Makedonian failure

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-13-2006, 15:13

Keep going after Hellenic cities - Crete, Rhodes, Lesbos, Euboia (islands that you can build trade up with), coastal towns in Asia Minor at Sinope, Pergamon, Halikarnassos - all of Syracuse, Massalia, southern Italy. These are the places you will rely on to push you further into areas you don't get such good troops in. Finding a high level MIC in Ipsos has saved me a number of times already against Ptolemaic troops - I'd be in real trouble without it and Byzantion. And now I've got Pergamon, so I can get more there too. THen I use Demetrias to pump out Thessalian cavalry, and Pella and my Epeirote towns to send over the elites (good roads from Pella to Byzantion are needed).

**orwell** · 07-13-2006, 20:44

Right now its more stay afloat in my new conquered provinces than anything. First order of business is to smash the hayasdan before they take my northern settlements. With the uneasy ceasefire of the ptolemiacs right now I'm just building up my royal armies. I'll dispatch one to Rhodes when I can, but its become a KH Omaha. If I can get enough time to suppress armenia then return for a resupply, I'll hit the underbelly of Asia minor since recently ptolemy left the cities manned with just a unit or two. My only concern with doing this though is that they have those.... uh.... green fleets sailing around there, so any naval operation needs to be done as swiftly as possible. Its probably because of my terrible tactics, but there's no way I'm going to assualt syracruse. I sent a spy over there and not only is its garrison maxed out, massena's is too, and there's two more full stacks of rebels roaming the island. I'm trying to build rome up to become my end game super power I get to war with, so I don't want to attack southern italy. I'll hit cyprus when I can, but its not a high priority target. Good roads all over greece are needed, I find my east coast settlements often drained of the people there, so lately I've been making full armies from epeirote territory and retraining in the eastern settlements. Pella, Demetrias, in there. I hope I can recruit in getic lands in .8, having to send troops for garrison duty all the way north is a pain, and doesn't make sense if you can build a type two. Had I known this was going to happen, I probably would have just walled off the getai and let them live. And finally, some shots of the empire. I keep trying to get Ptolemy to engage in a sand war, and they just won't do it. Really ticks me off, I want a unified desert to war against, preferably carthagian. I don't think they hold all that, its probably further west, but the map trade with them doesn't update. Probably need to get it from Ptolemy.

**Clovis** · 07-14-2006, 15:35

for the ptolomies, in one of my macedonian games I built a decent fleet, loaded a big army up and sailed up and down the egyptian coast, from cyprus to cyrenaica, seizing cities, exterminating the people, selling hte buildings and retreating to my boats one step ahead of the ptolomy army and navy. I reduced Alexandria to about 350 people, as well as the rest of the coast, and this bought me time to consolidate asia minor. I thought of it as a 100 Years War chevauchee mixed with the vikings.

**Avicenna** · 07-22-2006, 20:03

Interesting campaign orwell. So you're planning to retreat from the Black Sea in favour of easy conquests?

By the way, might I suggest taking the Ionian settlement? The Aedui have it very lightly defended and they seem just about to be wiped out in Gaul.