Makedonian Battles - Competition - Download and play the Battle of the Week!

[/Bean\]

Many congratsulationsismsinisations!

[satalexton]

is he getting married to EB?

[Maion Maroneios]

Aren't we all?

Maion

[HunGeneral]

Aren't we all?

Interresting question

Nice comptetiton by the way. Too bad I'm busy with the Uni lately otherwise I would also try it

Good luck to those taking part.

All Hail MAKEDONIA!

[ziegenpeter]

Aren't we all?

No. I'm engaged with EBII and call hereby dibs on EBIII.

[Maion Maroneios]

Well, that makes you digamous then. You can't love EBII without first loving EBI.

Maion

[Fluvius Camillus]

I see rankings are made on basis of men remaining. However, shouldn't that number be adjusted in order to incorporate the amount of enemies remaining? For each enemy remaining, you substract one of your number? That sounds a bit more fair, if you ask me!

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Totally agreed!

[Molinaargh]

I see rankings are made on basis of men remaining. However, shouldn't that number be adjusted in order to incorporate the amount of enemies remaining? For each enemy remaining, you substract one of your number? That sounds a bit more fair, if you ask me!

Just my 2 cents! Great idea this, following with great interest. And no, not participating myself right now. I'm getting married next week, so I've got some other stuff to worry about. ;)

That would just make the player have to control the enemy routs and would add the boring task of chasing the routers after the battle is over. Plus it would make seeing the best results less clear, as math would have to be done

Updated ranking of Battle I:

Medario			1021
miotas			1019
Titus Magnus		1007
Flavius Camillus	998
mountaingoat		972
Molinaargh		970
Titus Magnus		954
miotas			923
mountaingoat		870
Titus Magnus		859
ziegenpeter		674
Molinaargh		656
Ghaust the Moor		643

I dont know what was wrong with my AI 8maybe an ALX problem?) but the phalanxes where just sitting around.
Why is their so few phalanx for Makedonia?
Anyway, I'm eager to play the next part.

Thanks for playing! The phalanxes were indeed sitting around - that was the only way I found of not letting the AI ruin the defensive position to make the good and old and boring line formation.

There weren't many phalanxes because the idea was to penetrate the foe's phalanx formation, not fight it head on. There are more phalanxes in the next battle.

The next battle is looking good so far. I'd call it done, but I can't win myself as it is, so I need to try harder and maybe make it easier if I don't manage to win after many attempts.

[Medario]

so, another one

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Yarema]

1. Having lured the enemy cavalry from behind the safe wall of phalanx (i used my light skirmishers to do it), we destroyed them with our phalanx and our own cavalry. Then we concntrated our fire on their general, which made him go nuts. He died and after that the battle was easy - their phalanx units broke their ranks and I took advantage of this moment to move my cavalry behind them without engaging the enemy.They broke down one by one after I engaged them with infatry and charged with cavalry either ofrom the rear or from the flank.

2. My favourite unit from this battle is the heavy cavalry of course


3 .Could you please post the picture of the Princess?

4. Oh and btw played the battle once only and on medium

[satalexton]

Here's your princess

[Ghaust the Moor]

Here's your princess

OMG!!!!

[Ankhenaten]

Ok, I know this doesn't put me in the running, but I can't stand doing file conversions and all the nonsense associated with screenshots, so I went old school and digital cameraed it. I just want to see if these post ok.








Sorry about the huge size. I enjoyed the battle though. Look forward to the next.

[miotas]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY EYES!!!!! ZEE GOOGLES! ZEY DO NOTHING!!!!

[mountaingoat]

I hope you took a screenshot, what if you can't do as well again?

oh yeah its ok i took a screen , did not post it though as i played another battle right after that one .. and i guess i should post it now b4 the round ends .. it would of been a pretty funny lineup since scored 1020 .. the first 3 places would of been 1 soldier apart lol ...

anyway here is the screen ..

[ziegenpeter]

Here's your princess

I smell trickery... she does not look makedonian at all!

[Cute Wolf]

Ohh... I manage to win.... but I loss more men than most of you.... Awesome battle tough..

[/Bean\]

The Princess looks eastern...is she perhaps Roxanne's long lost (and far FAR better looking ) sister?

[Yarema]

ewww... I'm having second thoughts about rescuing that Princess now...

Maybe it would be better to leave her to the Romans, they will make her a Vestal Virgin. Or yet better, they will place her behind their lines in battle - this would prevent their men from routing (something like NKVD units behind the Russian/Soviet lines in the eastern front).

Or maybe it's just propaganda of Roman agents?

[Molinaargh]

Ohh... I manage to win.... but I loss more men than most of you.... Awesome battle tough..

Thanks, I hope you play the next one too! It will be released tomorrow.

And post your results next time, even if they're not so good ones

Or maybe it's just propaganda of Roman agents?

The mystery has been solved! Clearly Roman spies have inflitrated the Makedonian Expeditionary Force and are trying to dissuade our brave men

Current ranking:

Medario			1039
mountaingoat		1020
miotas			1019
Titus Magnus		1007
Flavius Camillus	998
Molinaargh		970
Ankhenaten 		921
Yarema 			906
ziegenpeter		674
Ghaust the Moor		643

Now with only the best score of each player to make it more clear. There is still time, but not much! A little over 24 hours, I believe.

[/Bean\]

Clearly they are very persuisive; they've managed to convince the King that this is his daughter and has been for some time...

P.S=How the hell do you spell persusive...persuisive...persepolis...persephone...pineapple...

[Dutchhoplite]

Here's your princess

[Molinaargh]

Next battle in a few hours!

I'm just posting to see at which time (in the forum clock) I released the first battle

[DaciaJC]

Is this the battle against the Getai?

[Molinaargh]

Is this the battle against the Getai?

Yes, it is. You can see the order of the battles in the first post.

[Molinaargh]

The Makedonians leave the Epeirote shores victorious.

Top 3 of Battle I:

Medario			1039
mountaingoat		1020
miotas			1019

Total Ranking:

Medario 		
mountaingoat 		
miotas 			

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who played! I hope to see everyone again in the next battle

[Molinaargh]

Description: It was the warrior Medario who thought of the best way to breach the Epeirote defence, and the Makedonians executed his plan flawlessly. But a new threat appeared on the path of the brave men: barbaroi.

Thrakians? Dacians? Getai? Who cares, they're all barbaroi. And if there is a way for a man to prove his worth, it certainly is by, on a horse, heavily armoured, to stick his long spear in a naked man's chest.

Download links:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O4ZEHISU
OR
http://rapidshare.com/files/23649620...ttle2.zip.html

The file was too big this time for me to attach here in the forums. If you know a way around this, let me know.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Alright time to get them!

Edit: I made a lot errors and I underestimated the battle. The result was this:




Maybe I will try again, I can do much better.

The battle is very well done! Quite challenging and good to play.

~Fluvius

[Molinaargh]

Alright time to get them!

Edit: I made a lot errors and I underestimated the battle. The result was this:

Maybe I will try again, I can do much better.

The battle is very well done! Quite challenging and good to play.

~Fluvius

Great job and thanks for playing Fluvius! You already did a lot better than me, and I can see the enemy cavalry really got you

[Fluvius Camillus]

The AI was quite skillful with cavalry, was there much scripting involved in this battle? Probably less than the first one.

If I did pay a little more attention to my archers that would have been around 100 losses less...