Wine and Women, A Thracian Adventure

[Caius]

Hello again,

CF is organizating other PBEM.

The Rules are :

-VH/M battles
-Enslavement allowed
-Mercenaries, use if you like them
-Write-up and storytelling
-20 turns in 7 days

The poll is for selecting the factions

===================EDIT====================, BY CF

This is the organization of the PBEM
Faction:Thrace
Enslavement allowed, not extermination
Peasant allowed
All members have to write a history according to the faction, and take screenies of the fights.
Each member has 10 turns to play

[Zimfan40]

I voted for Britannia, mostly because I've never finished a barbarian campaign, nor a faction with chariots.

Just about any faction would work for me, though.

[UltraWar]

I vote for a Thracian Campaign as it would be very intresting what moves will be taken within the campaign.

[Caius]

I've never finished a barbarian campaign, nor a faction with chariots.

The problem with the Barbarian factions is the money.

[Zimfan40]

The problem with the Barbarian factions is the money.

Don't their units have a cheaper upkeep, though?

Anywho, if we want to pick a civilized faction, Maybe Carthage or Pontus? Lots of people don't like the ahistorical Egyptian units, but that would work for me.

Really, I'd like to paly any faction but another Roman one(for now).

[Severous]

I would like in please.

Preferably NOT Egypt, Julii, Brutii, Gaul, Germany,Carthage,Greece as Ive played them.

Like the sound to Pontus, Thrace, Briton mentioned by others above.

Id prefer a shorter 'turn' per person...10 turns max. Would move the game around more and perhaps quicker.

[Orb]

Pontus sounds good.

[Caius]

We need more voters.

Please confirm if you want to be in.

Current Players:
Caius Flaminius
Orb
Ignoramus

[Orb]

I'd like to be in, pretty much regardless of factions.

[Ignoramus]

I'd play.

[Orb]

just started a Pontus campaign to get the feel for it. It's great.

Really nice drawing out tactics without the sickening horse-archeriness of Armenia. Cheap, useless infantry mixed with decent ones, nice mercs and great rushing opportunities (by 265, I have Mytilene under siege, both rebel towns near me were taken in 269, and that Seleucid place closest to me has just been captured by 2 peltasts, 1 hillmen and a general.

[Caius]

No one interested?

[Severous]

Hi

With 7 responses in the poll we have enough.

More than enough probobly unless we go for shorter turns (5 years per player)

I voted Pontus. Like the idea of the different factions we will fight against and using chariots.

[Caius]

In 3 days, the poll will be closed.

[econ21]

I voted for Thrace, as we haven't done it yet and it sounds very interesting - both the units and the setting. However, I'm happy to try anything. I enjoyed my time in the mid-game Julii PBM.

I agree with the 10 turn idea - there's quite a few good new games either out now (NWN2) or about to come out (M2TW) that are competing for my gaming time.

[Caius]

Thrace and Pontus have two points...

[Orb]

OK, I'll change my vote to Thrace then to get this started sooner.

[Caius]

Orb changed the vote!

The poll is close.

@Severous and Zimfan40:Confirm if you want to play.
We need a name for this PBEM.

[Orb]

How about:

a) A Blue Moon on the Tiber

b) Wine and Women, A Thracian Adventuure

c) How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bastarnae

[Severous]

Hi

Option b) above sounds fine to me. Im happy to participate in a Thracian adventure.

[Caius]

I need change the name of the thread.Call it now Wine and Women, A Thracian Adventure, can you, econ21?
Starting in 1 week.

[Ignoramus]

Perhaps we should start sooner. I'll be going away for a couple of weeks in December, and some people will(like me) will be concentrating on Medieval 2 soon.

[Vuk]

What version of RTW do you need to play this?

[econ21]

What version of RTW do you need to play this?

The latest patched version - 1.5 for RTW alone; 1.6 if you have BI.

BTW - Caius, I guess you are starting tomorrow or sometime soon? I wonder could you edit your descr_strat so that the rebel and pirate respawn rates are lower? I hate fighting tiny bands of rebels. It's such a drag.

On my computer, the descr_strat.txt is in
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign)

Double click on the file to open it in notepad and you'll see the lines

brigand_spawn_value 10
pirate_spawn_value 28

just above a line of ;;;;;;;;

Change the 10 and 28 to something much higher, like 100, and we will see the odd rebel but half our battles won't be against them.

[Vuk]

The latest patched version - 1.5 for RTW alone; 1.6 if you have BI.

BTW - Caius, I guess you are starting tomorrow or sometime soon? I wonder could you edit your descr_strat so that the rebel and pirate respawn rates are lower? I hate fighting tiny bands of rebels. It's such a drag.

On my computer, the descr_strat.txt is in
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign)

Double click on the file to open it in notepad and you'll see the lines

brigand_spawn_value 10
pirate_spawn_value 28

just above a line of ;;;;;;;;

Change the 10 and 28 to something much higher, like 100, and we will see the odd rebel but half our battles won't be against them.

Will I need to edit my version to play? Also, how do we report our results (battle results)?

[econ21]

Will I need to edit my version to play? Also, how do we report our results (battle results)?

No - RTW only reads the descr_strat at the start of the campaign, so only the first player needs to edit it.

I am assuming Caius will start a new "story" thread to report the results. If you look at the Julii PBM write-ups threads, you will see people adopt very different styles:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=68309

But screenshots are good with any style.

[Vuk]

Will I need you hotseat/PBM scriot thing to do this?

[econ21]

Will I need you hotseat/PBM scriot thing to do this?

No - each player will take over the game for a set number of turns (do you want to go with 10 or stick to 20, Caius?). So basically, the first player kicks off - does his 10 or 20 turns, then he posts the savegame. Then the second player downloads the savegame and plays on. It's just the SP game, played in succession - sort of like a relay race.

[Vuk]

No - each player will take over the game for a set number of turns (do you want to go with 10 or stick to 20, Caius?). So basically, the first player kicks off - does his 10 or 20 turns, then he posts the savegame. Then the second player downloads the savegame and plays on. It's just the SP game, played in succession - sort of like a relay race.

So how do you change between factions?

[econ21]

So how do you change between factions?

You don't - this is a Thracian PBM. We are just playing Thrace. Read about PBMs here:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=30871

Better yet, read some of the write-ups of completed PBMs:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=68110