De Vita Auli Aurelii - A Romani AAR

**Fluvius Camillus** · 12-31-2009, 14:12

Originally Posted by HunGeneral

HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - that must have been the joke of the week for me!

A really good one!!!

Agreed!

Still going good, kicked some Epeirote butt! Lets see how Aulus will redeem himself this time. Probably more Gaesatae coming too!

I meant Patavium instead of Mediolanium in the post earlier, my bad, but it doesnt matter anymore now.

~Fluvius

**Skullheadhq** · 12-31-2009, 18:13

Chapter 6: The Empire Strikes Back

After the annihilation of the Greek Legions and the betrayel of the Macedones Illyria needed to be defended, but with what. The solution was delivered by the massive mining income, so that Aulus could afford 3 fullstacks of Mercenary's, another levy hoplite fullstack and a brand new legion...

But help was to late for the Minecity of Serdike:

And the Basileus thought it would be fun to insult us, the sons of Mars!

Almost all Greek men and partisans joined Aulus thanks to his filled coffer, and all Anti-Makedonian partisans were recruited in our army, with promises of freedom and return to the city-states system, of course, Aulus wouldn't do this in the end, the cheating bastard he was...

He and his new generals made an attack plan, the first Aulus ever made in his life.
After much discussion the plan was as following:

The plan was to keep the Makedones busy in the north, and then take a legion and sweep from the south, taking the ungarrisoned Pelopponesos by surprise, then take up a strategic position on the Corintian Isthmus, and thus would keep Makedonia busy on 5 fronts. One in Epeiros, One on the Isthmus, where terrain is our favor, and one in the Kaukasos against the AS, and another one in Syria against the Ptolemaioi and another one in the north against the Epeirote government in exile in Thraika.

This, as was the plan, would effectively bleed the Makedon forces to death, and the Istmus as the Roman Verdun.

But, if the Makedones could break into Epeiros, our whole plan would fail, and Makedonia would rule the world, and thus, the fate of nations depended on Aulus.
And some good news for Aulus as well, he finally has an command star!

And when all preperations where made for the Great Antimakedonian war, those stinking caverats from

Epeiros attacked us! They were the minority, but they had Chaonian Agama from Hell.

Luckily they were easily flanked...

And those rats were send back crying to their evil masters.

After that we faced a short-lived Makedonian invasion of Epeiros, but they immediatly back to Pella, luckily, we were able to hunt down and destroy their strategos.

And within a month, another Makedonian Army attacked Epeiros, the defence was lead by minor Generals.

We learned from our enemies and deployed Phalangitai.

And THAT combined with terrain in our favor and reinforcements...

Meant a win.

The Invasion of Makedonia can now begin...

The World, 230 BC

**HunGeneral** · 12-31-2009, 19:44

Say have you been playing this campaing since a while or are you really playing and writing like lightning??? This AAR seems to be growing with record speed... (Fastest I've seen so far.

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**Skullheadhq** · 01-01-2010, 11:26

Play with the speed of lightning

And btw, a Caius Iulius Caesar is born.

**Skullheadhq** · 01-01-2010, 16:38

Hello dear readers, my only savegame of this is apparently corrupted, why, I do not know, it was a very interesting campaign. I've never seen the AI behave as good as this and I had a lot of fun writing this AAR.

I had big plans for Aulus, since Greece was already subjugated in my campaign, he would get his triumphus, have more wacky Gaesatae adventures, bribed a kingdom for himself etc. etc.

But apparently the evil Bug Overlords wouldn't allow this to happen, and now, I'll probably never see the Marian reforms

Big thanks to all my readers, I hope you guys enjoyed it, here is my goodbye screenshot:

-Skullhead

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 01-01-2010, 22:12

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

I had big plans for Aulus, since Greece was already subjugated in my campaign, he would get his triumphus, have more wacky Gaesatae adventures, bribed a kingdom for himself etc. etc.

But apparently the evil Bug Overlords wouldn't allow this to happen, and now, I'll probably never see the Marian reforms

So you wanted to abandon your plans and become a real Roman, heh?

Zeus-Olympos has sent you the right answer to this heresy when he corrupted your savegame!

**Rahwana** · 01-01-2010, 22:19

LOLZ.... actually I'm glad that this AAR is over now.....

**Fluvius Camillus** · 01-02-2010, 19:52

EB works with win7 home prem (32b) on my laptop.

Good luck with the writing, you really scared me when the save was gone, better make a few extra saves just in case!

~Fluvius