Poll: scale the difficulty of each campaign

[athanaric]

Personally, I find Karkathiokerta really easy to defend; in fact, I consider it the easiest-to-defend city (that I've played a siege on) in the game, thanks mostly to the ridiculously steep slopes on the two sides enemies are most likely to attack from.

4 Caucasian Archers
2 Eastern Axemen
2 Caucasian Spearmen
2 Skythian HAs
1 FM

You're set. Let the full stacks come...

[Luis Sera]

Maybe some slingers to add to that? i mean they are armour piercing arent they?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Ugh, unfortunately I concentrated my 3 archer units on his one siege tower which was being towed by Galatians with 2 Klerechon Agema behind. It never burned... His other units tied down my axemen long enough that the Galatians got onto the wall supported by the Agema and it was goodnight for me.

But don't worry, i took it back and now have put a better defense force in it with 3 archers, 2 slingers, FM, 2 Armenian Spearmen, and 2 axemen. They're not getting in now!

[Ludens]

Maybe some slingers to add to that? i mean they are armour piercing arent they?

Yes, they're AP, but phalanxes are suprisingly missile-resistant even with AP projectiles. Welcome to the .Org, and to EB, BTW .

[Luis Sera]

yeah i found that i need to hit them from behind to do any real damage but thats with most things. And cheers, been lurking on here since .78 i think, thought it was time to finally get an account

[seienchin]

4 Caucasian Archers
2 Eastern Axemen
2 Caucasian Spearmen
2 Skythian HAs
1 FM

You're set. Let the full stacks come...

Strange...
The time I took Karthakiokerta, that was about the only army I could afford and I was atacked from 2 sides by the seleucs and also from Pontos.
The reason i ended the game was that I lost Kotais and then Armavir to two rebel stack, who spawned near them and atacked and conquered them before I could do anything.
Maybe I should have gone the blitzing way.

[Revoltie]

Woah, speaking like that AS seems a really juicy campaign, I'm currently playing the Makedones, I'll try it as soon as I finish it.
Regarding those dirty eleutheroi barbaroi stacks, I just auto_win those, come on, those things aren't even fair.

[seienchin]

AS is in my opinion the easiest campain. You can have 10.000 profits in the first round.

[Revoltie]

I don't know really, AS is one of the few factions I never played.

[WinsingtonIII]

AS is in my opinion the easiest campain. You can have 10.000 profits in the first round.

There's no way AS is easier than the Romani, Kart-Hadast, or Ptolies. To say it's a relatively easy campaign is accurate, once you get past the initial issues of crappy infrastructure, overstretched forces, and enemies in all directions, you have a huge empire with a huge amount of manpower and resources at your disposal. But I don't understand how it's easier than the Romans, Carthies, or Ptolies, all of whom start with good economies, safe starting positions, and few enemies. To some extent I'd even say that the Getai and Casse are both easier than the AS, simply because those are two factions where you can pretty much avoid war for years and take your time consolidating power. I'm also not sure how you made 10,000 in the first turn, did you not build any buildings or forces?

How do you define blitzing? In my makedonian campaign I managed to kill Epeiros and kick KH from greece in 269 b.c. Is that blitzing? D:

Yes, that sounds like blitzing to me.

[Revoltie]

Damn. I always thought I wasn't a blitzer, that is pretty bad D:
But, well, if you loook into history, then Alexandros and Temudjin were the biggest blitzers ever xD

[vartan]

Damn. I always thought I wasn't a blitzer, that is pretty bad D:
But, well, if you loook into history, then Alexandros and Temudjin were the biggest blitzers ever xD

That's only 'cause they used cheats.