An EB interactive campaign ...

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Love EB?
Wanna play it with other people in an interactive campaign where you can help decide the fate of the Antique World?
Then take a look at this thread to help us set it up!

If you like to know more about these kind of games then just look into the Throne Rooms sub-forum called LotR - Last of the Romans

So perhaps there are some people here who are interested in this?

I will update this first post regularly so people would get the latest information about the game.

The mini-mod for this game is almost finished.. There will be some testing to do and perhaps then we are ready to go!

The name of the game is: Will of the Basileus (WotB)

EB uses the mod-switch function; so you can rename your current EB folder to something like EBv1. Once that's done, reinstall EB, then you'll be able to install our mod, and you'll be set to go!

The faction is Arche Seleukeia.

Players who are interested:
Ibn-Khaldun
Warmaster Horus
The Celtic Viking
lobf
Roka
00jebus
Eliit Tuhkur
johnhughthom
||Lz3||
Chaotix27
Metuselah
Olimpian
Incitatus
LordOfUmbar
Hax
russia almighty *Maybe
hooahguy
MerlinusCDXX
Basileos ton Ellenon
TWFanatic
Fondor_Yards
YourLordandConqueror
Rodrigo_Stak
TheFlax
kingsnake
Celtic_Punk

So far we have 26 people interested. That's more than enough to start this game!

For more information PM me or Warmaster Horus.

You can also check our temporary forum and discuss over the rules and give us some ideas to make the game more interesting. You can find the forum here: WotB temporary forum

[Rilder]

First off a lil bit of details for those of us who have no idea what a "interactive campaign simular to lotr" is.

Also, I say one of the smaller factions, Pontos, Casse, maybe Swebos.

[Warmaster Horus]

Check out the Throne room, or the link in my sig.
Last of the Romans (LotR) is a sort of PBM (play by mail), where each player is assigned a character, and then can influence the game in various ways. The player fights each battle their character does; he can vote in the voting sessions, interact with other characters, etc. I'm not giving a great description here, but it's awesome. Before LotR were WotS (Will of the Senate, played with RTR, and first of this kind of game) and KotR (King of the Romans, played with slightly modded M2TW).
I guess I'd be interested.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Looks like I don't have to explain what LotR is .. WH managed to do that before me

I doubt that it is possible to play something like that with smaller factions because it is possible that they will be destroyed before the faction had time to expand..

I wouldn't want to pick Romani because.. well.. that's what everyone are doing
I would prefer actually Ptolemaioi or Arche.. With them it is possible to RP more than with the smaller factions. Of course this would mean that we already have a pretty big Empire in our hands.

So.. I would appreciate your ideas over this thing..

Btw.. link to LotR can be found in my sig too

[The Celtic Viking]

I'm in. I'd vote for AS, but as long as it's not Rome, I'm game.

[Warmaster Horus]

Well, KH would be logical since they were a sort of Democracy. But just about anything's fine with me. I agree that a small faction would be hard to play well, though.
A good faction would be the Arche Seleukeia, since they do have a big Empire, but that would be good with many players (we could mod characters in, and other stuff to make it harder for us.)

[lobf]

AS would be awesome... imagine fighting between the satrapies...

[Ibn-Khaldun]

KH is a possibility .. It would take less time and energy to mod them playable for this game..
AS would take a lot more work .. but it would be more interesting to play them

[Warmaster Horus]

I don't think work's a problem. It's august, so a few of us are on holiday and have more time on our hands (at least I do).
The end result is more important.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I agree.. The End result is what counts..

But still .. we need more people do join this!

Also.. Looks like the faction will be either AS or KH??

[Roka]

i would be more than happy to do this, anychance of giving me some more info?

[||Lz3||]

Saba!!

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hehe nah just kidding, AS sounds like a good idea but, it seems also like a lot of work , I'm not totally sure if I'll be able to join this , I'm kinda lazy when talking about battle reports

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Roka l look at the Throne Room.. There is a subforum called LotR .. Or you can just use the link in my sig I think there you can find the best info about these kind of games..

||Lz3|| - LOL .. I actually thought that you're going to suggest Saba!! With AS it is a lot of work. They start with more than 20 settlements! Also AS is most likely going to be attacked by all of it's neighbors very soon.. well.. this actually is good for the game
And You don't write long long posts about your battles.. If you give the end result of the battle then that is fine for me

[Warmaster Horus]

Yep, Ibn-Khaldun's right. The way I see it, the minimum you've got to do if you sign up is:
- fight your battles
- post the result screen
- vote in Senate sessions.

So, to recap:
- Faction is apparently Arche Seleukeia (large Empire hard to defend, because of the number of potential enemies) with a modified starting game to make it more difficult.
- Players:
Ibn-Khaldun
Warmaster Horus
The Celtic Viking
lobf
00jebus
Eliit Tuhkur
johnhughthom
||Lz3||
Roka

Clearly some people are interested, and by PM'ing I guess we could get some more people interested.
So: pm your friends with EB, tell them to come here, and post that they're interested.

[Maion Maroneios]

Guys, something just shot through my mind... I'm not actually interested to take part in this interactive campaign, but I thought that you could give real depth to the game, by stimulating civil wars. For example, satrap X (player) decides he has enough potential to take over another satrapy or go against the Basileus, by fighting a multiplayer battle with the same troops he has raised in his area, with the same experience and such, against another satrap or move against the Basileus.

[Warmaster Horus]

Well, Last of the Romans has a way of simulating Civil Wars. And the two games before ended in Civil Wars, so we'll be going with the methods used before.
Of course, multiplayer battles is still possible, although a bit difficult to simulate the impact in the game.

[Rilder]

Are we gonna need any EB minimods or just Vanilla EB+Permanent fixes?

If its just EB+Permanent fixes I'm in.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I think it would be just EB 1.1 + fixes...

There will be some changes to some files but not much.. probably edu and edb files only..

[Warmaster Horus]

LotR uses the LotR mod which does this:

Q: What's in LotR Mod 1.2?
A: Several things. (1) Relatively new versions of Lusted's Campaign and Battle AI mods, to make the AI better (2) Modification to make recruitable generals available from every Byzantine settlement in the game and to reduce their cost and upkeep to 1 florin each (3) Modification to halve the 'wage' cost of family members and recruitable generals (4) A LotR icon for you to use (5) Fixed text description for the traits Overconfident and Blatantly Overconfident (6) Removal of the triggers for the entire SS 4.1 Civil War trait system (7) Removal of the triggers for the Near Loyalty and Far Loyalty trait lines (8) Removal of the triggers for the Stripped trait line.

Obviously the majority of changes are specific to M2 and Stainless Steel. But we can adapt it to EB and add some minimods as well.
Don't worry; it should all come in a nice, neat package you can install easily. That way you could have both EB 1.1 and our version.

[Rilder]

I'm out then.

[Warmaster Horus]

Sorry to hear that, Rilder. You know you could just install EB twice, and on one install put the mini-mod (I know I'll do it).

[Rilder]

Sorry to hear that, Rilder. You know you could just install EB twice, and on one install put the mini-mod (I know I'll do it).

I know, I have 2 installs with RTW already, 1 for EB and 1 for vanilla.

RTW:BI:EB is 5gigs in size, another install would mean another 5 gigs being used, and I'm trying to be conservitive with my remaining 35 gigs.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

The size of EB could frighten some people away.. especially if they like to keep the original game and EB with changes for this game..

It's been decided between me and WH that the faction will be Arche Seleukeia.
I proposed the name of this game "Will of the Basileus"(WotB) in honor of WotS and KotR

[00jebus]

Count me as in, preferably in Antollia when we start picking characters.... I like the weather...and in all honesty when this gets going I'll probably be sick of fighting horse archers.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

After this gets going you'll be sick of fighting against phalanxes

Anyway.. I'll count you in

[Ferret]

The Estonian Ferret wants in

I'll have to install EB first though...

[Ibn-Khaldun]

You are in!

EDIT: If I'm right then in the beginning there are 10-11 FM's. 2 will soon die though. So if we could get some 15 players to join then I think we could start this. Of course once we have small mod ready for this game.

[johnhughthom]

I'd be interested in this, there have been a few similar efforts that haven't lasted long, it would be nice to get into a campaign properly.

[Warmaster Horus]

Let me tell you, with the few lotr players we've got here, this game goes on until we end it.

Good to see more players coming in!

[Roka]

LotR uses the LotR mod which does this:

Obviously the majority of changes are specific to M2 and Stainless Steel. But we can adapt it to EB and add some minimods as well.
Don't worry; it should all come in a nice, neat package you can install easily. That way you could have both EB 1.1 and our version.

this could prove problematic for me, as i am swiftly running out of room on ym comp, also when would we be looking at startign this game up as i will busy studying for next 2 weeks