Carthage is doing something, sweet.

[Ludens]

Where???? Is it on the Menu bar, or somewhere on the screen??

How to take screenshots.

The PrtScn button does not work for me. The pictures all turn black, if they turn up at all.

[Foot]

How to take screenshots.

The PrtScn button does not work for me. The pictures all turn black, if they turn up at all.

Make sure anti-aliasing is off. That really screws pictures up.

EDIT: Also I think having the line -ne in the shortcut can also screw up pictures.

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[Fondor_Yards]

Can't Gaul make any stonger guys than Gagastrae (sp)? And if I build a gov't type 4 in a main Carthage city will I be able to make some decent troops instead of only javerlins (sp)??????

Erm.... Gaestae are argueable the best sword infantry in the game. And not in a carthagian city, unless it one of the 2 in spain. Also type 1s and 2s normaly give better units. As for carthago itself, no those will be the best you can get. The celts don't have many options for recruitment in africa. *Very different culures, distance from homelands, little contact between them the natives there before*

[NeoSpartan]

Erm.... Gaestae are argueable the best sword infantry in the game. And not in a carthagian city, unless it one of the 2 in spain. Also type 1s and 2s normaly give better units. As for carthago itself, no those will be the best you can get. The celts don't have many options for recruitment in africa. *Very different culures, distance from homelands, little contact between them the natives there before*

My bad my bad, I didn't mean Gaestae. I mean any other infantry unit made after Bataroas/Botroas once u build the barracks that costs 20K. (darn it forgot how its called, probably MIC5???

[Moros]

My bad my bad, I didn't mean Gaestae. I mean any other infantry unit made after Bataroas/Botroas once u build the barracks that costs 20K. (darn it forgot how its called, probably MIC5???

Wich gaul faction are you playing? The gaesatae are verry good. THe neitos (after reform), the soldurii (reform?), carnute cingetos (aedui), Arjos (Avrerni) all are verry good infantry. You can also recruit quite good troop in Viennos (Mori gaesum (spelling?)) or verry good medium infantry in the two Belgae settlements (Blegae Milnaht).

[NeoSpartan]

I play the Aedui.

.....(after reform).....

But, wait there is a reform??? What year.

Ok update on Carthage. I am a about to take the 2nd city on its mainland. Yet for some reason it is not pumping out units from all its settlements. Instead it is sending a reinforcing army all the way from the Sahara (sp). Oh and the mainland settlements are a LOT easier to rule (after exterminating the population) than the settlement on Siscily (sp) and Rome.

[Avicenna]

There's an Aedui reform, but not a Carthaginian one. The Aedui one is same year as the Romans' first reform. (Polybian)

[Tyfus]

go to google
look up howie's quick camera
download the tool that lets you take screen shots
then before you play open the howies program and just let it sit open on your desktop, then play EB and whenever you want to take a picture of what's going on just press F12 and you should hear a camera noise so you know the picture was taken.

[Fondor_Yards]

My bad my bad, I didn't mean Gaestae. I mean any other infantry unit made after Bataroas/Botroas once u build the barracks that costs 20K. (darn it forgot how its called, probably MIC5???

Oh yea those aren't very good. Mori gaesum aren't very good in my experience either, once your enemy starts pumping out their all super unit armies. Good for early on, but basicly only good for garrison fodder later.

[Mujalumbo]

Do you mean as the Aedui or Karthadistim?

After the Bataroas/Botroas, there's Neitos. Aedui get them post-reform; Pontos, Arche Seleukia, and the Ptolemaioi get a similar unit, depending on the MIC/region (Kuathoroi and Galatian Agemata). Not sure if Karthadistim can recruit Neitos. As the Aedui, you get Soldurii and Carnute Cingetos. Carnutes you can recruit in Cenabaum, haven't figured out where Soldurii come from, though, I've usually gotten them from my southern provinces.

The Mori Gaesum need experience and weapons/armour upgrades. After that, I find them pretty decent. Makes me wonder what they're going to do with them in .8? (Hoplitai, too, for that matter. Do they all get shieldwall?)

[CountArach]

The greatest thing that is happening in my KH game at the moment is that the Carthaginians and Romans are fighting over Southern Italy. Carthage took over Sicily, then had about 4 stacks there, and just rushed the south, while the Romans had 90% of their forces to the north. They took control of Rhegiom and Taras, however Taras Rebelled, and went to the Epirotes. The Epirotes now have a stack there.

At the moment the war is slowing down with only a couple of Carthaginian stacks remaining and a Roman half-stack in Southern Italy, trying to hold things together.

[Avicenna]

They're bad? Noooo... I've just built 3 units in Ankyra. I'm KH, by the way. I thought a maniple-like unit would come in handy for flanking.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

It's because historically some Gauls migrated with Brennus (not the one who sacked Rome) and settled in Galatia, in modern day central Turkey. That's why Ankyra isn't a Hellenic city, and the Hellenes can only recruit Celts from there. The mercenaries in that area are predominantly Gallic as well. Ankyra can rebel to the Gauls.

I suppose then that the Carthaginians were supposed to have gotten Phoenica from a rebellion, am I correct? If that is what happened, Kudos to the Ptolemaics/Selucids for retaking Phoenica before I noticed.

wow........

[NeoSpartan]

THX FELLAS!!!! I fanaly got a pic



I just took the 2nd Main Land Karthadistim (sp) city, but I need to send in reinforcements. Karthadim's Armies are starting to build up (though still not even a 1/2 full stack) nearby. The bad news is that those FEW guys are all TOP NOTCH, but the good news is that its armies still have no Cavlary (other than the general), at least for now.

Also, Karthadist (sp) Navy is freaking blocking my ports and its ships are Very Strong. I still haven't been able to send reinforcements to the Invading full stack army, its been about 7 turns now. That army is now about 1/3 of its strenght, being supplemented by Numidian Cavalry (boy they carry a LOT of Javerlins) and finaly one of the Captians turned into a General. (now i can get some Mercenaries)



Oh and its only 230BC and I got about 26years before the refoms hit.

[Mujalumbo]

Also, Karthadist (sp) Navy is freaking blocking my ports and its ships are Very Strong

So, sink 'em! This isn't vanilla, where the best ships you get are "warboats." The Aedui get some pretty decent ships from the higher-tier naval bases. Build up your fleet and show them Phoenician sailor-wannabes how it's done!

[orwell]

Nice empire, it should only be 21 years till the reforms hit unless you made a mistake along the way, since they happen at the same time as the roman reform.

[Fondor_Yards]

So, sink 'em! This isn't vanilla, where the best ships you get are "warboats." The Aedui get some pretty decent ships from the higher-tier naval bases. Build up your fleet and show them Phoenician sailor-wannabes how it's done!

Haha no. Celtic ships will get destoryed by Greek/Roman/Carthagian navies every time, unless you have like 15 units to each 1 of theirs. And I not even kidding. In my Averni campain I basicly gave up on a navy except the 1 use to fight the Casse's, which is worse then even mine. I was horribly murdered in every battle, despite having 8-9 units and them normaly 1-3. I gave up on sea combat, if I ever transported by sea I would never end my turn with a navy outside a port unless I was sure there was no enemies around.

The Celts can only build 1 kinda decent ship, but only in 1 city next to Normandy *Pontones Fleet*. So you have to ship them all the way around Gaul and Iberia to fight. And since you take large losses in navy battles, you would have to send them all the way back to retrain.
Poeni Penterai *best carthage* have an attack of 34, defense of 19. Poeni Tetrerai *2nd best* has an attack of 30, defense 17. Pontones Fleet *best celtic* has an attack of 12, defense of 23. Pontomora Fleet *2nd best* has an attack of 8 and defense of 9. Most fleets fighting in the med sea will be made of Pontomoras. So yea, can you say ouch?

[NeoSpartan]

.....Most fleets fighting in the med sea will be made of Pontomoras. So yea, can you say ouch?

So true

[Trithemius]

It much worse if you are Casse and a giant fleet of pirate vessels starts blockading all your ports! The pitifully weak Casse boats have immense trouble dealing with strong pirate ships.

[Tuuvi]

and finaly one of the Captians turned into a General.

How does that happen?

[Simmons]

How does that happen?

must mean a man of the hour

[NeoSpartan]

must mean a man of the hour

Exactly

[Avicenna]

Nooooo, not that Ponto-thingamabob. As the KH my fleets are composed of Triere and Lemboi. I've weakened the great pirate fleet quite a bit, as well.

[Tanit]

In my Carthage Campaign I conquered all of spain Italy and north africa as well as all the mediterranean islands and most of Greece. I CAN'T TRAIN ANYTHING IN CENTRAL ITALY!!!!!!!!! The most fascinating thing is that the gallic city in Turkey has revolted to Baktria and from there the Baktrians have conquered the nearby Seleukid city that starts with an m.

[paullus]

Ankyra revolted to the Baktrians???

You mean they bribed it, right?