Macedonian AAR

[mathijs]

Introduction:
I wanted to do an AAR and I thought that Macedonia would be a good start.
M/M
Barbarian invasion thing
(I’m playing in version 3 because I can’t install higher versions)

Chapter 1: Control Greece.
Part 1: First attack of the Celts.
It is 285 BC..
The once mighty empire of Alexander felled to dust.
The king of Macedonia and his followers decided they want it back..
They will make a great army to crush the fools who have taken their lands..

In 280 BC They were ready..
They would first capture the city’s that rebelled against them.
But when they gather their army, a spy located an army of Celts north of Macedonia..

They decided to wait and see what the Celts will do..
We were able to get trade rights and map information with the Tracians north of us.

Months passed when they finally attacked..

War has come.
We immediately went into action.
Our spies explored their army.

And they found that they are very strong..
But we took the risk and attacked them with our main army.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Battle At Pella
We put our armies ready for action.

With our Greek hoplites in the east and west and the only group of slingers in the east.

We were ready for the battle!
This is how they putted their armies into battle

Their first attack failed, they just ran into my army and my Calvary could easily let them run..

But their attack at my right flank was a better success so I had to send reinforcements..

Same with the battle against the other Macedonian army..
I decided to use my general to get them in chaos, and it worked.

And so they made their armies ready for an last fight..

And the final fight began…

It was not a hard fight, half their troops ran before we could even touch them..
It was a great victory, But the war isn’t over…

[TM Is Back]

It's good to see an old XGM version again

+rep

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

Pictures like that really open your eye to how much mods can change, and how much they have changed.

Good so far.

[mathijs]

Thanks guys, i'm gonna post part 2 today

[Diomede]

Nice! Never played a version this early. Sweet.

[mathijs]

Thanks Diomede

Chapter 1: Control Greece.
Part 2: Celts attack again..
After the battle was done, we decided to go to call our troops in the south for help.

And we would gather them in Pella to retrain our troops.
And a few months later, another army of the Celts came..

Our spies found that their army was bigger and stronger now.
So we decided to play defensive in our city.
And they laid siege..

Meanwhile our diplomat got trade rights with the Independent Greeks and the Seleucids..

After 1 year of laying siege the Celts attacked..

And so.. The fight began.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Battle For Pella
They reached the walls but with many losses.

And so the battle started..

They won the fight at the walls..

And the second battle started at our centre..

And so their general got killed

And…………….

Their second army is destroyed!

[DimeBagHo]

If XGM version 3 works, but later versions don't, then your version of RTW must only be patched to 1.3. If you patch it to 1.5/1.6 then the current version of XGM will work.

But don't do that yet, the AAR is off to a good start.

[mathijs]

Chapter 1: Control Greece.
Part 3: Getting used to victories.
After the battle was over, we retrained our man to capture their settlement.
Our spies found out all about their city.

And they saw that it was weaker as their other armies.
So we could easily defeat them with this experience..

But we found an army of rebels close to Pella,
And we decided to leave some troops in Pella who would deal with them and then join our main army what was laying siege to Sardica.

We attacked the rebels..

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Battle At Pella
This is how we putted our armies on the battlefield

Our first “attack” was lost

And we charged them again with all our man

That was a success but we lost one of our generals..

And we won the fight, but the victory was close.

[knguyen_93]

Hey this seem weird but i got a question. If you didnt attack the GCS (take Athens) how could you got enough money to restrain your army at Pella? I suggess moving 2 units of phalanx from Amphipolis and all the phalanx units in the main army into Pella at first turn. Those unit will break the GI when they attacking the city. The rest will head south and take Athens. lol I hate facing the celt on open battlefield, nastily and easily get encirled by the swordman

[mathijs]

Hey this seem weird but i got a question. If you didnt attack the GCS (take Athens) how could you got enough money to restrain your army at Pella? I suggess moving 2 units of phalanx from Amphipolis and all the phalanx units in the main army into Pella at first turn. Those unit will break the GI when they attacking the city. The rest will head south and take Athens. lol I hate facing the celt on open battlefield, nastily and easily get encirled by the swordman

I putted all my troops together so the retraining only costed like 1300 of money and I had enough space for our reinforcements

[mathijs]

Chapter 1: Control Greece.
Part 4: Our first settlement.
Shortly after the victory, we got map information + trade rights with Pontus.
And we reinforced our army with the soldiers from Pella.

We started to make an army at Larissa.

After 6 months we were ready to capture our first settlement.

And we could easily win this battle against them.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Battle For Sardica
We reached their gates.

Our first fight was a chaos.

And we crushed an wall to charge them with our general.

It worked and after that the final battle started..

And we won!

We decided to enslave their people.