Great Mod!! Post empires

[Akritoi]

The campaign against Macedon is actually a lot shorter than I expected it to be, but it seems well longer. So far I've got three Legions in the south of Greece with one supporting auxiluary (sp?) legion kicking about and they are slowly advancing northwards. Meanwhile in the north I've got twelve Legions marching through the old Dacian lands and then south so both forces will meet, God willing, somewhere in the middle of Greece.

Meanwhile, I've got three Legions in Africa who I'm planning on reinforcing with a couple of auxiluary (sp?) units and a couple more Legions. All in all, slowly going for that killer blow and hopefully a term of peace lasting more than two turns!

[rory o'kane]

it's "auxiliary".

[Oli]

great but we want a screenshot!
please

[sanada]

Actually dead wrong. The AI building tree is tied to the treasury, imagine if your a conquering general and if you go on a raid in the factions homeland, sack their capital, and loot their treasury, then that city is effectively dead, think Alexander the Great when he sacked and removed the treasury of one of the four Persian palaces, anyway...he effectively killed the city.
RS reflects this by; when you destroy a factions treasury,they cant build anymore buildings in that settlement. However, you can if you own the settlement.

*At least this is what i know from a while ago, i could be dead wrong and this not got implemented lmao, im pretty sure thats the case though.

If thats true, thats really really clever, nice touch!

[Squid]

Building construction is not linked to the treasury in the current release, mainly because not all settlements have a treasury so linking building to the treasury is not possible as the building tree is setup. You just get a monatary reward for destroying the treasury.

Though that is certainly an interesting idea to add to building construction.

[pseudocaesar]

well, makes me look stupid. i just remember reading about it ages ago and not sure if DVK ever implemented it or not lol.

[Akritoi]

it's "auxiliary".

Cheers mate, just going to download Fraps now and upload that picture for you Oli

[Akritoi]

Right Oli, here you go mate, sorry for the wait bud. Apologies for the small sizes...uploaded them originally onto Bebo for a mate to see them.



^ Beginning the march south.



^ The march north and general consolidation.



^ The smallish Carthage campaign.

[Oli]

EXCELLENT!!!

[rory o'kane]

Go Akritoi, Go!!!

[Drtad]

Wow, that is one of the greatest campaigns I have seen Akritoi. The Armenian and Parthian expansion is fantastic, I am glad they tore up the Seleucids. As usual I am saddened at the incredible expansion of the Bosporans... but wait for RS2 to see what we do about that...

[dvk901]

And look at Parthia!! Hooray!!

[jerjes]

Well, finally I had finished my campaign (after a month and a half of fightings).
After taking Northern & Central Anattolia, I moved to the Cilician Gates which guards the entrance to Levante and Siria. Antioch was my goal (which I conquer in 143)



Once the "gate" was open my armies began storming all cities from Sydon to Memphis





The end was near. I decided that my last conquest it had to be Alexandría, which a conquer in 139 BC



Here's a picture of my final empire



Those orange regions are buffer states which a gave it to Sarmatians (I don't wanna fight against Drtad's ancestor )
Finally some statistics



The casualties were the following ones:

Romans: 156657
Free People: 5778, Greeks: 24181, Macedon: 3807, Dacia: 98930, Germanic Tribes: 266810, Ptolemaic: 12223, Syracuse: 8073, Pergamum: 306403, Carthage: 67577.
Enemy Total Casualties: 793782
Kill Ratio: 5.07:1

Now, to wait for RS2

[tone]

Again - great to see Armenia and Parthia doing something significant!

[Oli]

wow great work, that is a VERY impressive kill ratio, and win/lose ratio too
congrats

[Tankbuster]

That's awesome, jerjes.
Very clever to give buffer regions to a near dead faction! I'm going to try that too!

[Dracula]

Well ,this mod is not that bad .But there is something absurd - with this extended map 80% of the battles happen in forests .This is idiotic because in a forest you see less than half of the action .And give orders with difficulty .This annoys me .Besides the models of trees in RTW are not very successful .
I played Greece .I wonder what Rome gameplay would be in the western totally forested regions !

I like the diplomacy .

[Squid]

The reason that there are so many trees on the map, is that most of Europe was forested back then, unlike now.

[Drtad]

That is definitely the best campaign I have seen, jerjes, thanks for sharing!

I don't wanna fight against Drtad's ancestor

Thanks for the consideration. You woundn't have stood a chance against their cataphracts anyway.

[jerjes]

That is definitely the best campaign I have seen, jerjes, thanks for sharing!

THank you very much

You woundn't have stood a chance against their cataphracts anyway.

Frankly I crap in my pants when I have to face a civ which have a powerful Cavalry . Better to avoid it and look for others to fight for me