The Trading Republic of Kart-Hadast. (AAR)

**scourgeofrome** · 10-30-2006, 22:54

Good luck with the romans.Oh,and great AAR.I enjoyed playing as Carthage in vanilla RTW.

**Aenos** · 11-03-2006, 22:57

*sighs* I'm terribly sorry for the lack of updates. I hardly have time to either play the game or continue rewriting.. And seeing my school-schedule for next week is even more busy then this week's one, I'm afraid a new update is very far from now and it might be over forever..

**Aenos** · 11-06-2006, 19:12

Alright readers (if there are any remaining after my last reply that is..),

I have some good news! I'm currently writing a bit more on the rewrite as I've managed to finish my homework early.

With a little luck I'll be able to do an update later this evening. And I also have some bad news.. Until I finish rewriting, there won't be many screenshots if any at all for when I was cleaning that map I accidently deleted most of the Kart-Hadast screenies..

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-06-2006, 19:30

Originally Posted by Aenos

Alright readers (if there are any remaining after my last reply that is..),

I have some good news! I'm currently writing a bit more on the rewrite as I've managed to finish my homework early. With a little luck I'll be able to do an update later this evening. And I also have some bad news.. Until I finish rewriting, there won't be many screenshots if any at all for when I was cleaning that map I accidently deleted most of the Kart-Hadast screenies..

**Aenos** · 11-06-2006, 20:25

The Numidian Campaign: On to Kirtan!

Slowly the army marched across the seemingly empty lands of northern Africa. It was nearly noon and the hot African sun burned the skin of the Iberian and Greek mercenaries. Then, as they reached a small forest in the shade of a hill, Xanthippos ordered the men to make camp, they’d rest for a while during the hottest hours of the day. The men drank water, sat in the shade and tried to make the heat as bearable as they could. Xanthippos and a few of his officers decided to walk to the hill-top and take a look at the surrounding land.

Suddenly one of his captains noticed something on the mountain to the northeast. He pointed at it and said: ‘Mylord, what can that be?’ All of them looked and after a while the youngest of them said: ‘It looks like the rapid movement of a large band of horses, but what would such a large group be doing all the way out here?’ Xanthippos’s face became grim as he replied: ‘Whom else can it be then the Numidians?’ Turning to the captain who first saw them he said: ‘Captain, go and warn the men! Tell them to line up quickly at the top of this hill, today we fight!’

Within ten minutes the men stood ready, Iberians, Numidians, Lybians and Greeks, all ready to fight for Kart-Hadast. Xanthippos spoke to them in Punic, the language of the Qarthadastim: ‘Soldiers, for weeks now have we marched through these empty lands, trying to find the Numidians and do what we were send here to do. Today, after all this time, they finally show themselves. They seek to fight us, but they will not find us an easy target. Unlike the merchants, Ba’al judge them kindly, we shall succeed or die fighting to avenge them!’ And with that said, the soldiers marched to their positions. Slowly the Numidians approached and tension rose.

‘From what I’ve heard those dogs are adept in throwing their spears. Iberian mercenaries, you know what to do.’, Xanthippos said. A loud shout of confirmation was given by his men and he smiled. Rapidly, tiring their horses, the Numidians rode up the hill. But moments later the sky blackened with the shafts of hundreds Iberian javelins and death rained down upon the horsemen. Knowing his forces couldn’t stand long in a skirmish against the superior armed Iberians the Numidian captain made his decision. A sign of desperation could be seen his face as he ordered his men to charge at the Iberian infantry. Xanthippos looked a bit startled at this unexpected action and turning to his infantry he ordered: ‘Hold the line! Don’t give an inch!’ Then to his cavalry: ‘Swing around and hit their flanks, hurry!’ Quickly the orders were followed and though the courage of the Numidians was admirable, they were heavily outnumbered and were easily defeated. Suddenly though, danger stroke at the Qarthadastim yet again. Xanthippos’ face turned grim as he heard the sounds of sudden screams coming from his western flank. Turning around he saw that about one hundred enemy horsemen had managed to sneak past the hill and flank them. Regaining control over the situation he ordered his personal contingent of heavy cavalry into the fray.

As the moon rose peace had returned to the hilly land, but price had been high. Hundreds of Numidian and Iberian corpses lay scattered over the hill and here and there a spear lay. The road to Kirtan lay open for Xanthippos’ army but what dangers would this land present to them in the coming weeks?

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Alright, I know it's not a lot, but it's something.

**scourgeofrome** · 11-07-2006, 13:21

Random: Last night I was watching something on the History Channel about Carthage.Interesting things:
1.Some histotians believed Carthage reached the Americas
2.Saw what I think was the RTW vanilla being used to show Hannibal's first battle in Roman lands.

**Aenos** · 11-07-2006, 15:12

For some reason I've always found Kart-Hadast interesting.. Sadly though, I hardly know a lot about them.. Anyway, on what facts did those historians base that they reached the new world? And about them using Vanilla, I hope it wasn't.. For historic purpose of course only 1 version of RTW could be proper, EB.

Oh and I likely won't be able to do an update today, pherhaps though.. One never knows.. Anyway, was thinking. Pherhaps I should repost this AAR since the first parts to be seen are still of the 'old version' and I'm rewriting it.. Just thinking pherhaps there are other solutions like deleting the first version..

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-07-2006, 18:14

Originally Posted by scourgeofrome

Random: Last night I was watching something on the History Channel about Carthage.Interesting things:
(...)
2.Saw what I think was the RTW vanilla being used to show Hannibal's first battle in Roman lands.

CA has mentioned something of the kind before, hasn't it?