Macedonian Campaign

[Spartan Guard Itachi]

Just thought id give a brief outline oy my campaign thus and get sum screens up soon if sum one tells me how to take them and such.

Briefly: Epic clashes between the independent gallic tribes which spewed fourth 3 full stacks of invaders gsint my capital with about 7 units total and no chnce of reinforcements.

The city never fell once during the horrific sieges however my faction leader was struck down in an epic charge to cover the retreat of 3 other of my generals, cutting down the gallic faction leader in is dying moments though- truly epic!

fer this war the the greeks was inevitable and it was uncertain for many turns weather army after army of the greeks would break my sieging army on Sparta, however there backs finally broke and i spread into the east with rapid succession.

Ive taken over all of greece now and placed Thrace under my protection, took alot of provinces in the east as far as Antioch and Damascus and havnt suffered a defeat yet.

Selucid seem to be spawning whole new armies from no where every turn which is annoying as hell, specially since the new spear trowing units r all they ever use now, its a big spear throwing fest most days now, with little tactics needed

The est is now rather drastic depsite hve one of my 2 best generals there, the forces are spread thing down the cost all the way to Alexandria, and for sum unknown reason to me my profit of 20,000 gold per turn plummeted to a megre 5000

to the south the Selucids were about to wipe out the Egyptians but i landed n army and took two cities including Alexandria and began a difficult campaign in that area to save the Egyptions who I know have military access with to one another lands.

The prospect for Egypt and surrounding area seems good, however Antioch and its lands r under constant threat from Selucids never ending hordes, however now, a young Macedonian general has arrived with a full stack of troops to push deeper into Selucids lands! despite being drastically weekend and denied of all their ports, they should be in negative gold by now!

Hope you guys like so far, but if any of you could answer these questions would be good:

1) After slaughtering so many Seleucid armies time and time again, why dont they invade Parthia or Bactria- or better still why dont they invde them, theres no way they could be strong across their empire with the blows ive dealt them?

2) Even Armenia spams hillmen.....whcih throw spears, why is everything throwing spears now? hardly any grueling troop action!

3) Is there no way to reach peace with the AI?! I would gladly kill another 2 Selucid kings in consecutive battles but it is good to have time to rest ones sword arm and seek new ventures in distant lands!

4) Why did my cash roll plummet so drastically so suddenly? I have no blocked ports nd no armies that are not my own in my territory!..... it seemed to happen suspiciously to both me and the Selucids just now as the Romans have kicked it up a gear and are pushing my way....

[Unknown Soldier]

Maybe the Romans are taking out all of your trading partners.

[Spartan Guard Itachi]

hmmm maybe but strangely enough they requested an alliance with me....

i actually hold the city that the independent Greeks get on the Italian peninsula, and romans havnt tried anything odd, they've only just started to expnd into gaul and north against the Germans but to.

[DimeBagHo]

Spartan Guard Itachi: The most likely cause is the cost of supporting your military forces. It costs aprox. 8,000 a turn to maintain a stack of city level units, so the difference between a surplus of 20,000 and a surplus of 5,000 is just two stacks.

The Seleucids won't run out of money until you take Seleucia. They probably still have a lot of regions under their control, but many of them will be large towns, rather than cities, which means that they have to recruit auxiliaries and Thureophoroi.

[Unknown Soldier]

Ah the crafty dogs! they're probably blockading ports those Romans

Anyhow take out Selucia - the selucid capital - sack it/sell all the buildings and retreat leaving no garrison pump the taxes to very high and let it rebel.

That'll stop the endless selucids - they lose all of their bonuses.

[EyebrowsMulligan]

Anyhow take out Selucia - the selucid capital -

Has the capital changed back to Seleucia in recent versions? I'm playing a game which I started with XGM 5.6.3.3 and the capital is Antioch.

[Unknown Soldier]

Eyebrows:
Only if you are the player - the AI capital is selucia (sp)

[EyebrowsMulligan]

Ah, you live and learn.

I think Seleucia used to be the starting capital back in RTR6.0 which I played a fair bit. I'm probably getting mixed up with that.

[Scutarii]

The AI often changes the starting capital to Antioch, especially if they lose some Eastern holdings to Parthia +Baktria.
As for the OP:
1) TSE will not declare war while in a losing war with you, the AI probably isn't in any position to attack Parthia or Baktria. Why Parthia and Baktria aren't attacking the Seleucids, I don't know. Maybe they have an alliance together (TSE and either of them)? Otherwise its just stupid AI behaviour.
2)Many jav throwing units are Barracks lvl. 2, which is easy to make and is the most common level unit recruited by most factions, especially in the east where there are so many large towns.
3) You can force diplomacy with the AI for a ceasefire, but they'll attack you a few turns later. They want their towns back.... Once you conquer them to a few cities just force diplomacy and protectorate them.
4) See Dime's answer. And don't just factor in field armies, garrison costs can spike unknowingly too.

[Spartan Guard Itachi]

The AI often changes the starting capital to Antioch, especially if they lose some Eastern holdings to Parthia +Baktria.
As for the OP:
1) TSE will not declare war while in a losing war with you, the AI probably isn't in any position to attack Parthia or Baktria. Why Parthia and Baktria aren't attacking the Seleucids, I don't know. Maybe they have an alliance together (TSE and either of them)? Otherwise its just stupid AI behaviour.
2)Many jav throwing units are Barracks lvl. 2, which is easy to make and is the most common level unit recruited by most factions, especially in the east where there are so many large towns.
3) You can force diplomacy with the AI for a ceasefire, but they'll attack you a few turns later. They want their towns back.... Once you conquer them to a few cities just force diplomacy and protectorate them.
4) See Dime's answer. And don't just factor in field armies, garrison costs can spike unknowingly too.

yeh kool thanks guys tht info helps, but i dont want to force diplomacy, makes me feel like im cheating real bad just have to keep killing them

and surprisingly Bactria and parthia are NOT at war and infact are my allies, there not even war decd with selucid, and have only taken eastern kingdom or rebel settlements.

Ive taken more settlements from selucids now, east and south of Damascus and east of Antioch soon, then onward to Selucia!!

as for the campaign in Egypt, its drawing to an end, west fo Alexandria the two cities of fallen and the 2 more Selucid kings have fallen along with their best troops in giant battles, and now are under siege from Egypt in their final stronghold of the entire southern area! HAH.

Romans and Iberia (both allied to me) are tearing Gaul apart, i look forward to them fighting each other.

I marched through my Thracian protected lands and took Dacia or whatever its called and filled it with bastarnae and other thracian trained barbarian troops, just for the fun of doing it!!!!
- this also serves as a hardcore stack of barbaric warriors to give Rome hell if and when the try march in my direction.

The money situation has improved a fair bit however the generals are now turning their black helms towards Sicily for new chances of conquest and to fight the Romans as their "ultimate" test of military brilliance.


Im now faced with the choice, take the rest of Asia minor that Armenia have now occupied, focus all my attentions and take all Italy before the reforms get chance to take full effect (its like 243 BC)

The Selucids are now just desperate men depsite have lrge eastern empire in the hills still,they have lost all their valuable palces apart from Selucia itself- my next goal, driving men to the slaughter is their current strategy!, ah well, some fools never learn!

[Dimitri The Hellene]

HELLAS, HELLAS, MAKEDONIA!

[Unknown Soldier]

HELLAS, HELLAS, MAKEDONIA!

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[TM Is Back]

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Somebody who wants to post.

[Balikedes]

I think he's Makedonian and he's just rooting for his homeland...nothing wrong with that .

[Spartan Guard Itachi]

Generals of the free and conflicted worlds.....

Selucia has fallen after an utterly expect blitz with a small elite force from Macedonians Finest General. Arkanos the Might/Brave/Conquerer

Following this complete shock and loss of key family members along with the Seleucid Empires last strong point in its entire controlled area, it has immediately sued for peace, asking Arkanos personally.

As Selucia despairs and marches all its outlying forces back into the hills Arkanos now rests in his 46th year after being on almost constant campaigning from the age of 16.

Due to his recent victories and conquests, the Macedonian economy has drastically stabilized and now pulls in around 25,000 gold per turn.

Arkanos is no expected to take a much less active role and allow his son of 16 follow his footsteps or hopefully exceed them.

Attentions of the Black Helms (what i call my generals =P) re now turning to the bloody conflict between Rome and Germania.

Macedon pulls the strings of all events and in secret has turned Armenia and Thrace on the warpath to attack Scythia as well as looked to its mighty ally of Iberia (now in control of all of gaul practically) to prepare for a strike against the overly confident Romans.

Saba has sent envoys offering the praise to Macedon and have also enteed in an alliance, ditching their Selucid friends....a wise choice.

Bactria however has strayed from our path and is now a friend to the Selucids

In Egypt Selucid retained the hold of one province while Egypt begins to rebuild itself with aid from Macedon.

The Macedonian Empire now holds ALL wonders, is the strongest in the known world, and is the most advanced.



And they said the greeks COULD rule the world..well the world is there, and all that needs to be done is to take it.

Cheers! hope u liked the update

[Spartan Guard Itachi]

oh nd how do i take ingame pics, and where do they get saved to?

thanks!

[Kara Kolyo]

There is a TGA folder in your RTW folder - all screen shots go there. Then you need to convert it to jpeg and uload it to a site like imageshack.us. Then you can copy the link for forums and post it here.

[Hurlbut]

There is a TGA folder in your RTW folder - all screen shots go there. Then you need to convert it to jpeg and uload it to a site like imageshack.us. Then you can copy the link for forums and post it here.

and make sure, um what was it in the video setting?

[Kara Kolyo]

Anti aliasing turned off - otherwise the simple print screen button action will produce nice black picture. Bst to use program like fraps to take the shot

[RedFox]

OR, in the preferences.txt file, you can set your default TGA settings from this:
TGA_CAPTURE_INPUT_SCALE:1

to this:
TGA_CAPTURE_INPUT_SCALE:2

That will provide a very good anti aliasing effect, that simply can't be matched with real-time anti aliasing. You'll still have to turn AA off though.