0.8x AI Faction Progression

**Dumbass** · 02-17-2007, 17:47

Originally Posted by Oleo

Maybe, but they are my allies and under my protection, as long as they keep that up (not attack me for some stupid reason), they still have a chance

Good idea, keeps you safe from the big blue beast. For now...

**Moros** · 02-17-2007, 18:16

Nice game Oleo. That campaign of your's really proofs that Hayasdan isn't impossible. They might start of badly, but they are quite possible.

**Xtiaan72** · 02-17-2007, 19:49

What are you guys using to blow up these maps? Photo Shop or Paint? I've been messing around with paint trying to crop some photos but they look terrible and when I try to overlay text it erases part of the map! Anyway sorry this is a little off-topic but I'd like to join the club on this thread!

**Oleo** · 02-18-2007, 10:42

Originally Posted by Xtiaan72

What are you guys using to blow up these maps? Photo Shop or Paint? I've been messing around with paint trying to crop some photos but they look terrible and when I try to overlay text it erases part of the map! Anyway sorry this is a little off-topic but I'd like to join the club on this thread!

My screenshots are saved as jpg (I use a program called screenshotmanager.exe that saves a screenshot as jpg whenever you press the button, whether you are busy with word/windows/RTW or any other program)

Then I open them with paint cut out evrything but the map and resize to 150%.

**Dumbass** · 02-18-2007, 12:18

Just need to ask: did pontos send a naval invasion to Bosphoria?

**Orb** · 02-17-2007, 20:30

Originally Posted by Moros

Nice game Oleo. That campaign of your's really proofs that Hayasdan isn't impossible. They might start of badly, but they are quite possible.

Heh, I did that in 0.74

They aren't exactly easy, but it was so satisfying to completely pwn 3,000 Greek troops with 2/3 of a stack of horsemen and 30 casualties (I actually pulled this off, the trick is to use cheap Galatian mercenaries to pin one flank, nail it with Cataphracts, use HAs to kill the enemy general and then just force through the rest of the line with Galatians and Cataphracts

**Justiciar** · 02-18-2007, 03:13

They're a seriously great faction, esspecially if AS stay strong for more than half a century. I had a go some time ago, taking things slowly, seeing Hayasdan declare it's independence while the other vassals still clung onto the Empire, even going as far as to declare war on me. The first long-term EB campaign I've been defeated in. Fun, fun, fun.

The Aedui have certainly grown in an interesting way there. Somehow remininscent of Napoleonic France.

**Dooz** · 02-18-2007, 09:08

That campaign really shows how in EB, it just takes longer for factions to spread out and become empires or what have you. Most shots are of campaign only 20-30 years in, and that's just not enough time to see much happen. In that 195 shot, you see the Auedi dominating, Getai doing well, even the Casse have expanded north. And I love the back and forth of Carthage. So cool, gaining Iberia, losing it to invading Gauls and rebellion, so realistic. Granted it might be a bit better if such things started just a bit sooner, it's still cool to see such screenshots of cool campaigns. I can only imagine the Auedi hordes roaming the countrysides...... oh, the hair.