Post your EB empires!

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Either KH or Maks. Im gonna go KH.

[plutoboyz]

A new campaign I started not long ago, it's on VH/M and the year is 245 BC. Care to guess who I am? :P

epeirote?

[Atraphoenix]

This is my Patient Pontic campaign that I have betrayed because I missed my Horse archers and Catas

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and this is mt return to my lovely Horse archers.
I stopped my blitz and at the moment I am quite busy wşth the united forces of AS and traitor Ptolemy and Saba.

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I had stopped my blitz but I think Ptolemy will not allow me to live in peace until I repulse them out of asia.

[FriendlyFire]

I'm in my first campaign where I'm using move_character to keep empires alive (and having a lot more fun by doing so!), instead of boring myself to tears with hell-for-leather expansion. This is a Makedonian H/M campaign in 247 BC:



The two empires that I've helped so far:

Koinon Hellenon: I conquered their homelands in 270 BC, leaving them only the island of Rhodes. When they got Halikarnassos by revolt from the AS, I moved their "lost army" from Crete to Asia Minor help the revolution. So far they've kept the AS at bay. Note that Pontos took Ankyra on their own, and are now busy churning out Celtic troops.

Epeiros: I conquered their homelands in 267 BC, leaving them only Taras, but I also moved their final defeated stack over to Italy. They used this stack to take Arpi, and then spent a decade trying to take Capua. While this was happening, the Romans slipped down south and captured Taras. So I sent a troublemaker FM to Italy with a few Greek mercenaries and a big warchest to hire more (I actually tore down the Athenian Acropolis to fund the expedition). He was defeated, hired even more mercenaries, finally conquered Taras, then gave it back to the Epeirotes and marched on Capua. Many tense battles later, he captured Capua, sacked it and gave that to the Epeirotes as well. Now my FM has returned to Makedonia, and the army he led is gradually dispersing outside Capua (I disband one unit per turn, as Epeiros builds up strength and can stand on its own feet again).

[Fluvius Camillus]

Sounds like a nice game, FriendlyFire. However watch out that the Epeirotes dont grow too strong, or else you will miss out on the Hysteroi Pezhetairoi.

~Fluvius

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Hermolaos - the uncle of the Basileus - leading the Western Olympiades-loyalists that have been cut-off from the East, is making some progress in Iberia, and to secure victory in the West, he in his drunkenness, strikes a deal with the now-unified Gallic tribes; In return for seeding the remaining Gallic lands to Vergalla, the Gauls promise to aid him and the Arche Makedonike in the war against the Genos Klerios and their Iberioi allies. He also strikes an alliance between them, on Arche Makedonike’s behalf.

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The relatively young Vergalla Vollorix, Convictolitavis moc Dejotaros
is hardly a trustworthy man, being known to many as a man of deceit and also being a source of concern for the more wise members of the Makedonian Royal Family:

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Olympiades have his hands full with dealing with the rebel scum in Asia, and cannot at the moment spare the troops to deal with this issue in the West. He also feels that the internal power struggle should be resolved before starting another war. Reluctantly he sends couriers to Convictolitavis telling him that he agrees on the terms set up by his uncle, though in private he woes to one day deal personally with his confused, senile and drunk uncle, along with the wretched Celts in Gaul.

To counter Genos Klerios massive troop deployment in northern Italia Olympiades gives an army to the young and promising Attalos, the first army not commanded by the Basileus himself using the Xipphospherontes Thorakitai Makedonikai as its backbone:

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In the East however, things are far less complicated with Olympiades obliterating every army that oppose him, though showing his mercy for those who surrender before him. He also makes sure his army raids and pillages as little as possible, hoping to win over the locals by other means than brute force alone. By the ninth year of the Civil War (136 BC), opposition is all but broken in Asia Minor.

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Also in the same year, Carna, the last (Olympiades Loyal) Makedonike client kingdom in Arabia falls. No longer having an excuse to kill one another the Saba Confederacy sends envoys to Olympiades, suing for peace. Olympiades agrees, seeing the futility of War against a nation he doesn’t share borders against.

In 136 BC, things are mostly going Olympiades way, the finances are restored, his enemies are fleeing or surrendering before him, but there is still much to do before he and Makedonia can truly feel at ease. And so he marches on:







Ps Comments on this not-so-consistent pseudo-"AAR" are appreciated.

[Mulceber]

Looks like Olympiades truly has his hands full. Good ending, btw, I liked the picture of the troops ending to punctuate it. -M

[Olaf The Great]

Can you tell me the code for the purple color that macedon has? I'd like to use it for Hayasdan because it blends too much into the ocean

[Kikaz]

I usually just increase the green a touch and decrease the blue to create a tealish color (kinda like in vanilla), to stay at least somewhat true to the original colors.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Looks like Olympiades truly has his hands full. Good ending, btw, I liked the picture of the troops ending to punctuate it. -M

Thanks, btw are you getting any time over for that Arche Seleukeia campaign of yours?

Can you tell me the code for the purple color that macedon has? I'd like to use it for Hayasdan because it blends too much into the ocean

It's either 102 0 102 or 102 0 51 - I don't rember, sorry -, also I'm not at me EB computer, so it will take some time for me before I'll be able to look over my EB files. I'll try and get and get back to you later though.

It's 102 0 102.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Since my last post, I've started (and dropped) a number of campaigns, but the only one that's noteworthy is my most recent attempt at Hayasdan. It's on hold for now, as I became rather annoyed at fending off constant attacks from Baktria and the Ptolemaioi...

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My Orontid Persian Empire (has a nice ring, if I do say so myself) stretches from Mazaka in the West all the way to Persepolis in the east.

I've fully implemented the Persian reforms for every city east of--and including--Seleukeia & Babylon, except for the one directly north of Persepolis, due to my lacking the other cities required to implement that expansion tier. Oh, and Edessa hasn't been reformed yet, due to the same reason.

Despite this, it's the closest to the "center" as I can get, so it was my Capital when I put the game on hold.

Oh, and look at Italy. It's amusingly ironic that the faction colours there happen coincide with the modern Italian flag's colours, thought Epeiros' green is a bit dull. Still, it made me chuckle.

Anyway... on to my current campaign.

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Playing as the Romani, obviously. I'm not really attempting to expand historically, nor am I trying to expand all that fast.

I'm currently at war with the Aedui and Epeirotes, although they're very low intensity wars. The Gauls are busy fighting a losing battle with the Lusitani, and the Epeirotes, oddly enough, apparently want to kill the Getai more than they want to kill me.

Epeiros originally owned Dalmation and Segestica, but when I attacked Epidamnos, they sued for peace the next turn. I renegotiated the deal to include Dalmation, Segestica, and Epidamnos, expecting them to turn me down, but they agreed to part with those cities, albeit with ~80k mnai added to the deal. I immediately garrisoned those cities with free legions I had sitting around (gotta spend the copious amounts of cash I make somehow... ~65k army upkeep and counting, yet I still make 30+ thousand per turn,) expecting them to attack.

They did, of course, but only against Epidamnos, albeit it was a full-stack... with like Chaonion Agema, too. I won with ~300 losses to their 1400. I was quite impressed that my Polybian Hastati managed to hold the line against those Chaonion Agema, and with acceptable losses--one unit lost ~70 men, while the other lost 10-20 each. A few of my principes managed to get 100+ kills with just javalin spam, too.

In any case, Epeiros doesn't seem too dangerous at the moment. No, I'm worred about the Lusitani, who all of a sudden went berserk and started steamrolling the Aedui. Why, just four or five turns ago, the Pyrenees was (roughly) the border between those two... and then *BAM* like... five or six full stacks poured out of Iberia and just ripped right through everything in their path.

I believe it would be prudent to strike at the Lusitani now, before they take all of Gaul. Any suggestions as to the route I should take? I could cut across to the Atlantic from Massilia, then north to... er... Britanny. Alternatively, I could just invade Iberia itself.

[Valion]

Is that campaign map EB? its graphics is different from the EB i have or is that from Alex.exe or BI.exe?

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Is that campaign map EB? its graphics is different from the EB i have or is that from Alex.exe or BI.exe?

Yes, it's EB. The different graphics are due to a modification that replaces the default EB campaign map textures with ones from Roma Surrectum.

[Unintended BM]

Huge images.

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[Blxz]

Having an issue with getting screenshots from my current EB 1.2 BI.exe game. I've got screenshots before, print screen and copy to paint. Or get the tga's from the folder and convert them over to JPEG. But either way seems to be giving me a black screen in the photo's now. Anyone encountered this before and know how I might fix it?

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Having an issue with getting screenshots from my current EB 1.2 BI.exe game. I've got screenshots before, print screen and copy to paint. Or get the tga's from the folder and convert them over to JPEG. But either way seems to be giving me a black screen in the photo's now. Anyone encountered this before and know how I might fix it?

Do you have anti-aliasing on? For some inane reason, AA causes all screenshots to come out entirely dark.

[Blxz]

Yes, I did have AA on. Thanks for that. Didn't even realize I had set it.

This is my sweboz game currently. Date is about 225BC give or take a year. Original goal was control of the baltic but the Sauro's developed a rage that I would choose to border them and declared war. I went east and liberated Gawjam Basternoz and took up to Gelonus and Olbia. After that they agreed to a ceasefire, trade rights and then an alliance all in the one diplo screen. A turn later and both Getai and Rome decided that I was their new target. Rome took Vindobona since I was out of position but is currently under seige and is filled with apeleuthoroi; not a chance against my germanic naked fanatics and chatti spearmen. The getai are seeing the other end; they were unable to take any towns and they are just about to face both my main army from the steppes (almost all baltic troops...archer heavy) and my rebel town killer that just took Ak-Ink by seige without an AI sally because it was large enough. Beautiful pincer attack.



War goals are a bit vague. I want to destroy the Getai because I don't like them very much and because that was my original war direction for later with my rebel killer army. I also have a wierd pleasure in holding Byzantion as the Sweboz.
As for rome, I think I'll take that little eastern bit they have between me and the Epirotes but leave them the Po valley region and as much of gaul as they want for now. This will be a world conquest in the style of Fluvius Camillus if I can hold my nation together long enough. Will be nice to see a world conquest Sweboz but I am worried about public order in the long term. Game play speed is a sort of rushed roleplay. I am managing my family members and not adopting much/at all anymore and essentially only warring when I find a partially justifiable reason. Progress will be sort of slowish mainly as I need to consolidate in order to keep the empire together in the later years.

EDIT: Of note around the world:
Pontus was a major power holding Asia minor up to Tarsus and Trebizond. They have since begun a minor collapse with Getai taking Byzantion what I think was a Halicanassus KH rebellion but might have been a naval invasion and the Macedonians becoming their traditional unstoppable force once they lose macedonia proper. The AS has recovered well and held up to Ankyra until just before this screenshot. Maybe pontus is coming back?
Saba has been fighting hard. Both rebellions and actual conquest. They did hold Sinai region and Gerrah and charax but have since lost a small amount of ground. Its actually hampering the Ptollies alot, I have been checking up with toggle_fow and seen some massive fullstacks kicking Ptollie arse.
Parthia was a giant before but has since lost almost everything as the AS recover, mostly probably because the Ptollies have stopped attacking as they fight back and forth with the Saba.
Epirus WAS dominating but the KH is on the ascent. Taken about 3 towns in greece in the last 10 turns or so.

Everything else has been pretty boring.

[Revoltie]

This is my Makedonian empire around 266, my primary target was Pontus (who took Byzantiun), bu then I was attacked by the Getai (who had an awesome development), who attacked tylis, I offered them a ceasefire with the condition of giving me one of their towns, and they surprisingly accepted, now I'm fairly well with them, I bought something like, four regions, and I'm in doubt whether to attack pontus or keep buying Getai land until they are weak enough for a final attack.

Given the fact that both the Barbaroi and the Getai are in Eastern Europe, I think I'll need to dispatch some more full stacks there, I have one at Naissos now.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Yes, I did have AA on. Thanks for that. Didn't even realize I had set it.

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Glad to be of service.

In regards to your campaign fighting the Sauros with the Sweboz? Good thing you have access to Baltic Archers; otherwise it would be a nightmare fighting the Sarmatians with such an infantry-focused faction.

I notice that the Arverni are doing pretty well for themselves, which pleases me. It doesn't happen nearly often enough, IMO. They usually hang on, but just barely. And sometimes, especially when I'm a faction that's nearby, they end up getting wiped out within 10~20 years, like they did in my current Romani campaign.

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Dang, that's some impressive AI expansion for so early in the game. What difficulty are you playing on?

Still, that's a very secure base for further expansion, although I'd take Serdike as well, if only for the awesome Thracian units one can train there.

...

Anyway, a small update on my romani campaign. I made peace with Aedui, then allied with them (...and got military access with a bit of financial incentive,) which apparently pissed of the Lusitani, given that they attacked me a few turns later. I repelled the attack, albeit with high-ish (30%) losses, mostly because 1. That was my first time fighting this particular faction and 2. That stack was filled with highly experienced (3 bronze chevron and above) troops. Several more attacks ensued, all of which were repelled.

Once those attacks had passed, I launched a counter attack at the nearest Lusitanian town: Gergovia. Now, that town had an absurd garrison--very experienced--so I had to starved it out. The problem? It would take seven turns, and there were 10+ enemy half to full stacks in the area.

Thankfully, I had three legions stationed on the border, with another two on the way, so I besieged gergovia with one of them, while the two others blocked all possible approaches from the south. What ensued was seven turns of lopsided victories, which ended with me taking Gergovia, then suing for peace in exchange for Tolosa.

[Revoltie]

I'm playing Vh/h with the Realist Movement Mod.
Serdike has almost a full stack of thracian troops, If I besiege it, I'll have to wait, and I don't want to, I don't trust the Getai, but I'll do it sometime.

[Blxz]

Glad to be of service

No prob.

Yeah, the averni were doing even better before but then for some reason lost their capital to the aedui who then immediately lost it to the romans. So it looks like rome will take them all over soon =(

As for fighting the sauro's.....it involved alot of defensive battles and ambushes. The reason I pushed as far as Gelonus and Olbia is that I can now recruit my own horse archers from each of those. So my force will be horse archer heavy if we happen to have another war. Of course, i need money. Only got 3 mid size armies in existence and every town is almost fully upgraded economically but still no more than 2 or 3K in the bank at any time. I am fully mobilzed at the moment. I can not make much money out of the steppes and baltic regions.

[Valion]

This is my Makedonian empire around 266, my primary target was Pontus (who took Byzantiun), bu then I was attacked by the Getai (who had an awesome development), who attacked tylis, I offered them a ceasefire with the condition of giving me one of their towns, and they surprisingly accepted, now I'm fairly well with them, I bought something like, four regions, and I'm in doubt whether to attack pontus or keep buying Getai land until they are weak enough for a final attack.

Given the fact that both the Barbaroi and the Getai are in Eastern Europe, I think I'll need to dispatch some more full stacks there, I have one at Naissos now.

Seriously is that at 266 BC? Looks Like the AI did a blitz with all the factions! In my VH/M Romani campaign at 265 BC the AI has only conquered few settlements within thei region like casse has only gained one region over the 7 years.

[Biowulf]

Back again with my campaign, it's now 235 BC and quite a few things have changed.
First off I am playing as KH and it's been a very interesting campaign so far.

The world so far and my main army:

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It's made of my best general leading the original troops I used to subdue Asia Minor plus some recently recruited top-end troops. It performed very well in it's first battle so I'm optimistic that it'll go far.

Early in the game I decided if I couldn't win the battles in Greece then I would see if I could stage a comeback from the islands. It only took 5 years, but Makedonia did it, they completely destroyed my armies in Greece and captured Athens and Sparte. By that time the Sauro's had taken the Bosphoran cities but they rebelled to me, as did Halikarnassos. My first bid for Asia Minor ended in failure as the Seleukids destroyed the rebel army I had formed and re-took Hali. Then Pergamon rebelled to me, and Hali again. From those two cities I attempted to make a secure position. Until about 250 I didn't have anything resembling a secure foothold. I negotiated an alliance with Epeiros, and now they're almost dead. I was at war with the Ptolies, but I took Ipsos from them and killed many armies so they asked for a ceasefire, then I allied with them and haven't been bothered since. Pontos made the mistake of challenging me with skirmisher armies so I destroyed them. I also needed the trade across the Pontic sea to my little colonies. Out of a sense of desperation I accepted a protectorate agreement from Makedonia so I could have time to secure my position in Asia Minor. Up until a few years ago that is :P I took Byzantion again and held it against a huge army made of decent troops. Only 14 Makedones survived out of 3400, and the general was not one of them. Right now I'm marching towards Tylis with my main army and the Seleukids took a break from fighting the Ptolies to besiege Amaseia >.>
My main general, Niarchos Samios, still only has 5 stars, and mediocre traits, but he's pretty much all I have right now. He's been the saviour of the Greek alliance and I wish his stats would show it. Anywho, that's my campaign so far and I really don't know what the future holds since Seleukia is still a huge threat and so is Makedonia.

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From West to East:
Luso's are expanding fairly quickly and tried taking Burdigala. I think they'll explode out soon and take over the world.
Carthage is bumming around, expanding a little bit and I don't think they're at war with anyone yet.
Casse are being the Casse.
Romans are expanding around the Aedui and a little in Iberia. They're at war with the Gallic tribes and allied with the Sweboz. they took Gergovia from the Arverni and just recently took Lemonum.
The Aedui are holding in Gaul and will either fall to the Romans or Lusos
The Arverni are as good as dead, they never do well in my campaigns
The Sweboz are having fun taking over Central Europe and will probably move into Gaul soon.
Epeiros never did well, which sucked because then the Maks could concentrate on me first. Now they face annihilation since both cities are under siege by superior forces.
Makedonia gained control over Greece fairly early and have had all the time in the world to expand and build. They went to war with the Sauros to take Kallatis and might have gone all the way to Olbia if I hadn't distracted them so much. As it is, they're much stronger than I am so I don't expect much success in war against them.
Getai are being good neighbors and sitting on their current settlements like bumps on a log.
Sauros are in a big war with Hayasdan and currently losing since they just lost Uspe. They'll probably come back, but who knows.
Ptolemies are beating the Seleukids for now, but have stopped their conquests since I allied with them. They do have Antioch and out to Palmyra so I doubt they'll get pushed back anytime soon.
Seleukia is doing well considering what they've lost. They're in a stalemate against Parthia. Now they want to pick on me, so we'll see what happens.
Pontos is dead, I killed them.
Hayasdan is going north as usual
Saba aren't doing a whole lot, just dealing with the lands they get from rebellion and whatnot.
Parthia is trying to expand but aren't doing a very good job of it. They're locked in against Seleukia for now.
Baktria was doing pretty well and going towards those Indian provinces, but lost Baktra so I doubt they'll last very much longer.
Saka is doing very well and will probably take over the whole east and India, then watch out...

My southern border and islands:

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The NE part of my little nation:

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I hate the Seleukids

[Revoltie]

Seriously is that at 266 BC? Looks Like the AI did a blitz with all the factions! In my VH/M Romani campaign at 265 BC the AI has only conquered few settlements within thei region like casse has only gained one region over the 7 years.

Yeah, I know what you mean, that is probably caused by the Realist Movement Mod, I'm prety sure this is aroun 268 and 260

[stratigos vasilios]

Hey guys,

I'm not sure if this is going to work (My empire is attached), it's my first empire posting!

I'm currently the Romans and have achieved the final reform! I've built some super armies and am ready to assault Britain!

Over the course of the Campaign the Ptolmey and the Seleukids struggled over Babylon and Seleukia for at least 100 years. One would hold it for 20 turns...then the other would hold it for 20 turns... Eventually the Seleukids outmuscled them and won over the Eastern empire.

The Seleukids also ventured north to destroy the Saka, yet they have not finished off Baktria yet.

The Sarmations took out the Hai (only recently) but before that the Hai had an empire spanning into Anatolia. Pontus didn't put up much fight against both the Ptolmey and Seleukids.

Carthage had all of North West Africa until we met in Sicily and luckily for me, they had put a grand army into ships which I wiped out with my fleet.

Gaul was my first target and fell completely around early Marian times. I did not want to get into a war with the Sweboz but unfortunately it happened, it was so hard to drive them off but once I started I kept going until I had all of Northern Europe.

Iberia grew unchallenged in the west until it met Gaul.

Atm I'm at war with Seleukia but have a loose alliance with Sarmatia and Saba. I would want to take Britain but I'm gettin 2500 from trade with Camulosadae which I'm liking. But Culture penalty in the East is killing me so I'm losing alot of money on garrison troops, that, and Seleukid keep pestering my borders.

So in the end, this campaign turned into 3 large empires (Rome/Sarmatia/Seleukia) and 3 smaller ones (Britain/Saba/Baktria).

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Time for an update on my Romani campaign.

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As one can see, I've completely eradicated the Lusotannan, thanks mostly to the FM in the screenshot.

Kaeso Avreilivs Cotta is far my best general, and the only one without the accursed "lover of beauty" trait. He's also the man I'm hoping will cause the Marian Reforms for me, although I still need to... acquire... seven more territories for all the non-FM-related conditions to be met, aside from him becoming Consul. Right now he's gearing up to liberate Gaul from the, er, Gauls.

...

It's for their own good, to protect them. From the Sweboz.

Yeah, that sounds good. Let's go with that.

Hey, what do expect from someone who made one of the Romani's "mobilize" musics the Imperial March.

[Valion]

Yes, it's EB. The different graphics are due to a modification that replaces the default EB campaign map textures with ones from Roma Surrectum.

Cool! If i use that Modification is it save-game compatible? :)

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Cool! If i use that Modification is it save-game compatible? :)

It's a purely cosmetic mod, so I'm 99% certain it's save game compatible.

[Biowulf]

@Daiyoukai Ramza: What .exe are you using? That's some really good AI expansion by Hayasdan and Pontos, much better than they ever do in my campaigns.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

@Daiyoukai Ramza: What .exe are you using? That's some really good AI expansion by Hayasdan and Pontos, much better than they ever do in my campaigns.

I am using BI.exe, for the increased chance of Naval Invasions.

Seems to have worked, since Makedonia and/or Carthage ship a stack towards me every couple of years.

Anyway, Hayasdan's expansion has been quite impressive, especially since they expanded primarily towards the south(east), when they usually expand north.

Pontos... well, I've seen better expansion from them. And unfortunately, they got gobbled up by the yellow death, leaving them with only their Bosphoron and Skythian holdings.

The only thing standing between the yellow death and me is Epeiros and Makedonia, and I really don't find the prospect of fighting the Ptolemaioi a very appealing prospect, to be honest. Epeiros is bad enough with their elite spam (lol, half a stack made up of Chaonion Agema,) and the Ptolemaioi are worse in that respect. In fact, I usually drop games in which the Ptolemaioi become the Yellow Death, and the only thing preventing me from dropping this one is the prospect of the Marian Reforms.

...so that's why I used add_money to put them several million in the hole, and give a few of their enemies--Saba in particular--several hundred thousand Mnai. Yes, it's cheating, and no, I don't care. Should've done it a long time ago.