Black Sea Serenade

[ReluctantSamurai]

Not exactly Zerkerkreig but this army isn't so shabby:

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/a...rdman/WR04.jpg

60k denarii in debt by the time I got to Athens.

The economy is very difficult to get off the ground, for sure. I'm only playing on H/H so I can't imagine having to do it on VH/VH....

Some interesting things to note in that screenie is the Parthians going nuts in the Middle East, and Seleucia actually holding their own against the Big E (in fact going on the offensive and sieging Jerusalem and Sidon at one point...).

The biggest winners from not having Germania in their traditional homelands are the Gauls and Britannia, obviously, and this has made the Julii inactive for the last 30 yrs (probably waiting for Uncle Marius to show up, I guess)

trying to claim Greece with Germany's starting units

I started with Dacian and Thracian territories. Big enough towns to get what I wanted, and not such a big culture penalty. I took the Scythian capital because they kept lining troops up on my border in preparation for an attack:

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/a...rdman/WR02.jpg