Re: Vibius the Butcher
I had posted the following story in a thread I created quite a while ago.
He started his military career as a mere army captain in Sardis. I had just elminated the Egyptians. I wanted to go after Parthia, but I didn't want to jeopardize my alliance with Pontus as they were allied with Parthia. That would all change however, when Pontus would betray me. I had bribed Pergamum from the Greek Cities. One turn later Pontus beseiged it with a near full stack army. I had to respond with a near full stack from Sardis. In my way, however, was a Pontic 3-star general with a 1/3 stack army. And thus a great leader was born. After that battle, I got a chance to adopt a general being he was "man of the hour." Right away he had four stars at only 19. I immediatly made him my faction heir. A couple game years later, my faction leader died. At only 21 he became faction leader. Talk about lucky! In only a couple years from mere captain to faction leader. I used his army to conquer all of Asia Minor. I then pushed into Armenia and took them, and then finished off Parthia. Their most northern city had no family members so it turned rebel.I had started making Memphis a military training center as well as Antioch. Once I started building a whole new, advanced army I decided I wanted him to lead it. And so I had to take him all the way from Arsak to Memphis. That took quite a few years. I took him to Antioch and then sent his army by boat to Memphis. Once retrained I sent him to take back Africa from the Scipii. The Scipii had a very large army in Africa. They had many full stack armies. Well, having nearly 1,000,000 denari helps out with some of them. Having a top-knotch army with reinforcements helps with the rest. And there you have it. The beginings of a superb general in a nutshell - Antigonos the Conqueror.
A few years after that screenshot was taken, he sadly died (peacefully). As you can see in the screenshot, I had taken his retinues and transfered them in anticipation of his passing. Antigonos the Conqueror was my best general I could ever have.
The story continues.
Antigonos had a son. I didn't use him to his full potential as I would have liked, though. He was in Antioch where he lived with a bunch of other generals. He was in his 30's when I finally moved him. His name was Bucoli. He eventually became faction leader. I took him with a good army to finish off the Scipii in Africa and then on to Sicily. He eventually moved on to Italy where he took Rome. By the time he took Rome, he was known as Bucoli the Honest. After that he moved on to take a few Julii cities to the North. When he died he was known as Bucoli the Conqueror. Like father like son!
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Re: Vibius the Butcher
). How'd I take an in game shot? Print Screen button?
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