Man enjoying himself playing Pontus

[fatsweets]

Don't know if your serious or not but there is a possibilty I will try them once I have tried every other faction and played them to death. On second thought, hell no, AS should die!, I will never play them!, all who agree should join me in a chant of AS death!

[Xehh II]

AS Death!!

[Swordmaster]

Here you are:



Thanks, mlp071 and Redmeth

[Spoofa]

I personally like the AS, i like all the diadochoi states, macedonia and AS mainly though.

[Satyros]

Ok , this is ridiculous .

Those %@#%#@&$ AS are my ALLIES for Chuck's sake .

By the year 270 I have Sidon , Trapezous , Nikaia and .... my capital , can't remember the name .

I sign peace with the KH , while desperately trying to sell my map , -7000smth does not sound very good .

As an additional measure , now that peace reigns in the tiny "kingdom by the sea" ( great title btw mate ), and in order to stabilize my presence in the newly conquered cities , I disbanded most of my army .

Whoopee , +1200 balance per turn , small garissons , a bit of unrest , no worries , it 'll pass .

And THEN the ALLIES ATTACK !

I even made them a gift of 100 on just the previous turn ( my first with an actual profit ).

Please , please explain where I've gone wrong , I really want to play as Pontos . Because of a great book I once read . The guy ( king of Pontos ) in the book had stashes of gold in the mountains etc , I don't . He used cheats , I won't . Then again he drank and coctails of about 40 different poisons each day , just to be on the safe side against poisoning . Let him use cheats , he 's been through a lot obviously .

Any help would be much appreciated .

Thanks in advance .

Satyros

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

You didn't go wrong. The game is called "Total War" and is hardcoded to cause as many wars as possible. You weren't fighting enough so the game made the AI attack you.

[Satyros]

Thanks for answering .

To be honest I hoped for something like : " you shouldn't have attacked X city " .

Now I'm really desperate .

Re-load it is then .

Lalala , to death we march , oh joy !

AS ," all we are saying / is give peace a chance ".

Satyros

[Lovejoy]

Satyros: I have said it before, and ill say it again: ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! You most always be the first to attack the selues, specially if you are playing as Pontos! This way your allies stay on your side, plus they are weak the first couple of turns!

FIRST: Take Makerta(or whatever its called, the selue town just south of you capital) and continue on and conquer the two other selue settlements in "modern-day turkey". Never mind the repels, they are no threat to us.

Now you're in a kind of safe position. All the selues attacks should be directed against Makerta so make sure to build some stone walls and a decent garrison. Its a long walk threw the mountains to Makerta from the selues land, so maybe you should consinder putting some HA in does mountains and harrash any incomming selue stacks.

Now you should have some time to take some of the repel towns, try not to conquer provinces with a direct border with any faction. And make sure to get an alliance with ptolmoi(sp), build up your economy, and when ready, kill the rest of em. Good Luck!

[Digby Tatham Warter]

You didn't go wrong. The game is called "Total War" and is hardcoded to cause as many wars as possible. You weren't fighting enough so the game made the AI attack you.

Is this correct?

My favourite faction is good old AS. In a previous campaign it got very heavy going, as every body attacked and you never seem to get the time for the game to actually progress and get somewhere.

In my latest campaign(now at 202BC) certainly in the East, most of my neibours leave me alone, meaning that it is less tiresome than 'to many' scraps per turn.
I presume I have achieved this 'space' by the fact that all my Eastern border cities are strongly garrisoned(expensive I know).

As for the mini-mod it sounds like a good idea, because in the west, Rome seems to own everything, and I have to fight off at least 4 stacks per turn. Good job my two main stacks out there are such delux(but balanced and semi realistic) heavy duty Roman killers, eh!