What I meant was on this thread, most of the Empires posted have been Roman (or Seleucid).
Domesticus
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What I meant was on this thread, most of the Empires posted have been Roman (or Seleucid).
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
Campidoctor
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Ah ic... That is now, when you check the AAR forum, most of the AAR's are GCS.
Domesticus
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Yes, I haven't been on there, I was singly referring to this thread as a source...
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
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I've never actually played as Rome in XGM, and I used to play mostly as GCS but played so many campaigns I'm trying other factions now... It used to be the only AARs were GCS ones, theres some others now as well.
Domesticus
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I play as Rome, but then it cuts out of game mid turn every now and then. I would play as Greeks more often, but the RSG ar so difficult to train up. It should be just recruitment requirements instead of recruitment time.
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
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Here's my Carthaginian campaign:
H/H
AI bonuses off
Land bridge on
I started the campaign in a bad situation: Rome invaded Aleria very early and took it (I got revenge by blockading all their ports and making them ask for a ceasefire muahahahah). Iberia invaded very early as well. I pulled out of Lilybaeum to get some time to build up in Afrcia (I've taken Cirta and Siga) and its paid off: Indie Greeks and ROme have since left me alone after they took Aleria, barring a few naval battles with subsequent ceasefires (after many a-blockade). Iberia actually managed to take Carthago Nova, but the next turn I finished sieging Siga and had already taken the rest of Africa, so I sent mynew general who's name I can't pronounce and has taken most of Iberia himself over there and kicked them back to Timbuktu (or Tyde, as it happens). I'm currently mopping them up in Pallantia and then will take that general who's name I can't pronounce back to Africa to retrain, then send him and my other African army over to Sicily to invade Rome + India Greeks.
In other news, Baktria seems to be doing quite well, from the mini-map. The Indie Gauls have beaten up the Gauls with a little help from your friendly neighborhood conquerers, the Romans. Germania is expanding nicely, I'm hoping they will declare on the Romans (they're my allies) and impede their journey North. Scythia looks monstrous but their dirt poor by my graphs.
One thing I hate: the Maks let Rome into Greece! Thermon and Patras are Roman because the Maks didn't take them fast enough: I'm ashamed to have played as them... And since then, the Indie Greeks have taken Amphipolis from them, the pushovers.
GCS is doing very well in Anatolia, and the Ptolemies are actually doing okay (they have all their starting territories!). Pontus looks stagnated, but Armenia is busy looking North at Scythia. My last campaign it was the last thing they ever did...
Campidoctor
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Interresting choise of tactics. Abandoning Sicily. Not my favorite. But you seem to do very good. Just hope the Romans do not invade Greece more.
Domesticus
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Not bad.
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
Domesticus
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Well, as you can see, I am aiming for a Mediterranian Empire much as the Romans did, and I have mostly left the Gauls for the Spaniards and Germans to finish off.
I am swinging my forces in th Holy Land north east into Turkey to finish off my Mediterranian grip, and my Imperial Guard () are currently besieging the Spanish in Avaricum while the Spanish are sieging Gergovia with a larger army. My Spanish forces are mostly saying put, and my forces in East and West Africa are spreading outwards into Morocco and Upper Egypt.
Last edited by KozCDVI; May 28, 2008 at 01:21 PM.
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
Domesticus
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Just how do you change the mini map to be similar to the Campaign chooser map without provinces?
I think it looks grand and it must be better than the normal old one
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
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You mean without province borders? Just change each faction's border colour to the same colour as its primary colour.
Nice campaign. Just watch out for Germania, they look fairly powerful...
Primicerius
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Germania's no match for Roman legions. If you have a chance, march to Teutoburgum; once you have that, the Germans are pushovers.
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True, but if the AI nations dogpile him, he's in for a fight as his empire is very spread out with many borders (Carthage, SPain, Germania, TSE, Ptolemies, Thrace, Maks, and soon the GCS). Many of those are small and crippled, but just the same, it might take some doing is all.
Primicerius
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Well, at least he doesn't have to deal with Scythia, the only faction (other than Parthia perhaps) which gives my legions any real trouble.
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He may have to, it looks like Armenia has fallen to them, which will boost them considerably and they may look at Thrace/Greece/Anatolia as their next target. I hate HA's....
Decanus
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I love HA's for the sheer pleasure of getting mowned down as you run after them as an infantry army. MMMmmmm pain.Watching your own men die in droves as you futilely wave your fist at them in frustration is what makes training them in the first place all worth while....
Yay for 200th post!
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I hate HA! They have got to be the worse enemy to face.
In my current German campaign I tried to stay away from the Scythians but they took all the rebel settlements to the west of my lands. They then declared war on me. I had a new stack trained up which included 6 chosen archer warband, i deploy these behind 5 units of spear warband for protection supported by as much cavalry as possible. Let the archers hit them from range and run one of the flanks down with your cav. Your cav will suffer medium casulties but this is the best tactics i have come up with to tackle all cav armies and it seems to do the trick. My borders now stretch from samabrovia (sp?) all the way to the black sea.
Some people are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them.
Domesticus
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H.A?
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
Domesticus
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And just how does that happen?Originally Posted by Scutarii
“My mother taught me never to throw stones at cripples. My father taught me to aim for their heads.”
- Ramsay Snow
Ducenarius
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Not a laugh, but Horse Archers dude!
Fix the problem, not the blame!
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