Post your EB empires!

[Duguntz]

I understand your ways. In my games, I destroyed their wonders and built a heavenly pillear in every city... in honor of Deiwoz. ASSIMILATION is the rule!!! Appart if : it's a heavenly pillar of their gods, i don't destroy it, because even germans warriors can be amazed by greatfulness, wonders, I destroy, because for example, a hero's tomb. their hero wasn't considered as heroic for my people, why the hell should keep it! and I build a temple on this emplacement... to comemorate my victory over those people. like a trophy, if you want!

[Macilrille]

Well... from at least Illerup (205 AD) forwards, even Scandinavian tribes seem to have known of Alexander and imitated commemorative medallions to him. Whether this was just dumb imitations of a neighbouring high culture or they consciously chose him because they knew of his exploits, we cannot say. But the Vikings, for example, definately knew of Theoderic (I think it is Theoderic), there is a Skald who mentions a Riders-statue in Italy of him in such terms as to be well-acquainted with him. The distance in time and place is sort of parallel, so I always assume that my Sweboz warriors know of legendary places and figures in neighbouring cultures. Think of it... you are a Roman trader at a Dugunthiz' court trying to arrange an exchange of gifts (trade) to get all that nice amber and furs, and survive; what stories would you tell these intimidating men whose glance you can hardly bear.

So I believe that the upper class of the German tribes were familiar with heroes and villains such as Alexander, Scipio Africanus and Hannibal even before we believe of contact, just as we know for certain that Ariovistus knew of Roman politics and political system "I am not so barbarian as to be unaware..." Ariovistus says. This is quite interesting as it is also one of the few instances that we get the Barbarians' self-perception and what he thinks of being labelled as barbarian and savage.
But this is my interpretation.

This is far from the original topic though.

[Unintended BM]

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My Baktrian economic powerhouse. Just finished my last second level mine and now I make crazy money. Once that last AS territory gets taken, I'll probably be fighting lots of horse archers...

[Macilrille]

Yei, Baktria FTW. I like playing them :-)

[Duguntz]

wow, your economy kick ass!!!

[vartan]

wow, your economy kick ass!!!

10 double level mines? WOW. Look at Kophen.

[Unintended BM]

Alexandreia-Ariana doesn't have any mines, so I'm not making much money there, but all the others have level 2 mines. The cities you see in the picture are my entire "empire".

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Nice Bactrian Empire that.

An update to my makedonian empire.

The extent of the Αρχε Μακεδονια as of 160 BC:

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Βασιλευς Νεικον Νικατορ, the greatest of all Makedonike Kings have at last subjugated the whole Iberian peninsula and secured it's valuable mines.
The Hellenes in the region have come under his protection, the finances are under control and the western front have been secured.

A major military victory.

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The king's brother have subjugated the southern Gallic lands and restored the balance of power between the major Gallic confederacies.

The Royal family as of 160 BC:

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Olympiades, the Kings son will come of age within a short period of time and have received the best training and education the Hellenic world has to offer. He is very interested in the stories of Alexandros conquest of the eastern lands and he has promised as soon as his age permits reclaim these lost lands and be the one who finally unites the Hellenic people.

As always comments are appreciated.

[lionhard]

I wuv macedonia :D nice empires :)

[Jebivjetar]

As always comments are appreciated.

Thoraiktai Aryraspidai for Macs? Did you mod this or am I missing something?
Btw awesome empire you have there, Arthur! :7

[anubis88]

Thoraiktai Aryraspidai for Macs? Did you mod this or am I missing something?
Btw awesome empire you have there, Arthur! :7

Of course he modded it.... The Thorakites also don't belong there

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

I wuv macedonia :D nice empires :)

Thanks! Be sure to post a pic of your ongoing campaign if possible, it doesn't have to be as enormous as mine to be posted here.

Thoraiktai Aryraspidai for Macs? Did you mod this or am I missing something?
Btw awesome empire you have there, Arthur! :7

Thank you my romankilling brother! And yes I've added Thorakitai Argyraspidai to the Maks. Tis quite simple.
It's all part of a roleplayed reform of mine (modelled slightly after the reform in MAA´s AAR) , so it's somewhat justified.

[plutoboyz]

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My Baktrian economic powerhouse. Just finished my last second level mine and now I make crazy money. Once that last AS territory gets taken, I'll probably be fighting lots of horse archers...

wow, how did you do that?

[Drunk Clown]

wow, how you did did you do that?

By simply building mines.

[plutoboyz]

By simply building mines.

I never had enough money to build mines. btw, thanks for grammar correction.

[Unintended BM]

Well, I relied on a lot of Persian Archers, and I only had like two native phalanx. Also, it's a lot of luck too. If the AS gets kicked out too early, you have to fight a lot more, but if they stick around for a while like in my game, then the Parthians and Saka won't worry about you. Then you have time to build up your economy.

[plutoboyz]

Well, I relied on a lot of Persian Archers, and I only had like two native phalanx. Also, it's a lot of luck too. If the AS gets kicked out too early, you have to fight a lot more, but if they stick around for a while like in my game, then the Parthians and Saka won't worry about you. Then you have time to build up your economy.

Thanks.

[Mulceber]

Having played through several campaigns, I missed the Romani, and decided to go through their campaign again using more role-playing this time. I've tried to be fairly accurate in how they conquered things, although I'm a bit flexible about that and I'm trying to develop characters more. Here's my Empire in 188 BCE with my potential reformator/faction leader. Hope he survives to 172.

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Oh and the map is a little bit inaccurate: it lists the Kingdom of Pergamum as being a part of the Imperium Romanum when really it is just our "ally" -M

[Nobo]

Having played through several campaigns, I missed the Romani, and decided to go through their campaign again using more role-playing this time. I've tried to be fairly accurate in how they conquered things, although I'm a bit flexible about that and I'm trying to develop characters more.

I've been trying to do that, but I usually get a little overwhelmed, once Roma is almost completely full of FMs. Do you just roleplay a few of them or do you have some intricate system of telling them apart?

[Marcus Darkstar]

I've been trying to do that, but I usually get a little overwhelmed, once Roma is almost completely full of FMs. Do you just roleplay a few of them or do you have some intricate system of telling them apart?

I dunno about him but I usually try to roleplay the general senate with empathesis on the Faction Leader ( aka Pincepet) though ya it can get confusing at times lol...

[Mulceber]

I've been trying to do that, but I usually get a little overwhelmed, once Roma is almost completely full of FMs. Do you just roleplay a few of them or do you have some intricate system of telling them apart?

Yeah, same here. I generally just focus on a few promising men and have the Republic expand in a realistic way. Juggling all those family members would be too much for my tastes. -M

[Marcus Darkstar]

Yeah, same here. I generally just focus on a few promising men and have the Republic expand in a realistic way. Juggling all those family members would be too much for my tastes. -M

I usually just play from the perspective of the Faction leader and his successors. I typically make him a conquering on the move general or the govenor of Roma (so hes near the rest of the senate and gives orders to his underlings-other FM's from there)

[Kival]

My new Campaign with Quart-Hadast, not the most actual map but I think about making my first AAR, so i'll just show the situation at 251 BC:




I'm currently at war with the Romans but my first Roman ("Punic") war will soon end (I should better say: has ended). What you can see here is the rest of the mercenary part of the army the Carthaginian senate has sent and which stopped the romans on sicilia.

[Fluvius Camillus]

You better be careful with those mercenaries.

~Fluvius

[Mulceber]

I usually just play from the perspective of the Faction leader and his successors. I typically make him a conquering on the move general or the govenor of Roma (so hes near the rest of the senate and gives orders to his underlings-other FM's from there)

Yeah, I always used to basically ignore my faction leader, but I'm starting to make use of him more - he tends to have better traits, and has higher chances of getting into elected office I find, so if I make one of the family members I'm role playing the faction leader, he's got a good shot at making it to the Consulship, and isn't that what it's really all about? eg. my reformator, as you may have noticed, is my faction leader, and he's now (as of 180 BCE) made it through the entire Cursus Honorum (apart from the Censorship), has 5 command stars and has just celebrated a Triumph. He's taken a certain Ivlivs Caesar under his wing. We'll see where that boy's career goes... -M

[SwissBarbar]

Pahlava 200 BC



At war with the Seleukids ever since
At war with the Saka Rauka since one or two decades

[anubis88]

Wow that annoys the hell out of me. Every time i play a faction, that shares a border with the AS, they became the Grey death. But when i'm playing a faction with no border, the Ptolies defeat them practically in 50 years

[SwissBarbar]

Well, the AS ARE the Grey Death in this game. The problem is: I am even deadlier ;-)

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Tbh, Pink Death doesn't sound that scary to me..

[SwissBarbar]

Pha! This is a sacred colour! The first leader of our tribe once saw after a great steppe-dance party a Pink War Elefant , which is our holy animal ever since. (We also see them quite often, but we haven't yet figured out how to use them in battle).