Post your EB empires!

[Cute Wolf]

How can I have no command? I should lead entire army to smack those Barbaroi!!!
RAWWRRRR

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[Jebivjetar]

You're to precious as a governor, Wolfy. If we send you into a battle, Kyrene may just rebel. People love you, it would not be smart to leave that precious town (having him it's in our victory condition you know)

[Ludens]

No more Romaioktonoi spam, please.

[[cF]HanBaal]

Nice one Jebivjetar! Curious to see such a long lasting alliance with the Iberians. May I ask what level campaign difficulty you play with? And has that alliance been so since the begining? It would be nice to see if that alliance would remain so after a shared conquest of gaul. Keep us updated.

oh and fire that governor in Sicilia -> wrong man in the wrong place. Anti-barcid FMs belong in Africa humpin camels on top of cacts, as that was their policy. Or you could just teleport them to Terhazza Then you could put a proper barcid general in Sicilia, hand him a decent couple of units and hamper the barbaroi on their heartland while your allies take their northern lands.


@Ludens: please stop with that nonsense anti-romaioktonoi spam before someone closes the topic.

[Mulceber]

No, I agree with him. This is a thread for ALL FACTIONS to post their empires and/or write mini-AAR's. Kindly leave your trolling at the door. -M

[Jebivjetar]

Nice one Jebivjetar! Curious to see such a long lasting alliance with the Iberians. May I ask what level campaign difficulty you play with? And has that alliance been so since the begining? It would be nice to see if that alliance would remain so after a shared conquest of gaul. Keep us updated.

oh and fire that governor in Sicilia -> wrong man in the wrong place. Anti-barcid FMs belong in Africa humpin camels on top of cacts, as that was their policy. Or you could just teleport them to Terhazza Then you could put a proper barcid general in Sicilia, hand him a decent couple of units and hamper the barbaroi on their heartland while your allies take their northern lands.


@Ludens: please stop with that nonsense anti-romaioktonoi spam before someone closes the topic.

Thank you for your respond, HanBaal!

Well, i always play on M/M difficulty. Personally i don't like to see AI hiring mercenaries, especially when it send them against me. Even now the Prolies are very hard opponents, bacause they can assemble very good and massive armies in very short time. I think it would drive me insane to fight like 10 massive battles against yellow regular armies as well as against entire mercenary pool in their land (in case if i was playing on hard)for a single city or two.

As for my alliance with Lusotanians: well, they broke up our alliance somewhere around 220BC by attacking one of my cities (Sucum Murgi i think, but i'm not 100% sure). I've managed to drive them back and even to capture one of their cities (the one north of Gader, i really can't recall the name of it at the moment). At the same time, barbarian tribe from Italy attacked one of Eleutheroi cities in Iberia and Lusos declared war on them (according to the script) automatically. Then i've offered Lusos a casefire, and they accepted it. Few turns later a new alliance was declared between us. From then, Lusos are invading Gaul, and recently they captured the last Arverni city (still visible on my picture) and destroyed the faction. Now, i think they are preparing themselves to attack Barbaroi (i use toggle_fow every few turns, so i can see their armies marching into Gaul, and not spawning around my territory).

oh and fire that governor in Sicilia -> wrong man in the wrong place. Anti-barcid FMs belong in Africa humpin camels on top of cacts, as that was their policy. Or you could just teleport them to Terhazza Then you could put a proper barcid general in Sicilia, hand him a decent couple of units and hamper the barbaroi on their heartland while your allies take their northern lands.

agreed! But the problem is that most of my family members are antibarcids (i check their traits from time to time, and i don't remember seeing any barcid FM yet... well maybe i don't see good X) ), so i have no choice but to use them as governors no matter of their political views.

Anyway, when i begun with this campaign i decided to leave Barbaroi alone and give them some time to expand and became stronger. In all of mine previous Carthaginian campaigns i've slaughtered them all in few first decades of campaigning, so now i have mercy on them and i'll kill them later, when they will became (i hope so) a worthy foes. That's why i went to Egypt, i want something new :)
I will update my progress and keep you all informed.

@Ludens: please stop with that nonsense anti-romaioktonoi spam before someone closes the topic.

I second that!

[Duguntz]

@Ludens: please stop with that nonsense anti-romaioktonoi spam before someone closes the topic.

Agree X(

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Good job there ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!

Thank you Basileus!

@Jeb Nice empire! May Baal-Haamon guide you.

What spam anyway? Hardly anything too "offensive" at least..

[jirisys]

Thank you Basileus!

@Jeb Nice empire! May Baal-Haamon guide you.

What spam anyway? Hardly anything too "offensive" at least..

Oh yes, the general crying like a little boy, not offensive btw, andthe romaioktonoi hymn (which is the whole post), nah, not spam, just good 'ol info, anyway, i think someone who fights 3000 men with 20 men, is either stupid, or barbarian (romaioktonoi) (what's the difference ?) , anyway, he's smart for not wanting to die stupidly, and kill those in another battle

Anyhow, i don't have a empire yet (since i have to restart my campaigns befor 200 BCE due to CTDs), but how do oyu make the whole map of one color? Photoshop, or somehow conquering the "remaining" province (eburia IIRC)

~Jirisys (he's an idiot! no, he's a barbarian (romaioktonoi)! that's what i said!!)

[satalexton]

@some, I see nothing wrong with congratulating a peer for his EB achievements...As for Lykos' pic, I think other Germanoi will handle that....

I fired up my old Baktra save, loaded a turn....toggled the map.....



And THIS is what I saw...

Once again, Jebi has done us proud again. I think I'll restart this campaign just for the Romaioktonoi Heroism and Jebi's expansion.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Oh yes, the general crying like a little boy, not offensive btw, andthe romaioktonoi hymn (which is the whole post), nah, not spam, just good 'ol info, anyway, i think someone who fights 3000 men with 20 men, is either stupid, or barbarian (romaoiktonoi (what's the difference ?) , anyway, he's smart for not wanting to die stupidly, and kill those in another battle

Anyhow, i don't have a empire yet (since i have to restart my campaigns befor 200 BCE due to CTDs), but how do oyu make the whole map of one color? Photoshop, or somehow conquering the "remaining" province (eburia IIRC)

~Jirisys (he's an idiot! no, he's a barbarian (romaoiktonoi)! that's what i said!!)

I suspect you do not consider your own post to be at least partially spamish? Anyway let's keep this "Oh the romaoiktoi are evil" discussion out of this thread, as well as any romaoiktonoi or romaoi spam.


If you want to discuss this further then we can do so but through the visitors message section.

oh and Sata, real nice Baktrian Empire that.

[Mulceber]

I suspect you do not consider your own post to be at least partially spamish? Anyway let's keep this "Oh the romaoiktoi are evil" discussion out of this thread, as well as any romaoiktonoi or romaoi spam.


If you want to discuss this further then we can do so but through the visitors message section.

Best idea I've heard all day. This thread is for people to post their empires/AAR's, not for the Romaioktonoi and the Romaiophiloi to hash out their eternal feud. Let's get back on topic. -M

[plutoboyz]

here my Saka after kicking my former ally.


I'm tired facing countless Phalanx in middle east so I turn my expansion to the north instead. but alas city in the north have poor income. I'm fail on economy. now I don have money. huh... I must admit, Sauromatae is tough. they give me a great joy. unlike those Diadochi. who became more and more defensive.

btw, how to remove fog of war?

[Jebivjetar]

btw, how to remove fog of war?

open the console window (on my keyboard i do that by pressing a button down bellow the Esc button), type toggle_fow, then press enter, Pluty

[plutoboyz]

open the console window (on my keyboard i do that by pressing a button down bellow the Esc button), type toggle_fow, then press enter, Pluty

thanks.

[Mulceber]

Nice Empire, Pluty. As for the economy, maybe turn back to the Diadochoi now? I'm sure their kingdoms are loaded. -M

[plutoboyz]

Nice Empire, Pluty. As for the economy, maybe turn back to the Diadochoi now? I'm sure their kingdoms are loaded. -M

perhaps you're right. hmm... that mean I must ride my pony through Sarissae line again. or should I give Seleukiea to AS? coz its income -8000 last time I see.

oh yes you're right. Antiochiea, Eddessa and Damaskos is fully loaded... by Agyraspydai. ugh... gross.

[satalexton]

I'm tempted to push all the way to the Iberia in my Baktra game >_> then start a Keltoi game and push all the way East...

[Andy1984]

perhaps you're right. hmm... that mean I must ride my pony through Sarissae line again. or should I give Seleukiea to AS? coz its income -8000 last time I see.

oh yes you're right. Antiochiea, Eddessa and Damaskos is fully loaded... by Agyraspydai. ugh... gross.

Cities like Seleukeia have negative income not necessarily because they aren't making any money, but most likely because it's one of the few big cities in your empire. To see whether they make any income, open up the 'details' page for Seleukeia. It probably only pays taxes and a bit of trade, but due to it's relative size (the percentage of people in your empire that live in Seleukeia), it's forced to pay the upkeep for that relative army. (E.g. if one in ten live in Seleukeia, that city will pay 1/10 of your army, generals and agents upkeep.) Because Seleukeia has no mines, contrary to all these backwaters in Iran you've conquered, the income shown in Seleukeia is highly negative: too many people living there means too much upkeep to be paid by Seleukeia-inhabitants. Loosing Seleukeia or it's population (whether by massacring, riots, plague or being overrun by enemy forces) will spread your upkeep costs paid by Seleukeia equally over all your other settlements, in which case these backwaters with their mines will show you a smaller income. In reality, the only thing that changed was a loss of income from Seleukeia, and a redistribution of expenses and upkeep costs through your empire. The net-result of the loss of Seleukeia would therefore be negative. In plain English: having a negative income in a city is no reason in itself to loose that city. ;)

What you could do (if you didn't already do so), is to break down any Hellenic building that doesn't add to the value of your city, to start with their barracks. Consider destroying wonders, extensive port upgrades and highest level markets as well if they don't really give you sufficient income in the short turn. Other than that: try to minimize your expenses: there's no need to construct a building in every city for every turn, and there probably is no need to have any other unit than mere garrisson units in the larger part of your empire. As far as the rich cities who do pay taxes on the borders of your empire (hint: India) are concerned, consider to make them level-4-settlements and to hire a local chieftan. He'll be expensive in upkeep (800 mnai/turn for some regions), but he's more likely to have tons of influence that allow you to set taxes higher. Switch your capital to the middle of your empire (in order to minimize the distance-to-capitalpenalties and the corruption) and hope you'll be fine. If not: I guess that means you've reached the outer limits of your reign as Saka. Spreading any further might only be possible as a more civilized faction.

Congratulations with your victories and conquests. I didn't yet manage to get that far as Saka,

Andy

[plutoboyz]

Cities like Seleukeia have negative income not necessarily because they aren't making any money, but most likely because it's one of the few big cities in your empire. To see whether they make any income, open up the 'details' page for Seleukeia. It probably only pays taxes and a bit of trade, but due to it's relative size (the percentage of people in your empire that live in Seleukeia), it's forced to pay the upkeep for that relative army. (E.g. if one in ten live in Seleukeia, that city will pay 1/10 of your army, generals and agents upkeep.) Because Seleukeia has no mines, contrary to all these backwaters in Iran you've conquered, the income shown in Seleukeia is highly negative: too many people living there means too much upkeep to be paid by Seleukeia-inhabitants. Loosing Seleukeia or it's population (whether by massacring, riots, plague or being overrun by enemy forces) will spread your upkeep costs paid by Seleukeia equally over all your other settlements, in which case these backwaters with their mines will show you a smaller income. In reality, the only thing that changed was a loss of income from Seleukeia, and a redistribution of expenses and upkeep costs through your empire. The net-result of the loss of Seleukeia would therefore be negative. In plain English: having a negative income in a city is no reason in itself to loose that city. ;)

What you could do (if you didn't already do so), is to break down any Hellenic building that doesn't add to the value of your city, to start with their barracks. Consider destroying wonders, extensive port upgrades and highest level markets as well if they don't really give you sufficient income in the short turn. Other than that: try to minimize your expenses: there's no need to construct a building in every city for every turn, and there probably is no need to have any other unit than mere garrisson units in the larger part of your empire. As far as the rich cities who do pay taxes on the borders of your empire (hint: India) are concerned, consider to make them level-4-settlements and to hire a local chieftan. He'll be expensive in upkeep (800 mnai/turn for some regions), but he's more likely to have tons of influence that allow you to set taxes higher. Switch your capital to the middle of your empire (in order to minimize the distance-to-capitalpenalties and the corruption) and hope you'll be fine. If not: I guess that means you've reached the outer limits of your reign as Saka. Spreading any further might only be possible as a more civilized faction.

Congratulations with your victories and conquests. I didn't yet manage to get that far as Saka,

Andy

Thanks a lot
for you

Congratulations with your victories and conquests. I didn't yet manage to get that far as Saka

I was too obsessed with The Great Khan.

[plutoboyz]

I'm tempted to push all the way to the Iberia in my Baktra game >_> then start a Keltoi game and push all the way East...

for some unknown reason, Rome always tempt me. no matter what faction I play. maybe because it is "Rome Total War".

[Mulceber]

If the spirit moves you, go for it. -M

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

here my Saka after kicking my former ally.

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I'm tired facing countless Phalanx in middle east so I turn my expansion to the north instead. but alas city in the north have poor income. I'm fail on economy. now I don have money. huh... I must admit, Sauromatae is tough. they give me a great joy. unlike those Diadochi. who became more and more defensive.

btw, how to remove fog of war?

Wow, that's a huge empire you got there pluto! good job!

Even though the Saka are nomads I didn't expect their economy to be so weak, do you have lots of armies or something?

[Mulceber]

Yeah, that could help - if you disband most of the units to the center and NE end of your Empire, that could save a lot of money. -M

[jirisys]

Yeah, that could help - if you disband most of the units to the center and NE end of your Empire, that could save a lot of money. -M

Nice change of image Mulceber, and arthur, chech the code for thew image you quoted (FAIL)

Anyway, it was kinda spammy, but hey, it's all even now

~Jirisys (Ludens likes me!!! yay! )

[Mulceber]

Thanks Jirisys, I think this one has more character than a faceless Roman Legionary...with Lorica Segmentata. Plus it helps that it's the face of my current faction leader.

New Update:

In the Summer of 134, Tb. Cursor was overseeing the construction of the siege works around Hierosolyma. The city was huge, and the administration of construction took him deep into the middle of the day. Being an old man of 62, his old body couldn't handle several hours of marching in the hot Judean sun. He caught heat stroke and died several days later, leaving his four legions in the care of M. Caesar. Caesar, for his part, had been able to see this event coming well in advance, as Cursor had been in poor health going into the campaign. He knew that one day, he would be the senior officer and, since he was no veteran, he did not feel it wise to maintain command of four legions. He could write to the Senate and request a replacement, but first he corresponded with his uncle, Decimus, on the matter. They both had their sources of information in Rome, and they both knew that the war on Gaul was extremely unpopular with the Senate. Now Decimus saw an opportunity to shore up his political security by seeing to it that the Legions in the Levant did not fall into the hands of a toady of the Senate, and help an old family friend at the same time: Spurius Octauius had spent the last ten years cooling his heels on Lesbos with neither command nor credit for his completion of the war on Pontos. So, on Decimus' suggestion, Marcus wrote to Octauius and requested that he fill the vacancy left by Cursor's death. A vigorous man of action, Octauius had considered his retirement little better than prison and, while he had little hope of reconciliation with the Senate, he knew that another command could not make matters worse than they already were. Moreover, it would feel good to be back on campaign. He accepted.

The reaction in the Senate was mutinous. The Optimates and the moderates loudly lamented the decline of their ancestral customs. What audacity! For a mere legate to presume to bestow Imperium in place of the Senate! The Populares responded vociferously, pointing out that Octauius was the most experienced commander in the Empire, but their voices were lost in the uproar. The Senate immediately voted on whether another man should be sent to relieve Octauius of command, but D. Sempronius Gracchus issued his veto and the motion failed. Thus Spurius' Imperium remained neither confirmed nor repudiated, and the conservatives in the Senate continued to stew.

As if to reinforce the position held by the Populares, Octauius promptly captured Hierosolyma. Out of respect for the Jews though, he enslaved no one and even issued a decree that no temples were to be allowed within the city, except for those dedicated to the Jews' One God. In Egypt C. Scipio took Pselkis while the reinforcements from Africa finally conquered Hibis. It was at this point that a messenger from the South arrived: in the wake of declining Ptolemaic power, the territories of the upper Nile had revolted to the tribes of the Saba, Rome's allies. Thus it seemed there was little left to do in Egypt. There were still warbands of the Hellenistic Pharaoh around, but they were weak. The pharaoh had run out of Klerouchs and thus had few Phalangitai. Their resistance was being mounted chiefly by native Egyptian warriors who, for all their bravery, were not equipped to fight against modern armies. One such warband even fell to a greatly-outnumbered army led by K. Valerius Messalla. Clearly the Ptolemaic dynasty was dying.

After rebuilding Bibracte's broken government, Decimus moved north and took Bratosporios and Cenabum in rapid succession. Since the former bordered on the lands of the Germani, he decided to confer on it the status of a Roman Province, in order that it might afford greater protection to Gaul as a whole. It was around this time that his soldiers began to refer to him with the cognomen "Gallicus," perhaps on the encouragement of his lieutenant, A. Scipio. Now he continued West and lay siege to Dariortum, the last hold-out of the Aedui Confederacy. At the same time, he commissioned the recruitment of four new legions in Tolosa and Massalia, and sent them north to provide a strong deterrent to the Suebi. It was at this time that the Aedui, realizing that they were close to being completely destroyed, attacked and seized the peaceful settlement of Lemonum. Now it became all the more important that Caesar Gallicus destroy the Aedui, lest the region of Gaul dissolve into utter chaos.

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[Cute Wolf]

not exactly an empire, but my lastest campaign (even while I got busy lately), grows into a really interesting turn, and incidentally looks like some kind of prelude to World war...

Turtling with Sweboz (H/M), 243 BC - Using EB-BI, and giving extra money to ai via add_money (and several alterations to edu)



After a series of distatrous wars at their french holdings, the royal family of Arvernii choose to migrate into Austria (actually, I teleport them near Gawjam-Bastarnoz after a big stack of them want to besiege Swebostraustastamnoz, while all their cities in the west are besieged by Aedui (some kinda stupid move rigtht? first, they are my allies! as they seek suicide to clash with my gold chevroned stack). And as I want, they capture them, and start a sprawling new Austrian Empire of Boii (with monetary help of course), after some time sitting near Gawjam Silengoz, I decide to give it to them to stop their drooling mouth, and teleport most of them into the south afterwards, now we're still allied...

I also pimpin the Casse with extra money, and now, they are start their Casse landing script, and start to gain some grounds on the Continent. Interestingly, they did go to war with Aedui first, but then they made peace after taking the Dutch, and now allied with them instead.

Aedui is doing good, but after gaining Arvernii lands, they are stagnant now... looks like the French Republicans have lost their momentum to unite all french, because the Royalty fled to Austria and can't be executed.

Lusotana Kick Kart-hadast ass from Iberia, pretty much without any help, and grow into considerable power, allied themself with Me

Did Romaioi Barbaroi are doing good, currently at war with the Austrians, and gain some ground on Illyria, still allied with Karthadast, and made peace with Epeirotes...

Epeirot are still in Yugoslavia, somehow start a war with Arvernii, lose, and now they become protectorate of the Austrians...

Getai are still stucked in Poland, not expanding much despite I give them a lot of money... must be corrupted or somewhat with their leaders...

The Sauromatae are now formed proper Soviet Union, still allied with Saka, and start enroaching Austria...

Makedonia and Hellenes are still on wars about who had the right to use makedonia.... as Hellenes still call them with Fyrom, and they responed by taking on off Corinth, Athenai, and Demetrias....

Pontos has grow into Ponttoman Empire, covering much of the Turkey...

Hayasdan are sleeping and not doing much... looks like they are affraid enroaching the Soviets now...

The Iranians are still Holding themself in the east. Due to many WMD stacks they sit near Babylon and Persepolis (several fullstacks)

Pahlava and Baktria not expanding much, maybe they only selling goats and grow opium now...

People's Kingdom of Saka are harassing Iranians now, and sometimes bullying the Pahlavistan and baktrikistan too... but looks like they had another business to go arround... maybe pro-democratic demonstration in their far east holdings?

The Ptolemeans will made Khadaffi Proud, as they are holding Israellian lands now...

Karthadast are dominated by anti Barcid sentiments, and I think they have degrade into some kind of Pirate Nations... looks like the Barbary States...

[Andy1984]

Thanks a lot
for you

I'll carry it with pride in my sig,
Thanks,

Andy

[Nobo]

Here is my Romani Campaign. I'm a little ahead of schedule, conquering greece, but I guess that will leave me with plenty of time to prepare for the upcoming Third Punic War. Should be interesting. I've been trying to stick as closely as possible to a historical timeline (which took considerable restraint), which made the game A LOT more interesting. This is actually the longest I have ever been able to stick with a campaign.



I've been roleplaying my FMs a little. Quintus Claudius Nero was one of my most promising generals and I had high hopes for him becoming a reformator, but alas, he decided that I was an incompetent leader and is starting trouble, wherever he goes

[Teucer]

Nice KH expansion there... (not to mention Rome, of course!)