Carthage: blood, gold and desert sun.

[SwordsMaster]

Ok, couldnt resist the temptation: Anyone interested in a Carthage campaign?

Here are the rules:
- Youngest heir inherits
- medium battle difficulty (dont care about the campmap)
- no mods installed
- full reign (ie, till the leader dies)
- 1 elephant per stack.
- large unit size


Anyone interested?

[Chimpyang]

I'll certainly play.....

[econ21]

I'm interested - time permitting. Not sure about "youngest heir" inherits - that seems to be maximising the length of each reign, when they are going to be twice as long as MTW anyway. Why not just let the player choose the best candidate for the job? (with not being too old a criterion?). Or if you want to be dynastic, oldest son of faction leader?

[ChaosLord]

I'd be up for the game, but i'll have to second Simon. We need some way to restrict the length of the reigns. I say we make it so the heir is choosen from the faction leaders immediate family (sons first, then brothers, then uncles, then cousins) and it is choosen at age 50. Age 50 will also be when said ruler retires and gives the save to the next player.

Storywise the ruler can be dead or just having stepped down. In game nothing had to necessarily change to show this besides making sure the choosen heir is selected. Oh, and I think saying noone over 40 or under 20 years old would be a good restriction on choosing heirs. Thats a 60 turn reign at max, and a 20 at worst. I'd imagine most will be somewhere in the center. Its a little more then MTW but it should play about the same.

Just my ideas, and i'd like campaign difficult to be very hard, and battle difficulty hard. The +4 attack bonus is just like assuming the AI has decent generals for any given stack, which is the same assumption you could make with a player. Anyway, tell me what you think.

Eidt- And I forgot to say, the first reign would be exempt from the retire at 50 rule and heir choosing rule since they already start older then that I think. First player would just play first reign, then the heir up to age 50.

[SwordsMaster]

okay, reconsidering the age, as in most cases the leader will be still alife at 50, the next player will pick the heir as he/she prefers it.

And, after the leader steps down from the throne, he cant participate in any battles except when you cant help it, (i.e, when you fight close to a town where he is the governor, or the town is besieged).

If possible-affordable, bring him to the capital.

Difficulty Hard/Hard is ok? I dont want the AI overpowered so that 4 hastati stand a charge after charge and dont break... And in the other hand carthage has to invest a fair amount in armies right at the beginning so the campmap should not be so harsh either....

Thoughts?

[ChaosLord]

Sounds good, i'm not exactly sure what very hard campaign map difficulty does besides make auto-resolve tougher. Plus Carthage is supposed to be a harder faction anyway. So just tell me when its my turn.

[SwordsMaster]

finished the story. BTW Simon, I cant see the screenshots theres only a red "x".

[econ21]

Thanks, Swordsmaster, screenshots fixed. By the way, our stories mesh fairly well!

[SwordsMaster]

Yeah, that'll give it some fluency and continuity. Good work m8! I like your style!

[SwordsMaster]

hmm, its not that Im worried or anything, but how is the campaign going?
there hasnt been much activity here for a week or so, so Im just curious...

[ChaosLord]

I'm sorry to do this to you guys, but I don't have time to play right now. I've been trying to play the game but things keep coming, you know how holidays are. I probably won't have any time until after the new year. I had thought my turn would come around sooner when I signed up, this is just a busy month for me. So kick me to the end of the line or whatever if the game goes on long enough for me to get another shot.