Re: Sv: Report!
You are doing very well, Crowley!
Have you decided where you should next look for enemies?
Will the Germans or Aragonese become more ambitious when France is eliminated?
By the appearance of your coffers I would suggest you recruit either a new army or a strong navy from the homeland.
Your British kingdom will never succeed without a good naval force, and you must start the training of this very early.
I believe you are a competent strategist, but for the purpose of this thread topic I will relate what I would do in your position;
One of the two allies you have, Aragon or the Romans, must become your enemy - and if you are unlucky - both shall.
If I wished to fight Aragon, and begin a conquest of Iberia, (Be nice to Portugal), I would be creating as much shipping as possible before the end of the war with France.
Then you must have a third army levied and placed in Flanders, a perfect place to oversee the German movements, your first and second armies must hold Aquitania and Tolosa.
By this time you should be occupying the coasts of Northern Iberia with strong fleets, and levying a fourth army, which may put you in deficit.
Nonetheless, ensure they are prepared for combat and take Navarre from whichever Iberian Faction, and move the army from Aquitania into Aragon.
At that stage, you can ask yourself; shall I continue past these mountainous fortifications?
For then you will hold the plug on whichever Iberian faction plotting to move north, and you can focus on the East.
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I have tried a new mod!
Having witnessed despair and dread in my Portuguese campaign, and being afraid to press, "End Year", I downloaded Hellenic: Total War!
I read of a few faults which I was prepared to ignore.. I found them, but I shall persevere!
I am working on a translation of Kurou Anabaseos currently, so it is very fitting!
I tried to play a campaign as the Argoi, in the Pro-Classical era, before Persia came to power.
Lakedaimon and her allies to the south declared war very quickly, but not before I made safe the Twelve Islands and Mitulene, and supported Samothraki with a navy.
I begged the Koinon Achaian for alliance, which they accepted, and a tight bond between Korinthos kai Athenai te kai Argos formed.
The three good states, fighting righteously against evil Thebai kai Lakedaimon te kai Ambrakia.
But it was not to last!
Not even ten years did the state of Argos last!
For the Basileus had set the difficulty to hard, which is rather silly in pushy phalagks warfare!
The first wave of Spartans and Neodamoi attacked Argos, and were with great difficulty defeated.
Then many mercenaries and new 'Oplitai were ordered for in the state, whilst Elis and Plataia sent hundreds of men to their deaths in Messenia, and much naval strife occurred around Pulos.
Eventually, ten years after the start date, 1700 men of Argos and 2100 men of Korinthos marched against 1900 men of Lakedaimon.
The scene was set in Messenia.
(Perfect I thought! Nearly 6000 men were about to meet, I was having so much fun! Sparta was going to lose!)
But ... Hooo Bacchos! Hoooo! Harees!
Here were the gathered allies, and there were the Lakedaimonioi - 500 feet up on an impossible plateau!
Yes, they had predicted well, the Fates, that some maps gave the horrid advantage of a barely-scalable cliff-face to the defender.
No matter, there were several ways up, and we had cavalry!
So off we go to flank the enemy, but of a sudden; the allies of Korinthos decide to scale the most vertical face available to them - and what is more; here come the Spartans scaling down the face to meet them!
If they don't plunge to their deaths, I believe they shall win!
So the 500 cavalry from Ludia are sent off into the north to find a way up, whilst the Argan King leads the 'Oplitai to assist his hapless, 'aplos allies!
Indeed, they scale up just beyond the Spartans and grab at their flank - but the phalagks can not form on a cliff-face - so the melee becomes very scattered.
And for this reason, the AI Bonus on Hard became unbearable.
The ally, under the weight, (Literally), of so many troops decides to flee, and Argos alone is left to fight on.
Everyone is tiring and preparing to rout; when the cavalry, having circumvented over the plateau, charge down the cliff-face and into the backs of the Spartans!
Ha ha ha, not so impossible after all!
And indeed, it should not have been - were this Normal.
But it was not Normal.
The Spartans kept on, aided by their stat bonuses, who frequently gave them everything they required for battle as they fought on two fronts.
And hereafter the battle was kept up for an hour, the Achaiai coming back with reinforcements and attacking the backs of the enemy.. but it was futile.
At the end of this battle, no single Argos remained alive, all Achaiai were fled, and 100 Lakonioi stood their ground.
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I am not disappointed. I lost. It seemed unfair, but I liked it!
In fact, the situation turned out completely realistically, unfortunately!
Just as in those times, these ambitious Hellenic states warred with each other and in each battle completely destroyed the manpower of all countries, "Both sides claiming the victory, yet neither reaping any benefit"*.
On Normal however, it may be more beneficial.. I must see!
I will be updating the Portuguese campaign shortly enough.
*Xenophon, Hellenica.
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Originally Posted by CrowleyHammer
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