superpowers?

**bubbanator** · 04-30-2005, 02:05

Regarding the fact that S.E. beat out Egypt: The two powers went to war with several full stacks each. Then everyone died. Then I went and took modern day egypt then went north along the coast to Sidon. So it was me that actualy took out the Egyptians, but not until S.E. wiped out their armies and took a few northern towns. Looking back on it, it would have been cool to see if S.E. could have actualy beaten Egypt on their own...

**Viking** · 04-30-2005, 10:26

Originally Posted by bubbanator

Looking back on it, it would have been cool to see if S.E. could have actualy beaten Egypt on their own...

I don`t think they had, otherwise you had done some of same modding as Kraxis.

I think I`ll try that modding, sounds exciting!

**Abokasee** · 04-30-2005, 10:33

I CONQURED 25 TERRTORIES AS ARMENIAS AND SAMSHED EGYPT AND CRUSHED THE SULECID IN THE SAME YEAR BUT I FORGOT TO SAVE BEFORE POWER CUT

**Abokasee** · 04-30-2005, 10:37

Egypt was pain the ass i was almost forced to become protect teorrate
but i assnated the phoaroa and killed all of them!!

**Abokasee** · 04-30-2005, 10:41

don't egypt is also strong because after you take most cites from them LOADS of elite units pop up as rebelion to make the city egytion again!!

**The Stranger** · 04-30-2005, 11:35

sounds like a fun game

**Titus Livius** · 04-30-2005, 11:52

This reminds me of my current Scipii campaign.

It's around 190 B.C. I've taken Rome and southern Italia, all of Spain, southern Greece (to include Crete and Rhodes), and all of North Africa from Mauretania to the Nile Delta. I was so busy with the Spaniards, the remaining Romans, and pushing the Egyptians out of their major cities that I wasn't terribly curious about anything east of Alexandria.

Then I get a message saying that Egypt has been annihilated and this piqued my curiousity. Who was cutting up the rest of the Ptolemaic empire while I was slaughtering her major armies? So I get map information from the first civilization I see, which was Pontus, and find that Pontus has taken all of Asia Minor, Armenia, Parthia....pretty much everything the Egyptians had and more.

I've never seen Pontus do so well. Generally they don't do well even against the Seleucids, much less Armenia, Parthia, and Egypt. It would have been very interesting to have seen exactly how they pulled it off.

**Titus Livius** · 04-30-2005, 11:55

Originally Posted by Abokasee

I CONQURED 25 TERRTORIES AS ARMENIAS AND SAMSHED EGYPT AND CRUSHED THE SULECID IN THE SAME YEAR BUT I FORGOT TO SAVE BEFORE POWER CUT

I'd recommend investing in an UPS (uninterruptable power supply). It's essentially a big battery that gives you anywhere from 9 to 30 minutes of power if grid power goes out, depending on the model. You can find them at most computer stores, and usually for a decent price.

**Kraxis** · 04-30-2005, 12:26

The game autosaves.

**Spartiate** · 05-01-2005, 01:41

While playing as Carthage in RTR i checked the diplomacy screen only to find that the Seleucid Empire was a protectorate of both the Ptolemic Empire AND Pontus and that Armenia had destroyed Parthia and had driven a wedge through Sarmatias' territory before making them a protectorate also.Dacia also had both Germany AND Thrace as protectorates.This is a much more refined version of the original RTW product.

**AntiochusIII** · 05-01-2005, 03:44

Originally Posted by Spartiate

While playing as Carthage in RTR i checked the diplomacy screen only to find that the Seleucid Empire was a protectorate of both the Ptolemic Empire AND Pontus and that Armenia had destroyed Parthia and had driven a wedge through Sarmatias' territory before making them a protectorate also.Dacia also had both Germany AND Thrace as protectorates.This is a much more refined version of the original RTW product.

Ah, yes. And Spartiate, the RTR team is currently striving very hard to overhaul RTR and 6.0 will soon come out within a week or two (or lesser, please! :) ). They're also very interested in overhauling the East. You'll see a new faction in the far east called Greco-Bactria (and another faction in the Balkans - Illyria), another breakaway kingdom of the Seleucids. They removed Thrace (and for Illyria, Britannia) for this. Also, apart from a huge number of features especially the ZOR+ concept they're very interested in trying to solve the weak Seleucid problem in which even RTR can't get away completely, yet. (The empire was the most powerful at 280 B.C. but in the game, they're the underdog, despite the size.)