Post your EB empires!

[Rembrandt]

Known world. :)

This map of Europe for example. How did you manage to convert the small Ingame map to a scale this large? It looks good and not blurry at all. Are you using Photoshop perhaps?

[Lazy O]

He stretched the image in paint. Not that hard or complicated.

[Nicanor]

Aeudi Empire.bmp

[CanOmer]

This map of Europe for example. How did you manage to convert the small Ingame map to a scale this large? It looks good and not blurry at all. Are you using Photoshop perhaps?

Enlarge 150% and filter with sharpen to remove blur. That's all. Yes, I use Photoshop.


Finally reforms took place. I am preparing to invade Egypt and Asia Minor.

[Arjos]

Yes, the Ptoleis have way too many fertile lands, get ready for stacks after stacks... after stacks XD

[Vega]

Lmao how you guys can play with cheats, its not interesting then :))

[The_Blacksmith]

Lmao how you guys can play with cheats, its not interesting then :))

who's cheating

[Lazy O]

He thinks EB is so hard you cant do it without cheats.

[stratigos vasilios]

He thinks EB is so hard you cant do it without cheats.

Oh no, even I am able to play with no cheats and I'm as rubbish as you can get when it comes to video games!

[Lazy O]

I wont like you people to make fun of him, since I really doubt any one of you could actually beat him.

/No need to crucify me, just sticking up for a friend

[Saldunz]

This is 25 years after the last update of my once struggling Saba campaign on VH/VH.

The Ptolemies are completely broken now, with only pockets of resistance waiting to get mopped up by me or whatever forces the miraculous Seleukids can muster. Cyprus is still going to be a serious pain to capture.

In other news, the Parthians attacked me, which was really scary at first because of their armoured horse archers. But except for one time at the very beginning of the war when they quickly took Babylon from me, I haven't run into those dreaded HAs. It might have something to do with them being also at war with the Seleukids, Hayasdan and Baktria.

The screenshot is from the turn before I enslaved Ekbatana.

What I'm really dreading now is the very real possibility of imminent war with the most powerful faction in the game: Carthage.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Wow, easily the largest Sabaean empire I have ever seen! Nice job.

[TiberiusClaudiusMarcellus]

CanOmer - 50 years after game start? Why blitz?

[QuintusSertorius]

Lmao how you guys can play with cheats, its not interesting then :))

It's not interesting without; if I don't manage the AI factions it turns into boring and ahistorical superpower v superpower.

[Saldunz]

This was a nice moment for me.

My first campaign victory on VH/VH.



Curiously the victory screen was triggered before I even bothered to try to take Phoenicia, and because of the early campaign date and the fact that I haven't even reached my own reforms yet, I think I'll continue this one until I take back the Phoenician homeland.

This was great fun though. What really struck me was how quickly the game moves along once you're at war with Rome. Most of the early years of this campaign was at peace, only fighting Eleutheroi and building up an economy. It was only in the last 16 years that I was at war with the Lusotana and then the Romans (never at the same time) which made conquest so manageable that in just over a decade all of Spain and Italy were conquered. In fact, I think the Roman "empire" was destroyed after just 5-6 years of warfare, because each sacked Italian city just filled my treasury with more and more mnai for armies. And I also had no other enemies to even worry about.

The fact that Rome has practically no cavalry and that Carthaginian heavy cavalry can be so devastating when used by an intelligent player probably had a lot to do with why it was so easy to steamroll the Romans even on VH/VH.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

A Kart-Hadast victory is always beautiful.

[Hamata]

Nice empires here guys i gave up playing this because it was to hard

[STuNTz2023]

My Current Roman Empire

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It would appear that the Pontic Empire is readying for war.

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[Hamata]

pontos is huge in your game

Edit so is egypt

[SneakyNinja]

Alright guys i think i need a bit of help with this one

I'll confess i don't know where the file is with the images you screen-shot so i just pasted on to MS paint

Anyway as you can see I'm the Saba, the years 250 BC and the AS is dominating the East. I need advice with how to deal with them as they're currently smashing through the ptolmies (sp?) and will probably come for me soon. The Army I've got highlighted is my only one and is currently marching on the city in North Eastern Arabia and i plan to take it all away along the coast round the gulf of Arabia (I like RPing campaigns). i'm not worried about them yet as i have long series of watch towers so i'll see them coming long before they reach my cities, i just need to have a plan for when i want to attack them (or they attack me) and advice for that as i've never really taken on any faction that strong

Edit: as the picture isn't very clear i though i should add that the AS have taken Menphis & Alexandria and have plenty of small stacks marching onto the rest of the ptolmaic cities

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

I wouldn't take Gerrha, leave it rebel, but do take Maketa. You don't want to border the Seleucids at too many points or else you'll have too much to fight over. I would sail across to Ethiopia and take Axum and Meroe for the mines and more importantly, the elephants. You're gonna need these guys as the AS is probably gonna start pumping out Silver Shields and TAB's and you'll have nothing else to counter them. Alternatively, you could sail to India and try that route as well, but then your supply lines are longer, though the units there are somewhat better.

[STuNTz2023]

My Roman Empire

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Arverni's color has been changed to something I prefer. They have managed to grab a couple cities from their neighbor's, without any direct help from me. I did move 3 full stacks from Britain to the Belgae region, which they took soon after.

The Parthians have managed to hold onto some of the cities I gave them through FD, as I wanted someone to be able to hassle the yellow death besides myself.

The Makedonians and Pontus attacked me the turn after I posted my last screenshot's, and the Makedonians were crushed withen 4 or 5 years. After 14 years of war, full stack after full stack, Pontus had been pushed back into Asia Minor. They offered peace soon after, and then proceeded to attack the yellow death. The yellow death is simply crushing Pontus, and now share a border with my Empire. So of course, I was attacked soon after. My troops on the border have fended off 3 full stacks. I am raising two legions currently (1/2 polybian troops 1/2 foreign troops). One legion led by the current Consul will move to the border, and proceed to take back the cities that Pontus has lost. They will be returned to Pontus and I will support their future war with the yellow death.

The next legion will be taken to Alexandria for a surprise raid on the city, where I will cripple their native recruitment and enslave their citizens for this act of aggression. I will continue and raid their other cities near by, than continue by sea to Antioch, where I will raze that to the ground as well. I will give it to Pontus when I am done, to help protect their new holdings in Asia Minor.

However I had been distracted from this as Karali was invaded by a small army from Carthage, who were easily defeated. They soon after landed a full stack of African Elites and Sacred Band. I took my legion led by my Consul and destroyed their army. I then brought my legion to their homeland, where I have taken their capital and the city next to it. I have been attacked by 3 full stacks of elites since landing and will be moving reinforcements in as soon as possible. This all happened after the last screen shot in this post and will be seen in my next update.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

My Aeduic Empire after recently invading the British Isles in a need for more tin. I've established a limes system in Iberia against the Lusotanians and other allied tribes as well as on the Danube frontier against the Sweboz and Germanic tribes which make depredations. The Rhine is in need of fortification as my heartland does lie somewhat open to the invaders. I'm currently pushing slightly north into Britain, probably gonna stop near Caledonia while also pushing more into central europe against the Getai to recover old Celtic territories left there. The Parthians and Ptollies have large empires and I've helped the AS maintain and conquer most of western Anatolia helping to hold off the Yellow Tide. KH, Saka, and Sauros are surprisingly powerful as well. Sauros even hold the Scrodisci province. I've never seen them further south-west than Tylis before.

[Lazy O]

Come hamachi. Something interesting popped up in the Lazy mind.

[The_Blacksmith]

Brave sir Robin? Bactria got pwned? just a little bit?

[Ilhan Bey]

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The first ever campaign I played to completion. I ended up just buying Alexandreia to avoid one final monotonous siege, but the campaign itself was interesting.

I had to save Rome's ass twice to keep them around long enough for my bodyguard reforms (once from Epeiros and once from the Carthaginians and the Lusos). Obviously after I got my reform I left them to their fate and Luso turned on Carthage to become the undisputed masters of western Europe.

Epeiros surprised me the most I think, advancing really deep into the steppe and owning all of Greece before I invaded.

Baktria, Pahlava and Saka were mostly just small, shifting empires. The Pahlava were once much larger before I wiped them out to what they have in that picture.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Brave sir Robin? Bactria got pwned? just a little bit?

Yeah just a little lol. They don't do anything anymore, just sit around. But neither do the Saka and occasionally Baktra rebels back to the Baktrians so it wouldn't be surprising to see them mount a comeback.

[green jacket]

Here's my fledgling casse empire. This is my first eb campaing on m/h.

I thought it was quite cool, if you notice, that the selucids still managed to hold damaskos against the pollies with half a stack while being surrounded by the rising polly empire.

[The_Blacksmith]

Got pretty crazy with the Saka Rauka and did some rush... its 251 and i RULE!!!

i got 2 half stacks of HA's and is at war with Baktria, Pahlava and Sauromatae... allthough ill soon be called for a ceasefire



Im quite proud of my enemy Pahlava, exelent expansion...

[TheLastDays]

Surprising: Epeiros holding on to their italian province (the name of which somehow escapes my tired brain right now)
Not surprising at all: Makedonia losing Pella, happens too often...

Why's everyone rushing so much?