Post Your Empires

[Lorry]

Nice!
But you're going to have a hard time beating TSE (and Scythia) so good luck with that.

[Specialized]

Well i counted about 36 seleucid full stacks, and i have only 8 so i will see, but it looks like i will fail

[Lorry]

You should be able to hold them of in sieges, so that'll surely help. I always use a couple of elite legions (silver/gold chevrons) with elite generals (e.g. 8 stars) to push slightly forward (a couple of cities) and keep these cities safe while constructing the baracks. Then retrain, and push forward once more (until you've won).

[atraps]

Who am I?

[Sar1n]

...wow, that is seriously odd.

My best bet is Iberians, kicking the hell out of Carthage. Looks like Pyrrhos was more successful in his campaign this time, while Parthia kicked the hell out of Seleucids.

I am still quite early in my macedonian campaign, been kicking the hell out of Thracians after pacifying those damned greeks, but forgot about Sarmizegetusa garrison script, and those 4-7 exp units are serious trouble now. And it looks like Rome is about to backstab me from the west...

[DimeBagHo]

I'm going to guess Bactria. Iberia often does that if you have land bridges on. Gaul doesn't usually do that well, but I'm guessing that's what happens if Rome fails early.

[Sar1n]

I think the light green is Independent Greeks, and Gauls are that speck on northwest Iberia and vaguely phallic shape at west Europe, while independent gauls have british isles...or vice versa.

I am playing without landbridges, so I had no idea that Iberians can actually beat the hell out of Carthage.

I wish that Parthia did that well in my campaign, I will have to eliminate Seleucids myself to achieve objectives for Macedonian campaign, and they seem to be still holding their starting provinces. I did a successful landing at Sicilia to capture Syracuse, so now I can augment my fleet with the new Syracusan Quinquireme, but the damn Romans decided to attack me...oh well, their fault. I will post a few screenies shortly...

[DimeBagHo]

I think you're right, the green menace is the Independent Greeks. I've never seen them do that before.

[atraps]

An update. I'll line up all the screenshots so it's easier to compare. This should be a pretty good hint.

~200 BC

175 BC

150 BC

[Sar1n]

GCS then. I guess you had a hard time early, similar to my macedonian campaign...it took me quite a while to pacify other Greek factions around and Thracians...

Here is screenie from my campaign. I am fighting a defensive war in this area so far, while building up armies to take on Romans, and experimenting with army composition. Romans seem quite vulnerable to phalanx+heavy fire support...and I blew most of my money on bribes recently when I was swarmed by Thracians+Romans, so it's a bit tight spot.

[atraps]

I'm actually the Romans. Pyrrhus is serious business on VH/VH. Drove me out of Italy with the help of the rebels. The inde Greeks did really well after that, but were eventually subdued due to a lack of bonuses. The Greeks are monstrous and recently smashed the Iberian buffer zones in Gaul. Luckily they seem to be loyal to their alliance with Carthage.

[Sar1n]

...OMG. Where are you gonna go now, up to the Europe or Egypt? Oh, and do you have reforms already?

A little from history of my conquest...it might be better in screenshots thread, but I don't wanna doublepost...

1. Second battle against indie Gauls. Gyras scores his second heroic victory...

2. Carving a path through indie Gaul armies.

3. Third heroic victory, there wasn't enough Gauls left for fourth battle to call it heroic victory again.

4. After becoming king, Gyras' badass level went over 9000. Thracians were VERY sorry that they attacked me...

5. His last battle, retired to Pella and died shortly after. Even after 60 he was still badass.

6. It's time to sort this out once and for all: who got longest?

7. a little offtopic, nice comparison of different types of throwing javelins.

[Publius Quirinus]

My Pergamene campaign, first RTW campaign in a while.


I turtled at Antioch for about ten years after conquering it - it's a great position with two developed cities close together and a bottleneck, and I had some trouble with a three-way war in Pontus (Seleucids had eaten my ally Armenia shockingly quickly) and bastard backstabbing Macedonians. I think the Seleucids eventually ran out of stacks to throw at me, by the time I started striking out from Hatra it was easy street. Years of churning out spies meant that I didn't even have to wait a turn for the siege most of the time. I've been unstoppable for a while, I wanted to play till my faction leader Philataerus the Great dies, but he's seventy-plus and still going strong, so I figure I'd stop playing here, when the borders are still pretty.

I dropped phalangites from my army composition pretty quickly. They may be useful against an actual human player, but the AI tends to splinter up their line and head for the flanks anyway. My typical stack has one unit of Hypaspists (not that useful due to their tiny unit size), 4-8 Thorakitai, assorted other infantry, 4 Syrian archers, 2 Rhodian slingers and 2-4 cavalry, usually eastern cavalry as they're the most versatile. Thorakitai are amazing, especially with fire at will turned on. Their javelins just shred everything. Syrian archers are deadly as well.

[Ferdiad]

I prefer to use the regular hoplites myself, seems more authentic and they're very effective with shieldwalls in city's.

[Sar1n]

I like phalanx (note that I'm using ALX that fixes the annoying phalanx bug). Never had problems with enemy trying to flank it if the line is long enough, I use 5 units of phalangites in 4 rank deep formation, with two ranks thin line of heavy infantry (thorakitai usually) placed in front enveloping the first rank of phalangites. AI never managed to penetrate that.

[Raulzy]

I just started a Pergamun provincial campaign on H/H, at first I established alliance with the Eastern Kingdoms, but that alliance proved to be unprofitable.
4 factions waged war on the Eastern Kingdoms(Carthage, Selucid, Pontus and the egyptian one) , consequently on me as I send many small forces trying to help them.
Every settlement I conquered I gave to them, to be taken back by Selucid or Pontus. My help wasn't enough and they were destroyed, sadly.
With the Easterns out of the way Pontus and Selucid turned on me with the egyptians helping them by blockading my ports. I made peace with Carthage.
Fighting stack after stack after stack, it became hard to expand, so I took defensive methods to survive and establish my economy.
I developed a quite effective way to fight the many pontus hordes invading my lands.
I currently have 5 regions and my expansion plan is on the move.


1. Currently overview of my regions.
2. Diplomatic overview.-I allied myself with the ind. Greek as they were the only ones accepting my plea.
3. My battle formation, effective in defense and attack. (this is an exemple from a custom battle)
4-5. My tactics.-- Basically,the phalanx hold the line with spearmen on flanks as I flank the enemy with mercenaries and greek hoplites.
Most of the times they come in 2 lines one big and one small and the gen behind them. I wait them to flank me, then I flank their first and second lines and send one unit of greek hoplites in between. Shortly after they are mass routing. With this method I save many soldiers and can sustain multiple battles per turn, with is pretty common in my currently situation.
(Depending on the battle situation, of course the is changes to my tactics)

[Archbaker]

I'm playing as Germania at the moment. I hold Britain, "Ireland" and the Scandic peninsula, and I am trying to establish beachheads on the mainland in Rugium and Hafnia. I got overrun by Thracians while defeating the Gauls, so I had to horde and catch a westbound boat. Then Spain defeated all the Thracians in western Europe, and the Greeks defeated them in the East. Europe is now split between those two factions, and Spain holds all of Carthage's lands and is expanding into Egypt. Rome still holds southern Italy, Sabaea is doing mostly all right in Arabia, and I think most other factions are declining rapidly or gone already. I'm not sure what caused this. I think I acted normally as Germany up until the point where I gave up and horded, but I suppose the early defeat of Macedon and Scythia by Thrace gave GCS room to expand and my defeat of Gaul did the same for Spain. At least Spain has notoriously low quality infantry (and doesn't seem to recruit a lot of elites) so I think I have a shot for a late come-back.

[Durnaug]

I just started a Pergamun provincial campaign on H/H, at first I established alliance with the Eastern Kingdoms, but that alliance proved to be unprofitable.
4 factions waged war on the Eastern Kingdoms(Carthage, Selucid, Pontus and the egyptian one) , consequently on me as I send many small forces trying to help them.
Every settlement I conquered I gave to them, to be taken back by Selucid or Pontus. My help wasn't enough and they were destroyed, sadly.
With the Easterns out of the way Pontus and Selucid turned on me with the egyptians helping them by blockading my ports. I made peace with Carthage.
Fighting stack after stack after stack, it became hard to expand, so I took defensive methods to survive and establish my economy.
I developed a quite effective way to fight the many pontus hordes invading my lands.
I currently have 5 regions and my expansion plan is on the move.


1. Currently overview of my regions.
2. Diplomatic overview.-I allied myself with the ind. Greek as they were the only ones accepting my plea.
3. My battle formation, effective in defense and attack. (this is an exemple from a custom battle)
4-5. My tactics.-- Basically,the phalanx hold the line with spearmen on flanks as I flank the enemy with mercenaries and greek hoplites.
Most of the times they come in 2 lines one big and one small and the gen behind them. I wait them to flank me, then I flank their first and second lines and send one unit of greek hoplites in between. Shortly after they are mass routing. With this method I save many soldiers and can sustain multiple battles per turn, with is pretty common in my currently situation.
(Depending on the battle situation, of course the is changes to my tactics)

Excellent overview.