Getting attached to units.

**Watchman** · 05-03-2007, 14:53

I can just see the grizzled, hard-bitten veteran militiamen giving the elité "glory boys who never dun anything for real" a lot of sour looks and rude nicknames...

**Conradus** · 05-03-2007, 15:57

I had that with the Koinon. In Sparta you get a unit of Spartiates Hoplitai. I fought many battles against the Macedons and Epirotes with them, they were almost always the first to enter a city, the ones who could hold the line the longest, etc... I didn't dream of losing them. They only suffered minimal losses.

But then in a battle against some descendant of Pyrrhus and an allied army of his, I lost track of them, they were chasing some slingers uphill and I failed to notice they came to close to the Epirotes' second army. Their general charged them (he had more men than my poor spartans). Their numbers started dropping fast. I didn't want to lose them, so I send two units of Thessalian cavalery almost a quarter of the map away to them to help, the heavy cavalery was almost exhausted when reaching them, but luckily so was the general. They managed to slauger the Epirote's second army and save 10 Spartans. No Thermopylae!
NOw I've send those 10 home to act as bodyguards for the king.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-03-2007, 15:58

Read the Wastelands and you will get very attached to certain units!! It's over at the RTR forums, but they are down at the moment it seems. It's an EB AAR, and it has characters appear over and over. Hope that thing is never lost! New generations of EB players and fans should take a look at it now too. Any chance of getting it hosted over here too (even if it is over now)?

**Subedei** · 05-04-2007, 12:47

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Read the Wastelands and you will get very attached to certain units!! It's over at the RTR forums, but they are down at the moment it seems. It's an EB AAR, and it has characters appear over and over. Hope that thing is never lost! New generations of EB players and fans should take a look at it now too. Any chance of getting it hosted over here too (even if it is over now)?

Truely spoken!!!

It is a great AAR...I loved reading that one by "Obelics". HE has a talent for story telling & tons and tons of humour!

Oh yes, on topic again:
I really do get attached to Generals & their stacks. As i love to play steppe-folk, it is usually the one general with his HA/ Cav troops who has to rampage in enemy territory and do all the dirty work for the up and coming conquerors. I refresh these troops every now and then, but a core of highly experienced bad*** soldiers [and horseys] builds up.

**Megas Pyrrhos** · 05-04-2007, 13:35

In my current Baktrian campaign, I've been trying to hold off the Saka(as they have taken Alexandreia-Eschate and Marakanda while I was busy elsewhere). I sent 3 pantodapoi phalangitai units to the river near Baktra and put them in a fort. Sure enough, 2 turns later a huge Saka army came marauding, and those guys, though they took 46% losses, obliterated the Saka army, and killed 2 enemy family members at the end of the battle with their axes.

One turn later came another army, which killed the remaining men in the fort to the last man, but not before those brave souls killed the one family member of that army and giving their army substantial losses. Their sacrifice saved Baktra, as I had almost no garrison there....a monument will be erected in Baktra to commemorate their heroism for the generations to come to see!

I know that there are no units left to get 'attached' to, but it comes close, or close enough.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-04-2007, 15:09

I was thinking it would be really awesome to pick up in the middle of a campaign and do an AAR told from the point of view of one unit. Just play with that one unit in your battles too - trying to do what your unit is supposed to do, while setting your other units all to AI control (group them all except the one unit under one group, then put that group under AI control). Picking up a mercenary group of Thraician Peltasts and telling it from one guy's point of view in that unit - what his unit did and tried to do, and such. Playing from the general's camera POV might be a bit much, but still it would be really interesting.