Post your EB empires!

**Fluvius Camillus** · 11-04-2010, 18:56

A little update.

For some reason I don't trust the Qarthadast... No worries, I anticipated this so a new fullstack is just leaving Antiocheia!

Aristos (see the army in the pic has now landed and taken Sparte! He will continue to crush the Makedonian-Epeirote Alliance. Epeirote is trying to take Roma, while the Romani themselves are preoccupied with taking Numantia and Arctaunon.

~Fluvius

**Tanit** · 11-04-2010, 20:57

Just started a Pontos game, the Neo-Persian empire. I blitzed As early on out of Anatolia, took Mytilene from Makedon before making peace with them, accidentily started a war with the Ptolemaioi over Halikarnassos and kicked them out of Anatolia, now I am their ally. Still allied with Hayasdan, Baktria and Pahlava, they all sided with me when I declared war on AS. As won't take a peace offer because they border me, but I'm not at war with anyone else so now I'm just building up my economy, planning on taking Pergamon next and lavishing the province in an effort to use ancient Troy as a symbol of my defiance to Greek masters. The first image is the aftermath of my last battle against the Ptolemaioi, they sallied, where my faction heir besieged Tarsos with only three Hoplitai Haploi, two half-strength Pantodapoi Phalangitai, one unit of mercenary Galatian shortswordsmen and 1/5 strength unit of Cappadocian cavalry to supplement his bodyguard. The enemy had one sphendonetai, 2 klerouchoi phalangitai, 1 hippakontistai and a whole load of akontistai and pantodapoi. All full strength. The second picture is my empire so far.

**Fluvius Camillus** · 11-04-2010, 21:05

That the Qarthadast preview is done doesn't mean the EB team has time to relax!!!

Looks like a good start Tanit, I see good old Ariobarzanes is doing fine! Did you play with them before? You didn't feel like taking Salamis before the peace talks? And what about Rhodos? If you are still at war with the KH (because of Sinope), would you try to take it from them? And finally, did the Bosphoron allies already cry for help? Or don't you feel like going that way?

The funny thing is I tried the exact opposite of what usally happens with Pontos. I sided with the Seleukids when the allies broke away. That way the AS remained my ally and Hayasdan became neutral towards me. I used one army to take Side (I left Tarsos for the Seleukids). The other starting army went towards the Hayasdan. They took Ani-Kamah first and then attacked Armavir head on, with the final troops I could take Mtskheta and eliminate the Hai. I had almost no units left.

But these new provinces gave me the economic recovery I needed. I slowly came in positive numbers and finally squeezed out an army to take Kotais and Trapezous. Later I also took Sinope and by the time the Arche Seleukeia betrayed me I was ready to meet them.

While I was lucky that the AS didnt attack me right away, this was a fun way to play it and can work too.

~Fluvius

**Tanit** · 11-04-2010, 21:44

I've played it both ways on VH/VH before, building up and keeping the Seleucid alliance, and taking them out early as I did this time. Right now I'm only playing on M/M for a nice relaxing game. I have not attacked Sinope yet, and thus have not gone to war with them yet. Bosporus hasn't said a word to me yet. And I didn't have a fleet to take Salamis with. Currently the Koinon are doing really well since I kicked Macedon out of Anatolia and Epeiros took Pella. The Koinon have taken Korinth and as such haven't built any additional armies on Rhodos, meaning I have some time to prepare to attack that island if I want. I'm also experimenting with doing a bit of roleplaying. I have restored Sardis and Ipsos as the 'independant' kingdoms of Lydia and Phrygia while Kappadocia is royal territory and Halikarnassos and Mytilene are philhellenic satrapies. Side is becoming a Persian satrapy and Tarsos is going to be part of my royal territory.

**IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer** · 11-04-2010, 21:56

Here's the Carthage that I built after a few weeks of labor. I spread myself out all over the place toward the beginning, but I eventually connected most of my territories by the end. I still haven't reached the victory conditions for some reason..it says I still need to raid Kirtan and a couple other north african cities, but I've already captured them, so..

I went to war with Ptolemaioi fairly early on. After capturing Egypt, Lusotannen and Romani attacked me immediately, and over the next 50+ years we slowly fought it out.

Macedon became the rival superpower to me and the strongest AI faction in the game. They eventually got worn down attacking the Sweboz and my troops at the Bosporan Kingdom, and are pretty weak now.

One thing I noticed when playing this campaign - I realized why the Romani always start off strong and then get stuck later on. In my game, they were steamrolling at the beginning but then ran into the impossibly strong rebel armies and generals around Eburonem. They ended up spending the next 20+ years pouring all their stacks into Erzurum and getting destroyed, and they ended up falling apart.

**Tanit** · 11-04-2010, 22:10

You still have to take Sidon. and possibly those two Epeirote Italian territories. The raiding just means you have to have owned the territory once by the time you finish the rest of the victory conditions. Don't worry, it will count later.

**IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer** · 11-04-2010, 22:19

Oh, you're right..I forgot all about Sidon, way over there. Well..time for a sea voyage!

**Fluvius Camillus** · 11-04-2010, 22:40

Originally Posted by Tanit

You still have to take Sidon. and possibly those two Epeirote Italian territories. The raiding just means you have to have owned the territory once by the time you finish the rest of the victory conditions. Don't worry, it will count later.

He owns the Epeirote territories, because Epeiros is his protectorate.

Nice empire btw, it seems that the Romani finally succeeded in taking Eburonem.

~Fluvius