Post your EB empires!

[QuintusSertorius]

I suspect you like starting new migration campaigns. What are your victory conditions that you have set for yourself in this game? I can't imagine a bosporan kingdom would feasibly want to expand much more than the circumference of the pontic sea. Could be a short game. I guess they could aim to control hellas proper by the end also.

I'm certainly experimenting with them. I've had this one on the go for a while, but on the back burner while I was playing the Kyrenaian one.

Not sure I have much of a goal beyond the circumference of the Pontic Sea. I might try to make the Sauromatae a client state (certainly don't want to be wandering out onto the Steppes). As much as anything, I want to try out my army formation to fight horse archers.

[Blxz]

I'm certainly experimenting with them. I've had this one on the go for a while, but on the back burner while I was playing the Kyrenaian one.

Not sure I have much of a goal beyond the circumference of the Pontic Sea. I might try to make the Sauromatae a client state (certainly don't want to be wandering out onto the Steppes). As much as anything, I want to try out my army formation to fight horse archers.

Would you ever consider playing online? I'd love to test out your army comp vs a swarm of horsearchers =)

[QuintusSertorius]

Would you ever consider playing online? I'd love to test out your army comp vs a swarm of horsearchers =)

Thanks for the offer, but it's not really my thing.

[Blxz]

Thanks for the offer, but it's not really my thing.

Too bad. Still, keep us informed of how your campaign proceeds. I've never bothered with a migration campaign before but I must say they intrigue me.

[QuintusSertorius]

Too bad. Still, keep us informed of how your campaign proceeds. I've never bothered with a migration campaign before but I must say they intrigue me.

I haven't posted another update yet, because visually nothing has happened (it's now about 253BC). Been doing more building of economy-boosting installations and slowly putting my army together as my fiscal power increases.

I'm looking desirously at Trapezous as well as Olbia, but the former is now held by Pontos. Who have three full stacks stomping around the area, and Sinope only has a minimal garrison. For the moment they seem to be ignoring Sinope (perhaps because it recently upgraded to stone walls), but it's only a matter of time, I think. By then I hope to have taken Olbia and thus my army be freed up to sail across the Pontic Sea to defend Paphlagonia and liberate Pontos Parailos.

I need to change the name of my royal family. It's currently "Kyrenaios", a leftover from the other game but "Aiakides" isn't much better.

I'd highly recommend giving a migation campaign a go. Epeiros are the easiest faction to do that with (doesn't materially affect the rest of the game by moving them, huge expansion region and access to a lot of Hellenic troops all over the place). Lots of option too; Massalia, Syrakousai, Kyrene, Pergamon, Bosphoran Kingdom, for just the major ones.

[QuintusSertorius]

250BC and after a battle on the steppes and a big siege, Olbia is mine:



Pictured is the Bosphoran army immediately post-siege. There was basically a full stack in Olbia, though about six units of horse archers were out wandering around the province. Fought them first, then besieged what was left (Sarmatian Noble, a few more horse-archers, a unit of Scythian foot archers, a couple of Pontic spearmen, some Akontistai and about five units of levy hoplites). All in all, I think my new model army survived quite well considering they were under a hail of arrows a lot of the time.

The world in 250BC:

[Blxz]

I always thought the KH would be a better faction to move for those migrations? I don't really care about affecting the game. After all, some rebellions can easily simulate the extent of the KH in greece. I am more concerned with troop choice. Is epiros as flexible in the regions as the KH?