Campaigns completed description thread

[StellarW]

Your Hay victory screen suggests that I may misunderstand how the raiding targets work in EB victory conditions. Do you still satisfy a raiding target condition if you hold the city continuously after capturing it? My understanding was that those didn't count unless they'd been released (and optionally recaptured), since I still saw the flashing white boxes around Sidon and the Crimea when I checked my victory conditions in my 1.0 Hay campaign.

As MarcusAureliusAntoninus (next time it's going to be MA or MAA:) ) said once you took the city for a turn you can either leave it or keep it depending on what sort of problems it brings or profits it yields. I took those crimea provinces right towards the end of my campaign as i didn't want my decades old bribe of 1000 M to go to waste. :)

That's part of the reason I put the campaign on hold a second time - why keep slogging through the endless repetitive battles towards Greece and whatever I still needed in the east, when it looked like I wouldn't reach the victory screen anyway unless I illogically set free some perfectly good provinces I'd held for decades.

Well i had a nasty CTD i couldn't solve so i in fact started and finished the AS campaign before returning to my Hai one and rounding it up with advice i didn't notice before. What your saying is right and that's why i would like to encourage both strict house rules and a date to aim for to keep the campaign interesting right up to the end. After defeating AS i was never seriously threatened but i wanted to see if i could complete the reform process before completing the campaign. As it turned out i kept misunderstanding the goals i needed to meet to my reform process didn't go very deep into Persia...

But your victory screen is all blue in all the right places... Winning without horse archers is very impressive, btw! You didn't give in and use them even in the first war against AS?

Well all of my ignorance didn't manage to get me killed in the Pontus campaign i decided to aim high and horse archers where the first off the list. :) I didn't use even a single horse archer unit ( would have LOVED to try out those faction unique units thought :( ) as they are just inherently something the successor AI armies can't deal with for lack of cavalry and archers of their own.

That's by far the closest I've come to a formal victory in EB. I tend to get bored by frequent, repetitive large battles. Hayasdan's final series of reforms were good for keeping interest, though.

I might eventually go back to Hai as i think i can complete the reforms and meet the victory conditions , with the same house rules, maybe 15+ years faster. Then again i do want to get away from the Vh battle's and i have some good ideas for additional house rules to make things even more challenging. :)

Admittedly those massive stand up fights against half dozen full stack army groups isn't 'fun' but if you get in any way bored the battle's are in my opinion too easy. In my opinion once you get your house rules to a point where such prolonged wars are stressful bloody affairs you have just right; if you can't and don't lose large battle's your not in my opinion going to complete campaigns.

Either way i am still hoping for players to start posting descriptions of their completed campaigns!

Do you think i should post these details on the general EB forum , MarcusAurelius? Would that sort of thing be frowned upon in this context?

Thanks

Stellar

PS: The more i type the more it appears that i created the thread to talk about myself so this would be a great time for others to pitch in with their accounts.