The Pyrrhic Dynasty : A Makedonian AAR

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Thanks, everybody.

I tried to add something more to the chapter than just a battle review, but the story ended up longer than I had planned.

The next chapter will cover some of the lesser characters in the Arche.

[Subotan]

Awesome! A huge post of text that was enthralling, an the tin problem has been solved! Here's to the Arche!

[Charles the hammer]

its great to see this still going ive read both of The AARs and its still interesting after all this time i hope it goes to the end (i think thats 14 AD)

[strategos roma]

This aar is awesome. Keep it up!

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Thanks for following.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

I kinda feel sorry for the poor Iberians. But let us see how Neo-Persia does eh?

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Great chapter (as almost always). If I had just one wish, I'd wish more detailed close-up shots of your battles instead of the common overview-shots.

[Subotan]

The only reason I might be sad when EBII comes out is that this might stop. :(

[Dutchhoplite]

I love this :)

By the way...Do you modify ai recruitment?? It would be weird to have an "Median" army with pikes and other hellenistic units.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Thanks.

Iberia has been relocated to Ireland and have built a decent base of power there. They have two armies staring down three Casse armies at the Ireland-Scotland landbridge but don't fight eachother. Maybe when they are finished off on the continent, they'll do something up there.

I usually take a bunch of picture for my battles but then edit out all but the ones that show the most so as to keep my screenshot count down in each chapter. The next chapter is going to be about just one battle and will probably have a greater range of picture types.

EB v1.0 didn't stop this AAR. EB v1.1 didn't stop this AAR. EB v1.2 didn't stop this AAR. And EBII is a ways off...

I thought of removing the Pantodapoi Phalangitai from the recruitment of Media and Pahlava, but they haven't been fielding too many of them. I'm pretty happy with their recruitment so far, so I haven't altered it. I may in the future if lack of funds force them to start recruiting crap. Although it is conceivable that some Hellenistic units would be fielded in a post-Alexander Persia.

[Lysimachos]

Although it is conceivable that some Hellenistic units would be fielded in a post-Alexander Persia.

Yes. They'd certainly be aware of the advantages that the hellenistic type of warfare offers, so it's not too far fetched to assume they'd seek to complement their own forces with the hellenics living in the east.

[Reverend Joe]

How exactly did you pull off the neo-Persian empire? Did you force an alliance between Pahlava and Media, or give Media to the Pahlava or something else?

And as for the Pantodapoi Phalangitai, you could always raise their hiring/upkeep costs to discourage Persia from recruiting them if they become too numerous later rather than make them entirely unrecruitable.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Ever since I brought back the Parthians, I'd been trying to make them and Media fight eachother. But anything short of complex intervention wouldn't break them up as allies. They even do the thing the AI does when they completely trust eachother and leave their shared borders completely undefended. Since I couldn't get them to fight and choose who would dominated Persia, I decided to unify them like they practically were anyways. Basically, all I did was change their colors to be the same and then renamed both "Persian Empire".

Pantodapoi Phalangitai haven't been much of a problem yet, but we'll se what they start recruiting when/if their economy starts collapsing due to my invasion.

[Megas Methuselah]

I like the clever way you solved the problem with the divided Medians and Parthians. It seems there's a small possibility that the two will one day erupt into an all-out civil war (unless they keep loving each other, of course).

Fantastic job, MAA!

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I had been hoping to have the next chapter up by now, but it is now impossible. My computer completely died and I don't have access to the campaign, pictures, or what I've written. I'm trying to fix my computer (I think the power supply died), but that will take a week or so. Hopefully, it is nothing serious and I'll be able to recover my AAR (and all the much more important stuff I had on my computer) soon.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

NOOOO!!!!!!!

(kills self)

[We shall fwee...Wodewick]

NOOOO!!!!!!!

(kills self)

But now you won't know what happens!

BTW: Shame about the computer MAA, hope you can get that fixed. And as always awaiting the return of the Arche Makedonia!

[Olaf Blackeyes]

But now you won't know what happens!

LOLOLOLOL

Ok
(Revives self with the zombie powda)

[Aemilius Paulus]

I had been hoping to have the next chapter up by now, but it is now impossible. My computer completely died and I don't have access to the campaign, pictures, or what I've written. I'm trying to fix my computer (I think the power supply died), but that will take a week or so. Hopefully, it is nothing serious and I'll be able to recover my AAR (and all the much more important stuff I had on my computer) soon.

I hope you were prudent enough to save a copy of your savegame on a flashdrive/disc... Were you? After all, you can never be too paranoid.

[Mediolanicus]

I hope you were prudent enough to save a copy of your savegame on a flashdrive/disc... Were you? After all, you can never be too paranoid.

I think he'd rather lose the save game than the more important stuff on his PC. It would of course be a shame to see this epic AAR end this way...
I hope everything can be repaired and recovered, MAA. Good luck.

[SwissBarbar]

OMG the devil himself must have sent the Electronic Daemon of Pain (EDP) to make your computer shut down. I really hope this great AAR is not lost, and of course the same counts for your even more important stuff. Curse the damn daemon

[Lysimachos]

(and all the much more important stuff I had on my computer)

You mean, there are really things more important? Weird world!

[Maion Maroneios]

You mean, there are really things more important? Weird world!

Well, I actually consider my porn collection to be way more important than a stupid EB savegame.

OK guys, just forget what I just typed

Sad to hear about your computer, MAA, my hopes of everything turning out OK be with you

Maion

[strategos roma]

That's so sad. This aar is the best on the forums.

[HunGeneral]

This doesn't sound good

Good luck MMA to getting the computer back to live. Hope it can be solved.

I also lost quite many camaigns because of technical problems.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm pretty confident that the majority of the machine still works and the harddrives should be completely undamaged. Since my campaign is not compatible with any officially released version of EB and is also extremely modded, there really wouldn't be a point to keeping a savegame on an alternate location. I would have to save my entire EB folder along with it. Though, even if my computer is dead, I should be able to access the harddrives from another computer... hopefully.

Optimisitcally, this should only delay the next chapter a week or so.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Nah, I'm sure Obama can fix it.

[Kuningaz]

Nah, I'm sure Obama can fix it

Believe

[Subotan]

Nah, I'm sure Obama can fix it.

MAA should ask for a bailout.

[Ozymandias the Great]

Yes we can! Yes we can!