Here is the Vanquisher of Roma aptly named Hannibal ( he is probably one of the best generals I've ever had).
Now it's your turn, lets share our empires. :2thumbsup:
Oh and if you want to go more in depth and AAR-ish with your "empire presentation" then that is more than welcome. :D
02-11-2010, 01:14
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
Cool thread - I think it's gonna be fun to see all the pictures. here are mine:
https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e...ictures019.jpg
My Romani Campaign. I just kept going with it, even after I'd won. Eventually I established a TRUE Pax Romana by making all the other factions client states. This caused them all to make peace with each other, hence, an end to war. The greatest accomplishment of my..."first citizen," Caius Iulius Caesar Augustus (yes, my Princeps was indeed a member of gens Iulia).
https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e...ictures180.jpg
My Arche Seleukeia campaign - just finished it in late December. It was a really fun campaign, and it gave me a good grounding in Hellenistic history for the course on it I'm taking now.
I'll try to get some pictures of the KH and Qarthadastim campaigns I have going and post them up. -M
It will look awfully braggish to post my World Empires once again.~D
~Fluvius
02-11-2010, 16:23
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Mulceber
Cool thread - I think it's gonna be fun to see all the pictures. here are mine:
https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e...ictures019.jpg
My Romani Campaign. I just kept going with it, even after I'd won. Eventually I established a TRUE Pax Romana by making all the other factions client states. This caused them all to make peace with each other, hence, an end to war. The greatest accomplishment of my..."first citizen," Caius Iulius Caesar Augustus (yes, my Princeps was indeed a member of gens Iulia).
I'll try to get some pictures of the KH and Qarthadastim campaigns I have going and post them up. -M
Cool empires you got there, may I ask what date it is in your Romaoi campaign?
As far as I understand that thread's purpose is to post the progression of the AI not the EB player, please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
Do I have to?
~Fluvius
Get to work! :whip:
02-11-2010, 16:30
anubis88
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
As far as I understand that thread's purpose is to post the progression of the AI not the EB player, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Seriuosly? Or are you joking? It is the faction progression mod. If you post the map, then both empires are seen, the AI's and yours. Do you think 50 pages of people posted there just so that people can see how the AI's doing?
02-11-2010, 16:36
Tyrfingr
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
Hello fellow EB players!
Since i couldn't see a thread about this subject i decided to make one.
Here is the Vanquisher of Roma aptly named Hannibal ( he is probably one of the best generals I've ever had.
Now it's your turn, lets share our empires. :2thumbsup:
Note: Now the pictures should be of a more proper size, still sorry about the enormous pictures I had earlier. :shame:
Snyggt rike Arthur!
02-11-2010, 16:43
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Jaertecken
Snyggt rike Arthur!
Tack så mycket kära landsman. :bow:
02-11-2010, 16:44
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by anubis88
Seriuosly? Or are you joking? It is the faction progression mod. If you post the map, then both empires are seen, the AI's and yours. Do you think 50 pages of people posted there just so that people can see how the AI's doing?
He's not joking, actually that thread's purpose really is to see, how the AI is doing. That's why it's called AI-Faction-progression. Of course at the same time you see how the player is doing as well, which is interesting too.
02-11-2010, 16:50
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by anubis88
Seriuosly? Or are you joking? It is the faction progression mod. If you post the map, then both empires are seen, the AI's and yours. Do you think 50 pages of people posted there just so that people can see how the AI's doing?
I thought that the original reason for that thread was to post the progression of the AI to help the EB team to see if any faction is overpowered or underpowered and then change those things accordingly in a later version of the mod.
It would seem I was correct. :brood:
02-11-2010, 17:36
anubis88
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
I thought that the original reason for that thread was to post the progression of the AI to help the EB team to see if any faction is overpowered or underpowered and then change those things accordingly in a later version of the mod.
It would seem I was wrong, my apologies.
Or was I not wrong? This is confusing...
Yes well, i'm not denying that this was the original purpose of the thread, however since i looked the threads every new entry for the last year or so, i can definetly tell you that people are posting there to show how their game is progressing in general, to see how everything s' going on. It's basicly show your province-kingdom-empire and the AI thread.
I don't want to say anything. By all means, create a new thread, i just think people post there for this reason
02-11-2010, 21:13
Fluvius Camillus
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
[..] Get to work! :whip:
As you wish Sire!
From EB1.0, the first time I took the world (Epiros).
Cool empires you got there, may I ask what date it is in your Romaoi campaign?
I'm not sure exactly what date, but I think that I finally stopped somewhere around 20-10 BCE. I'll have to check. I really should take better pictures. How do you use the print-screen button? I mean, I know you press it, but where do you find the picture your computer took afterward? Thanks, -M
02-11-2010, 22:41
Brennus
Re: Post your EB empires!
Well Fluvius, I know feel totally inadequate. Here's to ya the new Alexandros Magas!
02-11-2010, 22:55
XSamatan
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Mulceber
How do you use the print-screen button? I mean, I know you press it, but where do you find the picture your computer took afterward? Thanks, -M
I would recommend to use a program like fraps, IIRC version 1.9d should be freeware and working with EB, the newer versions are just shareware.
XSamatan
02-11-2010, 23:08
Fluvius Camillus
Re: Post your EB empires!
But if you do use Print screen it is copied, so you have to paste it somewhere (like paint), then save as Jpeg and you have your pic.
~Fluvius
02-12-2010, 00:04
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
As you wish Sire!
From EB1.0, the first time I took the world (Epiros).
On a more serious note though: OMG! :dizzy2: Fluvius is taking over the world! Run!
That must have taken quite some time though!
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Originally Posted by Mulceber
As always, VERY impressive, Fluvius!
I'm not sure exactly what date, but I think that I finally stopped somewhere around 20-10 BCE.
You played that long?! That's a lot of turns.
02-12-2010, 00:30
Tanit
Re: Post your EB empires!
My favourite Carthage campaign I have ever played, 1.0. Here is the army of Aulius Florius Crispin whom I bribed from the Romans and used to conquer all of Italy, including Rome, where I won a Heroic victory, defeated an army of over 3,000 Barbarians in the Alps with only 20 casualties, retrained the army and set sail for Britain when the game finally crashed. Had conquered all of Italy, Spain, west Africa, Greece, Crete and Cyprus.
My favourite Carthage campaign I have ever played, 1.0. Here is the army of Aulius Florius Crispin whom I bribed from the Romans and used to conquer all of Italy, including Rome, where I won a Heroic victory, defeated an army of over 3,000 Barbarians in the Alps with only 20 casualties, retrained the army and set sail for Britain when the game finally crashed. Had conquered all of Italy, Spain, west Africa, Greece, Crete and Cyprus.
The Basileus is a hero of the Romaoi war.
He's an alcoholic, depressed and a bit of a racist but other than that he is a jolly good chap and the people love him (he has the "Extremely happy people" trait). He also have good stats.
I've given Thorakitai to Makedonia by the way as you can see in the picture.
edit: Wait a second.. Both generals I've posted had conquered the Romans and both pictures were taken at nearly the same date.
I didn't even think about that when I posted them.. that's odd. :inquisitive:
Nice one, have you got the Augustan reforms in that campaign?
02-15-2010, 20:24
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
Nice one, have you got the Augustan reforms in that campaign?
Thank you. Unfortunately not, I have not enough provinces yet. You need 90 of them for the reforms, I have not quite so many. Maybe soon. The Sweboz are attacking and I'm thinking about going north.
02-15-2010, 20:33
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by SwissBarbar
Thank you. Unfortunately not, I have not enough provinces yet. You need 90 of them for the reforms, I have not quite so many. Maybe soon. The Sweboz are attacking and I'm thinking about going north.
The Augustan Reforms are almost impossible to get right? Swêboz can get quite annoying when they reach that size, even more so with the enormous Ptolemaio empire you're facing.
And did they wipe out 4 factions (i.e AS, Hai Pahlava and Baktria) on their own?
02-15-2010, 21:00
Hax
Re: Post your EB empires!
SwissBarbar: Do you mind hosting the savegame here for us, if it's 1.2 compatible?
02-15-2010, 21:31
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
The Augustan Reforms are almost impossible to get right? Swêboz can get quite annoying when they reach that size, even more so with the enormous Ptolemaio empire you're facing.
And did they wipe out 4 factions (i.e AS, Hai Pahlava and Baktria) on their own?
Wait, I told not the truth ^^ I just realized, that I got 105 Provinces, meaning enough for the Augustan Reforms. Must have had the number of Provinces in mind, which I had before conquering Mikra Asia. Since I have more than 400 battles fought, the Augustan reforms now only depend on the right FM to come.
Yes, the Ptolemaioi did all except Baktria by themselves. Baktria was defeated by the Pahlava. The greatest strength the Ptolies had, was when they used to posses all they have now PLUS all of Egypt and Mikra Asia. For example:
Now imagine the Ptolemaic Empire in between these Dates, f.e. 130 BC. It was an insane fight. They had fullstacks of elite troops with experience they gained in their fights against AS, Baktria, Pahlava and the Hay. I lost about 30'000 soldiers to conquer Egypt alone.
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Originally Posted by Hax
SwissBarbar: Do you mind hosting the savegame here for us, if it's 1.2 compatible?
Wasn't there a possibility to upload files directly in the forum. Is it gone? Where to find it?
02-15-2010, 21:56
Hax
Re: Post your EB empires!
When you click "Reply" and then "Go Advanced", you'll see a button in the lower part of the screen that says "Manage Attachments". You can probably do it from there ;)
02-15-2010, 22:05
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by SwissBarbar
Wait, I told not the truth ^^ I just realized, that I got 105 Provinces, meaning enough for the Augustan Reforms. Must have had the number of Provinces in mind, which I had before conquering Mikra Asia. Since I have more than 400 battles fought, the Augustan reforms now only depend on the right FM to come.
Yes, the Ptolemaioi did all except Baktria by themselves. Baktria was defeated by the Pahlava. The greatest strength the Ptolies had, was when they used to posses all they have now PLUS all of Egypt and Mikra Asia. For example:
This is 160 BC:
And this is 104 BC:
Now imagine the Ptolemaic Empire in between these Dates, f.e. 130 BC. It was an insane fight. They had fullstacks of elite troops with experience they gained in their fights against AS, Baktria, Pahlava and the Hay. I lost about 30'000 soldiers to conquer Egypt alone.
30´000 losses?! That's like what, 10 fullstacks?! Can't imagine what kind of manpower The Yellow Feever have in that case.
Fighting all those gold chevroned elite fullstacks must have been a pain in the duck, hopefully in EB II the Ptolemaio will be weakened, they always seem to blitz the east.
02-15-2010, 22:26
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
hopefully in EB II the Ptolemaio will be weakened, they always seem to blitz the east.
Agreed. Them and the AS. Having played the AS, I can say that if you weather the first 20-30 turns, the rest of the campaign is easy as pie. The one hard part towards the end for me was the invasion of mainland Greece, where I was sustaining heavy casualties. Otherwise it was really easy. Pahlava needs to be strengthened. The Ptolemaioi need...something. Maybe a less stable public order so that there might be more revolts - I remember reading about a pretty nasty one they had in Polybius. Although I'm not nearly enough of an expert to say whether or not that revolt was typical. Another thought, maybe they should get a lot of bad traits as time goes on to represent the inbreeding customs that they picked up from the Egyptians. -M
02-16-2010, 00:59
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mulceber
Agreed. Them and the AS. Having played the AS, I can say that if you weather the first 20-30 turns, the rest of the campaign is easy as pie. The one hard part towards the end for me was the invasion of mainland Greece, where I was sustaining heavy casualties. Otherwise it was really easy. Pahlava needs to be strengthened. The Ptolemaioi need...something. Maybe a less stable public order so that there might be more revolts - I remember reading about a pretty nasty one they had in Polybius. Although I'm not nearly enough of an expert to say whether or not that revolt was typical. Another thought, maybe they should get a lot of bad traits as time goes on to represent the inbreeding customs that they picked up from the Egyptians. -M
I as far as I remember revolts was not too uncommon in the AS and the Ptolematic empire, the loyalty feature in MTW II will probably come in handy.
And about the inbreeding, it really sucks that you can't marry princesses to their brothers, would make for some interesting roleplaying don't you think? :clown:
02-16-2010, 08:06
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons
30´000 losses?! That's like what, 10 fullstacks?! Can't imagine what kind of manpower The Yellow Feever have in that case.
Fighting all those gold chevroned elite fullstacks must have been a pain in the duck, hopefully in EB II the Ptolemaio will be weakened, they always seem to blitz the east.
Indeed. That's what was insane. I mean.. it's not the first time that I have fought a great ptolemaic empire, but indeed the first time that they defended them so well. I must say, that I never replay lost battles, retreat, if the losses get too high, and I see that the battle is lost (though this depends from the general's traits) and I never place one Unit upon another to get denser formations, etc. I had to train new soldiers permanently in Italy and Spain to compensate the losses. But it was pretty fun.
Agreed. Them and the AS. Having played the AS, I can say that if you weather the first 20-30 turns, the rest of the campaign is easy as pie. The one hard part towards the end for me was the invasion of mainland Greece, where I was sustaining heavy casualties. Otherwise it was really easy. Pahlava needs to be strengthened. The Ptolemaioi need...something. Maybe a less stable public order so that there might be more revolts - I remember reading about a pretty nasty one they had in Polybius. Although I'm not nearly enough of an expert to say whether or not that revolt was typical. Another thought, maybe they should get a lot of bad traits as time goes on to represent the inbreeding customs that they picked up from the Egyptians. -M
Ptolemaioi have no reforms yet, I suggest a reform that will make Machimoi (phalanx, infantry and cavalry) recruitable (some kind of Raphia reform), so that they can't pump out too many fullstacks early on, only later.
~Fluvius
02-16-2010, 21:24
Alien of Germania
Re: Post your EB empires!
ow! Impressive empires Fluvius Camillus nice screenshots. My Seleucid Empire is almost at the world domination atm, will post pics later.
02-16-2010, 21:35
gollum
Re: Post your EB empires!
Nice empires, all.
02-16-2010, 21:55
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
Ptolemaioi have no reforms yet, I suggest a reform that will make Machimoi (phalanx, infantry and cavalry) recruitable (some kind of Raphia reform), so that they can't pump out too many fullstacks early on, only later.
~Fluvius
Come to think about it, the recruiment system in MTW II with recruiment pools is not as blitz-friendly as the recruitment system in RTW, it will probably suit EB better. :2thumbsup:
And some kind of reform for Ptolemaio would be nice.
Got lucky in that AS didn't bother me until 263BC and sent piddly little armies I could easily deal with. Used FD a bit to try and get Pahlava, Pontos and Baktria to actually do something, but only Pahlava actually has. That Ptolemaioi army besieging Karkathiokerta is thanks to the genius of the AI - "My god we now share a miniscule border, I guess we better go to war" :wall:
02-17-2010, 08:51
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
Cool Hay Empire.
IDK if Ptoly-Reforms help. If the Ptolies are too weak the AS will go crazy with a great empire. Somehow both must be stopped from eating each other and then having an insane Empire.
02-17-2010, 13:11
Macilrille
Re: Post your EB empires!
Nice Hay Empire indeed, a difficult faction at best. Well done Sir.
I think the way to avoid either the Yellow Fever or the Grey Death is to have high discontent in their cities somehow. I just had a go at WRI in BI and there is nothing that curbs your ambitions as high discontent and ruined economy combined.
02-17-2010, 15:10
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Macilrille
Nice Hay Empire indeed, a difficult faction at best. Well done Sir.
I think the way to avoid either the Yellow Fever or the Grey Death is to have high discontent in their cities somehow. I just had a go at WRI in BI and there is nothing that curbs your ambitions as high discontent and ruined economy combined.
Yeah that ought to do it, I'm not sure where I read it but I remember that the team stated that they are going to change the base public order from 100% to 50% in EB II.
02-17-2010, 19:40
Fluvius Camillus
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by SwissBarbar
Cool Hay Empire.
IDK if Ptoly-Reforms help. If the Ptolies are too weak the AS will go crazy with a great empire. Somehow both must be stopped from eating each other and then having an insane Empire.
Well, it is quite historical that they eat up each other, they are sworn enemies and if Rome did not interfere in history, the decaying Ptollies would have been taken by the Seleukids. Imagine both lands combined under someone like Antiochos III Megas Or IV Epiphanes. Both empires had a good chance to become one of the dominant empires of the time, instead of the Romani. But Romani never expand east in my campaigns, so they don't interfere as in history, so apart from the annoyance of fighting fullstacks, there is nothing strange about it.
~Fluvius
02-17-2010, 20:59
phoenixemperor
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Macilrille
Nice Hay Empire indeed, a difficult faction at best. Well done Sir..
Few tough battles but it was mostly done with the troops I started off with - now silver chevron Caucasian Archers and Eastern Slingers. My 2nd king died just after I had gotten Karkathiokerta through treaty - the AI being smart for once - which made for a great RP moment - he'd spent his life uniting the Caucasus and died in peace knowing his dream was complete.
02-19-2010, 18:07
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
Ok, I have a quck question:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
How the heck did I just win? The map says I'm supposed to have the Kyrene, Paraitonion, Alexandreia and Bocchoris. I don't, yet somehow I've still been given victory by the computer.
How the heck did I just win? The map says I'm supposed to have the Kyrene, Paraitonion, Alexandreia and Bocchoris. I don't, yet somehow I've still been given victory by the computer.
I think it's because the maps aren't correct, you should look at the Vistory conditions trait.
02-19-2010, 19:10
Shadow_LT
Re: Post your EB empires!
But, in EB 1.2 you need to have Kyrene in order to win as KH, so you shouldn't have won. Unless you are playing EB 1.0 or 1.1 and victory conditions were changed.
02-19-2010, 19:22
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
I'm playing 1.1, although I'm pretty sure I didn't change any victory conditions - at least, I can't think of any way by which I might have done so. -M
02-19-2010, 19:47
Shadow_LT
Re: Post your EB empires!
I mean that EB team may have changed victory conditions in EB 1.2 and they are different from the ones in EB 1.1 . Victory condition maps were made for 0.80 or 1.0 (I remember seeing a post about it), so they are outdated. You should look at your FL victory conditions trait or press the "?" button in faction overview screen (but that may not work as you have already won).
02-19-2010, 20:18
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
Just checked my faction leader's scroll and here's what I found:
So apparently I did win legitimately. =D Although I must say, I'm surprised by how few settlements the KH must hold - I mean, sure, they're very disparate, and I suppose that's what makes for the challenge, but still, not very many. I mean, I didn't even really need to conquer Asia Minor. -M
02-25-2010, 18:33
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mulceber
Ok, I have a quck question:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
How the heck did I just win? The map says I'm supposed to have the Kyrene, Paraitonion, Alexandreia and Bocchoris. I don't, yet somehow I've still been given victory by the computer.
Well here is my current situation. I sort of admit I blitzed to conquer Greece. I defeated KH in Greece by 269 BC (Would of been earlier only I decided to try Starve Sparta instead of having to try defeat Spartan Hoplites in the city center . Suprisingly, Pyrrhos decided to walk away from Pella in turn 1. And he would live to regret it.
I sent Antigonos back to Pella. By this time he was 50 and his movement points restricted. I couldnt really afford to lose ground, I needed to take Epirus. I Gave control of the Royal Army to Auetesion Proiretos. Who pushed the Epirote Army all the way back to Ambrakia. And When Epirus sallied forth they were beaten outside the city, however they just wouldnt die in the city center and defeated the Macedonian army and killed Proiretos.
Thats when I moved Antigonos' second son Alkyoneus to re-make the army and finally capture Ambrakia. After which very suprisingly, Epirus accepted my Protectorate demand.
Ever since Ive been developing my cities (Population was dangerously low due to making new army after 1st seige of Ambrakia.) I took Serdike and Tylis.
This is where my problem comes in. I was about to take a Black Sea town with my Main army, when I noticed Pontus captured Byzantion. I moved my army back to Tylis, Where there was a near-full stack Pontic army standing right outside. They retreated and its been a stand-off at Byzantion for the last 2 years. I dont know where to go next. We are still Neutral by the way. My spies tell me that Pontus have hardly any troops in their 4 towns (2-3 unit garrisons. Nikaia has 1 unit, their faction leader.). But If I attack and lose (Im really poor at playing seiges, in all my years of RTW its been my one weakness) I leave my myself open to attack from Rome (Epirus holding their own in Italy mind you.) And there is potential of the Seleukids Betraying me (They have a full stack spammed with Medium Phalanx trying to take KH last settlment Halikarnassos, failing and then seiging Pergamon instead of attacking Pontos FFS :whip:
Well here is my current situation. I sort of admit I blitzed to conquer Greece. I defeated KH in Greece by 269 BC (Would of been earlier only I decided to try Starve Sparta instead of having to try defeat Spartan Hoplites in the city center . Suprisingly, Pyrrhos decided to walk away from Pella in turn 1. And he would live to regret it.
I sent Antigonos back to Pella. By this time he was 50 and his movement points restricted. I couldnt really afford to lose ground, I needed to take Epirus. I Gave control of the Royal Army to Auetesion Proiretos. Who pushed the Epirote Army all the way back to Ambrakia. And When Epirus sallied forth they were beaten outside the city, however they just wouldnt die in the city center and defeated the Macedonian army and killed Proiretos.
Thats when I moved Antigonos' second son Alkyoneus to re-make the army and finally capture Ambrakia. After which very suprisingly, Epirus accepted my Protectorate demand.
Ever since Ive been developing my cities (Population was dangerously low due to making new army after 1st seige of Ambrakia.) I took Serdike and Tylis.
This is where my problem comes in. I was about to take a Black Sea town with my Main army, when I noticed Pontus captured Byzantion. I moved my army back to Tylis, Where there was a near-full stack Pontic army standing right outside. They retreated and its been a stand-off at Byzantion for the last 2 years. I dont know where to go next. We are still Neutral by the way. My spies tell me that Pontus have hardly any troops in their 4 towns (2-3 unit garrisons. Nikaia has 1 unit, their faction leader.). But If I attack and lose (Im really poor at playing seiges, in all my years of RTW its been my one weakness) I leave my myself open to attack from Rome (Epirus holding their own in Italy mind you.) And there is potential of the Seleukids Betraying me (They have a full stack spammed with Medium Phalanx trying to take KH last settlment Halikarnassos, failing and then seiging Pergamon instead of attacking Pontos FFS :whip:
P.S: How do you do Spoiler tags on the org? Im a TWCenter convert.
Syntax:
["SPOIL"]INSERT YOUR TEXT HERE["/SPOIL"]
*remove quotation marks and you're set
02-25-2010, 23:18
fraoula
Re: Post your EB empires!
Hmm... Well eventually you will have to attack the AS given that you will want to conquer Asia Minor but it wouldn't hurt if you waited a bit since they seem to be getting beat up by the Ptolemaioi. Same goes for Pontos, you probably will have to expand in the east battling against them although byzantion is buffer-sort-of settlement as it separates Asia from Europe and most likely you don't want to border the AS as they will defenitely attack you. IHMO you should capture Krete and get some archers, consolidate greece and try to build some mines in tylis. Also the adriatic cities (dalminion, segestica) might be the most profitable with +2 mines in the game along with Pella, so you might want to get your hands on them. Good job capturing Rhodos by the way. 9 times out of 10 there is a fullstack of elites guarding the city whenever I try to take it so most of the times it is a while before I try to.
02-25-2010, 23:31
shootie
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by fraoula
Hmm... Well eventually you will have to attack the AS given that you will want to conquer Asia Minor but it wouldn't hurt if you waited a bit since they seem to be getting beat up by the Ptolemaioi. Same goes for Pontos, you probably will have to expand in the east battling against them although byzantion is buffer-sort-of settlement as it separates Asia from Europe and most likely you don't want to border the AS as they will defenitely attack you. IHMO you should capture Krete and get some archers, consolidate greece and try to build some mines in tylis. Also the adriatic cities (dalminion, segestica) might be the most profitable with +2 mines in the game along with Pella, so you might want to get your hands on them. Good job capturing Rhodos by the way. 9 times out of 10 there is a fullstack of elites guarding the city whenever I try to take it so most of the times it is a while before I try to.
Yeah seems a good idea. A thought I had was to capture Byzantion and gift it to my Dogs Epirus. And If Pontos take it back they would have a depleted army. Krete I havent really thought about capturing, mainly because I was busy with the Epriote war. I send a little 6-unit army to check out Rhodos as my spy in Asia Minor told me that the the bulk of the KH force had just emigrated to Asia Minor taking Halikarnassos. My spy told me there was only a unit in Rhodos, a FM. So it was easy enough to take it.
Well here is my current situation. I sort of admit I blitzed to conquer Greece. I defeated KH in Greece by 269 BC (Would of been earlier only I decided to try Starve Sparta instead of having to try defeat Spartan Hoplites in the city center . Suprisingly, Pyrrhos decided to walk away from Pella in turn 1. And he would live to regret it.
I sent Antigonos back to Pella. By this time he was 50 and his movement points restricted. I couldnt really afford to lose ground, I needed to take Epirus. I Gave control of the Royal Army to Auetesion Proiretos. Who pushed the Epirote Army all the way back to Ambrakia. And When Epirus sallied forth they were beaten outside the city, however they just wouldnt die in the city center and defeated the Macedonian army and killed Proiretos.
Thats when I moved Antigonos' second son Alkyoneus to re-make the army and finally capture Ambrakia. After which very suprisingly, Epirus accepted my Protectorate demand.
Ever since Ive been developing my cities (Population was dangerously low due to making new army after 1st seige of Ambrakia.) I took Serdike and Tylis.
This is where my problem comes in. I was about to take a Black Sea town with my Main army, when I noticed Pontus captured Byzantion. I moved my army back to Tylis, Where there was a near-full stack Pontic army standing right outside. They retreated and its been a stand-off at Byzantion for the last 2 years. I dont know where to go next. We are still Neutral by the way. My spies tell me that Pontus have hardly any troops in their 4 towns (2-3 unit garrisons. Nikaia has 1 unit, their faction leader.). But If I attack and lose (Im really poor at playing seiges, in all my years of RTW its been my one weakness) I leave my myself open to attack from Rome (Epirus holding their own in Italy mind you.) And there is potential of the Seleukids Betraying me (They have a full stack spammed with Medium Phalanx trying to take KH last settlment Halikarnassos, failing and then seiging Pergamon instead of attacking Pontos FFS :whip:
P.S: How do you do Spoiler tags on the org? Im a TWCenter convert.
Looks good!
May I ask why you changed the colours?
~Fluvius
02-25-2010, 23:46
shootie
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
Looks good!
May I ask why you changed the colours?
~Fluvius
Well, Ive always like Makedonia as blue (In every mod I play) as I think it suits them more than Baktria. And Ive never like Epirus being green too, and I looked at a RTR VII preview and found the Epriote colour "neon" light blue like that and I thought it suited them aswell. So then after doing them both I decided to change alot of colours. You cant quite see in the screen but I changed KH to a sort of colour like the Greek-Cities in Vanilla, Carthage ive never thought white suited a African faction and looking online I found a emblem of Carthage in that colour. Also changed Baktria to a sort of Dark-Flesh colour like in RTR. I never really fell in love with Aremenia being Darker in EB so I made thme Neon too.
02-26-2010, 01:12
shootie
Re: Post your EB empires!
Funny enough that this had to happen on the next turn.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Pontos lost to the Seleucid's 2nd Medium phalanx spam army near Ankara
No no don't support the Seleucids, rather use this as an excuse to go on a rampage and reclaiming Asia from those eastern weaklings! :furious3::smash::furious3: Asia belongs to the true heirs of Alexandros empire: The Makedones!
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
:laugh4:
BTW it would seem it will be some Machemoi reforms in EB II:
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Units won't be recruited from barracks in EBII anyway (the majority won't anyways - some units, such as elephants or certain mercenaries, will need a specific building to help house them), and so this is not an issue.
Also, a machmoi reform will be available. However, it will be player-led. The player will need to choose how their land is divided up. Giving out smaller plots will mean the machimoi will only be light troops. By increasing the size of the plots of land that can be owned by farmers, the machimoi will be able to equip and train themselves in a heavier fashion. This will lead to small numbers of machimoi being available for recruitment, however. It will be on a province by province basis, and dependent on how the player wishes to play the game.
Wow such commitment, you did awesome, nice with the time planning! I present you with this fine balloon as reward for your outstanding efforts!:balloon:
~Fluvius
03-04-2010, 18:50
Nyz
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus
Wow such commitment, you did awesome, nice with the time planning! I present you with this fine balloon as reward for your outstanding efforts!:balloon:
~Fluvius
Thank you very much!!!
03-04-2010, 19:30
Silence Hunter
Re: Post your EB empires!
Cool "Purple" empire!! Did you play all the battles yourself? If so then you deserve more than a baloon..
03-04-2010, 21:41
Nyz
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Silence Hunter
Cool "Purple" empire!! Did you play all the battles yourself? If so then you deserve more than a baloon..
Of course not!!! I played the battles myself at the beginning of the game, you know..... when your faction only had 2 nomadic town at the coast of Caspia.... facing the great empire of Seleukiea.....no chance of winning If I auto-resolve the battle....
But after the empire growing steadily, more battles were auto-resolved. You know....avoiding CTD issues....
03-04-2010, 22:31
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
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If so then you deserve more than a baloon..
Yeah, if so he deserves a life.:tongue2::tongue2: Just kidding Intifadanyz. -M
03-04-2010, 23:01
Arthur, king of the Britons
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by Mulceber
Yeah, if so he deserves a life.:tongue2::tongue2: Just kidding Intifadanyz. -M
:laugh4:
03-05-2010, 05:56
Madoushi
Re: Post your EB empires!
I tried to take some screenshots from one of my games (not from this thread, my empire has just begun), but whether I PrntScrn or Ctrl+PrntScrn, it never sends the pic to my clipboard. I wonder if it's a Windows 7 thing...
03-05-2010, 09:24
SwissBarbar
Re: Post your EB empires!
Anti-Aliasing off - PrntScrn - back to desktop - open paint - ctrl + v
03-05-2010, 10:01
Mulceber
Re: Post your EB empires!
On some computers you may have to hold down the function key as well while you're clicking print-screen. -M
03-05-2010, 10:42
VIPERLORD
Re: Post your EB empires!
G'day all
Just curious on what difficulty level that purple world was achieved? And apart from the final 'move stack' to take that last settlement were any cheats used?
03-05-2010, 11:23
Madoushi
Re: Post your EB empires!
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Originally Posted by SwissBarbar
Anti-Aliasing off - PrntScrn - back to desktop - open paint - ctrl + v
That's what I've been trying.
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Originally Posted by Mulceber
On some computers you may have to hold down the function key as well while you're clicking print-screen. -M
Function key.. the Windows key? I'll try that, thanks . :D
