The House of Julii... Campaign Thread

[econ21]

Contrary to what I had been promised, my new computer still has not arrived, so King Yngvar please go ahead and download the savegame. Courier willing, I will take the decade after yours!

[King Yngvar]

Alright, I shall start my reign as soon as possible :)

[King Yngvar]

Julii: 240 - 230 BC Short description

The economical situation was fragile at the start of my reign, the person who played before me must have been focusing everything on taking Spain. My leader, Manius (mighty/conqueror or something), became Manius the Builder by the time my reign was over. He spent all the 10 years in Asturia. I did not move him once, if I had the town would be filled with rebel scum anyway. I had two generals wipe out the Britons gradually. Armorica was abandoned at first but retaken when reinforcements arrived. By the time my reign was over, it was taken back, along with Belgica, Londinium and Caledonia. Mauretania was taken from the Numidians, snatched it right before the Scipii could get it. I declared war upon Dacia and seized Noricum. The financial situation was vastly improved I think. I also started building up forces at the border near the other Romans, preparing for the civil war...

[econ21]

Julii 230-220 BC short description

I concentrated on improving our financial situation - I inherited a treasury of 4297 gold and left one of 72908. I built buildings continuously, but kept troop purchases to a minimum. We are now the most advanced faction, but the Brutii top the general faction ranking chart.

Our faction leader, now Marius the Orator, managed to escape from being held hostage by disloyal Spaniard citizens and conducted an epic march from Asturia to Dacia.

The war on Dacia went well with our forces seizing Campus Iazyges, but then the Germans decided to get involved. The penultimate turn was an epic with Marius arriving from Spain with 1128 men to relieve Lovosice just in time to be attacked by 2850 Germans! He killed 2821 men, for the lost of 220.

My successor will have a fun decade punishing the Germans!

PS: Minor point - I have sent a diplomat on a boat on a world tour, starting with Egypt - I think trade may get better if we discover more cities on the map and establish more trade agreements.

[King Yngvar]

By the way, battle in Belgica 235:

[econ21]

We need another player to take up the reigns - I suggest either advertising in the Colosseum and Entrance Hall; or simply recycling back to the first player (the Emperor).

I also think we need to get the write-ups done soon - King Yngvar, why don't you put a placeholder in the story thread like Chimpyang has done and then I will post a write-up? I can't promise much though, as I did not take any screenshots (didn't know how), sorry.

[kingcool900]

do you need another player becuse i want to joint his pbm

[Amon_Zeth]

Yes, please!

[Piko]

i would like to join the pm too!if i can that is

[Piko]

How do you set unit size?
oh and how do you edit previous posts?

[econ21]

Sorry, somehow the last few posts passed me by - as far as I know, this PBM is open, I was the last King to have signed up. The savegame is in the uploader for PBM games - see Shadeswolf's stickied thread in this forum. I copied this shortcut to the game which should also work:

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/...PBEM-220bc.rar

Kingcool900 declared an interest first, so he should have a bit of time to download the game. But if he does not post in a few days, shadowstar should feel free to do so. It is supposed to be 10 years per player, so the waiting involved should not be too long. Have fun!

PS: Shadowstar - I believe you can change unit size in the options setting in the initial menu. Unfortunately, I don't think junior members can edit their posts - best thing is to make a few sensible posts in the entrance hall and hope the mods will promote you to member. I'm not too keen on the system, but the org is a good place to hang out.

[Piko]

can i download it now because kingcool900 hasn't replied to the post in 4 days so i think he isn't looking at it anymore.

[Piko]

help!

after opening the shortcut and saving the file into my saves i can't open the game!

[econ21]

Shadowstar - the file is compressed by winrar; you need that winrar.exe to uncompress it. Do a google search for winrar and the first hit should take you to a web page where you can download a free trial version of winrar. It's very easy to use. Once you have winrar, you can extract the savegame file proper and put that into your savegame directory.

[Piko]

thanks simon

[Piko]

okay after 1 turn i've noticed that the brutii have amassed a big army a little north of greece so i think it would be wise to step of the financial road and start building armys

[Piko]

i've made the save a .rar file but how do i post it?

[Piko]

My first 8 turns or so i spent moving around army's and building them to prepare for my conquest of Rome when i started it i had bribed all of the spqr forces except 1 general and his 4 elite units,they got crushed.
What i should probably say is that i've expanded by now to the north a little and further to the east into the German and Dacian lands respectively here follows the description of my battle versus the last great German army(at that time)
Battle for Vicus Marcomanni:
The german army came up the mountain and were instantly showered by projectiles by the archer auxilia on top they sent their general and noble cavalry up.
The mercenary Barbarian cavalry units(2 at the time)+my general attacked them,crushed them and killed the german general then i sent my legions of the mountain they crushed the spearmen and axemen and they were easily run down by my cavalry byebye German faction leader and biggest army byebye.
Now i invaded the brutii in greece with their own forces that i had bribed, 5 full stacks i believe 3 with generals one without and the rest(with a general) didn't fight and got scattered over the cities i've allready conquered.
another battle description Battle for Illyria!:
The brutii had brought all their nearby army's together to defeat Spurius Fonteius and his men(20 units)7 units from segestica that he was besieging,15 units+general and 3 from the east the 15 came from the valley the 7 from Segestica came from up hill and the 3 units from the east.
On the hill i had my general 1 roman cavalry 2 early legionary cohorts and 1 auxilia unit.
The rest of my 20 units were hiding in the forest a little above the valley and my archer auxilia (5 units) were decimating the brutii with projectiles from uphill the Br. as i will refer to them sent their cavalry up the hill and were ambushed by my 2 legionary cohorts,8 early legionary cohorts and my 2 Roman cavalry units after they were killed i sent my 2 legionary cohorts east to intercept the army of 3 units and my other 12 units swept down and crushed the early legionary cohorts in the valley then it was just a matter of sending my infrantry and cavalry north to backup the elite bodygaurd(the 4 units on the hill in the north) i had left with my general with and clean up the last leftover units, 2 or 3 scattered Br. units that is had a great crush for the Br. on the more western front
,anyway im going to sleep now
More will follow later!

[The Panda Centurion]

Any chance that i could take a shot at it? It sounds like fun.

[econ21]

Shadowstar instructions for uploading savegames can be found at:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=29005

Post or PM me if you have difficulties.

Panda Centurion maybe give Shadowstar some time to upload his game. If he does not, then you can always download my 220BC one.

[orcorama]

hi id like to join
i have 1.1 patch
im not sure what version you used so i dont know if it will work
my e-mail is orcorama@yahoo.com

[econ21]

Orcarama, glad to have you on board. Just download the savegame and play a decade. It seems like Shadowstar never uploaded his savegame, so we are back to 220BC, I am afraid. The campaign used the latest patch - I thought that was 1.2? (The first patch was just for MP and tweaked elephants).

[orcorama]

it worked even though i have 1.1

About half way through my reign I have taken the two central german provinces and am advancing on the rest. I have 60 something K. Also i have taken the daccian capitol and scythia from the daccians. i captured the northern thracian province that the greeks had conquered.
I got the chance for power message but i think i will leave the next king with a strong army on the border. the problem with the cival war is that the brutii and scipii are quite strong and we are between them.
i took ireland because i didnt like not haveing that corner.
I have upgraded several cities and am trying to upgrade money buildings.
i took a few screenshots of my conquests where do i put them?

[Craterus]

I think you just post them here on this thread..
Sounds like you had a successful reign..

[Chimpyang]

Yeha bin a long time since i saw this thread......it's for 1.1 and it could do with finishing off. hint hint!

[orcorama]

well in that case ill attack rome and if no one else comes ill mop up the rest of germany and daccia.

[cunobelinus]

i am up fro a 10 year reign wen i get a new copy of the game as my game is broken

[orcorama]

hi!
i had a computer virus so i have not had a chance to play or post sorry

i am about half way through my reign.
if you dont mind waiting for me to rejiger my computer to get rome to work ill post my savegame as soon as i finish.