Chris's Ludicrous Migration

[facupay123]

Poor romani, I see a white/dark red/yellow future for them

[||Lz3||]

seems that there should be a satres in the rhin <.<

awesome chris!

[Reverend Joe]

Holy damn, dude. This is great!

[Chris_]

Well, it finally happened. Ptolies decided to attack by sending a stack of 3000 troops against newly conquered Susa. It took me 3 sallys to get rid of them, but I won eventually. I was saved from the next stack by Saba ( my allies ) becoming a protectorate of the Ptolies (which caused a ceasefire between me and the Ptolies, which they seem to be sticking to).

Pahlava are down to 4 settlements now, 2 near Saka, and 2 to the west of me. Also, I seem to get MOTH whenever random captain #23123 kills yet another unit of Pantadapoi. When I get back home I'll post a map screenie. Although, it might have to be a standard one since the map generator is a bit dead at the minute

[Chris_]

So, Saba betrayed me (big surprise), Ptolies killed Hayasdan, and I fixed the bug in the viewer.

140BC (running out of time!)

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[a completely inoffensive name]

Take the Saka and Saba provinces, try to ally with everyone but Egypt and then when ready attack Egypt through Africa dont bother going through mesopotamia as thats just going to be boring full stack after full stack battles.

EDIT: oh also give sauro lots of money to push egypt away from black sea and take those last two pahlava prov.

[tapanojum]

Mind posting what your main army composition looks like? I'm interested :D

[panosha]

Don't forget those HAs

[Chris_]

Mind posting what your main army composition looks like? I'm interested :D

Well since I can only recruit regionals, my army varies across my lands. Persian archer-spearmen are present in most of my armies, since they can mow down units with light/no armour, and aren't too bad against cavalry. I use Hykranian Hillmen where I can, since they always seem to do a good job. Thureoporoi are my main Heavy Infantry, although I can only recruit them in a few places. If I dont have any of those I use some Hoplita Haploi. In the north I have one or two Dahae Rider armies, in case Saka (allies) or Sauromatae decide to attack. Hopefully as I go further west, I can get some better infantry.

[Red_Russian13]

This is some outstanding stuff. I give you major kudos for having the patience to do such a thing; being so far in the hole at the beginning would drive me nuts.

Those Ptoly's are insane...and my Romans seem to be holding off the masses somewhat. I had them for dead.

[TheGlobalizer]

Cool stuff. I assume those provinces in Spain are revolting to you? They keep revolting? Seems like Carthage is having a tough time retaining the Iberian peninsula.

[Majd il-Romani]

holy sh*t man, theres some interesting stuff going on! You've carved yourself a nice Indo-Persian Empire, Romans are holding fast against Carthage, Sweboz and Yellow death.

speaking of which...

ZOMG@YELLO DETHOMG

[Chris_]

Cool stuff. I assume those provinces in Spain are revolting to you? They keep revolting? Seems like Carthage is having a tough time retaining the Iberian peninsula.

Yes, they revolt every so often, giving me a stack of units which puts a dent in my economy. I disband them and leave the province to revolt back to rebel, or be taken by Carthage again. But yes, they do seem to have problems keeping them.

my Romans seem to be holding off the masses somewhat. I had them for dead.

I was sure they would be dead by now too. They seem to be doing ok. Who knows, maybe they'll be bigger by the time I get there. Top of Italy is a warzone, with Romans, Aedui, Ptolies and Sweboz fighting it out. It's probably the only reason they've survived. Maybe now that I'm fighting Ptolies properly, it will affect the area a bit.

Take the Saka and Saba provinces, try to ally with everyone but Egypt and then when ready attack Egypt through Africa dont bother going through mesopotamia as thats just going to be boring full stack after full stack battles.

Well at the minute, I'm allied to Saka, so I'm going to leave them alone. Although it would secure a flank, I have some nice defences up there, and I need to secure the west front first, since Ptolemaoi stack hordes are always around. I'll take them when I'm a little less stretched.

I've already started taking Saba, since they attacked. I want those mines .

Not sure if I'll go through Asia Minor or Africa yet. AM would get me some proper infantry, which I really need, and has a lot of money in it. But Africa would be less stack-ey. Or, I could just do both

[Majd il-Romani]

dude what exe are you using?

[Chris_]

dude what exe are you using?

Using BI.exe. It's my first game using it, and its probably been the best campaign I've ever played. Although, I don't usually get this far in.

In game, I'm currently working on Operation Treguard (heh), which involves a naval attack near Saba's main citites. Hopefully I can get one with walls and hold it. Ptolies are still going nuts over Susa, and besiege it every couple of turns with ~3500 troops. However, my spies tell me that Babylon and Seleucia are left almost completely unguarded, so i'm going to send in an attack and holding force between waves.

Also, I had one of the best battles ever at Zadrakta. The Ptolies had beseiged me, and after a couple of turns of me sallying assaulted the city. I had hardly anything, and in the end it came down to my General ( with 10 men ), and a Thureoporoi officer. The officer saved the day basically, charging into the back of the last of their units ( a Pezhetairoi ), and taking down 10 men before he was mobbed. My General eventually charged the unit, routing them. However, he was killed on impact. Hurray, heroic victory! And there was much rejoicing.

[Apgad]

It looks like the Ptolies have just about gotten their victory conditions, except for one rebel province in Makedonia. What happens when they re-capture that one?

Does the game end?

Or do you get told that you've lost, but be offered the option of continuing anyway?

[DeathEmperor]

If I remember right Foot(or abou) said before that nothing happens if an ai faction achieves it's victory conditions.

Wow the Ptolemaioi as they are right now reminds me of how my Seleucid campaigns would look in vanilla. Being able to expand eastward only up to Seleucia really sucked back then

[Celtic_Punk]

Using BI.exe. It's my first game using it, and its probably been the best campaign I've ever played. Although, I don't usually get this far in.

In game, I'm currently working on Operation Treguard (heh), which involves a naval attack near Saba's main citites. Hopefully I can get one with walls and hold it. Ptolies are still going nuts over Susa, and besiege it every couple of turns with ~3500 troops. However, my spies tell me that Babylon and Seleucia are left almost completely unguarded, so i'm going to send in an attack and holding force between waves.

Also, I had one of the best battles ever at Zadrakta. The Ptolies had beseiged me, and after a couple of turns of me sallying assaulted the city. I had hardly anything, and in the end it came down to my General ( with 10 men ), and a Thureoporoi officer. The officer saved the day basically, charging into the back of the last of their units ( a Pezhetairoi ), and taking down 10 men before he was mobbed. My General eventually charged the unit, routing them. However, he was killed on impact. Hurray, heroic victory! And there was much rejoicing.

also due to massive food shortages they were forced to eat the officer's minstrels... and there was much rejoicing!

[We shall fwee...Wodewick]

also due to massive food shortages they were forced to eat the officer's minstrels... and there was much rejoicing!

Monty Python FTW!

Also, please save Rome. You need to help them take iberia and THEN destroy them.

[Celtic_Punk]

What kind of units and resistance did you find in the indus? I'm curious as im playing a baktrian campaign and i wanted to carve out those provinces to the SE

[Chris_]

What kind of units and resistance did you find in the indus? I'm curious as im playing a baktrian campaign and i wanted to carve out those provinces to the SE

From what I remember, each city has the same garrison, which was 2 Indian Elephants, 2-3 Hindu Longbowmen, and 1 or 2 Infantry Guild Warriors. All those skirmishers Lusotana start with came in useful with the elephants

[Celtic_Punk]

so chris, how goes the battle? got another one of them maps for us?

[Chris_]

Here it is, at 132BC

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Slow and steady progress for me, as I'm having to deal with the endless stacks of the Yellow Death. In the south, my naval assault to attack Saba from behind worked, and I took control of one of the cities there. Just set up the government, and finishing off levy building, then I'll attack the surrounding citites.

In the centre, Ptolies attack Susa all the time. I'm waiting for a delivery of Stone Projectors from Baktria, which I'm going to take with a defensive force through a mountain pass noone uses, and take Arbela. This should spread out the yellow death a bit, and possibly open up an attack on Seleucia and Babylon. Pahlava are still hanging around, but they arent bothering me, and I don't really want to bother them at the minute.

Up north, I took one of the Saka settlements, and may move through Sauromatae territory. Saka dont really seem to care that I took one of their towns, so I might finish them off when I can. I have a family member available and on the way, although he's coming from India so it will take a few turns.

Elsewhere, the Romans (who have been my Allies since whenever it was that I walked past Italy) are getting back into the game, and have taken back Sicily. A few rebellions here and there, but otherwise, not much else happened in the rest of the world.

[Celtic_Punk]

You should force the persians into your protection. they should act as a good bufferzone against ptollies and it could funnel them into one place

[Laevex]

Brilliance! This is truly epic. It makes me want to do a migration of my own. But I think you have chosen the best idea yourself. I suppose anyone in Ireland would be cool.

And I agree with all those who desperately want this map-maping gizmo. It would make me so incredibly happy if you could release it. Even if it only made those maps from savegames.

[||Lz3||]

Baktria...

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in ireland...

[satalexton]

now you've done it LZ3...I'm gonna do that as soon as i get fed up with my romani game

[Celtic_Punk]

so have you completely destroyed Saba yet?

[Chris_]

No not yet, and it doesnt look like I will for some time, as I have a CTD when I take Maryab. I think it might be something to do with a general who is in the city, or something else. I'll just have to work around it for now. Saba are down to 3 provinces, so that shouldn't take too long. I started attacking Ptlolies from the north now too.

[TWFanatic]

140 BC and Rome still has not expanded into Sicily. Regardless, this is turning out to be quite an adventure Chris.