The Great Wolf of the North - A Casse Mini-AAR

[GMT]

Awesome AAR! I'd love to see a pic of the entire map without fow though.

[scourgeofrome]

Great AAR. I just started one. But I need some help. How do make screenshots? My AAR seems boring without pictures.

[Discoskull]

Great AAR. I just started one. But I need some help. How do make screenshots? My AAR seems boring without pictures.

I use Howie's Quick Screen Capture, a program you can download for free. There are many others...that I do not know the name of...

[scourgeofrome]

I use Howie's Quick Screen Capture, a program you can download for free. There are many others...that I do not know the name of...

Okay.Could you give me a link? also, how do I take a picture during the game?

[Avicenna]

Oh my. The First Great War begins!

Take Leningrad!

Anyway, great stuff. Sounds like some kind of epic Nordic saga, except that it's a campaign against them.

[Discoskull]

Awesome AAR! I'd love to see a pic of the entire map without fow though.

BAM!



Map of the Western World, 184 BC

[CountArach]

Wow, I thought I was he only one who had Epiros/KH come ou on top of Makedon. The Ptolemies must ave had a bloddy push up against the Seleucids.

[scourgeofrome]

Looks like you have quite afight on your hands. Too bad you killed the romans (which reminds me, I finally got some screenshots on my AAR. Please check it out.)

[Justiciar]

Good to see the Sauromatae doing something, too.

[paullus]

The Demon bit, "two stepped up to take the place of each demon that fell," reminds me of the 13th Warrior. Nice update, and the invasion sounds exciting.

[Avicenna]

Looks like you have quite afight on your hands. Too bad you killed the romans (which reminds me, I finally got some screenshots on my AAR. Please check it out.)

That's quite an interesting comment coming from someone who labels himself as the 'scourge of Rome'.

[scourgeofrome]

Well,I just stopped plaing as Romani.Now I am playing as the Sweboz (Ironic, Isn't it). I called myself scourgeofrome because I usually don't play as them and I conqeur them when I meet them (a good example was when I was playing Brittania or Carthage in vanilla RTW and captured Rome itself)>

[Obelics]

Great AAR DS! wow Germania vs Britannia an epic conflict...

Keep it up! Loving this campaign!

EDIT: this is also stimolating me to continue mine

[Olaf The Great]

I'm thinking of making a AAR of my Romano-British campaign, If I do make it, I might add in a few references to your AAR.

How do you get your maps so high quality, along with the words, I want to know!

[NeoSpartan]

Keep going man.

By the way, how is Casses's Tresury, that looks like one hell of an expensive plan. Especially when u have to add the garrison troops u need to keep on the conquered towns from revolting.

[Avicenna]

Probably Photoshop or Fireworks. A few blurs and an increase in size.

[Discoskull]

I'm thinking of making a AAR of my Romano-British campaign, If I do make it, I might add in a few references to your AAR.

How do you get your maps so high quality, along with the words, I want to know!

Yeah just a couple filters in photoshop plus contrast adjustment is all. Text in photoshop as well.

[Discoskull]

Keep going man.

By the way, how is Casses's Tresury, that looks like one hell of an expensive plan. Especially when u have to add the garrison troops u need to keep on the conquered towns from revolting.

Yeah Latium and Mediterranean Iberia are lawless, rebellious regions (I've put down well over 5 full-fledged rebellions so far), and I'm constantly pissing off KH because they keep agreeing to help out these Greek colonies with their little rebellions, and I keep slaughtering them as examples to the rest of my subjects.
(However, Gader, my richest city by far, is playing nice - thanks to lots of troops and a very influential governor, veteran general of the African War. Even now, with all this upkeep, and on low taxes, I get a little more than 5K from that provence alone ).

I have 5 full stacks of professional armies, each with at least two units of champions each (one has 4 9-chevroned calwyre ).
Each one of these stacks has at least one battle to deal with every 2 turns on average. You can't walk two steps in northern Italy or the Alps without tripping over crossed swords (or Southern Italy, Gaul, the African Coast...).

One army of mostly Iberians, 1 mostly samnites, 3 Celtic.
All my levey troops are farmers and short swords, plus an archer every now and then for rebels, and chariots on rebel patrol in the Isles.

My treasury has taken a huge blow in the last couple years - if I don't spend any money, even to retrain a few units, I make about 1-3K per turn. Compared to my usual 15-20K per turn, it's not much...
Treasury was back up to around 200K after the conquest of Latium, and now it's down to around 34K.
Hasn't been that low since before Barae had erectile disfunction.

Due to lots of freelance work and the fact that the campaign just got twice as hard, it may take me a bit longer to come out with updates. So, when I do update next, it will be quite a doozie.

I played for the first time in a week and a half tonight (been very busy of late), and it was damned fun. Epic confrontation in Skandaz.
And no worries - I plan on finishing this campaign, and I won't stop until the Sweboz are pushed into the Black Sea. Stupid Demons.

[Avicenna]

Lebensraum for the Sweboz? Interesting sense of humour

[Djurre]

Torsim?

[Aut Nihil]

That's very nice DiscoSkull, and quite enjoyable to read as well :), interested about the future course of your expansions :).

And rwar at those macedonians, i hate those annoying basts :(, they just wont die. In every, and i really mean every campaign i've played the macedonians expand like crazy and are unstoppable. At one time i started a Rome campaign and tried to eliminate them from the start before they become a reall threat, but they were able to hit me back and i couldn't do anything but move west through gaul and see the macedonians expand north and into asia minor like they usually do.

[CountArach]

Torsim?

I believe it is meant to be Tsorim, a name that the Carthaginians called themselves.

[Olaf The Great]

I think you not a Northern power Empire anymore, I think your more link a World power.

[Numahr]

I like very much the way this really is "Europa Barbarorum", i.e. "Barbarian Europe": the whole Western Europe is shared by dominated by Celtic and Germanic cultures, and not much is left to "civilized" factions... A kind of anticipated dark age that seems quite durable...

But also the Casse Celt civilization might get "enlightened", maybe a few Casse intellectuals will have a look at the Roman legacy?

[Foot]

I like very much the way this really is "Europa Barbarorum", i.e. "Barbarian Europe": the whole Western Europe is shared by dominated by Celtic and Germanic cultures, and not much is left to "civilized" factions... A kind of anticipated dark age that seems quite durable...

But also the Casse Celt civilization might get "enlightened", maybe a few Casse intellectuals will have a look at the Roman legacy?

The only reason that the Celtic cultures are considered a dark age nowadays is that their culture was competely destroyed and trampled by the Romans. That plus the Romans wrote things down, so we only get their side of things.

Foot

[Aut Nihil]

The only reason that the Celtic cultures are considered a dark age nowadays is that their culture was competely destroyed and trampled by the Romans. That plus the Romans wrote things down, so we only get their side of things.

Like they say: History is being written by the victors

[Numahr]

The only reason that the Celtic cultures are considered a dark age nowadays is that their culture was competely destroyed and trampled by the Romans. That plus the Romans wrote things down, so we only get their side of things.

Foot

Well yes I'm well aware of that. My post was a bit harsh for the ancient Celtic cultures...

The fact that the Celtic culture (and maybe the Germanic one, but I'm less confident on that) was a very advanced one precisely makes this MOD interesting, a kind of "what if" scenario where Celts build the foundation of European identity... making of this AAR a perfect showcase of "Europa Barbarorum".

Still in this a-historical scenario I can't help imagining that this Casse-Celtic empire would have beneficiated from the Roman cultural legacy : after all, the later possessed a written culture while Celts did not, this alone would have been a great contribution.

Which brings me to one point... I wish that, when you destroy a faction, you could somehow claim, and benefit from, its legacy. Such as this Carthaginian book on agriculture written by Mago that Romans translated for their own usage... Siege weaponry stolen from the Greeks... Well maybe this was not massive enough. But I just can't help it that a "Casse" Roma would have created an interesting blend that we will not really see in-game... Well I guess that's a dream.

Anyway, waiting for the last news from the Celtic-Germanic Wars!

[Justiciar]

The fact that the Celtic culture (and maybe the Germanic one, but I'm less confident on that) was a very advanced one precisely makes this MOD interesting,

Meh. If you want a modern-day comparison for the Germanic tribes look at some of Africa's more backwards nations imo. Ambitious warlords galore, strong and varied cultural identity, areas of peace and areas of anarchy, poverty marked here and there by a wealthy elite..

Chances are I'm wrong, but that's the impression I have.

[Sarcasm]

Meh. If you want a modern-day comparison for the Germanic tribes look at some of Africa's more backwards nations imo. Ambitious warlords galore, strong and varied cultural identity, areas of peace and areas of anarchy, poverty marked here and there by a wealthy elite..

Chances are I'm wrong, but that's the impression I have.

Sounds a lot like Rome during the triumvirate, the Greek cities, Ptolemaics or the Seleucids from the 3rd century onward. Oh wait, but those are civilized.

[Justiciar]

Knock the sarcasm off, please. I'm not saying that the inhabittants of Germania were savage neanderthals, just that they lacked the size, unity or political/martial clout of their southern neighbours, and suffered difficulties in their society because of that.