Roma - Fledgling State to Mighty Empire

[thelord]

I have exams coming up (A levels) so I will unfortunatley have to spend less time on EB, I will still be playing it, but just less.

[thelord]

POST SEVEN - EPIROT WAR 242-234 BC

The Epirots were really starting to get on my nerves, sending a stack every other turn to Patavium and they had also started blockading my ports in Italy, which was beginning to do my economy a lot of damage as I was training armies and fleets round the clock to hold off their continuos invasions.

When the war began I mostly had Camillan units, with the Polybians just starting to come through. As it progressed however my barracks were upgraded one by one which led to a newly recruited Polybian army being trained the central Italian cities. Led by two young generals from Rome, I planned to sail across to the Epirots capital at Ambrakia and sack as many settlements as possible, to weaken them and hopefully stop them from attacking me.

Fortunately central Greece was lightly defended with the bulk of the enemy troops up north fighting either me or the Getai, if the other greek states had any sense they would invade but they seem to be busy enough fighting Pontos and Arche Seleucia in the East. I managed to sack 3 settlements in Central Greece then abandoned them to whoever they woudl rebel too, which mostly turned out to be the Koinon Hellenon.

I decided that I would take two towns and keep them aswell in Illyria, Segestica and Dalminion. All of my raiding had caused the Epirots to send what seemed like every army they possessed towards me however, resulting in several large battles for control of Illyria.



Many of the enemy units were either Levies or Mercenaries which both gave me an advantage and also showed that Epirus was struggling in the war.



This war was important as I did not want a huge superpower next door to me and I especially didn't want half of the other Hellenic factions wiped out. (by someone other than me )



This was one of those battles which is very difficult to keep things in order and is generally much easier to just charge your units in all over the place. The number of phalanxes incoming was slightly unsettling however. Fortunately I had a lot of cavalry to counter them.



Which is why I deliberately kept my cavalry out of combat until they arrived. Once engaged they made the difference for me, without them I most likely would have lost.



At the end of the battle the number of dead was over 2000.



This battle was decisive in the Epirot war.



Soon after that battle in 234 BC, I recieved a plea for a ceasefire from Epirus. Bringing the war that had lasted 8 years to an end. I had clearly dealt them a heavy blow as they lost several cities to Rome, the Koinon Hellenon and Macedon, as well as their capital being sacked along with several other major cities.



I was now free to begin my invasion if the Balearic Isles and western Iberia, I had sent an expedition a few years ago but it was unfortunately sunk by pirates. Killing a 18 year old family member in the process.

[hrrypttrbst]

very good story!!

[thelord]

argh I have encountered another game breaker, I installed bi and Alex to try and get EB working on alex.exe, but now for some strange reason when I load my rtw.exe save (still on the unmodded 1.1 with no changes) it just loads back to the main menu. Anyone have any ideas whats wrong with it? All I have odn eis install bi and alex which are in different folders to EB...

[hrrypttrbst]

Did you get EB working with Alex.exe?So yes, you maybe forgot to make it back for Rometw.exe

[thelord]

No I havnt changed any files or anything, All I did was installed bi and alex but before I changed anything I realised that my save would no longer work.

[Chaotix]

This happened to me a long while ago when I was still playing Vanilla RTW. The only way I could fix it was by copying my save files to a backup folder and then un- and re-installing RTW. You may have to do the same. Everything worked fine after the reinstall, including my old saves.