Titanomachy

**Conqueror** · 03-23-2008, 17:02

So it begins

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In terms of sheer military power, the Ptolemies are far ahead of me. They have become a monster that just rolls over everything it comes into contact with. Even worse though, is the unbelievable treasury of the Pharaoh. I fear their diplomats far more than I fear their endless armies

I expect the battles to be primarily resolved automatically. There is no way I'd personally command the 1,000,000 fights that'll have to be fought before all is said and done

**General Appo** · 03-23-2008, 17:24

Clash of the Titans. Kinda feel sorry for the Sele´s though, trapped between two superpowers.

**Chaotix** · 03-23-2008, 19:16

Wow. Good luck with that. What difficulty are you playing on?

**Chirurgeon** · 03-24-2008, 00:18

Originally Posted by Conqueror

So it begins

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In terms of sheer military power, the Ptolemies are far ahead of me. They have become a monster that just rolls over everything it comes into contact with. Even worse though, is the unbelievable treasury of the Pharaoh. I fear their diplomats far more than I fear their endless armies

I expect the battles to be primarily resolved automatically. There is no way I'd personally command the 1,000,000 fights that'll have to be fought before all is said and done

Who is to say that you are not a monster that rolled over everything? I will side with the Ptolemies on this one :)

**Laevex** · 03-24-2008, 02:58

I've yet to see a really advanced screenshot of a Baktrian empire (like conquering Europa or Africa so good luck with crushing the Ptolies!
Looks like they've done unusually well though... at least you have the incentive of the prettiest colour. I personally much prefer a royal blue death to a grey or yellow death. They won't be too hard if you use quality troops, most of their armies are probably persian archers and levy phalangites. Although if you want to guarantee wins against phalanx troops then the time spent manually fighting the battles will pay off.

**underthesun** · 03-24-2008, 03:08

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

**CaesarAugustus** · 03-24-2008, 19:48

Want to have a bit of fun? Conquer your way through the steppes, picking up as many Horse Archer units as you can, then ride through the Caucasus and cut the Ptolemies in half right through the Fertile Crescent. Of course you wont be able to autoresolve those battles due to the HA's weakness in auto-res., but you won't want to anyway. Just enjoy raining arrows on your slow moving foe, and gaining silver and gold-chevron HA stacks in the process! That will definently put you ahead in the war. Or, better yet, just surrender. The Blue Death is an ugly colour, I much prefer to see pretty yellow spreading all over the map.

**Conqueror** · 03-30-2008, 20:30

Campaign difficulty is set to Hard. Going further to the steppes is not something I'm willing to do at the moment, as it is very difficult to keep the areas under control with my "allied tribes". Plus, I need to keep most of my horse archers to the East to guard against nasty surprises from that direction *cough*Yuezhi*cough*

So far I've sought to stabilize the border while raising some invasion armies. To this end I've built up a chain of forts that completely block the Ptolemies' access to my lands:

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The individual garrisons aren't all that big, but when one fort is besieged the other garrisons will march to relieve it. All together they make a sizeable force.