Two Huge Eleuthori Navy Pops Up Out of Nowhere

[Sygrod]

Meandering back to the topic.....

I have observed the following:
1. Pirate fleets usually spawn 2 ships. One 84 man monster and one 26. Sometimes there are more 26ers but it is usually a manageable enemy to encounter.
2. When left alone, pirate fleets that come into contact with each other tend to merge. Hence large monster fleets.

You have two choices. You can duck from harbour to harbour or you build up a strong enough force to kick their butt. I've done the latter. My ships are now sporting gold chevrons from all the fighting with pirate fleets, so that when I finally have to face Romans or Ptolies, I have the upper hand.

/Sygrod

[Tellos Athenaios]

Meandering back to the topic.....

You have two choices. You can duck from harbour to harbour or you build up a strong enough force to kick their butt. I've done the latter. My ships are now sporting gold chevrons from all the fighting with pirate fleets, so that when I finally have to face Romans or Ptolies, I have the upper hand.

/Sygrod

Yeah did about the same thing when I played as AS. Boy, those pirates must have feared my silver chevroned Huge Poliremes and their 3 stars after just 3 battles general with his fleet of experienced trieres and pentekonterai...

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Please look where this navy is situated:



Looks like a really safe place for a navy.

[pezhetairoi]

Goodness, that's a really snugly divided continental Europe you have in your campaign. And it's a really neat combination of colours too, soothing on the eye, it is.

[Intranetusa]

Results: :D










"Goodness, that's a really snugly divided continental Europe you have in your campaign. And it's a really neat combination of colours too, soothing on the eye, it is."


You talking about my pic or Centurio Nixalsverdrus's pic? lol

[LusitanianWolf]

First fleet:


Second fleet:

OMG!!!!
Remember that in EB each boat means on full fleet and not an single boat!!!!
That seems an little non historical, lol...
Or maybe the persian embire got himself eleutheroi... So you should call Leonidas and the 300's spartan supermans

[Ignopotens]

Are they just spawning like this, or are they combining?

If they are combining, is there some way to keep Eleutheroi fleets from forming masses over a certain size, or at all? I mean, I don't see small Eleutheroi armies banding together to form super-massive armies.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Goodness, that's a really snugly divided continental Europe you have in your campaign. And it's a really neat combination of colours too, soothing on the eye, it is.

Yes, I guess I was lucky with it.

Does nobody find it strange to have a navy just in the middle of the belgian continental land mass?

[Michaelis]

I'm a newbie - currently in the middle of my first game - so maybe what I'm seeing is a fluke. Anyway, it seems that the Eleutheroi on Gotland are churning out ship after ship, and I have the impression most of those ships move out to the Atlantic after a while. My guess would be that after they've put a strong stack of units into their Gotland city, they focus on building ships, and move them along the coast. They've even blockaded a port of mine for a couple of turns!

[Juvenal]

That's interesting.

In my 0.80 Casse campaign I noticed that the Eleutheroi fleets seemed to come down the English Channel from the North Sea in convoys of 4 to 6 fleets. I assumed they were patrolling - but it looks like they were just heading for the Med!

I assumed the boats were being created by scripts. Every time I built a fleet (the Casse could only build ships in south-east Ireland and north-Cornwall), it would be caught crossing the Channel by 3 or 4 enemy fleets.

What would generally happen is that I would beat the first fleet with heavy losses. The second would then beat me, and my retreat would fail to take me out of range of the third fleet, which administered the coup-de-grace. The whole process felt rather like being run over by a bus.

I thought that if I kept building fleets, the Eleutheroi would eventually run out of boats. Looks like I was wrong.

I ended up conquering Gaul almost entirely with troops recruited locally - it was just too expensive to recruit a new fleet for every stack of elites I wanted to transport across the Channel.