how do you train a quality combat general?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-13-2009, 20:27

Originally Posted by BurningEGO

Curious screenshots Fluvius. Did you use any mini mod or something in your campaigns? Whats the dificulty you played the game at? How many full stacks did you support most of the game?

Regardless, pretty impressive to have finished conquering the world so fast. Can you give some timetables of the date you obliterated each faction?

Ah, a curious one!

Epeiros was 1.0 and Romani 1.1, Epeiros was 100% clean and Romani only the official fixes (especially the sprite one, ctd'd so much because of that).

Difficulty is VH/VH or M for both. Forgot the difficulty, at least one of them is M. I forgot how many armies I had as Epirus, only that they owned everything!

The Romani were 6 armies + 2 more who couldnt catch up with my frontier armies

(This was of course built up during the campaign, just starting with a half stack army.

To keep this thread on topic, I got various pics from my campaigns on an other thread, so take a look at:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=112224

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-19-2009, 10:23

Did Alexandros die by a brick? No. Did Pyrrhos conquer half the known world in less than 10 years? No. So please save this for another time. No one surpasses the greatness of the one and only Megas in the world.

Plus, Julius Caesar did cry under the statue of Alexandros when he was 19 for a reason, you know

And of course, Hannibal named his the best Strategos of all time.

Maion

**BurningEGO** · 02-19-2009, 15:44

Didnt Hannibal actually prefer Pyrrhus? I always heard that for him Pyrrhus was the greatest... And come to think of it, Pyrrhus did crush some roman skulls, and that was a good thing for Hannibal.

And there is someone that beated Alexander in terms of conquest... Genghis Khan.

**A Very Super Market** · 02-19-2009, 16:37

Pfft. The British conquered more :P

**Maion Maroneios** · 02-19-2009, 16:42

Originally Posted by BurningEGO

Didnt Hannibal actually prefer Pyrrhus? I always heard that for him Pyrrhus was the greatest... And come to think of it, Pyrrhus did crush some roman skulls, and that was a good thing for Hannibal.

And there is someone that beated Alexander in terms of conquest... Genghis Khan.

NO man, he said he was 3rd after Alexandros and Pyrrhos...

Maion

**Fluvius Camillus** · 02-19-2009, 16:56

This is an awesome page to compare!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires

Haha glory to the Netherlands! Our Dutch Empire was larger than that puny Third Reich muhaha

**soup_alex** · 02-19-2009, 18:20

Originally Posted by BurningEGO

Didnt Hannibal actually prefer Pyrrhus? I always heard that for him Pyrrhus was the greatest... And come to think of it, Pyrrhus did crush some roman skulls, and that was a good thing for Hannibal.

And there is someone that beated Alexander in terms of conquest... Genghis Khan.

Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios

NO man, he said he was 3rd after Alexandros and Pyrrhos...

Maion

IIRC, different sources compose different lists. According to Livy, it was in a conversation with Scipio (Africanus Major, naturally) that Hannibal rated Alexander, then Phyrrus, as the greatest generals, and himself third—but would have considered himself the greatest general of them all if only he hadn't been defeated by Scipio.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Hannibal and Scipio: BROS 4 LYF

**HunGeneral** · 02-19-2009, 19:46

Well I think we can agree that Megas alexandros was one of the (if not THE) greatest generals in Antiquity. (if we take the period of Antiquity to last until the birth of Christ.) Who could be the greatest general of the "dark ages" (if we take it from the birt of christ till the fall of the western Roman empire) I couldn't say (although I think Great King Attila would surely be a potential candidate). The greatest General of the Middle ages would probeably be Genghis Khan but I can"t be sure.

But now back to topic: I believe the Nomad factions might have the most easiest to get good generals - since they often need there Bodyguard Horsemen to decide the battles and they can easely win battles where the chances are seriously against them.

**desert** · 02-19-2009, 21:41

According to Hanson, Alexander was a stupid, "drunken thug" and Hitleresque mass murderer, and Epaminondas could kick his butt any day.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**HunGeneral** · 02-19-2009, 21:55

Well desert you sure seem to be heading towards you goal.

Wait a minute... Oh damm I think I hear a squadron .. no .. two squadrons of Hetairoi aproaching...

Well see youz later. (Gallops of far away..

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**Maion Maroneios** · 02-20-2009, 12:03

Originally Posted by desert

In no way am I pointing that out just to see Maion enter Rage Mode.

*A long, machine like noise that steadily rises in volume is heard in the background as Maion enters Rage Mode*

Maion

**Ibrahim** · 02-22-2009, 05:36

well, I see that alot of people here can cnquer the EB world; they have got to be really ,mighty good and apatient players...also ones with a lot of free time?