and offered them 30,000 mnai with my truce, will not stop throwing every last unit they can afford at me. Likewise, even though Carthage is at war with Rome and they only share the smallest of borders with me (Syrthim and Augila), and even though the Romans are fighting the Carthaginians and the Lusotannan, they BOTH attacked me on the same turn. It's likely only a matter of time before the Sauromatae and Pontics disregard their current wars and attack me in Thrace and the Hellespont, too.
The only time I have EVER seen reasonable diplomacy on VH is in my Carthaginian campaign, where the Romans, after several years of fighting in which I did not attack them but defeated all of their assaults, not only offered truce, but actually accepted when I offered to throw in 8,000 mnai for Rhegion. The same thing happened a few years later and I employed the same strategy and was even able to get Taras for 5,000. Mind you, this is all in ALEX, where the diplomacy is supposedly better, but aside from these two incidents I've yet to see it. It seems as though any time you go on the offensive against a faction, they will settle for nothing less than your complete destruction.
3: romani, Baktria, and Getai
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Originally Posted by Ibrahim
They're people too! Just like us!
We're all just racists :furious3:
maybe my house rule is weird, I love to roleplay, but, I roleplay that those factions was utterly destroyed, their FM's decapitated, and their towns razed to the ground.... do many times on Barbaropolis... Well, the only reason to destroy a faction was VC... so I usually sent their executioner squad on the very very last time...