The Iberian Peninsula

[Hopit]

how can do spoiler alerts?

[Scutarii]

just put [*spoiler] before what you want in the spoiler and [/*spoiler] after it, without the stars.

[Hopit]

ok, thank you

[Stilgar CG]

Great update, King Arthuro. Close-up pics are very good, indeed. Keep up the good work.

[King Arthuro]

Chapter Three: The Western Mediterranean
Part Five: Carthago

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Ambon wanted to put some more pressure on the Carthaginians. Their armies melt by the sight of our men, and until now our campaign to their capital went smooth. Carthago once was the center of a great trading empire. They controlled the western Mediterranean, the ambition that Amon now also had. Because Carthage lost most partners their trade decreased. They were unable to keep the lands far away because their source of money was gone. Our people used this to make Iberia a great empire. Now it was just a matter of pushing to Carthage to end the fighting.

However, there was an army of Carthaginians that besieged one of their former cities, Hippo Regius. Our garrison, not afraid of them, waited for them to attack using the advantage of defending.


Their artillery destroyed our walls and their soldiers moved in




When they saw our men they were confused and turned their back to our missiles.


More of them came and we waited for their charge


After a long fight lots of men lied dead in our streets. Mostly Carthaginian blood.


We kept our city and so we improved our presence in Africa


However, more to the east there was another enemy army. Their way back home was cut by our army that took Hippo Regius so they decided to besiege Saldae. Mikel, who was near the city, took his army to end the siege


Their soldiers charged us while being fires at by our missiles


After that our weapons clashed


After killing some elephants the others ran amok, destroying the enemy battle lines. Their army retreated


Lots of them got away and lots of our men died, but still it was a victory


Mikel moved on, ready to take another settlement


From multiple sides the Numidian mercenaries fired at the enemy.


Mikel and his bodyguard met the enemy on the battlefield


The Numidians were out of ammo and charged some camelriders


This army was crushes, but another army was already marching in


The enemy general charged some unprotected men


But Mikel came and killed him


Now their men gave up


Mikel didn't rest, and took his army to another settlement


As usual the Numidians were sent to the elephants


The army contained mostly of skirmishers. The brave Iberian skirmishers were far more protected and charges


The Carthaginians also hired some Numidian cavalry. Our and theirs didn't think about the fact they had the same blood and stayed professional, firing missiles


The enemy general attacked some of our infantry, but Mikel came to kill him


He failed. The enemy general routed and Mikel was unable to kill him


But we clearly won the battle


The city was now unprotected and Mikel was able to walk in it without resistance


A lot of fighting in the dessert, but in the north the Germans still wanted us to stay away. One of their armies ended a siege and attacked. Aingeru and his army were just on time to help defending




The garrison waited on the hill


While Aingeru and his men came from the backside


He was a little late, the battle was already going on


He was just in time to kill the last enemies




Gergori was on his way to Carthago when he met an enemy army. He decided to attack


The enemy was under our heavy fire




Just one unit stayed and kept fighting us. Even when almost surrounded it kept fighting.


When almost all of that unit died they gave up


Another army desperately attacked us trying to prevent us from getting to Carthago


Their artillery tried to hit us. They failed and killed two of their own elephants


Their general tried to attack in our back


Our Numidians, light on armor but brave fighters, killed him


We killed as many enemies as possible




Jakome attacked a barely protected German settlement


He used some machines to break the walls that we just discovered. We were able to rebuild the artillery from the Carthaginians and were planning to use these for some sieges


Just a few men protected the city, but their axes killed lots of our men


After a long fight they gave up


But we lost too many soldiers in this battle




The city south of it was the next target




Some men secured the towers


Their soldiers were waiting in a strange formation


One of our soldiers was going for all honor


We captured the settlement




In the mean time Gergori arrived at Carthage and launched the attack


He also used those new artillery




The mighty city, once ruled by wealthy merchant with the money to buy armies armies to protect it, was now defended by just two units. We fired our first missiles


After some fighting the enemy gave up






Our big enemy who once controlled the southern part of our homeland was now as good as destroyed. Just some settlements in the south still acted in the name of the Carthaginian empire

The city of Carthago was by far the most wealthy one of our kingdom


just after the conquest of Carthago Ambon lost his life. He died peacefully.


Txanton, one of the best generals of the campaign against Carthage, the first son of Ambon, was now faction leader

[Scutarii]

Displaying your usual excellence, the Carthaginians are crushed, and glad to see Germania on its back foot. Great job Arthuro.

[Stilgar CG]

Well done, King Arthuro. Great pics, great battles. I wonder if that brave (or foolish?) guy who went for honour survived?

[King Arthuro]

Chapter Four: Italia
Part One: First steps

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Carthage was destroyed. We controlled the waters of the western Mediterranean for years already, but now we also destroyed one of the two major rival powers in the area. Just one left before we could truly call ourselves the owner of the western Mediterranean. The Romans were strange people. They had possibilities to become a big power but they rather stay on their own peninsula. Their armies are one of the most advanced of the time and their numbers were astonishing for the small territory they had to defend. Arms keep peace is probably what they thought. But then they didn't know they rising power of us Iberians. Txanton, still mourning his fathers dead, already made plans for a war with Rome. But there were some things that needed to be handled first. Some German settlement were also on the wish list of Txanton. He never been in the northern part of the empire, but he knew enough about the barbarian Germans who keep invading our territory. Like his father he thought the best defense was the attack. Avaros was first send to one of our settlements which was under siege to free it


Avaros and the garrison led by Zigor moved to the enemy


Zigor ordered his cavalry to attack the enemy cavalry


Avaros was near the enemy lines


His cavalry also attacked


And defeated the enemy cavalry


And the infantry was fighting also




After a long fight some enemies finally gave up


And the enemy general lied dead next to many of his men


The battle was over. Just some small resistance was left, but it didn't last long




There were still quite a lot of armies marching around Carthage thinking to retake their capital. One of our armies was send to take care of those.












Gergori moved his army south to the last settlements that belonged to Carthage. They were now still defended by the Carthaginian people


Our artillery took care of their walls


And the Numidians took care of the elephants


The last enemies were shot from the walls


Now only the square has to be taken, defended by the enemy general. He got killed by the Numidians


A clear victory for Gergori




Our most northern settlement was going to end a German siege




Some enemy soldiers couldn't wait and attacked.. and were killed


After that the rest of the enemy army retreated


Avaros attacked a badly defended German settlement


Not much fighting




But later a German army came to retake it. Luckily one of our armies, led by a captain, came to prevent this


Our artillery fired at the enemy troops


Their slinger warband charged, a foolish action


After that our army attacked




The enemy routed




Gergori was going to take another settlement in Africa


The Numidians fired at the enemy on the walls from the backside. An easy target


Our infantry attacked their general


When he was killed the battle was over and the settlement ours






Zigor was attacked by another Germanic army


We waited on a hill


They took too many losses before they arrived and soon they routed




Txantons first son, Megaravicos, was old enough to lead an army. Txanton wanted the faction heir to go to the east, preparing troops for the invasion of Italia


While Zigor was besieging a Germanic settlement he was attacked. The enemy garrison joined the battle. Zigor wanted to kill them all on the field so the city would be unprotected


The enemy was ready to attack


But we easily defeated them






Another settlement in our hands


It was becoming hot around Tulisurgium. Lots of enemies gathered to prevent us from taking the settlement. Avaros wasn't intimidated and attacked them with the help of a captain led army


While readying up his troops an enemy army appeared behind him. He decided to take that one out first and turned his lines






The reinforcements were defeated by the biggest of the Germanic armies


Because of this Avaros decided to fight his way through the small enemy forced to get away. He would face the large army later




Three of the four Germanic armies were almost destroyed, but the biggest was still walking around


Just two settlements were to be taken in Africa. One was about to fall.


The walls were secured and skirmishers fired missiles from them


The enemy general attacked


And in the meantime we took their artillery out






Palben, a young general with a future, was ready for his first battle. A Germanic army attacked him while he moved an army near the border


Our troops waited steady


The enemy general was slain be our warriors


After that the enemy routed


A very nice first battle for Palben


Another battle was to be fought in the North


The armies moved to each other


Gartzis army had an easy fight




When the last enemies were killed Avaros was also winning his battle


Another vicotry in Germania!


In Africa all preparations were done. It was time for the invasion! Txanton ordered two large armies to land on Sicily. Another small army besieged the third settlement to prevent it from sending reinforcements
The long awaited war finally came! Txanton's hunger for more territory wasn't frightened off by the large Roman armies. In a blitz the whole island of Sicily would be taken over


The Roman armies were all in the North at the Gallic border. They didn't expect this invasion. This would give us time to prepare for the real confrontation. Txanton wasn't sure how the Romans would react. If they would send all armies we probably wouldn't hold out for long on the island

How will this continue? Will the Iberians be able to defeat 10 full stacks of Romans? See it in the next update!

It's hard to keep updating, I prefer to play I could do the next update now already if I had time, because I played a lot more turns. But you'll have to wait for it

[Scutarii]

Holy crap, look at all those Roman armies... Your gonna need reinforcements... And a bit of luck.

I noticed the sparkling Cathaginian general while you took Sabratha, that was funny.

[Dog Fart]

That first battle against the Germans was pretty cool. I hope you update on your Roman war soon. I hope you didn't bite off more than you can chew. Those are alot of legionaries. Good luck.

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

Wow, awesome AAR and campaign. Good luck with those pesky Germans!

[Stilgar CG]

Great update, King Arthuro. Great pics! Your Iberians look unstoppable. Looking forward to hearing about your adventures in Italy.

I suppose, your main problem in Italy will be troops supply. You will not be able to use Roman barracks, and Romans do not build much of auxiliary barracks. So, keep bringing reinforcements in.
Next, you better bring all the cavalry you can get: Roman armies are commonly weak on cavalry and this can give you an edge in many battles. Btw, what's going on in Sicily? I guess you prepare an invasion of Sicily as well?

[King Arthuro]

Thanks everybody!
ME, thanks for the advice. I already played a lot of turn in the war with Italia and the supply of troops indeed is a problem. And like you see on the second last picture Sicily is were the war starts! Because all Roman troops are in the North.

[TM Is Back]

Good job KA.

[Scutarii]

Thats my usual plan to kill the Romans, attack Sicily and S. Italy while there troops are in the north. Unfortunately your Romans are weird and just keep there stacks sitting around gathering dust.... They must be in debt up to there eyeballs.

[King Arthuro]

Chapter Four: Italia
Part Two: Taking Sicily

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The time has come. The Iberians started the war against the last rival power in the Western Mediterranean. The Romans have large and strong armies, but their bureaucratic Senate never came up with a good plan to use them. Now we conquered more and more territory it's inevitable for us to invade Italia and face the Roman armies. We started with the invasion of Sicily. The plan used to be to launch an invasion from the North at the same time, but because the Germanic armies keep invading us their we postponed that operation. So now 2 large Iberian armies are about to take Sicily in a blitz. With our artillery we will take Syracuse and Messana directly and a small army besieges Lilybaeum to prevent it from training reinforcements.

First Mikel the Conqueror, who got this name from it's famous battles in Africa, will take Syracuse.


It was badly defended, our army got inside the walls without losses. Now we waited for a unit of Hastati that walked in our rain of missiles


After it was defeated we had to attack their heavy legionary cohort.


Those are touch fighters


But of course we killed them and took Syracuse




Now Messana was assaulted


Again we took their walls down with artillery and moved our army in without losses. Now we headed to the center


The settlement was defended by some Greek hoplites hired by the Romans. They killed many of us


But it was another settlement taken by our army




After these victories one of the artillery units was send to the last Roman settlement on Sicily and we attacked


An easy victory




In the North their we still fought the Germans. We attacked another settlement to weaken their attacks


We fought our way in


And attacked a unit of their feared archers


After that we defeated the remaining forces and occupied the settlement




A little more to the south a large battle had to be fought


We attacked from two sides so their army had to split up


The first enemy units who charged at us were welcomed by our missiles


Soon some of their men lost faith and routed


We made sure the fleeing men were getting killed


But still lots of them got away, to prepare the next attack


In Africa Kemen was attacked while besieging the last Carthaginian settlement


Two armies attacked. The first one never got close enough to attack us.


We killed almost all soldiers


But now the real battle had to be fought. The large enemy army approached. The last Carthaginian soldiers.


Our artillery put fear in their hearts


But one of the Onagers was broken


First their cavalry attacked


But they routed soon


We killed most of the Royal family members


All their soldiers routed. Now we killed the fleeing Carthaginians


The last real fight against the Carthaginians was one to remember


The last member of the Carthaginian Royal family got away and was hiding in the settlement. We were coming to kill him




He turned his back to us while the arrows that would kill him were already in the air. He didn't want to look at the people that would rule his people. He wasn't going to surrender after seeing his family getting slaughtered the day before




This faction was now history. From now on the Carthaginian merchants would be part of the Iberian kingdom.




In the meantime the Romans were reacting on our invasion. They moved all their armies south. Txanton didn't expect this. He thought the Romans would want to keep their northern border protected, but they wanted us out of their territory as soon as possible. It seemed impossible to survive this military beast


Megaravicos, the faction heir, was heading for Croton when he was assaulted by an unseen Roman army. Noone knew they had an army this close to us


They moved to us while some Numidians shot at them


Just like our artillery did


While our infantry fought their infantry Megaravicos ordered our cavalry to attack Roman Principes on our flank




After a while all our soldiers suddenly gave up


Just after that our Onagers killed the enemy captain


But the battle was decided. We were defeated in a bloody battle. Megaravicos was killed while retreating. It was clear those Romans were strong fighters


The Germans however were easy to defeat. Another settlement was being assaulted


After taking down the walls our archer fired at the enemy


We fought their infantry


Their captain tried to get away, but our men were faster and killed him


Now we just had to kill their last soldiers






Suddenly a Gallic army appeared in our territory. We didn't fight them for a long time, keeping them between us and the Romans. Now they took their weapons again and moved to us. Zigor attacked them


They waited on a hill


After moving in a circle around them they charged


But soon they gave up. Our superior infantry killed too many of them


The floor was filled with Gallic bodies




Another Germanic settlement to be taken


An easy battle




Because the new war we suddenly had big economic problems. We lost an important trade partner and the new soldiers we trained cost a lot of money. But we knew it would be temporary


We took another settlement Germania. (screen lost) The last settlement we would attack for a while


Now we had chances to move two large armies through Gallic territory to attack the Romans in their back. This attack wasn't meant to be a real invasion. It was just a way to take away some Roman armies from the south


The next battle would be decisive. The Romans besieged Messana. If we would be able to defeat them it meant that we would be able to stay there for a while, but if we would be beaten it meant the whole invasion failed


While they approached our trusted Numidians fired at them


Our reinforcements arrived just on time




We brought some elephants from Africa. Now it was time to test these animals in battle. We always killed them easily with our Numidians but the Romans didn't have a lot of skirmishers




Soon the animals frightened the Romans. This meant we had a big advantage in this battle


The enemy started routing and it was a great victory for us!


However, Mikolas, who led the reinforcements army, was killed


The armies in north Italia who besieged Arretium were attacked


Our armies stayed together, waiting for the enemy


Missiles filled the sky. Both Iberian and Romand missiles


The real battle was about to begin


After a while some Romans routed


After that we were able to get behind another unit of Romans


In the attempt to kill the enemy general


our own general died


But now the last Romans were completely surrounded. Most people would give up fighting when in such position. Not Romans


But still it was clear we won the battle


And we took the settlement


Hopefully this would take away the Roman attention from the south. We were building up our own base in Sicily so we could soon provide some simple soldiers there, but some more time was needed so the Romans had to be distracted.

The war had just started. No one was able to tell the outcome. But Txanton wasn;t going to give up soon.

[Dog Fart]

King Arthuro, are there supposed to be any pics in your upadate? You only have one or two. :hmmm:


Edit: My pc didn't load the pics for some reason.

[Dog Fart]

Excellent update King Arthuro! Especially the Arretium battle. Heavy Spearmen and Heavy Scutarii do well against those Romans. Your empire is doing quite well.

[TM Is Back]

KA.
A long time since i said something, but after this update i have to.

First, that were some awsome battles. You did a good job but the Roman infantry are just stronger then yours.
Second, i will give you some cookies(+rep) for oyu deserve that.
Third, good luck with the upcoming battles you will need it.

Loving this AAR keep up the good work.

[Scutarii]

I would rep you for such a great job, but it says I have to spread it around first. Tough loss in that first big battle against the Romans, but you've since destroyed a couple of there stacks, so kudos. I see some tough battles ahead though, better bring some reinforcements.