I wish i was such agreat commander.Im about to start a Ptoliemaioi campaing now.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
I wish i was such agreat commander.Im about to start a Ptoliemaioi campaing now.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
To be fair though, the Macedonians had a crack army there, but the Ptolemies were just leading three enormous regiments of rubbish up to the slaughter. Still, it's nonetheless a very strong victory, and an interesting deployment.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
The shot of the Egyptian general in the shade with the phalanx shields glistening in the sun is amazing. Also, great is the shot of the enemy army routing.
Very nicely put together AAR.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
6500 kills in one battle! Nice one, I don't think I've even got half that myself, any good traits or ancilliaries after the battle?
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Thanks :)Originally Posted by Callicles
Yeah, Antidoros got:
- Good Tactician (+1 command)
- Gifted Leader (+2 command)
- Sated Warmonger (+1 command when attacking, +1 morale for the troops, +100% bribe cost)
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
What level do you play at?
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Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Medium campaign difficulty, Medium battle difficulty.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Seconded!
You should post this pic in the monthly screenshot competition, if you haven't yet.
T.
Towards the end of the book, the Moties quote an old story from Herodotus:
"Once there was a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: In one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns."
"The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. 'You will not succeed,' they told him. 'No one can.' To which the thief replied, 'I have a year, and who knows what will happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing.'"
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
OMG, I want your computer!!!! Mine dont acept reinforcements.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Is it really or is just "unlimited units" in the prefernces set to 'FALSE'? That was the reason why "my computer" refused to let reinforcements into the battle. After toggling that I have now epic battles with several thousand on either side - and not the slightest problems with the computer.
Disclaimer: my posts are to be considered my private opinion and not offical statements by the EB Team
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Sometimes, if your computer is really bad, the game will just toggle that setting back to FALSE.
Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
I wouldn't say so. The Ptolees had 8 fresh regiments of medium phalanx, 9 bands of Galatians, all nearly full strength and 9 units of Thureophoroi. That is plus all the Machimoi/Pantodapoi militia.
Their problem was: nearly no cavalry.And the fact that the Pantodapoi were in the second line behind a first wave of Galatians charging a strong phalanx. That plus the naked fanatics behind the phalanx, and the death of the general, would have certainly led to a mass route. I would think that of the 6,500 dead 5,000 were killed on the run.
A real great victory
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Re: The Battle of Ioudaia, 204 BCE
Those galatian swordsmen are definitely not rubbish and are very difficult to deal with...as for the others, yeah they are trash.
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