Post your EB empires!

[QuintusSertorius]

I humbly think you mean east..

Indeed, did you use Victory Conditions mod, or FD'ed them that way?

I do use Victory Conditions, but unfortunately the Romans only seem to have eyes for Gaul. They don't even seem interested in re-taking Italy, though after repeatedly moving their stacks to Sicily, they've finally taken Messana, and retaken Rhegion.

It's the work of some FD, partly to draw their attention eastwards, and partly to deny the Makedonians total dominance of the region (since I don't want much more of it than I already have). Especially now I've chosen not to intervene on behalf of KH in their homeland, and allowed Makedonia to rule over all Hellas. I'm letting KH evolve into the Bosphoran Kingdom and an independent league in Asia Minor.

[vollorix]

In almost all my campaigns Romans were building up Tolosa at about 260 bc. I had to nerf their ability to recruit local troops and to tweak their troops roster a little bit to stop them from steamrolling in all directions. They even easily used to overrun the Alps. They seem in any case always to swim in money, even on medium campaign difficulty. I play BI exe. by Ferromancer.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Here's a Pontic Empire I've been working on for a while...


Early game was... hectic, I suppose. I admit that I made a frantic blitz against Arche Seleukeia's Anatolian holdings, followed by kicking out the Ptolemaioi. I had no intention of letting myself be dragged into a two or three-front war.

And, well, it worked. After the initial blitz, I slowly expanded over the course of 30~40 years until I controlled all of Anatolia, and then set my sights elsewhere... specifically, the coastal cities ringing the Black Sea--barring the ones present in Anatolia, of course--which I've only begun, er, acquiring, in the past decade or so. The vast majority of said cities were 'acquired' by one Darius Kimmerikos, whose name is just so awesome that I can't help but to use him to lead my armies.

However, this campaign has begun to lose my interest, so I'll likely make a backup save in case the desire to continue strikes me later, then start a...

...

...I have no idea, to be honest. Maybe a... KH-turned-Bosporan Kingdom migration campaign.

[QuintusSertorius]

196BC and still it goes on. At war with the Karthadastim over Kyrene yet again, another full stack (though fewer elite pikemen and assault infantry this time) to deal with. In Italy/Sicily, chaos reigns supreme.



At least the AI Romans have actually sent some forces back to recapture their lost Italian cities, instead of ignoring it and haring off for Gaul. Again. I'm hoping to encourage them to move into Spain, rather than Gaul.

KH holding Syrakousai was my doing, after taking Rhodos and Chalkis off them I figured they needed a little assistance. They took Amaseia all by themselves, though.



I'm about to go to war with Makedonia to restore the Aedui to Singidnum, and maybe reduce their fighting capabilities a little.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Finally an update on my Seleukid Empire (which I paused for a while)!

The last time I posted about it, it was this size:



This was around the end of the reign of Antiochos II Theos, when he was subjugating the decadent Ptolemies with his royal army. Pahlavans still independent, Saka still raiding and Baktria is taken care of by Seleukos II kallinikos and his army.

Now I've continued!



I must say that this is quite a slow pace for my standards, as I try to roleplay and let the AI build up more. Which I really enjoy!

After Seleukos II Kallinikos returned from a victorious campaign through several (semi-) nomadic tribes (subjugating the main Parni cities and taking Caucasian Albania), he ceased campaigning and withdrew to the royal Seleukid palace. Here he spent well-deserved time with the inner circles of the royal family and tutored his heir apparent, Seleukos III Keraunos. He also witnessed the 16-years younger brother, Antiochos (in-game Aristos, but I stick with history) grow up. He showed promising traits and was sent to Alexandreia to study as soon as he reached the fit age. Also a promising nephew of him came of age the same time, Hierax Syriakos. The problem is that he developed some disloyalty traits and has to be watched closely.

The frontiers of the empire have shrunk to a small size, most are the edges of the map, against the sea or uninhabitable deserts. The main front is now Hellas, the fatherland. In an effort to help the Seleukid allies (Antigonid Makedonia under Demetrios II Aetolicus and Getia), a late son of Antiochos I Soter was sent to settle some matters. The Epeirote armies held the capitals of both allies, so Mnesiptolemus Syriakos and his son were given command of a well outfitted army to do some business there. At the same time, another army was sent to the northern coast of the Pontus Euxine. The commander was Nikolaos Babyloniakos, to help the Hellenic settlers who had been conquered by savage Sauromatae!

After the campaigns of Seleukos II Kallinikos, the Parni-Maszagatae were forced into submission (protectorate).

The army of Nikolaos met some resistance, but completed its taks easily. Mnesiptolemos Syriakos had more difficulties, the Epeirote armies were numerous and losses kept piling up. He however did settle the matter, he conquered Buridava and killed the Epeirote northern commander, then traded the city for Kallatis, which had much more Seleukid interest and the Danube became the frontier of the European Seleukid holdings.

The last keystone however, was Epeirote Pella, the ownership was hard to decide, Epeiros kept sending armies and the Epeirote Makedonian war already dragged on for more than 50 years. Mnesiptolemus did what seemed best, he took the city peacefully, slaughtered all Epeirote armies in the area and returned it to Makedonia. He made peace with Epeiros and declared the Kingdom of Kyrene a protectorate (Ptolemaioi), which then had to abandon all ties with Epeiros.

Demetrios II Aetolicus however took full advantage of the situation. He urged Seleukos II Kallinikos to continue the war against Epeiros, on sea because the Makedonian fleet was far inferior to the larger Epeirote. Seleukos then dispatched his fleet to blockade Adriatic sea ports.

Demetrios however sent three armies against Byzantion, Serdike and the allied city of Tylis, he allied himself with the Epeirotes by painting off the Seleukids as a Persian danger which all Hellenes had to defend itself against. Mnesiptolemus now uses his army with a lot of the Thraikian allies to turn back the combined strength. The defense however might break to these continued assaults. The new royal army is ready for battle and will soon join its new commander, Antiochos Syriakos (the younger brother of Seleukos III). Will he be in time to save the European holdings from this alliance?

Other stuff that is going on:
- Hayasdan is having a war of attrition with the Sauromatae over Uspe, which makes them unaggresive towards me (that is why I have not attacked them).
- The Kyrenaian protectorate is besieged by a large Qarthadast army, the Seleukids will probably be joining this conflict soon with another army.
- I leave the Massagateans and Alanii alone to keep them as a buffer against the Aorsi, a front which I don't want to wage a war.
- As you can see on the minimap (which is quite up to date), the Romani (my ally) went (as usual) berserk on the "barbarian" factions. True to history, the Lusotannan's are confined to a heavily fortified Numantia. The Sweboz are being massacred and only have Arctaunon and Gawjam Silengoz. The Romani are however too busy with the barbarian war, that they dont seem to notice that Epeiros took the boot of Italy from them all the way up to Capua.
Of course as the campaign progresses, there is no doubt that the final enormous clash of empires will be Romani vs AS.
- I play EB 1.2 RTW.exe with RS textures and FD.
- As you might have noticed, my treasury has grown quite a lot. I built Large mines in my entire empire, spread governors and made as much law bonus buildings as I can to reduce corruption. The result is an economy which makes standard 50000 mnai while I build in every city (Wonderous temples, huge markets etc. are standard in the programme). Thus I have a lot of cash to play around with. As you can see on the screen, I have trained my Armoured Elephant corps. Also I posses the ridiculously expensive Nees Megistai (Huge Poliremes), which I use in my (LARGE) fleet for the naval wars.

I hope someone enjoyed this.

~Fluvius

[QuintusSertorius]

I must say that this is quite a slow pace for my standards, as I try to roleplay and let the AI build up more. Which I really enjoy!

Controlling almost half the map in under 60 years is slow?

[Fluvius Camillus]

Controlling almost half the map in under 60 years is slow?

Umm yes, if you usually control the whole 20 years past this date, it is. Read: my standards, for more info on those see:
the earlier posts of mine:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...1.0&highlight= <-- Epeiros
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...lem&highlight= <-- Romani
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...iew&highlight= <-- Baktria

There is some huge PontPersian Empire lying around this fourm too, but I think the former three prove my point well enough.

~Fluvius