1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

**Skullheadhq** · 07-18-2009, 18:54

Ειμαι ο Μαιον και μολις τελειωσα

Ik ben Maion en nét klaar.
I am Maion and just finished?

With that whore of a weather forecast?

**Maion Maroneios** · 07-18-2009, 19:31

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

Ik ben Maion en nét klaar.
I am Maion and just finished?

With that whore of a weather forecast?

Yes. A more accurate translation would be "I just came" though.

Maion

**Skullheadhq** · 07-21-2009, 12:03

That's what the dutch translation says, the english one is wrong.\

**Reality=Chaos** · 07-22-2009, 10:17

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

That's what the dutch translation says, the english one is wrong.\

looking at the dutch translation compared to the english one (I don't know greek) it could just as easily be

ik ben net gekomen

**Horatius Flaccus** · 07-22-2009, 11:01

Ja dat vond ik ook al *apart*.

Anyhow, back on topic!

**XSamatan** · 07-22-2009, 13:23

BTT:

my Mak-campaign:

255BC

250 BC

and thats what you are missing without alexEB:

they gave me a hard fight.....had no more than 20 Akonthisai left...

XSamatan

EDIT: as I'm now at war with ANY of my neighbours it is starting to become a little annoying...

**Turrus Julius** · 07-23-2009, 11:34

((I like EB. The skirmishers are better for some odd reason, or I use them more properly.

))

I started as the Romaioi, natural choice for a first campaign, but this is actually my second one. Updated, forgot it wasn't backwards-compatible. :D

Well, I took the units given to me in Arretium and walked to Segesta, sieged it and hoped the enemy would stick inside instead of sallying. Riiight...
Epic fight at the gate, Eqvites Consvlares had to be thrown in to keep the cavalry at bay. If it wasn't for my skirmishers as a last desperate reserve I would've lost. Felt rather awesome after defeating the remnants and taking the town. Naturally I expelled the people to lessen the pressure on law-enforcement. Never, ever forget that the celts throw javelins.
I installed a puppet king there for future barbarian-mercenary purposes. Later on I will change the governance to the fully romanized one, but for now I can use the barbarian shock-troops to augment my northern legion.

Tara was nicer to my souther legion, as it waited until I got an unit of Principes there. Unit of Hoplitai Haploi was easily taken out with backstab from skirmishers, and the rest could be wiped away in close combat, when they couldn't form phalanx. Cavalry was an issue, and I'm starting to understand why you have to have an unit of two of them. I still can't use them for the hammer-and-anvil, but at least flanks are secure. ^^
After taking Tara I sent a diplomat to establish peace and trade with the Epeiros. They accepted, if grudgingly. This might have been a mistake, as the Epeiros now concentrates on kicking the macedonians, and will be a problem in the future unless I make a heroic backstab and take the coastal cities.
Tara is now a puppet kingdom to augment my legions with hoplites and expendable Akontistai.

This is about as far as I have gone now, and I have made peace with the Galli to concentrate on attack against the Epeirotes and Karthadastim. If I get Carthago, I have a good base to launch assault on northern Africa and I have crippled my future enemy's military and economical strength. I hope.