Xanthippos

**Bootsiuv** · 10-26-2007, 01:10

That sounds like a stretch....but I'm all for scripted events...I smile everytime that little guy pops up in the corner.

Which is ironic in a sense, cuz after the first time playing Rome (and needing it to learn), I was enormously annoyed to see him pop up in the corner, having then realized that I forgot to turn off advice.

**HamilcarBarca** · 10-26-2007, 01:44

Is there any event associated should the Epirotes capture Sparta? If I recall correctly there was an exiled Spartan that asked Pyrrus to put him to the throne.Is there any event associated should the Epirotes capture Sparta? If I recall correctly there was an exiled Spartan that asked Pyrrus to put him to the throne.

Pyrrhos campaigned in the Peloponnese in 272, unsuccessfully attacking Sparta, trying to put the Spartan pretender Cleonymus on the throne of Sparta.

Pyrrhos abandoned the attack on Sparta after being repulsed, and opportunistically attacked nearby Argos, where he was killed.

H.

**Centurion_275** · 10-26-2007, 02:35

I don't know what I could have done wrong, but in my Carthaginian game it is in the 240's and I don't have Xanthippos!

I was really looking forward to having him capture Rome, but I have been waiting so long and I have no idea where he is or when he is supposed to come.

I just started war with the Romans in around 248 if that helps.

**Leão magno** · 10-26-2007, 02:41

So to Xantiphos appear Carthage must be at war with Roma and it needs to be year 255? Does it need the player to be ROman, does it work with player as Karthage? it only happens in 255? Are these the only triggers?

So many doubts :) :) :)

**Atilius** · 10-26-2007, 04:15

Xanthippos may be recuited by the Qarthadastim during the years 256 and 255 if they are at war with the Romans and if he has not already been offered. The player is notified of his availability by the advisor.

**Eduorius** · 10-26-2007, 06:00

Ok guys common we are not sure what he brought, but for gameplay reasons do you really want a general with normal hoplites or peltasts as bodyguards?! I think that the Spartans are the best option for Xan.

On a sidenote and tought that maybe some of you guys may be interested.

Some scholars say that Xanthippos was defending Sparta during the attack of Pyrrhus and it is said that the elephant tactics that he used against Regulus were learned from what he saw from Pyrrhus.

Other interesting fact is that after his service with Carthage, he went under the service of the Ptolemies because he was causing a lot of envy between the Carthaginian aristocracy.

**Leão magno** · 10-26-2007, 13:52

Originally Posted by Atilius

Xanthippos may be recuited by the Qarthadastim during the years 256 and 255 if they are at war with the Romans and if he has not already been offered. The player is notified of his availability by the advisor.

Great I did not know that and was not at war with rome by that period! nest time I shall have Xantipphos devastatins the red army