Expeditionary Forces

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-31-2008, 12:47

In the spirit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from WWI, I find myself taken with Expeditions to far away lands across the sea to not establish a foothold for further expansion, but to either raid/pillage/sack an enemy city, take an independent kingdom (like Syracuse) and just hold it and sick with it, or in the case of my alliance with Ptolemy, send forces to help in a war. I find either creating a colony or just sacking a settlement is a good way to fund your expansion in around the homefront, or just get crucial money to expand the economy.

I was wondering does anyone else do this?

**QuintusSertorius** · 08-31-2008, 13:09

I do it all the time as part of my "maintain the balance of impotence" of the AI factions. Goes hand-in-hand with using spies and assassins to destabilise their cities, and diplomats to bribe armies out of existence. If a faction attacks me, and I don't want to conquer them, I'll often launch a punitive raid to reduce their military capability, then FD a ceasefire.

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-31-2008, 13:31

Yeah, i generally don't like steamrolling a faction into dust. I'd rather keep them around so that I can either profit from them trade-wise, or through them acting as a bufferzone between my real enemies. Makedon is one of these factions I generally keep around... As the romans in vanilla i even let them keep Macedonia as my protectorate as i expanded around them.

I only know of two good coastal cities to hit though, Antioch and Syracuse. What would be another good and historically plausible target for the KH?

**Foot** · 08-31-2008, 13:43

Black Sea coastal settlements. Eastern Spanish Coast and Southern French Coast. Kyrene.

Foot

**Hax** · 08-31-2008, 13:55

When playing as Epeiros (which had an alliance with Hieron II due to the fact that Pyrrhos' daughter was married to him), I usually take Syrakousai asap after uniting Hellas, and installing a level 4 government there. From there, I usually take Sicily and Southern Italy.

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-31-2008, 13:56

Thanks Foot, I think I'm going to make my next Target Antioch, loot her and then leave her in trust to Ptolly, then use my fat coffers to take Syracuse and Kyrene and if theres enough left over then beefup my Northern garrisons.

Syracuse was a target for the Athenians during the Peloponnesian war... though they failed magnificently... EPIC FAIL! fools allowed their ships to get trapped inside the great harbour.

To Hax: Yeah my last campaign as the KH i RP'd an Athenian revenge mission to Syracuse to exact vengence on those dastardly Syracusians. The mission failed worse than it did in 414BC, so the Spartan King left with a force of roughly 300 Spartans and took the city with no problems

TO ANTIOCH! I've always wanted to get my hands on that holy hand grenade of theirs!