POST ONE
Hey i thought i'd start my own AAR for my Roman save.
Im playing on h/m with some house rules put in, to stick roughly to historical expansion and also i destroy every building possible in every city that i take over, i do this so it takes longer to get new provinces to be valuable and productive which is more realistic than taking over a city with nearly everything already built.
The year is 131 BC, my empire stretches from Iberia to Asia Minor. The Marian reforms have been in place for around 20 years and after a century of constant wars I finally have a period of peace. Seleucia, Epeiros, Aediu, Kart-Hadast, Pontos and Pahlava have all been wiped out.
The constant invasions of the Arverni into Cisalpine Gaul have forced me to build forts to block all the passes between the mountains, each with a tough stack of men in. Im sticking roughly historical accuracy so I won't take Gaul for another 60 or 70 years. Until then i will pick off their invading forces and generally keep them under control.
In the last 2 or 3 decades i have quickly occupied all of greece, the western portion of Asia Minor and Kydonia. I plan to stop expanding east for a while in order to build up the towns there so i don't have a stretched supply line.
POST TWO
Winter 128 BC, the ptolemys are constantly blockading my ports in Greece and Asia minor, so I decided to teach them a lesson by invading their huge city Lepki. It was also a good oportunity to try out some of the new artilery available to me. In particular the 1 talent stone projectors. Costing a whopping 30000 mnai for one unit!
In 127 BC i made my assault without waiting to build any siege equipment, however this turned out to be a mistake as the stone projector was not enough to create a whole in the large stone wall on its own.
So i made a second assault the following turn in the Autumn of 127 BC and this time i managed to bash a whole in the wall and take they city, killing the Ptolemaic faction heir in the process.
POST THREE
The year is 122 BC, and the short period of peace that I was experiencing seems to be over, the Macedonians and the Ptolemys are both launching mass assaults on asia minor and lepki. My treasury has been severely plundered because I had to bribe a Ptolemaic army and also my faction leader died. Being replaced by his distant cousin as his own son was 2 years too young. Macedonia is clearly not going to accept that I control Asia minor now and is sending a stack nearly every turn now. This has prompted me to begin the recruitment of a new legion in order to crush their remaining 2 cities and hopefully force them into being my vassal. My new faction heir will lead this legion as he needs some valuable combat experience.
As for the macedon stack already besieging sardis, my legion stationed there should be enough to destroy it and hold off any more until my heir arrives to wipe them out. So I sallied out of sardis to face them, they had superior numbers but my troops were vastly superior to theirs. However their cavarly superiority may prove fatal.
I formed my troops into two lines and engaged the first line with the Macedonians. They flanked the line with some of thier cavalry and subsequentially charged my frontline, at which point I sent my second line forwards to outflank the cavalry.
This results in the simultaneous fleeing of their army and a truly crushing defeat for macedon.
At the same time Ptolemy had invaded Lepki which forced me to meet their army in the field where the had several elite phalanxes, which are brutal! Fortunately my cavalry advantage won the battle