Post your EB empires!

[Harkilaz]

I don't know what that is? Is it the Alexander expansion? I haven't bought any expansion for Rome TW, EB is doing a wonderful job on its own.

[d'Arthez]

Alex.exe is the Alexander expansion. Different .exes seem to affect the game slightly. One of the more curious effects of Alex.exe is that characters seem to be unable to die of old age.

It is extremely unlikely that with a regular Rome-TW.exe a character would reach the ripe old age of 99, but it is certainly not impossible.

[XSamatan]

If you use Alexander and don't juggle with the trait file, all you family members become immortal, they only die in battles.

However, if other FM's die due to natural causes it is just chance how old a character can get.

XSamatan

[Fluvius Camillus]

If you use Alexander and don't juggle with the trait file, all you family members become immortal, they only die in battles.

However, if other FM's die due to natural causes it is just chance how old a character can get.

XSamatan

Isn't this fixed already? I altered nothing after installing alex.exe and for example Areus of Sparta died in my KH campaign of old age, so did Chremonides.

~Fluvius

[fomalhaut]

i posted this on the ALEX EAEM release thread but another quirky feature of the EAEM for me was the removal of the native voice acting for all units! still waiting for clarification if this was a bug for me or a feature. id rather have Hannibal die at 16 rather than never hear the native unit voices

[vartan]

Isn't this fixed already? I altered nothing after installing alex.exe and for example Areus of Sparta died in my KH campaign of old age, so did Chremonides.

~Fluvius

The sub-modification package that allows EB to utilize the Alexander expansion engine (i.e., RTW v1.9), by Maksimus, includes the necessary textual changes that remove the immortality of FMs.

[Paltmull]

I don't know what that is? Is it the Alexander expansion? I haven't bought any expansion for Rome TW, EB is doing a wonderful job on its own.

Never mind then :)

[Harkilaz]

My Empire is facing some damned hard fights now. There's a war on every front. Carthage, who've been friendly with since the start of the game, has pushed through Spain and has declared war on us, laying siege to Emporium. I can't relieve it in time as my armies in France are at the north edge finishing the off the Audeui, so I've gutted the place and hope my garrison there can maul the army before they all die, while the Greeks have declared war and are attacking my eastern border, and have captured Ascaucalis. I tried to siege it, but was driven off by three more full stack armies. I only have one army there. The other, close to it, is laying siege to Luvaloacta, which the Romans had taken from me. Harkilaz is now 110 and insanely brave... and has spent the last few years campaigning in Italy, sacking Patavium, Arretium, Rome, Capua and Arimnum - completely destroying all the buildings and leaving the cities in ruins... But the Romans have entered France, and have laid siege to Gergovia, and one army is headed for Tolosa. I haven't enough armies to take them all on, but Harkilaz' destruction has enriched me massively! This is going to be a hard fight, but the Sweboz must win!

[vartan]

That family member may, if you can succeed, prove to be the oldest person who ever lived on record (virtual or otherwise, excepting sci-fi games).

[Epimetheus]

As I recall, if a family member gets old enough (I think the number was 120, but I can't vouch for that), the count will actually reset to 16, and start all over again.

[Harkilaz]

He's 114 now, but sadly, after his pillage of Italy, (which consisted of a series of large battles and the sack of seven cities - in addition to those mentioned above: Bononia and Segesta, while he took Mediolanum for the Sweboz to hold) he's picked up some bad traits. Hooting and deranged and filthy minded. So now he's a complete raving lunatic who makes owl sounds. Sort of spoils the first 112 years of his life really (I heard from somewhere that if you have a certain amount of money this can affect these sort of traits?). Oh well. I'm sure he'll die soon. He is now decrepit. All those years of constant warfare has finally caught up with him and his mind has snapped. A tragic end...

[Lysimachos]

But there are family members in your campaign who actually die, right?

[Alrik]

That family member may, if you can succeed, prove to be the oldest person who ever lived on record (virtual or otherwise, excepting sci-fi games).

He is germanic, perhaps he is the legendary danish/swedish king called Harald Hildetand whom his friends tried to drown in his bath when he had turned a hundred and fifty by piling wood and stones on top of it. Taking the hint that he'd lived long enough he asked them to stop and asked for the chance to die as a king should, in battle. So he send word to Sigurd Ring, the king of Norway and they mustered forces for seven years before they actually met on the field. There he beheld the astonishing deeds of heroes on both sides and were so inspired that he joined the fray, with a sword in each hand he cut a blody path from his chariot (he had trouble walking) and then suddenly is chancelor who were also on the chariot, hit him over the head with a clup, deeming that the old man had gathered glory enough. Hence he died assumingly a 157 years old.

[vartan]

I find it mad to believe men can live such long times. Mad.

[Harkilaz]

Hehe, sadly he won't make Harald's age. He just died.



Rest in peace, Harkilaz, you earned it. 275 BC - 169 BC, faction leader from 220 BC to 169 BC. The Empire is in mourning. Harkilaz personally commanded around 150 battles (maybe more), the majority of which he was heavily outnumbered. His last gift to the Sweboz Empire was a massive victory against the Roman forces.





This is his profile before he died.

[Alrik]

Ahh he's born before the game starts, that must mean I have him too. Yeah I'm playing a Sweboz campaign as well. You beat me to posting in this thread though (wanted to read through it all fist, which took a while :P..ok ok I skipped some parts, mostly where there were no pictures, I'm a bad person :P)

I must take a look later how he's fared so far, I'm just at spring of 259BC Oh, that means he should turn of age this year...guess he hasn't accomplished much then :P