[RS AAR] Peace and Prosperity - An Observer RS AAR

[Exekutor]

The Two Empires

Yay, my fellow germans don't disappoint me. They conquer their first seleucid city, Arbela. Some worthy enemies for TSE, unlike the lazy carthaginians who just wait to get killed ...


Yay, second town conquered Slaughter the seleucid pigs from the inside




Northern German Empire is now strong enough to defend itself, I don't intend to connect them, two is better than one
I'm asking myself if I shouldn't call them Holy Roman Empire ... but that would be weird since real Romans aren't dead yet nor Christianity has been founded

Romans are still there ... most of TSE armies are around the Hellespont.



TSE is now sending more troops into the East, but EGE (Eastern German Empire) is holding out nicely. They lost Arbela though, but still have more than enough stacks to defend their territory, when lucky even enough to expand a bit more. I don't think I need to help them anymore


As long as I continue my raiding in Greece and Asia Minor, Germania and Rome should be able to slowly beat TSE.



Inflected casualtias 95-90BC: genocide is slowly nearing it's end
Domus Dulcis Domus - 17300
Asaak - 23500
Antioch² - 16500
Sinope² - 34800
Trapezius² - 22500
Kura² - 21100
Maracanda - 18400
Helonus - 24000
Tarsus³ - 13800
Paradraya - 19800
Campus Scythii - 21000
Halicarnassus (4) - 14600 Living here isn't such a good idea
Xantus³ - 14000
Total - 261300 Dead

Civilian Death Toll 117-115BC : 160.000
Civilian Death Toll 115-110BC : 202.100
Civilian Death Toll 110-105BC : 403.200
Civilian Death Toll 105-100BC : 426.300
Civilian Death Toll 100-095BC : 500.400
Civilian Death Toll 095-090BC : 261.300

TOTAL : 1.953.300

[Winter]

You may not want to connect the germans, but they might do that for you. There's only one territory gaps between the armies in the North.

[Exekutor]

Now, just give Germania your eastern cities, Rome your western cities, and pull out.

Hmmm... I don't have any western cities

You may not want to connect the germans, but they might do that for you. There's only one territory gaps between the armies in the North.

TSE got some stacks up there, so I don't think that will happen soon.

Maybe I was a bit unclear, but TSE isn't beaten yet. Rome, NGE and EGE can only defend their cities because I tie up enough seleucid stacks in Asia Minor and Greece. If they would send them to the front, it wouldn't look so good. So I still need to raid a bit more, until TSE is weak enough and the others strong enough

[Snoopy]

Western cities as in Scandanavia.

[hedges13]

dont help anymore... i want to see what happens!!

[Exekutor]

Sorry, no update today. I have seen more than enough blood for one day

[Winter]

More than enough blood? You've gone soft! My faith in humanity is shaken!

Nah jk, take some time off! you've been banging these updates out twice a day!

[Exekutor]

I meant real blood. Of course there is never enough spilled virtual blood

Dolchstoß

Translation
Every now and then, Carthage sends some armies over to Iberia, but forgets to give 'em orders


Assassins are worthless, even maxed out they can't kill family members. The highest percentage I ever had was 9%
Don't eat Broccoli, it's evil, do you really want to support the Seleucids?


Another record of carthaginian intelligence ... letting a city rebel


After all those years playing RTW the AI can still surprise me ......... with it's stupidity
You buggers! A stab in the back! Those spoiled ungrateful Krauts wanna mess with their patron. Looks like it's time to abandon my eastern colonies and let them fight their war in the east on their own


Oh noes! Dyma the Sheep is dead ... indeed a good day for all sheeps


After abandoning my eastern colonies, germans are tame again.


Great ... now every idiot thinks he can create his own religion


The last battle in the War in the East (Pan's army was already disbanded). I needed a port to disband my caspian navy. First I took Saphia, then I saw they didn't have a port
Mele's and Prot's army is disbanded, the cities gifted to EGE for safe passage for the three generals to the Mediterranean.


LOL Spiderman I still don't know if I should laugh or be scared of his new surname




A look at the Romans, which are still spamming auxilia.




EGE, they have more stacks in the east.





Inflected casualties 90-85BC
Sardis - 24400
Side² - 18900
Larissa² - 26800
Scythian Neapolis² - 27200
Chersonesus² - 29600
Pantakapaion² - 28300
Saphia - 19900
Thermon³ - 15800
Argos² - 17300
Gorgippia² - 22300
Pergamum³ - 15500
Phraaspa - 20400
Total - 266400

Civilian Death Toll 117-115BC : 160.000
Civilian Death Toll 115-110BC : 202.100
Civilian Death Toll 110-105BC : 403.200
Civilian Death Toll 105-100BC : 426.300
Civilian Death Toll 100-095BC : 500.400
Civilian Death Toll 095-090BC : 261.300
Civilian Death Toll 090-085BC : 266.400

TOTAL : 2.219.700

Yay, cracked the 2 millions Wait, I didn't wanna do that ... it wasn't my fault ... the voices told me to do it


thanks to Zodiac for posting it at the funny picture thread

[Ian Altano]

Hmmm..

Carthage is braindead..
tSE is weakening..
Greeks don't stand a chance.. (admit it)
Romans keep spamming weak auxilia..

Looks like the germans are going to take the map ...

PS: yay! over 2 million dead! drinks all around! XD

[Tankbuster]

You're doing great!

The map seems to be in balance again... I'd say pull out and let them play on their own now...

[Spartan_Shame]

*Arcs fingers and laughs insanely*

Let the bloodshed begin.

[Exekutor]

Hmmm..

Carthage is braindead..
tSE is weakening..
Greeks don't stand a chance.. (admit it)
Romans keep spamming weak auxilia..

Looks like the germans are going to take the map ...

PS: yay! over 2 million dead! drinks all around! XD

Well, I never said the greeks would stand a chance
But I too think the germans will win, when they spam Cherusci Rome can't beat them

*Arcs fingers and laughs insanely*

Let the bloodshed begin.

:hmmm: 200 years of Total War, if that's no bloodshed ...
They really need to implement a statistic in ETW. How many soldiers died, how many civilians, how many I killed, how many I lost and the same for the AI faction ...
I would really like to know how many people lost their life in this campaign

When you kill one, it is a tragedy, when you kill ten millions, it is a statistic ~C&C Red Alert OST

[Artax]

:hmmm: 200 years of Total War, if that's no bloodshed ...
They really need to implement a statistic in ETW. How many soldiers died, how many civilians, how many I killed, how many I lost and the same for the AI faction ...
I would really like to know how many people lost their life in this campaign

I totally agree with you. I once tried to do this myself but it takes a lot of time and gets boring. Automatic feature would be nice.

[pseudocaesar]

Hmmmm. This has been an eye opener, definitely something needs to be done about the Romans only recruiting Auxilia, can you get some screenshots of their armies if its not too much trouble? It will be simple to fix, slightly higher cost and upkeep should do the trick.

[Exekutor]

Hmmmm. This has been an eye opener, definitely something needs to be done about the Romans only recruiting Auxilia, can you get some screenshots of their armies if its not too much trouble? It will be simple to fix, slightly higher cost and upkeep should do the trick.

No, that would be the completely wrong way. Their upkeep and cost is good, the problem is that they can't recruit anything else in most of their cities. The AI has to recruit auxilia in most cities because of the Legion AOR. Raising upkeep of auxilia won't help the AI, it will just make it weaker. The AI is stupid and will recruit units everywhere, no matter if they are crap compared to units it can recruit in the next city.

I will get you some screens in the next update.

Edit: I only see two solutions: Either scrap the Legion AOR-system, which would be a bad idea. Or make the auxilia stronger (somewhere between Hastati and Principes), a bit more upkeep and Rome would got less armies, but stronger ones. I really don't know why auxilia (militia cohorts) are so weak, much more upkeep than Hastatis but much weaker.
Rome does have this problem only post-marian.

[pseudocaesar]

No, that would be the completely wrong way. Their upkeep and cost is good, the problem is that they can't recruit anything else in most of their cities. The AI has to recruit auxilia in most cities because of the Legion AOR. Raising upkeep of auxilia won't help the AI, it will just make it weaker. The AI is stupid and will recruit units everywhere, no matter if they are crap compared to units it can recruit in the next city.

I will get you some screens in the next update.

Edit: I only see two solutions: Either scrap the Legion AOR-system, which would be a bad idea. Or make the auxilia stronger (somewhere between Hastati and Principes), a bit more upkeep and Rome would got less armies, but stronger ones. I really don't know why auxilia (militia cohorts) are so weak, much more upkeep than Hastatis but much weaker.
Rome does have this problem only post-marian.

Yeh, retarded me i should know that, wasn't thinking lol, its OK, with RS 2.0 we have totally scrapped and re worked the legion AOR, so this shouldnt be an issue in future RS's.

[Exekutor]

A Call to Arms

There you go, a look at 12 roman stacks. Better than before, but still more than half of their troops are auxilia and miliria cohors (sp?).


I don't trust that guy, no way he is 16 ... big beard, a bald head and that look ... pedophile


Right next to Londinium. What a perfect stack see, they do recruit good units when they have the ability


Eury is dead, the first and most glorious of all pirates




the dots show the territory they conquered on their own
Yay, TSE is going down I think my help isn't needed anymore and I can retire again to watch the massacre

I did bribe the 3 cities adjacent to Londinium (less than 150k, what a snap), 2 did rebel though. But I bribed four rebel stacks so that Rome can reconquer them.


Romans smelled blood and launched a big offensive against TSE, it looks good so far


These guys are worse than 5 year-olds. Romans and Germans have a border for 2 seconds and already they try to batter each others skull again

Germans are doing nicely in the east and north, but they can't hold Asia Minor yet. They linked their territories no more NGE and EGE, how shall I call them now?



Inflicted casualties 85-80BC: maybe 2 or 3 cities for Rome, but then my raids are over
Istros - 19700
Odessus - 27800
Thessalonica² - 15500
Sardis² - 16000
Antioch³ - 18000
Laodicea² - 16200
Elis³ - 25500
Total - 138700

Civilian Death Toll 117-115BC : 160.000
Civilian Death Toll 115-110BC : 202.100
Civilian Death Toll 110-105BC : 403.200
Civilian Death Toll 105-100BC : 426.300
Civilian Death Toll 100-095BC : 500.400
Civilian Death Toll 095-090BC : 261.300
Civilian Death Toll 090-085BC : 266.400
Civilian Death Toll 085-080BC : 138.700

TOTAL : 2.358.400

Damn it, I don't think I can reach 2,5mil ...
I was thinking about sacking Rome, that would make my pirate legacy immortal

[Winter]

How about calling them the United German Empire, (UGE) .

And whats this I read about sacking Rome!! Save the Romans only to burn the eternal city? Not even pirates would sink so low. Do it.

[Exekutor]

lol It just fair that I also pay a visit to the western mediterranean When I'm there already, I could also visit Carthage and Syracuse

United German Empire, that's sounds nice

[Archer of Sparta]

How about sacking some carthage cities and giving it to some other faction so we get more action in north africa.