Poll: scale the difficulty of each campaign

[vartan]

Just like every dude who claims completion of the hardest campaigns, you prefer to brag ("I've done it"), than actually explain what are your army compositions, which settlement you go for first, did you develop before attacking, did the Ptolemaioi keep the Seleucids busy while you were being superman, how far you went before quitting, or provide a screenshot.

Please enlighten us.

Nice to meet you, too. I know it's really tiring to use the search feature, especially since it doesn't work half the time, so let me make this convenient. I remember in the past there were far more Hye campaign guides than there are now (yes, Hye; who came up with "Hai" anyway? was a Japanese guy working on the faction?). I don't see many around nowadays, but not to worry.

The way I go about things is different than how some others might. As you can see in this thread, another Hai player has chosen to go about replicating, more or less, the shape of the country of modern Iran. I'm still trying to find the Persian cat resemblance, but oh well, maybe another day. I personally find that a very plausible approach, but as usually is the case, there are always options for the player. I also cut through the Arche Seleukeia by going through Karkathiokerta (Arshamshat), Arbela, Susa (Shushan) and Babylonia (Babelon). By sacking each of these towns (I would occupy Karkathiokerta), you make bank whilst splitting the AS in half, destroying its trade routes and military lines of support. The example in this thread shows a progression towards the east. I myself move toward the west, occupying the region west of the Jordan, at least to Antioch, since you need to make that the stronghold standing between you and the Ptolemaic empire. At this point you have effectively recreated ancient Hayastan, but by almost 2 centuries before the fact, since EB is blitz-friendly. Some things you could do at this point are build up your economic base (more than you have done so already), defend your eastern borders against futile attacks, take Asia minor, or invade and annihilate the Ptolemaic empire (I would do this last). I would argue against anybody who says that Hayastan has the hardest campaign, but that would be useless since I'm in no objective position to argue (you know what I'm talking about?)

So lighten up. Have a Red Bull. Gives you wings.

EDIT: Oh, sorry, I forgot about the people without a sense of humour...this one's for you. Don't invade the north. You can make the Sarmatians your allies by turn #3, no questions asked, every single campaign. Guaranteed. This is VH/M, as recommended by the EB dev team. Next, have archers, lots of archers. Archers take out lightly armoured ground and mounted troops, easy easy lemon squeezy. Slingers and your remaining arrows take out heavily armoured troops that should be pinned by your lightly armoured men. You do lose men in the process but you should expect no less and no more. That's why you keep re-filling those voids of pins by mercs and/or more light spears. And I don't need to talk about the use of lance cav, almost exclusively on the Heavy aisle for the Hye. And I certainly need not talk about the early stages of the campaign. If you can't figure out that you need to secure the Caucasus, I sure as heck hope you're not running for Governor of Cali, coz you ain't getting my vote.