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Pontic Royal Guard cleaning up Carthaginian Levy Hoplites on the wall in the Battle for Utica:
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Anyone who script this ***PEEP**** paque! I HATE YOU !!!
how dare you kill my 4 command, full management, full influence FACTION HEIR!!!!
Annokerate Koriospera Yuinete Kuliansa
When playing as a faction in Greece, just save often. If the plague kills your people, then reload.
All Hail Alexander The Great.
Well for GCS there is one single tactic that has always worked for me.
The plague takes Amphipolis,Pella,Larisa,Athens,Elateia,Sparta,Corinth and Olympia.Just conquer Thermon and move FM's there around 256BC.
Am I the only one who uses this as a way to eliminate other factions, especially the Seleucids and the Romans?
Just train about 20~30 spies in the cities where the plague is and send you spies into "enemy" cities..
-10% population growth + deaths + family members die + bad traits/retinues for family members + happines goes below 80%
Right then, Pontus, the fight for Roma: The Battle of Latium
Rome has gathered as much strength as it can to see of my invasion and siege of Roma, desperation has forced them to include about 10 Family members in the coming battle, counted amongst the reinforcements are approximately 6 1st Cohorts, many Standards are about to be lost.
With the terrain being awkward as usual deciding where to deploy when I was expecting enemy reinforcements from many different directions was not easy:
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Battle begins with my opening salvoes of arrows against the advancing right flank of enemy FMs, despite this these FMs were to cause me a little worry soon:
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Greek Hoplites, ready and waiting in ambush for the enemy reinforcements:
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Meanwhile the main enemy force is under poor command and the constant indecision of where to attack is costing the enemy:
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With one of the reinforcement armies on the field the Hoplites steady themselves before the ambush is sprung, it won't be easy, their original positioning was slightly off:
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Ambush successful, charge!
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The enemy heavy infantry get close enough for the Thorakitai to hurl their javelins:
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Having managed to skirt around the worst of my archer fire 2 enemy FMs managed to charge the back of my Hoplites attacking the enemy reinforcement army to the rear, my General, makes a swift decision to leave the command of the main battle line and charge the FMs in the back, Persian heavy cavalry now join the action and 200 horses slam into the enemy, great success, the enemy general falls:
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Meanwhile on the main battle line the Bronze Shields are teaching the Roman Generals how not to attack a phalanx:
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Over on the Pontic left flank the Thorakitai and Bronze shields are making short work of the enemy heavies:
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The 1st enemy reinforcement army finally breaks, even 1st Cohorts have a breaking point:
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As reinforcements arrive from Roma, the Pontic right flank is rapidly redeployed:
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As they do so, my General and heavy cavalry watch as a solitary soldier escapes:
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With the Pontic right flank redeployed the Royal Guard open fire:
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With the fight over on the left flank, remnants of the main enemy force find a hail of arrows and death, they should have kept running:
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The reinforcements from Roma engage the Bronze Shields:
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More enemy reinforcements arrive at the main battle line and my Hoplites prepare a second ambush for even more to the rear:
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The enemy General from Roma evidently missed the lesson handed out to his relatives, his body lies at the tip of the mouse pointer having been thrown from his horse:
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The Greek Hoplites begin their 2nd ambush of the day:
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As the battle comes to an end at the phalanx:
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The final unit of Hoplites joins the action to the rear and then Heavy Cavalry charge into the melee resulting in an immediate rout of the enemy:
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The last of the Romans still fighting break and run, only to be cut down within minutes:
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With the fight over the General salutes his troops:
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Stats:
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Roma is Captured:
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Last edited by Total Roach; February 26, 2012 at 06:06 AM.
After taking Roma, I trapped a sizeable force in Capua, needless to say a battle ensued:
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After an initial skirmish with a few units that opened the attack, the force from Capua arrives on the field whilst my cavalry returns to position:
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The main battle line waits for combat to begin:
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Javelins are let fly as the Roman left flank approaches:
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After taking the most casualties in the skirmish the centre troops look forward to payback, finally allowed to fire at will:
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With the cavalry sent charging to block the Roman flanking manoeuvres Kardakes Spears are thrust into the heavy infantry as the Pontic left flank looks vulnerable:
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On the Pontic right flank the spears have an easier time of it, not even reaching an Auxillia unit before it breaks and runs:
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With battle fully joined, the heavy infantry are let off their leashes and gets into the fight:
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With the Pontic left still locked in hard furious combat my General comes around and slams into a 1st cohort, he wants another Eagle anyway, and there are plenty on this field for the taking:
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With their General dead the Romans finally break and run only to be chased down by Pontic cavalry:
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Stats:
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With one captured and sent to Regium already the next goes to Roma, wish they got sent to the Homeland though, that would've been more fitting:
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After the Battle of Campania Takvor decides to have a bit of sport and clean the area up:
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Last edited by Total Roach; February 26, 2012 at 04:11 PM.
Total Roach, how did you get your map terrain to look that way? I get the same old default one.
I use Redfox extras:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=235134
There's music, strat map and battle map textures also new clouds, it's great if you've got an older machine like mine.
will it interfere with my current game if i install the terrain one?
Thanks for your replies guys! So my current game on mod wont get messed up if i upgrade the map... got it. When do we get legionaries ?
No worries
the current conditions for enacting the Marian Reforms:
you need a huge city in italy (Rome not included)
Also not included Mediolanium, Patavia, Rhegium and Tarentum
if you are playing as Rome this is not too difficult, if you are playing as another faction it is possible you may have to manipulate them into happening yourself. For tips on how to do this ask nearer the time so you don't forget or the answer gets buried behind other posts.
Also please post questions etc in the main part of the forum, thanks.
P.S. Screenshots in here please
So there we were, General moving back into position after the cavalry had seen off the 1st army to reach the Pontic lines:
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With the 2nd army also destroyed the besieged army arrives on the field, trampling over their fallen comrades:
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After a brief fight, the last Roman General lay dead and his troops quickly broke and ran:
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The battlefield strewn with dead, we are about to seize Epidamnos as our prize:
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And then:
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