Sauromatae campaign ends early - suggestions for next campaign?

[duncan.gill]

My Sauromatae campaign ended prematurely with the game claiming that I had acheived all the victory conditions (even though I had not - I had taken a large number of cities but not the designated one). I am not going to continue to fight on given that the game has already completed itself (where is the satisfaction in that).

I have also completed games with:

AS
Casse
Epeiros

Any suggestions about which faction to try next?

[roman]

Depends of what you are in the mood for.

Saka might be a good choice if you still looking for a HA heavy army.

Pontus or Hi campaigns will provide a good challenge and long campaign.

Roman.

[teh1337tim]

get the macedonians!

subdue and repair the tie and hegemony of hellenes in greece

conquer the barbarian horde dacians to the north!
protect the hellenic cities in the lands close to the great plains where mounted armies of horse archers roam wild and strong
achieves megas alexandros dream of conquering the world by destroyiing the sucessor states and the rebelious satrapies of baktria, pahlava, and pontus!!!
ahniliate the bloodythursy epirote where they will attack your back if you loose your focus!!!
take alexanders dream further, take a 100,000 man force and destroy the remaining phoecian colonies and carthage itself!!!
the rising roman republic gives us a chance for truly a fight! Ahnilate rome and rescue the far away hellenic colonies surrounded by smelly barbarian hordes!!! Massalia, Emporion, Syracuse, Arse shall be protected!!!!!
A new macedonian empire will rise!!! arche makedonia!!
well thats if u pike makedonia to play XD

me.. im completing the unification of greece and destruction of epirote XD

[satalexton]

ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!! (obvious CG pun)

[Rilder]

Random faction selector said Sweboz, so play them.

[Maion Maroneios]

There is only one, true faction in EB. And that is, MAKEDONIA! Lead the armies of the true Basileus of the world to greatness and make sure that Alexandros becomes a mere footnote in your glorious history!

Maion

[satalexton]

There is only one, true faction in EB. And that is, MAKEDONIA! Lead the armies of the true Basileus of the world to greatness and make sure that Alexandros becomes a mere footnote in your glorious history!

Maion

ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!!!!!!!!

[Maion Maroneios]

I think you said that before

Maion

P.S.: ΖΗΤΩΗΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ!!! :P

[Celtic_Punk]

Try out Baktria or do a KH campaign. both are pretty challenging and require skillful use of your starting army to survive the first 20 years. once you consolidate your position you can push forth and steamroll your expansion. KH would is interesting because when if you are forced into a drawn out war with both Makedonia and Epiros, Rome has a chance to expand their power and will usually expand west killing off the Gauls and Spaniards. all 3 of my KH campaigns resulted in huge east med vs west med battles, with lots of naval battles for control of the Med. so if your into dogged scraps KH is the choice for you.

if you like tactical challenges then baktria is an exellent choice as you will be facing both pahlava and the AS at different times forcing massive changes int he composition of your army, and reforms of your own tactics. if you like barbarians Gaul is a nice choice because you face both the decadent fools ("the civil peoples") and other celts. plus if you can unite/ ally with the averni then you can rush italy or create a powerful celto-franciberian empire that could compete financially with roma with naval trade with the carthaginians.

so my suggestions are Gaul, Sparta, or Baktria

EDIT: try KH before baktria and youll find it much easier, my baktrian campaign (M/M) is much more difficult than 2/3 of my KH campaigns. the lessons i learned from fighting phalanxes and heavy cavalry helped alot and allowed me to focus on forming new strategies when at a disadvantage against HA's.

My suggested tactic against cowardly HA is a purely defensive strategy. when beseiged with at most a half card, sally forth and withstand the barrage with your units and they will withdraw without engaging

[GodEmperorLeto]

Do a migration. They can be really fun and interesting.

I'm on my third try for the Saka into India. The first one was ambushed (although I had a treaty, Bactria took all my cities before I had managed to grab one in India). The second one was alright until Bactria resurrected itself (I had whittled them to one city and one unit--the king) and poured into India with enormous armies and conquered me. Pretty challenging, especially since I was almost a 200,000 mnai in debt.

I'm on a third attempt to successfully migrate now. This time, I'm not leaving Bactria intact. Conquest of Bactria early in the game is actually extremely easy if you use your hordes correctly. It's not accruing massive amounts of debt that is hard.

Someone did a Gallic faction migrating to Galatia. That was impressive. My next one, I think, might be Saba into Mesopotamia. It'll be shorter, but probably more difficult.