Lives: Alkyoneus Argeades (A Makedonian AAR)

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Its hard to load cuz he got a holy graphics card.
I mean seriously, if ANY of US tried to do that our comps would kill themselves.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

MAA is going to rename your AAR into "EB in Cinemascope".

It's always the mercenaries that defy Makedonian martial honour by barbarous deeds.

[Africanvs]

In the interest of pushing the next chapter to page 3, I'll take some time to reply to everyone who has commented and give a little insight as to why I like pics so much! Furthermore I want to thank everyone for commenting. I do this for my own ejoyment, but I also do it to give a little something back to the people who make the EB community so great. I work hard to try to make my AARs look good, and enjoyable to read. I appreciate any constructive criticism that will make the AAR better and your compliments really make all the hard work pay off, and keep me interested in writing more. My thanks.

Its been just over a week, but it seems longer since you updated. Nice update!

Quite a hard thread to load. More comments are needed so that the next chapter gets pushed to the next page.

Thanks MAA! Do you think it would be easier to load if I placed each battle in spoil tags? My AARs do tend to be a little mage heavy. The visuals in EB are so amazing I can't resist.

Its hard to load cuz he got a holy graphics card.
I mean seriously, if ANY of US tried to do that our comps would kill themselves.

Oh the game doesn't look THAT good on my screen. I play with huge units and high graphics, but those pictures go through a pretty intense work-over in photoshop to get them coming out like that. Editing the pics takes longer than writing and posting the chapter. Each one has it's color, contrast, lighting, and sharpness tweaked, then light effects are added through a diffused glow effect. This is often light, but sometimes very heavy to create the desired look. After that, some of them are given even more effects, (like a fade from black and white to color, or a spotlight effect to highlight a small piece of the pic I want to draw attention to.) I have to say EB is hands down the most beautiful mod out there when you take into account the units, the terrain features, and let us not forget those amazing skies. Sometimes I will take a landscape, more or less devoid of units, and give it the look of an oil painting. Simply awesome.

MAA is going to rename your AAR into "EB in Cinemascope".

It's always the mercenaries that defy Makedonian martial honour by barbarous deeds.

I think you and I are going at close to the same pace on our AARs. We've both just completed chapter four. I really like your style and I only updated hoping you would if I did! :)

Always nice to blame those rowdy gauls when things get out of hand eh? Although, Alkyoneus was rather peevish when his envoys were killed. Angry enough to murder every man, and enslave every woman and child in Ipsos. I always like a little barbarity in my characters, no matter how honorable they are. Of course, there always has to be a reason. Senseless slaughter is the true barbarity.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I'm pretty sure that images under spoilers load when you open a thread even if you don't look under the spoiler. Don't worry too much about the pictures. They're great looking and a little extra load time is worth it.