Post your EB empires!

[XSamatan]

Check RV for, that, they can train them.

XSamatan

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Check RV for, that, they can train them.

XSamatan

Seleucids cannot recruit Haploi which is annoying when invading Greece and Macedonia since they can't recruit Panda phalanx there either...

[Sylon]

The state of the Epeirote empire, on the death of the Basileus, Ptolemaios Aiakides. He is succeeded by his son, the talented Pyrrichos, whose brilliant starting traits marked him out for kingship early.

A lot has happened since my last update. Expansion into Asia Minor saw the Seleukids, followed by the Hai and Pontikoi declare war on me (In that order). In Iberia, the destruction of the remaining Carthaginians led to to my gaining several colonies on the Mediterranean coast. After some time, I sent a small expedition force of Iberian troops led by an allied general into the interior. He managed to take the city, but was killed in a revolt immediately after. The town would revolt several times more, killing off a second recruited general and destroying the Type 4 government twice, until it rebelled against me and joined the Lusotannen, putting us at war. We had been entirely peaceful up until then, but upon the declaration of war they proceeded to send several stacks against me and nearly drove it out of the continent. It took several years for reinforcements from Sicily to arrive, by which time they had took one of my settlements and was besieging a second with a fullstack. After my armies arrived, however, their troops quickly melted away thanks to the combination of phalangitai and elephants.

In the east, I sent my faction leader to liberate the two Greek cities on the Crimea. It was around then that Hayasdan made the unwise decision of declaring war on me. I sent my faction leader after them, and with his army he single-handedly defeated around four or five fullstacks of Hai troops. Of course, most of them were levies, and I had the advantage of Scythian archers and a fortified position on a mountain.

In Asia minor, my troops quickly pushed the Seleukids out, after which I signed a brief peace treaty with them. The Ptolemaioi declared war at this point, invading through Africa, so I snapped up their city in Anatolia. Pontus declared war soon after, and after fighting off some of their sieges, I returned the favour. The climax of the war was the siege of Amaseia, which saw my levies grind down and destroy their Chalkaspides and Thorakitai after a long time and many losses. After the slow slaughter in the streets, I moved my troops into position and assaulted the town square and their few remaining troops, including their faction leader... And the battle timer ran out. Bam, I get ejected from the city without healing any losses, while they recovered half of theirs, including a 4 chevron Chalkaspide unit. I eventually sacked the town, however.

After that, the Seleukids declared war again, and proceeded to spam me with endless stacks of troops. I foolishly pushed on the Antiocheia, thinking it would cut off their recruitment options... But that simply opened a second front from which the Ptolemaioi invaded me. It is probably worth mentioning at this point that neither of them are at war with each other.

The game then descended into fullstack vs fullstack spam, as I ground more than ten fullstacks in Anatolia, on the walls of Antiocheia, and in the desert around Kyrene. I will not bother to describe them, since it would be exceedingly dull.

On the western front, I declared war on Arverni some time after all of Iberia had become nice and subdued, as they had been openly violating my territory by walking all around my land without military access. Furthermore, they had sent spies in order to incite my Iberian cities. This was interpreted as a sufficient justification for war.

And finally, at some point between these events, I invaded and destroyed the Getai, who had managed to conquer all the way up to Tanais. They actually managed to beat two of my fullstacks, destroying them. The only consolation was that both of them were auxillary armies, made up of native troops and mercenaries. When a proper Hellenic stack attacked them, they were annihilated, as non-phalanx infantry are wont to do when they rush to impale themselves on a row of pikes.



Interestingly enough, I managed to get the trait 'Excelled in Spartan Agoge' for one of my family members this game. It was the first time I saw it, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Also, three more provinces and the Mediterranean is mine and mine only.

[CanOmer]

I'm currently defending my southeast borders from Aeudi and Roman attacks. Also I'm expanding my territories to the rest of the Gaul.

[Blxz]

238BC? Very nice and very slow expansion. I love the restraint.

Also, go pontus!

[CanOmer]

238BC? Very nice and very slow expansion. I love the restraint.
Also, go pontus!

Very slow? I fought all battles, and I used same units in every battle to make them 9. level experience. I usually don't do such thing, I merge my all units after the battle. But I can't survive on VH/H with Arverni otherwise.



At the beginning my economy was too weak, so I sieged Aedui's capital, then attack. In the siege my army faced a crushing defeat. After that Aedui's army left the capital to pursue my army, then I managed to defeat them in open ground. Then I could take the Aedui's capital. But in the VH/H difficulty AI armies easily spamming.

Time of Bondsman took place now. Which unit best for the Arverni? I used mostly Bataroas (Norther Gallic Swordsman). IMO, in the Massalia Keltohellenikoi Hoplitai looks good with better values.

[The Stranger]

My Roman Empire at 220 BC. I am currently at war with the Lusotannan, Makedon and the Ptolemaioi. I have whiped out Carthage quite early, after that I turned my conquest to Greece where I destroyed Epeiros and Koinon Hellenon. Subsequently I invaded Gaul and destroyed the Averni, the Adeui are now my Vassal State. I have had a failed invasion into the Levant, I did conquer Cyprus and used it as a base of operation for naval warfare but my prope with 1 legion did not go as well as planned. I fought a few pyrrhic victories vs the Ptolemaioi armies there and had to retreat without any other succes. A similar invasion in Iberia allthough I managed to take two cities from the Lusotannan before I had to retreat via sea. Now I have my veteran legions from Gaul poring in and the onslaught has commenced!

A note on my armies, I have modded the Roman Army to have all infantry units at 240 at huge setting, this way every full stack army is roughly at full legion strength, I have also increased price and upkeep by 10%. Every province provides a legion and a auxilary legion. At this moment I have 5 Roman legions raised and 4 auxilary legions, I am recruiting the Gallic auxilary legion at this moment.

I couldve expanded much faster but i have been trying to keep a little bit historical accurate line of expansion, as you can see I have not been very succesful but it couldve been worse :P it is on VH/M




This is my Pontic empire at 233. Slowish expansion, but this time not really intended. I had disbanded all my forces early on after taking Sinope to avoid going into massive debt. I had to truly beg AS to not attack me and I had to give them frequent sums of money to ensure this didnt happen. But after a while they got to greedy and attacked my anyway. I survived by a few tricks, ambushes and shameless exploiting of the AI inability to break a line of phalanx in a city street. However AS got weakened by the Ptolemaioi and I couldd profit from that. After I survived that things went pretty fast, I hired 2 gaesatae and trained 4 phalangitas and conquered most of minor Asia and broke Makedon and AS in the area. The Epirotes and KH kicked Makedon out of Greece so I now have them as a Vassal State after i broke their armies, they are my first line of defense against the Ptolemaioi which whom i am at war. I have also recently invaded Greece but I am now at peace with whats left of KH and with the Epirotes. Before that I also rescued the Bosphorus from the Sauromatae with whom I am at war as well.

Notable mentions, I have had a huge raiding party with scythian mercenaries through the Sauromatae area, sacking all their cities and running from all other combat. Those scythian mercs have also largely aided in invading and protecting Greece. Like I said, the gaesatae or actually tindanotae were my most valuable asset and they have been spearheading every major assault. And for anyone wondering what the Sweboz are doing in Asia Minor, i have given them that region as a buffer against first AS and now Ptolemaioi, works like a charm!

As for the AI there is a very interesting war going on in Iberia where the combined forces of Carthage and Lusotannan have repelled the Romans. But just a few turns after that the Lusotannan and Carthage went to war between themselves and now there is a 3way rape going on in that area that is really fun to keep track of. Sofar from 239 BC till 237 BC fpur famous battle markers have popped up all in favor of Carthage (2 battles won by Hasdrubal) vs the Lusotanan, who seem to be losing this war. Recently the Romans have regained control of Emporion to rejoin the battle for Iberia.

A very hard campaign at first, one of the hardest I have ever played. But I am cruising atm, with more tindanotae coming in from Galatia which i have upgraded to the highest barracks. Played at VH/M