The Pyrrhic Dynasty : A Makedonian AAR

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

BACK TO BLACK finally...

[Reverend Joe]

BACK TO BLACK finally...

Hell yeah!

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Thanks. It's good to have the color back to normal. Unfortunately it seems that the AI remembered they hated the color black and soon after the war ended everyone declared war on me. With all the losses I took in the civil war (mostly the 50% of my armies I disbanded at the very beginning) I'm almost having trouble defending my borders. I'm considering allowing some regions to fall for some nice story...

Aigyptos is still "Baktria" and I indeed just recolored it again.

It's kind of funny you mention the title, Appo. I tried a bunch of different variations but never found a version I liked. I should have just left it plain "The Fall of the Demetrids".

[Europe]

I cant believe its over! The civil war was great, really entertaining! Makes me wonder what’s next!?
It felt like years ago that this AAR was about Demetrios and Alkyoneus, good memories

[HunGeneral]

I realy wonder what's going to happen next

Good to see the old colour back...

One question though: about the units you moded (top of page) are you going to make a Makedonian version of the Praetorians or something?

[Reverend Joe]

Thanks. It's good to have the color back to normal. Unfortunately it seems that the AI remembered they hated the color black and soon after the war ended everyone declared war on me. With all the losses I took in the civil war (mostly the 50% of my armies I disbanded at the very beginning) I'm almost having trouble defending my borders. I'm considering allowing some regions to fall for some nice story...

"Almost" having trouble, eh?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I had a bunch of time between classes earlier today and was bored so I looked over the beginning of my AAR and the good old days of Demetrios. I sure made big chapters back then but ironically posted them more often. One thing I had forgotten was just how much territory I had gained during the reign of Aristotelis, nearly as much as I gained under Demetrios. Too bad Aristotelis went crazy in his old age.

The units at the top of the last page are something I'm working on to make a non-Hellene regional Thorakitai. I wanted to make an eastern version that had scale and a western romano-keltic version. I was thinking of having some kind of reform down the road to have state supplied troops to troops along the line of the Marian reforms, at which point foreign troops will join the ranks of the Thorakitai as auxilaries.

I would have more trouble of defending my borders if the AI did a better job of attacking. They'll send just enough troops to win a auto_calc battle, but not anything played out, while they have tons of reinforcements just out of range to help. The Getic Confederation and the Gauls are still my friends, but other than that I've been almost completely turned against. I should just take out the small fries and concentrate on the big ones. The problem is that I'm having trouble adressing anything at all when it all happens at once. It is kind of fun since it is a challenge, though I'm still clearly winning on all fronts.

[Reverend Joe]

The Getic Confederation... are still my friends

Are you serious?! Still?! That's got to be the weirdest diplomacy quirk ever.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Yeah, they've really surprised me. I thought I would have been at war with Getai as soon as I took Kallatis, but even after buying a couple towns from them they haven't thought of advancing southward. Even after the civil war forced me to disband a bunch of my Danube defenders they didn't attack. My theory is that the Boii rebel spawn has confused them. They tried to take that town a dozen times a hundred years ago. Now they just have their entire military standing on the border to that region.

I hope to have the next chapter up soon.

[tls5669]

BACK TO BLACK finally...

Its actually dark brown!!!....;p

[Reverend Joe]

Its actually dark brown!!!....;p

Be wary, lest you invoke the wrath of Megas MAA.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

In four days, this AAR will be a year old.

Since everyon in Europe (other than the Lusotanni) are my friends (for now), I don't really expect to fight barbarians anytime soon. Though I would like to gain some more territory in Gaul, for instance.

My original plans for conquest after the civil war was to deal with Aigyptos (I had originally planned to just make peace with them [other than Alexandreia there isn't really much to gain from Aigyptos, it doesn't have too great of resources and it is overpopulated with people that don't like Makedonia]). After Aigyptos I had planned to take the coasts of Numidia and Mauretania (Siga and Lixus) to hopefully bankrupt them and at least cut down on there per turn unit spawns. Then have Philippos move to Iberia and finish what he had started with the Lusotanni. My plans didn't really work out, though. As the oracle said to Demetrios, "Friends will become enemies, and enemies friends."

The color is actually a dark brown. It is supposed to be black but black doesn't look great on the minimap. With the current color, you can see the contrasts of the terrain on the minimap better. I still call it black, though.

Thankyou to those of you who have read my AAR and thanks to those who have commented. I caught up with my picture editting and have about a two hundred uneditted pictures from the last couple months / decade of play that I need to edit before I can even start the next chapter. The next five years will go pretty fast...

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Beat the shit out of those pesky Numidians and take their lands! They have rich mines after all. They deserve it.

[General Appo]

In four days, this AAR will be a year old.

in advance. And since it´s never to early to start celebrating a birthday, let´s party.

[General Appo]

Hmpf, apparently there´s some stupid rule about max 50 images a post.

[Reverend Joe]

You only need one image to party.




(And the image limit is to prevent people from spamming full-sized images.)

@MAA: Ccongratulations. I've been following this since day 30 or so; you and Chirgueon (I forget how to spell his name) have truly raised the standards for AARs, at least around here.