248 BC. This is a good example of my fortification heavy approach. Every pass, road and entrance to my lands is guarded by a fort. This always gave me plenty of warning and uptime to deal with incursions. My army composition typically had 3 triarii, 3 hastati, 3 velites and then some auxiliaries, augmented by cavalry.
179 BC. Screenshot got borked, but at this point I am expanding into Gaul, Greece and most of Africa. The battles against the northern rebels were some of the most epic of my entire campaign. The battle for eburonum holds a special place in my memory as the biggest, slowest (literally) battle I've ever engaged in in RTW. There were roughly 8 armies all together, four on each side, for something like 12,000 men total. The battle was like a stop motion video due to the lag. In the end the Legions prevailed.
163 BC. The client state of the Gauls faces its final days after betraying me. The Germans are next. Carthage has fallen, providing us with elephants, which I used sparingly. The Polybian reforms are starting to kick in (I think they are the Polybian ones? It was a while ago). I gave some land to the Seleucids between me and the Ptolemies because they kept attacking me there with tiny armies which made no sense.
131 BC. Another example of my fort approach. The border with the Arabs is nearly impregnable. Artillery starts making an appearance in my legions, and every numbered legion now has at least one ballista and one scorpio.
110 BC. An example of my "Thracian" Legion, with some Galatians thrown in. If I couldn't recruit local good infantry, I'd recruit mercenaries. My criteria is they had to have some form of armour (normally mail), a shield and either a sword/spear to mimic the real "Auxiliaries". So no bare chested auxiliaries, with one exception, shown below.
104 BC. My "Imperial Legion". This was the legion that always accompanied the Emperor, made up of praetorians. The naked berserkers became one of my favourite auxiliary troops (for obvious reasons) so they were given a special place alongside my best troops. I only ever used them with this legion so there was only 2 units of them at play at any one time. You can also see I have a buffer of vassal states between me and the Baktrians.
90 BC. AN example of my "allied" army, made mostly of hoplites and phalanxes. I used these to simulate the armies of subjugated nations, and when I got bored of playing mostly legionary battles. When I eventually conquered the steppe, Scythian and Sarmatian cavalry heavy armies became OP as hell. This is why I mostly stuck to one "army" or stack per conquered region.
61 BC. The end is near for the Baktrians. The Saka have fallen after I suffered a number of defeats at their hands (again, playing mostly Legionary style infantry heavy armies against horsemen = suicide) but I finally defeated them in the end. Here is an example of a "reinforcement stack" which I used to refill my depleted legionary auxiliaries. Because I couldn't recruit these guys locally I always had a huge stream of armies filtering in from the west with legionaries, artillery, cavalry, etc. It usually took them years to make the trip all the way east.
It was super annoying not being able to recruit/retrain any legions past Babylon. It meant all my numbered legions usually ended up with 20-50 men. I sent them back west between campaigns but it usually took them years to go all the way back, retrain and then return.
54 BC. The final battle, fought outside of Taksashila. The Baktrians put up a brave fight, but they too must become part of our empire. The entire world is ours.
8 years and 800 seasons later, after 2571 battles won and 122 lost, the Roman Empire is finally complete, and finally at peace. This was the best campaign I ever played, and was a ton of fun to dip in and out of over the years. I'd like to thank the EB team again for such an amazing mod, and for giving me some amazing hours playing this game.
Sharing My 8 Year Long Romani Campaign (V1.2)
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Originally Posted by BHL 20
What a campaign. 
