Arche Seleukeia VH/VH City MOD b. and a solution for some first few calm years

[MDPR]

Comment from my campaign here, year 237 BC, where everything is going so more well, than in my previous campaign.


One of my spies (spy-network), found this 22-unit-full Pahvala stack, with more than 1000 heavy horses in it!

Not a stack I want to encounter between two cities.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Good to see you are doing better!

Finish off Hekatompylos and Gabai, then Pahlava won't have a foothold in your lands anymore. That way you can hold the Hyrkanian defense wall (Zadrakata and Asaak).

By the way, 20 units is the maximum of a stack. You might be confused because there are two rows and 2 units. Those 2 rows are actually 9 per, not 10.

~Fluvius

[vollorix]

If i see it right 200 of those horses are the Aracosian Skirmishers - not really heavy, but, as most of they kind, very annoying ( though, not so much as horse archers, indeed ^^ ).
And i think thats the reason i somehow dislike playing eastern factions - too many arrows, too heavy armour, and... my Cantabrian Circle all the way.. lol

[Fluvius Camillus]

If i see it right 200 of those horses are the Aracosian Skirmishers - not really heavy, but, as most of they kind, very annoying ( though, not so much as horse archers, indeed ^^ ).
And i think thats the reason i somehow dislike playing eastern factions - too many arrows, too heavy armour, and... my Cantabrian Circle all the way.. lol

Dahae Skirmisher cavalry, not Arachosian. The unit I find the most annoying to find against when facing the Pahlava is the Dahae Noble Cavalry, an extremely versatile unit which can make any battle you fight them a nightmare.

~Fluvius

[MDPR]

LOL, omg, only having played the campaign for god knows how long now, - always counted the AI stacks like that as 22 ones!

Need glasses or more concentration I guess.

Thanks for brining the fact up Fluvious. Also congratulations with your own campaign. As said, looking forward to read a report on it.


Aracosian Skirmishers - not really heavy maybe, but well, I regard them as such.

[MDPR]

All right, no screens up yet, however, just wanna say that my situation has changed completely by now.

1. Pontus attacked me and took a city from me.

2. When my troops left my border with my old and trustful ally, Macedonia, in order to scramble those into an offensive stack hitting Pontus, guess who attacked me...yes, Macedonia. Using two full stacks from start, besieging two cities from start.

3. Then I lost two cities - 1 revolted and 1 Macedonia captured. It strangely lifted the siege of one of my cities? Im not complaining about that.

4. Then the steam slowly began from Ptolemie - the stack after stack thing - OMG! :-), and then I got frustrated having to fight all these battles manually against Ptolemie, that I did 2 auto-battles up at Asaak and lost a whole stack + Asaak it self too. Lol! great.

5. Then I moved troops from my cities southeast of Asaak, to Asaak, but then Baktria suddenly placed 2 stacks next to those cities, so my troops had to return, so Baktria wouldent find my cities to be too an easy prey.

6. Then I managed to capture Damaskos, that until now, for most of the game had belonged to Eleutheroi, since I pretty much gave it away to Eleutheroi from start, in order to make a stronger Eleutheroi-buffer against Ptolemie.

7. Then I recaptured the city Pontus had taken from me and instantly after this city-victory, I logically tried to take out another full Pontus stack, standing just next to the city-walls, so it wouldn't besiege me the turn after, also basically being my first open-field-battle against Pontus, also turning into a major defeat. I lost almost 2500 men!, thus my whole stack, whereof Pontus lost few 500?!


So. As for now all my cities west of Antiocheia are threatened by Macedonia and Pontus, while Ptolemie seems to getting warmed up for the stack-steam-roll, I so far have been able to avoid.


Perhaps I shouldn't play on VH/VH using the City B?