My Epeiros Campaign 1.0

**A Very Super Market** · 02-01-2009, 22:49

Does the game automatically kill Pyrrhus when he assaults a city? Why else does it tell you to stay away from Argos?

Hmm... is Saudi Arabia inaccesible?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-01-2009, 22:55

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Does the game automatically kill Pyrrhus when he assaults a city? Why else does it tell you to stay away from Argos?

Hmm... is Saudi Arabia inaccesible?

Saudi Arabia is part of the Sahara province, better known as the unconquerable provinces. These are not be conquered because they were not much things of importance. Pre 1.0 Dumatha was still there but it already had a structure called Sand, limiting trade. 1.0 and after it was not to be conquered anymore.

Historically they say Pyrrhos died by a rooftile thrown at his head. It was at a hellenic polis, so I suppose that would be Argos.

**SwissBarbar** · 02-01-2009, 23:04

ram back?? how does this work?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-01-2009, 23:51

Originally Posted by SwissBarbar

ram back?? how does this work?

That is a mystery harder than the Eleusinian Mysteries

**Mulceber** · 02-01-2009, 23:55

I always love seeing pictures, yeah it'd be nice if you have the time to post some up. -M

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-02-2009, 00:29

One word dude: Awesome. Here, have 2 balloons:

Maion

**rootje** · 02-02-2009, 02:16

Not wanting to degrade the accomplishments in anyway I'd just like to point out that you finished the roman campaign before even reaching your 300th turn. That basicly means that considering you play on vh/vh, you must've blitzed the ai out so badly that most of them didn't even get a chance to get past the first 20 turns,which are vital for them to build up and make sure they can atleast provide some challenge...

Personally, I'd rather play a slow campaign,do some roleplaying and even get my ass kicked on vh/m [on alex.exe tho] because I've let the ai take some time to build up and form some kind of opposition, but I guess this is the way some people like to play, grats on the achievement!

Funny by the way, the first screen of a full conquered map reminded me of a sceenshot a friend of mine sent me about 3 years ago a month after Rome total war released,when he just had conquered the world on easy/easy basicly killing entire armies with 1 general and stuff like that. In a way I feel the same about that as I feel about this: grats on the dedication but dude..isn't the best way to play this game, nerfing yourself and boosting the ai in such a way that it feels like you're actually facing a human,instead of using textbook repeating exploits just over and over again?

My 2 cents, excuse the grumpy tone: just got my ass kicked on multiple fronts and when I finally got A heroic victory on one of them, a ctd erased that little achievement

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**Mulceber** · 02-01-2009, 23:05

Ok, quick question, Fluvius Camillus - how hard is it keeping those provinces at the outer reaches of your empire in check? -M

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-01-2009, 23:16

Originally Posted by Mulceber

Ok, quick question, Fluvius Camillus - how hard is it keeping those provinces at the outer reaches of your empire in check? -M

Not really hard, in the east put in all your bordering cities 10x Persian archers (or an equilavent), If the enemy besieges, just sally forth and shoot all your arrows at them, repeat this until theyre all dead every turn or finally kill them in the assault.

The only leak was the Hayasdan, I was a fool to trust them as they randomly attacked my cities, after an expensive war where I bougth all local mercenaries they died. With my recent Romani campaign I did not make the same mistake, I gathered 3 armies to wipe them off the face of the earth completely, that resistance was even more sad than the Britons when I invaded them!

Rebel provincies dont attack, so thats easy

Also the rebel fullstack cities in central Europa provide a nice barrier.

All other provinces have a natural border or a fullstack royal army.

I only lost Gava-Yugra to the Baktrians, when I conquered that city the Baktrians declared war right away and my depleted Hayasdan army could not win.

In that battle I killed 3 family members with a general and two groups of horse archers. I was surprised I could inflict that much damage.

But sadly there was no winning as the main body still stood firm, my beloved general was trapped and killed (well he was my least favourite conquering family member so it wasnt that worse

) Anyway I hope this answers your question!

**SwissBarbar** · 02-01-2009, 23:22

what difficulty lever do you play on?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-01-2009, 23:25

Originally Posted by SwissBarbar

what difficulty lever do you play on?

This one was VH/VH if remember well. Routing units dont really kill much, fear is my weapon!

(The naked men and elephant combo + cavalry charges from rear and flanks and phalanx in the back really works!)

**Mulceber** · 02-01-2009, 23:32

Well, I was more worried about the prospect of them rebelling - being 3000 miles away from your capital must make it pretty difficult to keep the public order up, but I guess the 10x persian archers thing explains that. BTW, congrats on completing such a huge (and difficult) campaign. How are your other campaigns coming? Got any maps to show of them? -M