EBO June Team Tournament

[Kival]

I'm in as Koinon Hellenon in this one.

[Domusperkele]

sign me in as casse

[Arjos]

Frustrated due to the poor attendance at his party, the Hai Arkah Robin hired some thraco-germanic tribes across the Pontos Euxinos to raid hellenic colonies...
Dismayed the Koinon Hellenon decided to send two of their best Strategoi: Kival and The Celtic Viking...

The two forces clashed in Mikra Skythia and this is what transpired...

[The Celtic Viking]

In the aftermath of that battle, however, disputes arose over the share of the spoils. Hai Arkah Robin and Basileus Arjos Suadurix even came to blows and a peace was quickly settled between the Arkah and one of the Greek strategoi, The Celtic Viking, who join arms against the Basileus. Dismayed by the turn of events, the Thraco-Germans find themselves in a pitch and call in their Sarmatian allies for help, and being popular in Carthage from his time as a mercenary general in their army, Arjos was even able to convince the Carthaginians to send in a force of their own as well. This gave the Roman emperor Vega all the excuses he needed to enter in on the side of the Greek-Hai alliance.

Finally, when the omens seemed favourable, Basileus Arjos Suadurix and his allies attempted a sneak attack on the Romans before they could join the forces of the Arkah and the Greeks. Their movements had been noted however, and help was quickly sent on the way, but would they make it in time? Tune in here to see...

(I tried... )

[Arjos]

Ahahhahahaha I'm loving this AAR shaping up with the team battles: MOAR! :D

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

I'd spam the "Like" button for these battle lead-ups. Can't wait for some more!

[vartan]

So the truth has been revealed about my Hai brother, the fellow Arkah Sir Robin... sigh...

[Vega]

after their victory, the roman commander Yavana summons his fellow general Vega to capture the retreating getai. The hai arkah, realizing too many romans are encroaching on his lands forms a hasty alliance with the getic basileus. both then turn to face the oncoming roman forces.... see here how it ends! http://www.mediafire.com/?zymh3e4py9n70s1

P.S Thanks to Robin, i suck at this lol :DD

[Yavana]

Robin I used to be Cyris at Org You can change that and add me point WEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Will Tcv or Vega post the previous battle to that one as well? I forgot who participated in it already :p

[Vega]

Me and Tcv vs Robin and Stormrage played in that one

[The Celtic Viking]

New problems arising in Iberia forced the Romans to split their forces, and general Yavana sails away taking with him his army. Meanwhile the Arkah, having suffered a defeat and in need of reinforcements, once again showed evidence of his silver tongue as he convinced the Makedonians to take his side. Together they marched against the lone Roman general, who once again was joined by Strategos TCV. The intrepid Greek is intent on punishing the Arkah for turning on him, but whether the Arkah gets his just desert or if he prove his sword to be as sharp as his tongue, none shall know unless they see it here...

[gamegeek2]

Scratch that/

[Arjos]

After few setbacks, Basileos Suadurix called up allies from the steppe...
By clever manouvering, the Sauro-Getai forces managed to surprise the Arkah Robin and the hellenic colonist rallied by the Strategos Kival...
There's a rumor that the Arkah himself was unhorsed by riders!
Here's what occurred...

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Bollocks! The Arkah spends his time pleasuring his sizable harem, not gallivanting off to battle like some mere knight. He will return with new allies.

[gamegeek2]

Basileus Suadurix informed us of events transpiring along the Pontos Euxinios, that a conspiracy had been hatched by clever clever Greeks to obstruct the Elektrine Keleuthos. These Greeks and their Scythian friends conspired to starve the Getic kingdom of wealth from trade. Privy to this conspiracy was the Arkah of Hayasdan, who wished to move northwards along the Euxine coast and seize Maeotis and perhaps the Bosporan kingdom itself. The Greeks did not entirely approve of such a venture, but in exchange for the support of the Arkah against the Getai, they agreed that such a move would be acceptable.

My king, a longtime ally of the Bastarnae (and, by extension, their friends the Getai) dispatched me with this news and a force of well armed and armored horsemen to the Bosporan kingdom, to raise an army in order to combat the Greek invasion. The king, fearful of the power of Hayastan, presented me with a large force of well-armed hoplites, as well as a sizeable force of archers and a few slingers; with these he sent several of his finest chiliarchs. These I brought with my horsemen to the plains of Skythia, north of Olbia (which, along with the city-states of Kallatis and Dinogetia, had authored the plan to obstruct the Istros), moving to meet the Basileus and his Bastarnae allies.

The Hai expeditionary force soon reached the shores of Olbia, from whence it intended to begin its venture into the Bosporan kingdom as soon as it helped subdue the Geto-Sarmatian alliance. They assembled north of the city, and a Hellenic force soon mustered to join them. Up the Danu Apara it marched, until it received word of a Getic presence in the plains to the north; there it marched until it caught sight of Suadurix and the Bastarnae. While moving to meet the Basileus, I encountered the Armeno-Hellenic host and halted my progress, sending a sub-commanders to discuss battle-plans with the Getic king. A plan to take advantage of our accidental separation, an apparent disadvantage, was made...

[Kival]

You forgot the replay.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

The replay is provided in Arjo's post. GG2 just decided to do his own little write-up.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Write up to come tomorrow morning after some sleep

[Arjos]

Write up to come tomorrow morning after some sleep

Make sure to add a Time Traveller ripping apart the space-time continuum XD

On other news, Basileos Suadurix settled his differences with the Hellenikoi. An alliance was secured and protection for all the colonists in Mikra Skythia.
This allarmed the Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs: the two consuls for the year were dispatched to either break the alliance or put to the sword anyone, who dared oppose Roma.

But the Basileos was on the move, Strategos Kival rallied men and thanks to his personal connections, received Hoplitai Massaliotai to assist his cause.
Kival disembarked and regrouped at Dyrrachion, its port friendly to the Koinon Hellenon, marching northwards he was joined by Suadurix.
Consvl Yavana, always accompanied by his personal hispanic guard, raised troops from Gallia Cisalpina and started his march toward Dalmatia. At Salona, consvl Vega disembarked his old fashioned, levy army, which fielded elephants, but the long journey via sea, was too hard on the beasts and they were all sickly.

Without time to let the animals recover, the Geto-Hellenic army appeared in the countryside and started to pillage every village in the provincia. The Consvles rushed to meet them and this is what happened...

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

After having defeated the Roman foe, Basileos Suadurix and his Hellenic allies decided to turn their attention back to the Hai Arkah who after a string of defeats was desperate for new allies. Fortunately, he found them in the Epeirotes under the command of Strategos Capo who had been concerned with the growing power of the Getic king for some time. Marching over the Caucasus, he met the Epeirote force as it departed by ship west of the Chersonesos. The combined Getic-Hellenic force under Arjos and Kival departed from Olbia and upon the fields of Pripyet, this is what occurred...

[Arjos]

Silly, silly, damnable net issues killing the surprise effect :P

[The Celtic Viking]

The Celtic Viking - Koinon Hellenon (-1)(+1)(+1) = +2

Boy, these tournaments are really friendly to my point totals.

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After his last battle against the Arkah, The Celtic Viking - or Strategos Rehnskiöld as he was affectionately known as amongst his men - had rested his soldiers and stayed quiet for a while. Athletic competitions had been held amongst his troops to keep them occupied, and he had no more scores to settle. His polis' interests were safe and, for a long time, life was good. However, all good things must at some point come to an end, and when he heard the news of the battle at the Pripyet fields, he became worried. If the Arkah and the Epeirotes were indeed victorious, and against a Greek army as well, there was every reason to fear that he might once again be forced to take up his sword once more, and this time it wouldn't be a fair fight as he had no allies of his own to call upon. These fears proved needless, however, as the Epeirotes were in no mood for any more fighting, and retired back to their ships to sail for home. Instead, Basileus Arjos Suadurix once again called on his Sauromatae allies and started a march against the Arkah Robin. The tables had turned, and Arkah Robin realized he had no chance of winning this fight and turned around and fled.

Meanwhile, Strategos Rehnskiöld now had a different threat to consider. The Basileus may have sworn an oath of alliance with another Greek and promised to defend the Greek colonists, but it was not sworn to him, and who can trust a barbarian anyway? With the Greek army scattered in defeat, who knew that he would care to hold to any promise he may have made? It would be foolish to allow a situation to arise whereupon he had nothing to rely upon other than a barbarian's honour. No, in Strategos Rehnskiöld's mind, it was in his own interest that the Hai-Getai feud would go on, for as long as possible, without either party gaining any significant advantage over the other. Most of all he did not wish to see either side completely destroyed, which he thought was undoubtedly the most probable outcome for the Arkah if no one intervened.

So it was that when Arkah Robin in his flight ran right into the Strategos Rehnskiöld's army and feared the worst, the Strategos met with him and once again made peace. With the Hai army already tired from all the forced marching, they had not much choice but to make their stand where they were. This is what happened...

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

After the defeat of the combined Getic-Sarmatian force, the Hai Arkah was feeling good about his campaign. He had successfully played various Greek city-states against his numerous foes and had found powerful allies such as the Epeirotes. However, he was still having trouble striking south from the steppe, where his cavalry reigned supreme, into the thick woods and mountainous terrain of the Carpathians. There, Basileos Suadurix had his stronghold and far too many men for the Arkah to dislodge. With Strategos Rehnskiold and Strategos Capo both indisposed with other issues, the Arkah was forced to look elsewhere.

A runner approached the King of Kings with news that soon had his heart aflutter. The Gauls, legendary warriors from the west, who often appeared as prized mercenaries in the armies of his foes and allies, were said to be on the move eastwards. They had heard of fighting to the east, and in true Gallic fashion, wanted a piece of the pie so to say. One of these tribes were the Aedui, brave warriors under the command of a man known to his men as Bren Ulysses. This noble Celtic chieftain forged an alliance with the Hai Arkah; the Celts would raid the Danube basin of the Getic lands while the Arkah invaded from the north. The plan worked to perfection and Basileos Suadurix was faced with war on both fronts. Ceding territory rapidly to the Gallic warriors, the Getic forces retreated east, only to be met by the fierce horsemen of the Hai. Luckily for Arjos, the Hai had not treated the Hellenic citizens living on the coast with much respect, plundering their temples and ravaging their finer women. So it came to be that Strategos Kival was called upon to defend Hellenic honor and he arrived to the defense of the hard-pressed Getai.

The Arkah, seeing how many foes were now before him, skirted the north of the Carpathians and met up with plundering Gauls there. With plenty on the line for both sides, the two large forces clashed and click here to see what happened...

[Kival]

Garh, that was the one where my main line bugged :(.

Okay... now my one... I hope you can bear it:

The getai under Basileus Arjos defeated and the veterans of Strategos Kival killed, Strategos Kival went back to his poleis, sending a letter to Strategos Rehnskiöld to warn him about the new danger. Planning to use his newly trained men who learned to fight in the way of the the makedonian phalanx he wanted to join troops with the experienced forces of Strategos Renskiöld who had called fo thracian and anatolian allies. Both had lost a lot of their cavalry in the last month and decided to focus their strength in the infantry contingents, especially to hold off that celtic barbarians. But nothing ever works as planned and before they could march north to face the Celto-Hay-Alliance two messages forced a change of plans. The Celtic and Hayasdan troops could not agree on how to handle the spoils of war and the alliance already started to dissolve while in the meantime former Consul Vega declared himself princeps, first of the Roman citizen. To strengthen his newly achieved dictatorship over the Roman populus, he allied himelf with the Sarmatians and marched towards the greek cities to show his strength. Both greek Strategoi now were forced to deal with the new danger and rapidly marched towards the roman forces in hope they could reach them before they meet Xshaya Gamegeek, Second of His Name, but the new troops were slow and so they were forced to fight the Romans and Sarmatians at the same time.

Imperator Vega brought his two most experienced legions: Legio III Gallica and Legio IX Hispanica Triuamphalis newly reformed into the first imperial Legio I Vega while the barbaric sarmatians under Xshaya Gamegeek brought slavic man-eaters and Bastarnae mercenaries. Under the command of a small contingent of sarmatian heavy horse archers they forced greek colonies to sent them some men who'd not run away at the first contact with the modernized Spartan armies of the Strategoi Renskiöld and Kival. In a righteous fury the greek armies attacked and here you can see how it ended...

[vartan]

This is much more enjoyable than the simpler posts in my thread =)

Well done.

[Vega]

After many hard defeats of the Roman army by various barbarians, Roman commander Vega decided to attack Gallic warriors with his best and the most powerful legion, which were under control of Gallic leader better known as Ulysses with help of Strategos Kival who lead brave Greeks. Unexpectedly Ulysses made ​​an alliance with Hai Arkah Robin and his Armenian army.... Everything was ready for clash! See here what happened.... http://www.mediafire.com/?fbjmiukmkuraomo

[Kival]

Did you not realize I already made you emperor, vega?

[Kival]

Lazy had this match with me, so he should not be (-1) probably.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Can you please post your AAR replay?