Post your EB empires!

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

As always an interesting read Mulceber!

[SwissBarbar]

Yeah, quite interesting that a dead guy has the vigorous trait

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

lol, it's probably because he loaded a save game from an older version of EB than his curent version of EB, if I'm not misstaken.

[Mulceber]

Sorry, not sure I understand, what's this about a dead guy? -M

[SwissBarbar]

Look at the guy's traits in Kikaz post (Sweboz Campaign)

[Mulceber]

Oh, thanks for the clear up, Swissbar - for some reason I thought you were referring to my campaign. Nice Empire, Kikaz, and nicer still that the Sweboz have apparently discovered the art of necromancy. -M

[Fluvius Camillus]

@Kikaz

Huh? Did you make that yourself or is this an EB easter egg which I have never seen? Can you explain?

~Fluvius

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

@Kikaz

Huh? Did you make that yourself or is this an EB easter egg which I have never seen? Can you explain?

~Fluvius

I have encountered this too when loading a savegame older than my current EB version (EB 1.1 --> EB 1.2), and I explained how it works in post 273:

lol, it's probably because he loaded a save game from an older version of EB than his curent version of EB, if I'm not misstaken.

Probably also happens in general if the savegames are corrupted.

:P

Oh and Mulceber, I hope your Caesar is nicer towards the Gauls in comparision to the real one (i.e doesn't enslave them)

[Mulceber]

Oh and Mulceber, I hope your Caesar is nicer towards the Gauls in comparision to the real one (i.e doesn't enslave them)

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Oops...

Kinda too late. Oh well, I'll just say that he enslaved the people of Burdigala and of Gergovia because it was they who had been directly responsible for raiding and harassing Gallia Transalpina for so many years. I'll be nicer to the remaining Gallic lands. -M

[ertai1987]

Well, it might be a bit off topic, but was anyone ever successfull (on the long term) at keeping a small "empire" alive without expanding? I'm currently playing a Pontus-gone-Anatolia Confederacy campaign that includes 5 provinces (Ankyra, Amaseia, Nikaia, Mazaka and Ipsos). I was actually starting to expand quite easily till 255 when I thought "oh well, I've done this before, haven't I?"

So I gave up the controll of Mytilene-Pergamon-Sardis-Halikarnasso-Sinope*. Currently, I'm trying to make enough money to build Mines+2. Militarywise I can produce pretty much every unit that I will ever need (and that with a 2-3 chevrons bonus!), so for the time being I'm feeling quite safe.

*Sardis and Mytilene back to their original owners, the rest defected to KH.

[Duguntz]

Well, it might be a bit off topic, but was anyone ever successfull (on the long term) at keeping a small "empire" alive without expanding? I'm currently playing a Pontus-gone-Anatolia Confederacy campaign that includes 5 provinces (Ankyra, Amaseia, Nikaia, Mazaka and Ipsos). I was actually starting to expand quite easily till 255 when I thought "oh well, I've done this before, haven't I?"

So I gave up the controll of Mytilene-Pergamon-Sardis-Halikarnasso-Sinope*. Currently, I'm trying to make enough money to build Mines+2. Militarywise I can produce pretty much every unit that I will ever need (and that with a 2-3 chevrons bonus!), so for the time being I'm feeling quite safe.

*Sardis and Mytilene back to their original owners, the rest defected to KH.

Sweboz... I kept all Provinces of only Germania (what was under their control) up to 230 - 25 BC without expending further... then, with Aedui on the west and the Romans on my ass in the south, I needed more income to lift an army that'd teach them NOT to come uninvited, so i went to conquer Great Britain... easy catch. with the income of all their ports (it was about 223 or so BC) I built a crack army led by my 10 stars General who went rampage in Italy, conquered every cities until Capua and Arpi... my empire is no more small... it is now around 210 BC, (SOON i'LL GET MY REFORM!!!). Yesterday, the most frustrating thing happened to me... I went to capture Gawjam-gatanoz, on the small island, got attacked by pirate, who sank my boats... with my full stack army, plus 2 FM (as I was planning to attack prsesnt day russia from the sea, to save myself from fighting the crack full stack of central europe... Argh.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

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Oops...

Kinda too late. Oh well, I'll just say that he enslaved the people of Burdigala and of Gergovia because it was they who had been directly responsible for raiding and harassing Gallia Transalpina for so many years. I'll be nicer to the remaining Gallic lands. -M

Shame on you Mulceber! :p

Those poor celts.. all they wanted to do was to grab some loot and slaves and destroy some buildings, that's all... *sniff*

In general I almost never enslave and if I do my general have to be "Selfish" and/or possibly a very annoying city that constantly rebels. What's your policy on enslavement in general though?

[Mulceber]

Aww, ok, I'll make sure they don't go to the mines. Man Arthur, those Gauls owe you big time. I'll instruct them to construct a shrine to Olympiades Nikator Soter -M

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Aww, ok, I'll make sure they don't go to the mines. Man Arthur, those Gauls owe you big time. I'll instruct them to construct a shrine to Olympiades Nikator Soter -M

Thanks! Come to think about it, maybe I should conquer Gaul and brittania as an final thingy in my "AAR".

[Macilrille]

He's looking pretty healthy for a dead guy!!

If, understandably, a bit bored. Not being allowed to do anything because the Dugunthiz believes that you are dead must be pretty dull...

[Mulceber]

Having avenged himself on the Burdigalani and the Gergoviani for having attacked his province and his person, it was assumed by many in the Senate that Caesar's lust for conquest would be sated, and that he would be content to squeeze his province - like so many other promagistrates - for the remainder of his term. Thus it came as a complete shock to the Conscript Fathers when reports began to filter into Rome that Caesar was laying siege to Bibracte. Many Senators at this point voiced their opinion that Caesar was inciting open warfare with the Gauls and should be brought back to Rome immediately and tried on charges of conspiracy, theft and illegal warfare. Others voiced more moderate opinions, but were concerned nonetheless, while still other, Populist Senators defended the Proconsul's actions, as much out of loyalty and solidarity as out of conviction.

Surely Caesar must have been made aware of the Senate's reaction by his spies, but if so, he cared very little. The plebs were delighted with the spoils which had been sent back from Burdigala and Gergovia, and, as usual, the Equites could be counted upon to rally behind anything the Senate opposed, especially when it opened up new trade avenues for their businesses. In the fall of 135, Caesar and his lieutenant, Au. Scipio decided to take Bibracte by storm. Having used sappers to breach the walls, troops stormed through the gap and engaged the Gallic forces huddled inside.



These levy forces were quickly swept aside by the Republican forces, but at the town center there was a harder nut to crack.



From here it was a long grind, wearing down the Neitos and, on the other side of the square, the chieftain himself, appropriately named Tyranos. When the Chieftain was finally killed, however, the rest of his troops surrendered.



In a way, however, the Senate had been right in their original estimation that Caesar's bloodlust was sated: for instead of enslaving the populace, he expelled a portion of the population to other towns, and allowed his men to engage in some well-deserved looting, before beginning the process of rebuilding Bibracte's shattered power structure (are you happy, Arthur?).

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In the east, meanwhile, things were going quite well - Tb. Papirius Cursor and M. Iulius Caesar quickly took Antiocheia and, after warding off an attempted siege by the Ptolemies, moved south to take Sidon as well. It was said by several Jews on Cursor's staff that in ages past, their people had been slaves of the Egyptian Pharaoh, and had been freed by their lawgiver, Moses. Thus it struck Cursor as a great irony that the Hellenistic-Egyptian Monarch had now made the homeland of the Jews his capital. It wouldn't be a capital for long, though.

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Successes down in Egypt proper were plentiful as well, as C. Scipio slowly marched his legions up the Nile, taking every city he found. He had even called upon the governor of Africa Vetus, Seruius Caesar (yes, another Caesar - for some reason the Roman Empire these days is filthy with them. I promise I won't start Role-playing this one though, if for no other reason than to avoid further confusion of which Caesar is which) to send two legions over for the purpose of taking the remainder of the Ptolemies' Libyan holdings. Marching East, these two legions met with great success, taking Augila and Ammonion. They then halted to recuperate and await a good opportunity to march on Hibis.

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[vartan]

Well done. How did Armenia end up having a lone town on the western frontier of the Sarmatian Confederacy?

[Kikaz]

Oh, thanks for the clear up, Swissbar - for some reason I thought you were referring to my campaign. Nice Empire, Kikaz, and nicer still that the Sweboz have apparently discovered the art of necromancy. -M

Thanks, and yeah I think that "Slain by Sabaeans" trait is a result of loading an EB1.o game in EB1.2, I'm pretty sure he wasn't a zombie in the original save.

[Mulceber]

Well done. How did Armenia end up having a lone town on the western frontier of the Sarmatian Confederacy?

I think it might have revolted to them - either that or they conquered it a couple hundred turns ago. iirc, the sequence of events was they expanded outward and conquered a whole swath of land from the Sauromatae, then the Sauromatae took back most of it and Pontos kicked them out of their original homeland. Then, when I defeated Pontos, I gave them back their homeland to serve as a buffer zone between the Romani and the Arche Seleukeia.

Thanks, and yeah I think that "Slain by Sabaeans" trait is a result of loading an EB1.o game in EB1.2, I'm pretty sure he wasn't a zombie in the original save.

But on the bright side, now your forces will be invincible, since no faction has shotguns, chainsaws or any of the basic equipment for fighting Zombies! -M

[Kikaz]

I think it might have revolted to them - either that or they conquered it a couple hundred turns ago. iirc, the sequence of events was they expanded outward and conquered a whole swath of land from the Sauromatae, then the Sauromatae took back most of it and Pontos kicked them out of their original homeland. Then, when I defeated Pontos, I gave them back their homeland to serve as a buffer zone between the Romani and the Arche Seleukeia.



But on the bright side, now your forces will be invincible, since no faction has shotguns, chainsaws or any of the basic equipment for fighting Zombies! -M

Unfortunately, I cannot field my vast zombie armies as the game CTD's when I hit end turn

[Mulceber]

Aww, but I was looking forward to a Sweboz version of Shawn of the Dead... -M

[Teucer]

Inspired by Megas Methuselah's Massalia AAR, Here's my 'Pyrrhos in Iberia' game. The current year is 228 BCE, and the western dominions of the Aiakids stretch from Mauritania in the south-west to Massalia in the north. My greatest general, Euegoros 'Hammer of the Lusotannan' Sasonios is now embroiled in a bitter conflict against the traitorous Aedui. With any luck, the realm will soon spread northwards, bringing the light of Hellenism to even the darkest corners of savage Gaul!

Oh, and those elephants you see are all that remains of Pyrrhos' initial squad. I've worked hard to keep them alive, and they've payed back my diligence with many a route-inducing charge!

As for the rest of the world, I'm really happy with Anatolia. I love what KH has managed to do in the south, while Pontos has expanded nicely up north. The Hai just attacked the Seleukids, so we'll see what happens there. In the far East things are kind of crazy. Provinces have been going back and forth between Baktria, Saka, Pahalva, and the Arche. I expect that middle Indian city to rebel to Pahlava soon which will make things even better...

[satalexton]

An update to my Makedonian empire:

The extent of the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ as of 147 BC:

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Following the return of the Basileus to the capital the people were ecstatic, for they have waited many years for their hero to return from his bold campaigning in the west. He just like his father had the "man of the people" aura about him and the Charisma needed to influence people around him. By the historians of the Arche he is regarded as the greatest military leader Makedonia have ever had, possibly to be rivalled by his son.

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After the shameless attack on the Arche's Egyptian holdings by the Noubaoi king, it befell the Royal heir ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔΗΣ to deal with the problem.
After defeating them in battle he set up a number of client kings in the area who hopefully were to be more loyal.
Currently he is studying in Alexandreai and readying his army for another campaign, this time into Persia and beyond.

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In the East the Parthian Persian Empire are sending their armies against the border. The reason to this is that both East-Hellenic kingdoms are given financial support from the Arche Makedonia which of course is not something the King of Kings Baghâbigh find very amusing..

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For the Hellenes in the East things were not going too well. With collapse threatening both Hellenic kingdoms due to the conquests of nearly all their lands by the Persians the situation is looking dire indeed.

The Persian empire is the only nation at this time who can rival the might of the Makedonian Arche and is a serious threat to our plan.

Comments are appreciated.

Good job there ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!

[satalexton]

Nice storytelling Mulceber!
You should make an AAR or something.

An update on the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ as of 144 BC and the situation on the Eastern front:

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When the Persians invaded the Arche's eastern holdings ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔHΣ swiftly defeated the bulk of the invasion force as well as conquered the Persian homelands and western holdings. He also incorporated the Seleucid holdings into the Arche, even though their leaders were reluctant to submit. When he and his army entered Persepolis he gave order that no plundering was to made in the old Persian capital and that the Tomb of Kyros was not to be defiled. Many officers in the army thought this behaviour to be utmost nonsense, but this sign of respect completely won over the Persian people and ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔHΣ was hailed as their new Shahanshah, and Baghâbigh and his followers being branded outcasts by their judges. The Persian people never were too found of their Parthian masters as they had treated them as little more than slaves and were forced to fight in the army as infantry cannon fodder, this too worked for the Makedonians benefit who were being hailed as saviours by the populace.

The following day a messanger from ΠΕΛΛΑ arrived in Persepolis. He informed ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔHΣ that his father had quietly past away in his sleep and that he was now the ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ.
ΝΕΙΚΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ had been the one who finally brought an end to Kart-Hadast, conquered Iberia and secured the western border. He had also started a major number of building projects around the Arche, with exellent road systems and aqueducts surpassing even the Romaoi in it's perfection. Hellenic culture flourished under his rule and Athenai became a centre of learning and philosophy again and many great plays were set up. He was truly a great leader one who were to be missed by all in the ΑΡΧΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΗ.

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Even though the Persian homelands were now in the hands of the Makedones, the war continued, for the Parthians would not give up so lightly and so this war of conquest had to continue.

This is the plan: ΣΟΣΙΒΙΟΣ ΦΥΛΛΙΟΣ will guard Iran while ΑΥΛΟΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΕΥΣ make sure to keep the Parni horsemen away from the northern holdings. (extremely complex plan I know )

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While they do that ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΔHΣ will conquer the southern territories which currently only have lightly armed and few troops as garrison.

Some pictures over the most important victories in the war so far:

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And yeah comments are appreciated.

Truth and hope in Fatherland!
Death to Every Foe!
Hoist your Xiphos into the clouds!
All Hail Makedonia!!!

[Hax]

Ooh, that looks good. You just gave me an interesting idea for Epeiros...

[Jebivjetar]

My mighty Carthaginian empire.

1) For many decades the Ptolies have invaded our lands, pillaging our villages, destroying our harbours, selling our wives and children into slavery, attacking our mighty tradefleets. Our Senate decided to put this to an end, and assembled an army to invade Ptolemaic Empire.




2) Battles were hard and bloody. Many heroic victories we have won:



3) After years and years of fighting, we have finally succeeded to reach the heart of Egypt. In this picture we can see the brave Carthaginian veterans at the pyramids:



4) Anyway, Ptolemy did not accept our generous offer to become our vassal, with his empire as our protectorate. Our Council of Elders decided that we must push even further, deeper into the Ptolemy's lands.



5) In meanwhile, some barbarian tribe from Italy attacked our colonies in Sicily. They were numerous but inferior to our Sicilian garrisoned armies, leaded by our wise and experienced generals. Our suffet was antibarcid, so we didn't invade barbaroi's lands: instead of that, we have wiped out their invading army and humiliated their leader, who fled the battlefield, crying like a child.



Humiliation:



6) As a result of the first barbarian war, the city of Rhegion turned to our side, and peace treaty was achieved. At this point, Rhegion is our tactical military base, where we can observe any further barbaroi actions, while our armies are prepared to kill' em once again if they come.



7) The city of Kyrene is governed by Romaioktonoi prominent member Cute Wolf. It's always good to have him around because of his high influence which prevents any rebellious actions in the city:



8) General Vasiliyi is with us also:



9) Western border: pacified for now. Our Iberian allies are fighting for new lands in their sphere of influence, according to several contracts between Carthaginian Senate and their leadership. It's a matter of time when they will decide to attack barbaroi garrisons if Gaul. In that case Carthage will declare war on barbaroi, and help her allies fighting them.

[satalexton]

Praise Jebi and his Baal-Lords!
The mighty strength of Romaioktonoi!
To no end his men shall march;
To no end the Barbaroi they slay.
They shall drink, in joy and glee;
The river runs red, by end of day.

[Jebivjetar]

Thank you my Basileus :)

[plutoboyz]

Where is Saka, Jeb?

[Jebivjetar]

Where is Saka, Jeb?

Destroyed by Baktria just recently. Anyway the last Saka lands conquered by Baktrian army rebelled to Eleutheroi few turns after Saka died.