KH problems (orange sickness)

[Lysander13]

When did UT play at the citrus bowl?

It's what Spurrier use to say when he was the Head Coach at UF, it was his way of taking a shot at.......ahhhhh, nevermind.

[Centurion Crastinus]

Fair enough.

[Come in Nighthawk]

Interesting. I am playing Rome; you can see some of my laments in the playing card thread and "too many Creeks." It is now ca. 191 BC, and I am doing this from memory, but:

One of the Gallic factions is gone (the Averni?), as are the Sweboz too, IIRC

The Makedamia-nuts are gone, shades of this complaint, conquered by the KH.

The Seleucids are gone, carved up between the Ptolomies, Armenians, Pontics, and to a small degree the Parthians and Baktrians.

The Ptolomies are now the major player in the eastern Med' and poor Pontus (I do pick the wrong allies!) were down to one town, "Nicea" (or whatever its called in the game), 'til I grabbed Pergamon from the KH and gave it to them. We'll see how long they last.

I was originally minding my own business mopping up "rebel cities" in Illyria, scrupulously avoiding contact with Epiros (neutral to me) and the KH, these last actually my allies!!! So of course --- the KH attacked me!! IIRC, by then the Epirotes and the Getai had been reduced to client status by the KH.

The price the KH have paid for attacking me, their ALLY, and then refusing any entreaty of a treaty -- I mustered forces and have expelled them from the western Aegean. I am now master of all Greece, Makedamia, Thrace, and Illyria, from Sparta to the Danube. I have left Epirus alone (2 cities) -- for now. The Getai are quiescent north of the Danube -- for now. I'm watching them carefully.

The KH are now trying to maintain themselves in "Asia" with my constant coastal pin-pricks to "keep them in line." The Ptolomies are harassing them from Antioch and vicinity. Mean-when, the Armenians, and what's left of the Pontics, are vying with the KH for "Asia."

What I am really trying to accomplish -- with something of a "blunt instrument" i do understand -- is to keep the KH in the game, but force them to push against my "real enemies," to the east. If I can slowly force them into Kappadocia, and maybe even cleverly pull the Pontics into "western Asia" and keep them in the game, maybe I can buy myself some breathing space to develop my economy -- money fuels everything! The longer I can keep out of direct contact with the Ptolomies, the better, I figure.

Mean-when I have now overrun Iberia, and am dealing with what is increasingly looking like "rebellion world!" It is really eating up troops to keep the cities in check. And finally, I am slowly either eliminating the hated Carthos', although if I can manage it, I plan to leave them Lepkis and the town out in the desert which I can't remember, and try to keep them as a buffer between me and the Ptolomies.

Some time I must figure out what that town is way out in the desert to the far SW of Carthage... And how to get out there to seize it!