OOC Thread and Chatroom

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Nah, its because he's probably used to WotB when everybody wants the save. We havent progressed far enough yet.

In WotB we started with AS that already had over 20 provinces and thus it was possible to move your avatar to where ever you wanted. But here at the moment.. well.. you can cross the Republic from one border to another in one season and it's not funny to do that over and over again!

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Taking the save to see if my avatar has acquired new traits, put him in Roma, and get a good visual idea of the map, etc. Not touching anything else.

You don't have to post in the Reports thread if you just 'watch' and don't 'touch'. Posting 'Taking the save' only because you want to watch might take away the chance that someone else who wants to move his avatar can take the save.

[navarro951]

^^^ya this is obvious, as said many times before, with expansion, and with new legions everyone will get a chance to fight, govern, etc. I think the funnest part will be the Punic Wars and taking the Illyrian parts of the Epeirote Empire. I can just imagine the panic will be in rushing into Sicilia and Illyria its going to be great. Sadly I also foresee our first in-combat deaths.

@Ibn: We just got reacquainted with that in WoTB ey? So sad poor poor nikanor...poor poor Parthian Army.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

^^^ya this is obvious, as said many times before, with expansion, and with new legions everyone will get a chance to fight, govern, etc. I think the funnest part will be the Punic Wars and taking the Illyrian parts of the Epeirote Empire. I can just imagine the panic will be in rushing into Sicilia and Illyria its going to be great. Sadly I also foresee our first in-combat deaths.

@Ibn: We just got reacquainted with that in WoTB ey? So sad poor poor nikanor...poor poor Parthian Army.

I would say poor Roka actually! It's his second character who have died by enemies hands!!

Also, I suggest that when ever you think that you can't take the save to fight some battles then you should make a SOT post that allows Consuls to move your avatars away from the fight or this what happened in WotB will happen here as well.

[navarro951]

Actually, thats a very good point...I hope everyone will take note! And ya hehe Roka. He's been very inactive lately though.

[SwissBarbar]

@Ibn: We just got reacquainted with that in WoTB ey? So sad poor poor nikanor...poor poor Parthian Army.

yes, i just got the terrible news

[Tiberius Claudius Marcellus]

Originally Posted by In the Reports thread
Taking the save to see if my avatar has acquired new traits, put him in Roma, and get a good visual idea of the map, etc. Not touching anything else.

You don't have to post in the Reports thread if you just 'watch' and don't 'touch'. Posting 'Taking the save' only because you want to watch might take away the chance that someone else who wants to move his avatar can take the save.

Moving a character requires a save, no?

[Tiberius Claudius Marcellus]

This is probably old hat to you salt dogs out there; but I thought it was pretty motivating for fans of the Romaioi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuWcv-Rp5M

Roma Victor!

[SwissBarbar]

Moving a character requires a save, no?

yes

[The Celtic Viking]

This is probably old hat to you salt dogs out there; but I thought it was pretty motivating for fans of the Romaioi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuWcv-Rp5M

Roma Victor!

Ugh. Not only is "Legion Strong" an oxymoron, that movie is just reeking of lies and propaganda...

Wait, did it actually list the strength to get over yourself as one of the definitions of "Legion Strong"?

[navarro951]

hehehe easy TCV...eaaasy my barb friend. I would ever doubt the power of your Naked warriors. NAKED STRONG!

[SwissBarbar]

hehehe easy TCV...eaaasy my barb friend. I would ever doubt the power of your Naked warriors. NAKED STRONG!

Make a video ^^

[navarro951]

OMG if i had that kind of video skills....I SO WOULD! haha

[Mooks]

Ugh. Not only is "Legion Strong" an oxymoron, that movie is just reeking of lies and propaganda...

Wait, did it actually list the strength to get over yourself as one of the definitions of "Legion Strong"?

When you actually read what the legionarys were able to do (An example :Caesars gallic legions could force march themselves 50 miles with over 60lb of equipment and still construct a fortified camp at the end of the day) they can be compared more to the special forces of the U.S army then just regular army. They were some tough motherfuckers.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Please watch your language!

[The Celtic Viking]

Make a video ^^

If you know what's best for you, you shouldn't give me any ideas like that...

[navarro951]

If you know what's best for you, you shouldn't give me any ideas like that...

HEHE DO IT! i wanna see that actually, who knows this conversation may start a chain of vids like that from different faction fans...Pontus Strong Getai Strong AS Strong hahaa

Please watch your language!

Yes careful, don wanna hear complaints from mods, and as i mentioned the last time someone swore, I dont care how old everyone playing this is, but there may always be young'ns.

Also due to the fact i have class for 4 hours today, ill be taking the save at 15:30 PACIFIC so you guys can keep the game going and what not. Otherwise it wont be till 2morrow. Plus i think im the only move, the battle that is.

[johnhughthom]

Nice to see this has really taken off guys, must admit I had my doubts it would work. Wish Steam made it easier to have more that one copy of RTW running...

[navarro951]

Nice to see this has really taken off guys, must admit I had my doubts it would work. Wish Steam made it easier to have more that one copy of RTW running...

o thats a bummer, id like to have you join up

you know, I completely blame the AI for Asina's death. His unit plowed deep into Conans bodyguard and did major damage, but it just kept pushing and ended up sort of on its own. Seconds after i flanked the unit surrounding it was too late i guess. That was a tough battle indeed.

Ill have some new avatars for you soon everyone.

[desert]

I think we're due for an angst-filled Stories Thread update from baen right about now.

[navarro951]

Ya and ive got two of my own as well...WoTB, BtSH....grave days for both of us

also: im on break have to get back to work so ill be gone most of the day now

[everyone]

gah! Asina died so suddenly! as I was about to do something great with him!

[SwissBarbar]

When you actually read what the legionarys were able to do (An example :Caesars gallic legions could force march themselves 50 miles with over 60lb of equipment and still construct a fortified camp at the end of the day) they can be compared more to the special forces of the U.S army then just regular army. They were some tough *******.

Yes, you're absolutely right. Especially if you consider that they were only 160 cm on the average! They still would beat up US or anyone elses Speacial Forces' arses if equipped equally ^^

[/Bean\]

I really have to stop going to bed. Everytime I wake up and go on here the worlds flipped upside down. Sorry for your loss Everyone, if thats even possible seeing as it was your own death .
I'll have to put aside my school work to do some stories I think.

Oh, and Il_Duce, I believe it was Legatus Cotta that pulled Asina's body away from the fighting, thank you very much

[everyone]

actually, somehow the loss of Asina made me kept swearing and yelling at every random thing I saw for the past hour (fortunately I was at home), until I decided to play out the battle again to relieve my anger to see another result, this time with some objectives in mind:
1) immediately pull generals whose bodyguard are less than 5 men out of combat
2) combine both Legio I and II for the assault
3) do not let either army be controlled by the AI
4) start the battle as navarro did so from the campaign map (fight using Legio II, and Legio I as reinforcements)

and here is the result:



Conan died very early in the battle, as I was rushing through the broken gate. as usual, I made the cavalry go through a breach in the wall. since the infantry force was getting cut up very quickly on all sides (yes, on all three sides); I made the cavalry charge into a Gaeroas from its behind, causing it to rout; and since Conan was dead by then, the other units (many of them, around 3 ligurian infantry+brihentin+2 gaeroas+a few botroas+1 liguriae epos) routed in the massive charge; and the only other difficult part was the gaesatae which I managed to kill quickly by making the accensi move a large round around the settlement to the gaesatae's back, and pelt the gaesatae while they are engaged in melee.

if you want, here is the save (though I don't think I'm authorised to do so, I badly want to play as asina again ) :
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4303

[Mjolnir]

if you want, here is the save (though I don't think I'm authorised to do so, I badly want to play as asina again ) :
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=193&id=4303

As much as that might be nice, I think it would set a bad precedent. One of the cool things about these games is the roll of the dice every time you send your character into battle. It would take a lot of fun out of this if we started doing re-does. Sorry man.

[Il_Duce]

Oh, and Il_Duce, I believe it was Legatus Cotta that pulled Asina's body away from the fighting, thank you very much

Hey man, you control the army. Gotta give the little guy some glory.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Wait.. it's unclear to me who fought the battle. If it was navarro then it's against the rules since he should have send the save to everyone. Or am I missing something??

Under no circumstances will a battle be fought by a player whose avatar is not present in the battle.
If there is no player available to fight a battle, it must be auto-resolved.
If there are no allocated avatars involved in the battle at all, it must be auto-resolved.

[everyone]

well, Blasio was in the battle (but not appearing as the commander), but I'm not sure who navarro was playing as (denatus/blasio?); and technically Legio II was still led by Cotta and Legio I by Asina when the battle took place. so I'm not sure (and I really do hope Asina could survive but that probably wouldn't be possible asdf)

[SwissBarbar]

well, if the wrong player fought the battle, it must be refought. But the rules say, that if the Leader of the Army is not available, the second in command fights the battle, and if he's not available its the third in commands turn. Finally thats the reason, why there is a 2nd and 3rd in command. Only a player, whose avatar is not in one of the attacking armies CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES fight the battle.