Epeirote, conqueror or conquered!

**Ragabash** · 02-01-2006, 01:27

271 BC Spring.

Macedonians have sended more troops to stop Pyrrhos, they have fought hard and with courage but they have caused only minimal damage luckily. Now only small army of Macedonians stand on my way to Pella.

In Italian peninsula Captain Hippokrates was ready to engade forces of Rhegium. Everything seemed to go as planned.

My forces started to push enemies hard. It seemed to go fine in this point with not really worries. Captain Hippokrates was doing good job.

Until! I should have known that captain Hippokrates, as being only Illyrian pirate would rn away immediatly when hes life was in danger. So he fled from enmies at the heart of battle taking much of other troops with him. This caused mass panic and in a moment all my troops were being chased down.

Now Romans are wondering north of Taras, who might know they could backstab us now that our army is weak in Italy at the moment. We will see soon how all this will end. Great failure from captain Hippokratus, great failure indeed.

**pezhetairoi** · 02-01-2006, 13:34

War is fickle in fortunes... who's to know what happens next? Defend Tarentum! Jewel of the Greek west, and a major trading city. Defend it if you can! It's time for Ptolemaios to show some backbone and do some fighting himself :)

**Ragabash** · 02-01-2006, 14:22

271 BC Winter.

Romani havent used my weak point at Italian peninsula to their benefit yet. Still their troops near Taras are making Ptolemaios very nervous, not only Italian land is in danger, also hes life can be.

In Greece everything is going smoothly.After countlest of victories way to Macedonian capital had been opened and now it was time to siege them. Due Epeirote was short of cash. Over 20000 in fact. Pyrrhos decided to disable elephants from his army. Not easy decision, but for sure needed one.

While sieging Pella Pyrrhos was exptecting to starve some of Macdonian troop before marching towards gate. Macedonians knew only way to fight was to push siegers away and so they made surprise attack to Pyrrhos troops. Now Pyrrhos should fight against experienced Macedonian royal body gueards and their elite soldiers compared to Pyrrhos troops. What would happen now that Pyrrhos elephants were no more.

Macedonian king making charge at my troops. Their experience and armored elite troops caused a lot damage to my first line.

Even more Macedonian general bodyguards charged at my lines. Soon I found that my troops were losing. It was time for Pyrrhos to gather hes bodyguards and charge towards enemy.

Battle was bitter and long. Pella's people were quickly enslaved by their new masters. Many of Pyrrhos troops had been killed and now more than ever Eperiotes was in real danger. Even if Pyrrhos was victorius he had so few troops that it was becomming real danger to whole Epeirote as finacial situation seemed really bad also.

Was Pyrrhos conquest for Pella took all power from Epeirote and drawn their homeland to be invaded my foreign people. Future will tell. But now Pyrrhos enjoys hes victory from over proud Macedonians.

PS. Tell your opinion should i continue for giving small detail information or focus more on big events. Ehmmm what I mean do you get bored to read all useless stuff I write down

**pezhetairoi** · 02-01-2006, 14:32

well I suppose the decision is yours to make, this is your history that you're making after all...

I'd say you have to go for a balance, don't leave out the small stuff completely? As long as you don't go too far and tell us what buildings you are building in every city, that should be fine. Oh, recruitment of stronger units are major events and should be reported, though. For example, in your case, if you were to raise a unit of Agema Chaonion-I think I would also want to know how they perform in every engagement they are in...

**Ragabash** · 02-01-2006, 14:50

Pezhetoroi thanks for feedback. Don't know why but also writing this stuff down makes game much more enjoyable for me too.

**pezhetairoi** · 02-01-2006, 15:21

Trust me, I know how it feels. I still have twelve notebooks full of my campaign details from cherry vanilla. Not only every single movement of every single army, but i even went down to the detail of recording down every building and unit I commissioned, turn by turn, and also the battles and the statistics of kills and combatants engaged. I felt a sense of some permanent achievement when I did that. It's the memories and the sense that you're setting them down for the future, for when you look back :)

**Ragabash** · 02-01-2006, 15:42

Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

Trust me, I know how it feels. I still have twelve notebooks full of my campaign details from cherry vanilla. Not only every single movement of every single army, but i even went down to the detail of recording down every building and unit I commissioned, turn by turn, and also the battles and the statistics of kills and combatants engaged. I felt a sense of some permanent achievement when I did that. It's the memories and the sense that you're setting them down for the future, for when you look back :)

Hmmm... maybe you should share them with us ? Or have you done that already?

**Reverend Joe** · 02-01-2006, 17:24

Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

Trust me, I know how it feels. I still have twelve notebooks full of my campaign details from cherry vanilla. Not only every single movement of every single army, but i even went down to the detail of recording down every building and unit I commissioned, turn by turn, and also the battles and the statistics of kills and combatants engaged. I felt a sense of some permanent achievement when I did that. It's the memories and the sense that you're setting them down for the future, for when you look back :)

Conquerors love records.

Ragabash- this is a damn good story, worthy of a mead hall. The battle screenshots are quite impressive. Just be sure to always learn from your mistakes. And keep it up with the deatils!