Aedui or Arverni

[Macilrille]

I recall others mentioning the mission as wel, it is indeed a timed one.


I would play Sweboz and destroy them both! Soft Gauls!!

[The General]

On a perhaps related note, have been playing an Averni game, and on one turn my adviser popped up with a message from the Epirotes. They apparently wanted me to take a couple of Illyrian cities in exchange for vague promises of friendship, and I was suddenly allied to them when I accepted the offer by pressing on the advisers face. Is this some sorta timed mission or something? Might be another reason to go (or not go) Averni.

Aedui get the same proposition (or at least I did in my game).

[Fluvius Camillus]

Arverni

Unite --> Defeat Rome --> Start an Empire



~Fluvius

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Wow, that's quite an impressive feat! I'm not that fond of rushing to be true.

[Kevin]

Play the Getai or Sweboz! I don't like the Celtic voicemod that much to be honest.

[Power2the1]

And, Vercingetorix, need I say more? (pronounce it Ver-sing-jet-or-ix and I kill you)

Quite right. Wou-kin-get-oh-ricks is a bit closer to how its really pronounced in Gallic.

[Kikaz]

Quite right. Wou-kin-get-oh-ricks is a bit closer to how its really pronounced in Gallic.

I pronounce it pretty close to that (Waer-Kinj-uh-toe-ricks)

The History Channel pissed me off (again) by pronouncing it slovenly as I had shown in my previous post.

[Finn MacCumhail]

Madbriton, why don't you made a poll in these thread?

[Fluvius Camillus]

Wow, that's quite an impressive feat! I'm not that fond of rushing to be true.

Me? What about the Pahlava..

[The General]

Me? What about the Pahlava..

Woah, Pahlava's doing nice indeed, didn't notice that at first. In my games Pahlava either is completely passive or conquers 1-3 provinces before the war stagnates for a while until AS starts pushing back.


(AS does too well in pretty much all my games, I have to actually help Pahlavans/Ptolemaioi/etc out to control the AS expansion...)

[bobbin]

Really? in most my games they usually end up taking the eastern half of th AS.

A recent example


ps playing as the Aedui and have beaten the heathenish god king of the Arverni into submission as a client king, where he rightly belongs!

[Ca Putt]

where he rightly belongs!

between you and the romani

[Fluvius Camillus]

Really? in most my games they usually end up taking the eastern half of th AS.

A recent example


ps playing as the Aedui and have beaten the heathenish god king of the Arverni into submission as a client king, where he rightly belongs!

I guess you play really long then, look at the date in mine. Your's has insane AI expansion.

In my Baktrian campaign Pontos conquered Ambrakia in 238!

~Fluvius

[WinsingtonIII]

Really? in most my games they usually end up taking the eastern half of th AS.

A recent example


ps playing as the Aedui and have beaten the heathenish god king of the Arverni into submission as a client king, where he rightly belongs!

Not to be off-topic, but can we talk about that interesting Roman expansion? I don't think I've ever seen them go Northeast first, but I guess it makes sense as you and the Arverni are blocking the Northwest. Still it's strange how they seem to be ignoring Southern Italy... Or are they just losing there?

EDIT: Wow and I didn't even notice how the Ptolies control Northern Hellas and yet the KH are hanging on randomly all over the place (I'm assuming due to rebellions, but they didn't get those cities in the Getai homelands by rebellion did they?). I also like how the Getai got split down the middle, the Baktrians are controlling random steppe provinces and nothing more, and poor old Pontos is still managing to hang on by a thread in the middle of that Yellow Monster. Now this may be my eyes deceiving me, but do the Lusotannan control Crete??? Very weird AI expansion there, it should go in the AI progression thread if it hasn't already.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Not to be off-topic, but can we talk about that interesting Roman expansion? I don't think I've ever seen them go Northeast first, but I guess it makes sense as you and the Arverni are blocking the Northwest. Still it's strange how they seem to be ignoring Southern Italy... Or are they just losing there?

EDIT: Wow and I didn't even notice how the Ptolies control Northern Hellas and yet the KH are hanging on randomly all over the place (I'm assuming due to rebellions, but they didn't get those cities in the Getai homelands by rebellion did they?). I also like how the Getai got split down the middle, the Baktrians are controlling random steppe provinces and nothing more, and poor old Pontos is still managing to hang on by a thread in the middle of that Yellow Monster. Now this may be my eyes deceiving me, but do the Lusotannan control Crete??? Very weird AI expansion there, it should go in the AI progression thread if it hasn't already.

Krete looks unexplored, but thats weird without fog of war, what about Aedui in Southern Hibernia, and somebody took a boat, finally Rhodos is conquered!

~Fluvius

[WinsingtonIII]

Krete looks unexplored, but thats weird without fog of war, what about Aedui in Southern Hibernia, and somebody took a boat, finally Rhodos is conquered!

~Fluvius

The Aedui in Hibernia is explained by the fact that the player is Aedui. However, I am impressed with the Maks for apparently launching a naval invasion of Rhodes as you said.

[Cute Wolf]

Meh, for some sake of heroism.... I Prefer Avernii......
The Aedui are just some fat man soo love eating boars, so they place it on their banner.....

[bobbin]

I guess you play really long then, look at the date in mine. Your's has insane AI expansion.

In my Baktrian campaign Pontos conquered Ambrakia in 238!

~Fluvius

Its my Aedui campaign at 193BC, well done with the Pontos expansion as you can see they seem to be sleeping in my one

Not to be off-topic, but can we talk about that interesting Roman expansion? I don't think I've ever seen them go Northeast first, but I guess it makes sense as you and the Arverni are blocking the Northwest. Still it's strange how they seem to be ignoring Southern Italy... Or are they just losing there?

EDIT: Wow and I didn't even notice how the Ptolies control Northern Hellas and yet the KH are hanging on randomly all over the place (I'm assuming due to rebellions, but they didn't get those cities in the Getai homelands by rebellion did they?). I also like how the Getai got split down the middle, the Baktrians are controlling random steppe provinces and nothing more, and poor old Pontos is still managing to hang on by a thread in the middle of that Yellow Monster. Now this may be my eyes deceiving me, but do the Lusotannan control Crete??? Very weird AI expansion there, it should go in the AI progression thread if it hasn't already.

The romans did intially expand westwards all the way to Numantia but they lost it all to an attack by me and Carthage, that was when I establised my Arverni client kingdom in Italy. Begin blocked from the west they started moving into Illyria and in corncert with the KH dismembered the Getai empire that existed there previously. As for southern Italy it's half and half really, they are fighting (and losing) but not that hard, Taras seems to revolt to the Eporites every so often but this time it might be permanent.

The KH pretty much encompassed all of greece, the balkans and western asia minor (the city in Iberia was a revolt) but have lost most of it to the Ptolemaioi who invaded across the Bosphrorus and split the KH apart.

Crete is actually still a rebel province, the KH have had and army sat there since the beginning of the game but don't seem to have done anything with it.

[the man with no name]

Its my Aedui campaign at 193BC, well done with the Pontos expansion as you can see they seem to be sleeping in my one



The romans did intially expand westwards all the way to Numantia but they lost it all to an attack by me and Carthage, that was when I establised my Arverni client kingdom in Italy. Begin blocked from the west they started moving into Illyria and in corncert with the KH dismembered the Getai empire that existed there previously. As for southern Italy it's half and half really, they are fighting (and losing) but not that hard, Taras seems to revolt to the Eporites every so often but this time it might be permanent.

The KH pretty much encompassed all of greece, the balkans and western asia minor (the city in Iberia was a revolt) but have lost most of it to the Ptolemaioi who invaded across the Bosphrorus and split the KH apart.

Crete is actually still a rebel province, the KH have had and army sat there since the beginning of the game but don't seem to have done anything with it.

Get those Goidilicmen

[athanaric]

Crete is actually still a rebel province, the KH have had and army sat there since the beginning of the game but don't seem to have done anything with it.

You know, you could actually force the Baktrians onto Krete just before their last city in Asia falls. That's what I did in my Saka campaign (because the Saka VCs don't require the destruction of any faction). That way, you can have a "Kretan" faction to add to the diversity...


Sorry for going OT.

[Kikaz]

You know, you could actually force the Baktrians onto Krete just before their last city in Asia falls. That's what I did in my Saka campaign (because the Saka VCs don't require the destruction of any faction). That way, you can have a "Kretan" faction to add to the diversity...


Sorry for going OT.

That sounds like quite a feat actually. Especially if you do it without the console...

[athanaric]

That sounds like quite a feat actually. Especially if you do it without the console...

I had to use the console for the teleportation (of the Baktrian FMs) and for giving myself enough money for the bribe (withdrew the excess sum afterwards of course). Didn't use Forced Diplomacy though. And I had conquered Krete myself beforehand.

Perhaps an Aedui player could do this even without resorting to money cheats. After all, the huge advantage of Gauls over other Barbarians is their decent, though not spectacular, economy, which allows for some nice bribes.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Aedui definately. Carnute Cingetos are amazing units and their overall feel just seems better than that of the Arverni. Also, the color on the campaign map isn't as galling as that pale lime green.

[Kikaz]

I had to use the console for the teleportation (of the Baktrian FMs) and for giving myself enough money for the bribe (withdrew the excess sum afterwards of course). Didn't use Forced Diplomacy though. And I had conquered Krete myself beforehand.

Perhaps an Aedui player could do this even without resorting to money cheats. After all, the huge advantage of Gauls over other Barbarians is their decent, though not spectacular, economy, which allows for some nice bribes.

Actually, in my experience, Sweboz has had the better economy. Maybe, it's because I went east and captured Gotland ASAP? Anyway, I was making 20k per turn for about twenty turns; nose-dived after I bought Eburonum whilst invading Britain (and purchasing nearly half of Casse's militaryteehee)

who was it that was saying how good Balroae are? They were right.

[DaciaJC]

Just wanted to mention that this thread is a dupe. Please use the search function next time.

[NeoSpartan]

I like the Aedui because I really don't like the light green color of the Arverni. :(

[-Praetor-]

Nah, Arverni skins look better IMO, even despite their strategy map colour.

[Kevin]

For comparison
Of course, I had to change the Arjos for Cornute Cingetos

[DaciaJC]

Hmm, I much prefer the looks of the Aedui units, particularly that of the Solduros.

And it seems as if the Arveni Neitos have a much smaller shield than those of the Aedui. What is the reasoning behind this?

[anubis88]

Yeah, when i was deciding with which one of the two should i pick, i picked the Aedui because their Solduros IMO look much better than the Arverni ones.

Tough call, played with both, tried to roleplay as much as possible ( not taking too much provinces), i had a game where at the year 170BC i had with the Aedui only 5 provinces! It took really huge work to remain alive with such a limited income. But it was fun.