Here is my new Averni campaign (H/H 1 Turn). I intend to update it here as it goes on.
@Simon I've taken a break from that campaign but Rome and Carthage are allied together anyway!
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Here is my new Averni campaign (H/H 1 Turn). I intend to update it here as it goes on.
@Simon I've taken a break from that campaign but Rome and Carthage are allied together anyway!
THE AVERNI
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nice campaign where every faction is still alive! i imagine the romans were at war with the boii is why the expanded north?
still its funny to see that macedon is a neigbour of the cimbri
yeah, i always felt like the macedons should expand to southeast like alexander did, not north like they always do since vanilla rtw
Hehe your first stack looks exactly like my typical celtic army setup (except i have archers instead).
Too bad your faction leader has such bad traits. You did well to send him to some border fort
@sadlogic Tis very early in the campaign but yeah Rome wiped out the Boii!
@Grimbold He was the best out of a bad bunch! Well, he was the only one who showed any military skill. Its strange, all generals I've recruited and potential marriage candidates have been absolutely terrible. Not just mediocre... terrible!
Just recently started a Syracuse campaign (H/H), everything seems to be going well. The Romans brought two armies into my lands but they went away, when they came back again I sent an assassin to take out the army that had a character general and it succeeded. (It was a 6% chance. ) I spied on him before assassinating him and he had a crap load of good traits and his command/influence/loyalty were all very high.
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You could easily take Siziliy now.
My current Boii 1 turn H/H campaign using BI:
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At first I tried to hold on to Bononia, and so took my first full stack down, took Segestica and Patavium, and attempted to defend the area. Of course, once Rome finished beating Carthage out of Italy they turned on me and I was forced to give up my holdings in Italy. In the hopes that a buffer between me and Rome would keep them from my territory, as I didn't have the forces to deal with them, I gave Patavium to the Greeks, and so far I've avoided war with them.
From the looks of things, the Seleucids are being slowly squashed between the Ptolemaics, the Parthians and the Armenians. The Gallaeci have pushed Carthage completely out of Iberia and have invaded North Africa, and I'll be interested to see how that ends.
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Currently, things are going well. Dacia won't be too difficult to deal with, and once I'm done throwing them away from my cities, I'll return to taking Cimbri settlements.
Looks nice but watch out when you take all of davie you will bordering rome again
Yeah. I'm hoping to hold off bordering Rome as long as possible, honestly. And things have gotten a little more interesting. The Greeks declared war on me and attacked Segestica, and Cimbri have also started attacking me up north, so fun's to be had all round!
Last edited by Thracian Princess; June 01, 2012 at 07:38 AM.
That must have felt pretty good.
@Thracian Princess - Looks like a very difficult campaign indeed. In most of the games I've played The Boii either get wiped out early or become very strong if they survive. Are you playing 1 turn or 0 turn?
EDIT: Sorry just looked again and saw your playing 1 turn. Also, you do have quite a bit of space between Rome and yourself. It depends on how quickly and in what direction they expand. Those Greeks are aggressive but generally quite poo.
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1 turn, which is why I had a few failed attempts at first due to Rome's being a pain in the ass. Also, that Carthaginian national leader I posted a pic of on the post your pics thread? He's still in that same position and is now around 54-56 or something.
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I concentrate at 1 CITY at a time. But when i gather huge armies (over 4 legions, many times as many as 2 named legions, 4 Evocati legions, 1 auxilia legion (all of them have auxilia nevertheless) i tend to invade entire nation. Once i had 11 legions, but that was in 0-turn campaign. Then I leave evocati there as garrison, and with named legions i go to a another invasion- right after I have made neighbours of my newly conguered areas my allies (or if they are at war with my ally/ies) secure my front.
Also i have plenty of forts with 3-4 evocati, 2 antesigani in them to secure borders. And in towns i have 2 evocati 1 antesigani, even in Rome.
Also i keep 2 of my Prae cav with my faction leader, rest of praetorians are with him in campaigns only.
Apologies for anyone who's message i may miss or not be able to answer
Update on my Averni campaign. I've included the previous post.
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I suspect auto win for that other battle...
My laptop trolled me, the battery died in the midst of the Roman soldiers' demise in an epic battle I was fighting as Syracuse, I was even on a screenshot spree.
PS: I ambushed the Romans in this battle and they were taken by surprise. (Which is why their army has a weird formation)
Before the battle.
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Flanking.
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Last ones standing.
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No mercy...
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All is lost. (for them)
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Last edited by Rhaenys Targaryen; June 02, 2012 at 02:16 AM. Reason: Forgot to mention something.
Dibbles what in the world are those crappy levy units doing in a full stack?
Also eastern europe looks a mess. If i were you i'd ditch Noreia. Hand it over to someone, perhaps to the Cimbrii in order to trigger a war with Rome. That should buy you sometime.
Cant really say much, as i don't get an idea from your position of where you plan on expanding to.
@ Grimbold Like I said, I recruited what I could get. I was hard pressed with all those Romans pouring in. It was never meant to be a stack, just an army I could try and throw against the shields of Rome to buy some time. The elite troops were meant as reinforcements for Noreia.
Ditch Noreia?!? Never! It has become my legendary fortress! I'm not playing the game to amass a great land empire. I don't plan on expanding anywhere in particular. I will take the south of Gaul eventually but at the moment keeping Noreia is my aim. From there I have a great tactical seat with a say in what happens in central Europe. Also, they declared loyalty to me. It would be ungentlemanly to abandon them now.
EDIT @ Gandalf Surely you are not accusing me of auto_win? The odds were in my favour!