Thrace

**rotorgun** · 10-26-2005, 23:28

Originally Posted by Craterus

Well, we start campaigns round each others houses (in real life), and continue them whenever he comes round, or I go round to his.

So far, we've done: Spain, Britannia, Julii and now Thrace. We started Dacia, but never really continued it..

Sounds like fun. I thought that you both played on different computers, and just used the same strategic moves, but then I'm sure it wouldn't take long for the outcomes to diverge too much. I sure would like to see an online multiplayer mode for the imperial campaign, allowing for each player to resolve any battles as in the current multiplayer system. Don't you agree?

**Craterus** · 10-26-2005, 23:32

Online Imperial Campaign, just like you asked...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=54704

**pezhetairoi** · 10-28-2005, 02:25

Goodness, just saw Seamus' post about EB taking my soul, and goodness, I think it really has. I haven't posted here for an eternity. Anyhow. I'm on MM now, but I've finally discovered the beauty of Thrace when I tried a sample campaign for myself. Nothing could stand against my Hoplite-falxmen combinations. Ranged troops were just plain annoying since I was up against light lancers, whose horses simply ran down my peltasts thrown out on the flanks with the hippakontistes a la Gaugamela. But the peltasts bought enough time for me to bring up the falxes in reserve and give seven kinds of hell to the light lancers. Nasty. Bet no one's ever seen 2 units of falxes rout 5 6 units of light lancers double-unitedly ever. :-D Beautiful. By turn 15 I had the eastern Balkans. If there's one grouse I have it's that the falxmen die really too quickly. 3-7-0 is a sure recipe for fast kills.

...Well it was, till I applied my hitpoints mod to the entire export_descr_units.txt file.

**GrimSta** · 11-21-2005, 20:32

ive been playing around with Thrace, and have added Thracian Noble Cavalry to the third tier stables, and also added Levy Pikemen to second tier barracks.

If anyone wants this then i can upload it somewere for download.

**pezhetairoi** · 11-25-2005, 06:12

well, i would. Do you have unit cards for them too, or are they grey peasants?

**GrimSta** · 11-25-2005, 17:56

its got unit cards, unit info cards and im updating it to make it slightly more historical (they are on the border of 3 totaly differant nations so they have a military that reflects their neighbors)
So in the next version of it expect:

Thracian Noble Cavalry
Thracian Heavy Peltasts
Getic Horse Archers
Levy Pikemen
Bastarnae have lower defence, slightly improved attack and horde formation
Thrace starts off with Byzantium
Faction Leader's army starts off with 1 noble cav, 1 milita hoplite, 1 levy pikemen, 1 falx men and the faction leader - he is in Byzantium also

The changes i thought were what was needed, if you think i should add/remove anything then please say......this was made to make the campaign more enjoyable, not stupidly easy.

EDIT:
here is the link, and also screenshots of Beta v1.0
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=57210

**spong** · 07-01-2006, 15:03

to Grimsta:
I would really like to use your mini-mod as playing Thrace has appealed to me for some time but their lack of decent cavalry is irritating - I tried to dload your mod but the site you hosted it on has removed it - I was wondering if you could upload it again somewhere?

**gmjapan** · 07-11-2006, 14:41

Do Falxmen have any bonuses against cavalry? They seem to be able to wipe the floor with all light and some heavy cav units in my game as Thrace.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 08-05-2006, 20:34

Time: 237-ish BCE.

Politics:

At war = Dacia (betrayed alliance), Scythia (betrayed alliance), Macedonia (betrayed alliance, signed cease fire, signed alliance, betrayed alliance again), Seluecia (betrayed alliance), and all of the Roman factions.

Neutral = Greece (attacked me, signed cease fire when only Rhodes was left in the Aegean), Egypt (attacked me, signed cease fire after losing two 3/4 stacks in Anatolia, Armenia, Germania.

Allies = Pontus (no further West than Ancyra), Gaul, Briton, Spain (eradicated by Gaul, Carthage and the Julii).

Income & Forces: Doing nicely. Can't build everything (but getting stuff built) but each city has a half stack garrison (50% real troops) and I have a 3/4 stack cavalry army in Getae, and Full stack infantry forces in Anatolia and Thessalia and I am still netting 5k+. Lots of mercs in the Cav army and as "the shot" in the infantry forces.

Territories:

Start + Byz, Byza, Lari, Therm, Ath, Cor, Spar, Kyd, Hali, Sard, Perg, Nico.

Approach: Did not initiate war, built alliances with all neighbors. Took Byz, Nico, Hali, Kyd, then Spar with my intial attack army. Force structure too weak to fight further (so Mac and Scy instantly attacked). Slowly fought for and took Cor, Therm, and Ath, then rebuilt and took Lari (Bruti after Thermon, bloodily repulsed, assassins going to Appo). Byza snapped up by plagued war hero, Sardis acquired after Selkie betrayal.

**guineawolf** · 07-31-2007, 07:52

Originally Posted by GrimSta

ive been playing around with Thrace, and have added Thracian Noble Cavalry to the third tier stables, and also added Levy Pikemen to second tier barracks.

If anyone wants this then i can upload it somewere for download.

militia hoplites performs better as swordmen than levy pikemen for me,if i ever need phalanxes,i rather use phalanxe pikemen......

i will reconsider when i need more men to display my army at once.....