RTR-AqD screenshots

[Lanjane]

In RTR-AqD mod, you'll experience massive colourful battles of highly-detailed ancient armies. Old empires are slowly dying, and new powerful kingdoms are rising, trying to divide Alexander's legacy among themselves. Prepare to fight!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Scripted armies in campaign mode will not allow you to feel yourself bored!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Should be more screens later...

[AqD]

thread sticked! and thanks!


PS: the free people armies are not scripted and I don't give them any extra money. I have no idea why they're so rich! Is SPQR in vanilla RTW also like that?

[Lanjane]

PS: the free people armies are not scripted and I don't give them any extra money. I have no idea why they're so rich! Is SPQR in vanilla RTW also like that?

SPQR in vanilla is rich too. But maybe AI cheats? I'm playing on Very Hard, and when I destroyed one of their fullstacks (you can see the place of famous victory on the map), then suddenly two new stacks appeared from the forest! How many stacks have you added them exactly?

[AqD]

SPQR in vanilla is rich too. But maybe AI cheats? I'm playing on Very Hard, and when I destroyed one of their fullstacks (you can see the place of famous victory on the map), then suddenly two new stacks appeared from the forest! How many stacks have you added them exactly?

Only the original rebel armies. Those without experience 5+ are all their new recruits!

But they don't matter anyway! Bunch of peasant farmers and irregulars!



BTW have you encountered any after-siege CTD? I just happened to have one and I had to retreat and auto-resolve one battle (and destroyed my best armies! the "auto_win" cheat really sucks ). Since I had no army left I auto-resolved all incoming Seleucid stacks until my army restored the original strength.... but half of Seleucid military force on the chart were all gone!

[Lanjane]

I've killed their best troops, and new recruits are not so experienced:




Hmm... I haven't encountered after-siege CTD yet. Hope it was a pure accident. Good luck in conquering Seleucid Empire

[florin80]

BTW have you encountered any after-siege CTD? I just happened to have one and I had to retreat and auto-resolve one battle (and destroyed my best armies! the "auto_win" cheat really sucks ). Since I had no army left I auto-resolved all incoming Seleucid stacks until my army restored the original strength.... but half of Seleucid military force on the chart were all gone!

You mean the exterminate/enslave/occupy ctd?

[AqD]

how did you beat that?!

You mean the exterminate/enslave/occupy ctd?

yes! It only happens when my siege army is attacked, sometimes 2 or 3 times in one turn (I always do that to avoid bloody siege assault! ).

[Lanjane]

how did you beat that?!

My archers make some of their elephants running amok, then these furious beasts turned back to trumple their own forces! Impressive spectacle!

Another battle when I used the same tactics:




However, I wasn't so lucky this morning :




P.S. > I couldn't see composition of their second army (in the red rectangle) due to limitations of RTW engine, so I reloaded previous save-game to spy. Those guys with question marks also had experience 7+...
I suffered heaviest losses of the whole Indian campaign, and all my cavalrymen were gone
P.P.S. > There still are A LOT of their fullstacks in India! And damned Seleucids are going to attack me from the west

[AqD]

My archers make some of their elephants running amok, then these furious beasts turned back to trumple their own forces! Impressive spectacle!

But sometimes my arrows just have no effect on them! I had to bring persian hillmen to slice them by axe! (they still took a lot of cuts to die!)

P.S. > I couldn't see composition of their second army (in the red rectangle) due to limitations of RTW engine, so I reloaded previous save-game to spy. Those guys with question marks also had experience 7+...
I suffered heaviest losses of the whole Indian campaign, and all my cavalrymen were gone
P.P.S. > There still are A LOT of their fullstacks in India! And damned Seleucids are going to attack me from the west

But why do you bring cavalry to india? Did you order them to charge into elephants?

---

I have a new pic from Syria!



The Seleucid has been beaten so badly that they have to call those puny Machimoi to provide heavy cavalry! Even outnumbering by 4 to 1 they cannot hurt my general bodyguards

My median nobles and persian hcav are sent for rest and replenishment! Otherwise I'd have killed them all... so many run away from my sight...

[Lanjane]

But why do you bring cavalry to india? Did you order them to charge into elephants?

Of course not... They were killed by enemy persian eugeneis hippeis with exp 7+

I have a new pic from Syria!

Use minimal UI and then press F5, F6 and F7 to remove interface completely, for best screenshots
BTW army of my kingdom consists mostly of foot archers... About 60% of the summar military forces. They are cheap and allow me to keep constructing new buildings. Others are militia for city garrisons and some phalangites

[AqD]

Of course not... They were killed by enemy persian eugeneis hippeis with exp 7+

Usually I'd send light cavarly to trick them running around my archers and get shooted to death! But I doubt you could do that when there are dozens of elephants charging toward your line!

They're only good because they use secondary weapon for melee! same for galatians! If other cavalry do that too I'll have lost every battles against seleucid

Use minimal UI and then press F5, F6 and F7 to remove interface completely, for best screenshots

Umm can I switch between mini-UI and normal UI during battles? I can't really play with mini-UI because I have to know the guard/skirmish/auto-fire status all the time!

BTW army of my kingdom consists mostly of foot archers... About 60% of the summar military forces. They are cheap and allow me to keep constructing new buildings. Others are militia for city garrisons and some phalangites

Uh! Why not use the thorakitai and peltastai? The thorakitai are more maneuverable than phalanx (your enemy have no heavy inf for the pikes anyway! ) and petastai are the best elephant killers!

BTW have you tried the guard hoplite? They killed for me more than 100 enemy hoplites on a bridge (not before it ) in a few minutes and suffered no loss! With 2 or 3 of these guys you'd be able to storm any walled cities!

---

More pics:


The "double column" formation... For those who don't know, The original fancy army formations have been replaced by small group formations, which should be more practical in battles!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The persian nobles that slaughtered Lanjane's cav:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Angry persian pikemen massacring peasant farmers!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Lanjane]

Spoiler for some off-topic discussion.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Umm can I switch between mini-UI and normal UI during battles? I can't really play with mini-UI because I have to know the guard/skirmish/auto-fire status all the time!

If you press F6 button with minimal UI on, the upper panel will be sticked, and you'll see that information all the time, don't worry about it

Uh! Why not use the thorakitai and peltastai? The thorakitai are more maneuverable than phalanx (your enemy have no heavy inf for the pikes anyway! ) and petastai are the best elephant killers!
BTW have you tried the guard hoplite? They killed for me more than 100 enemy hoplites on a bridge (not before it ) in a few minutes and suffered no loss! With 2 or 3 of these guys you'd be able to storm any walled cities!

I'll try them when I finish with those indian guys. I don't recruit peltasts now because enemy uses a lot of indian infantry (archers) and HAs, and I need to provide really superior density of fire to deal with them! So, A LOT of foot archers, some phalangites to protect them and some cavalry... for now - only remaining general's cavalry

The persian nobles that slaughtered Lanjane's cav

Oh they have axe as a secondary weapon! So cruel...

[AqD]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I'll try them when I finish with those indian guys. I don't recruit peltasts now because enemy uses a lot of indian infantry (archers) and HAs, and I need to provide really superior density of fire to deal with them! So, A LOT of foot archers, some phalangites to protect them and some cavalry... for now - only remaining general's cavalry

or you could try the persian cavalry! They have light armour, shields, and a lot of javelins! (skirmisher cav always have more javelins than skirmisher inf)

Oh they have axe as a secondary weapon! So cruel...

specially made so to counter cataphracts

[Lanjane]

New screens from India!

Battle near Kapisa, 268 BC.
Brave commander Ziles the Conqueror, who had spent almost three years conquering India, was attacked near Kapisa, by strong indian army full of elephants and furious indian infantry:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The battle began with a massive sledgehammer elephant attack on my left flank:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Nevertheless, veteran phalangites trembled, but did not run, and although the elephants broke their ranks and crushed a lot of soldiers, those who survived, fought staunchly:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Meanwhile, at the center bactrians were attacked by numerous and fierce indian infantry:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

During the violent battle many soldiers were killed, and phalangites have already begun to hustle, but the bactrian general evaded the enemy and took indian infantry in rear, causing death and horror:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The Indian army started running, continuously beaten by bactrian archers; many elephants, running amok because of fiery arrows, trampled their own forces. The remaining indians were finished by Ziles' Indian mercenaries and cataphracts.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[AqD]

@Lanjane: can you use toggle_fow to show the mini-map? I wonder how other factions are doing in your campaign! (I attacked east-ward and destroyed the balance )

[Lanjane]

aqd
Yes I can, but I don't like to use toggle_fow cheat as it ruins the whole atmosphere of the game I'll better send you my savegame by PM...

More screens (attached to the first post in topic too)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Caligula Caesar]

Arent those a feww too many elephants? I'm sure stacks with 7 sets of elephants aren't meant to exist.

[Lanjane]

Caligula Caesar
There were a lot of elephants in indian army historically. In the battle near river Hidasp with king Por Alexander the Great faced about 200 elephants. Yes of course RTW has another scales, but these elephants are very suitable to the occasion.

EDIT: and I'm playing campaign on Very Hard...

[AqD]

Arent those a feww too many elephants? I'm sure stacks with 7 sets of elephants aren't meant to exist.

It depends on the indian tribes/kingdoms. But so far there is no plan to give Indians some high-quality units.. so the elephants have to be numerous





A New Screen!

[Caligula Caesar]

If you do toggle_fow, do the other regions which the rebel faction holds also have that many full stacks?