DarthMod Battle stories!

**DARTH VADER** · February 25, 2006, 01:36 AM

Here you can write your DarthMod Battles.
Prove yourself a worthy opponent for DarthMod AI and state it here!
Also you can talk about MP battles.
Screenshots are also most welcomed!

**DEMETRIOUS II** · March 01, 2006, 07:47 AM

Well here is my experience so far: Playing 6.9 with Vessal beta - H/H as the Greek cities.

In sicily Carthage is threatening but they have not yet attacked the Romans. The Romans have also asked me for an alliance. So things are quiet even thought there are 2 Carthaginian stacks on the Island.

In mainland Greece I have been able to build my economy and army. The Macedonians are allied and I don't have to worry about any invaders from the North. I like being allied to the Macs it gives the game a different flavour. It will be interesting to see if they will ever attack. Also the Gauls are expanding fast, they will have their hands full pretty soon.

Now to the good part. Rhodes has been the center of all military activity. First Pontos has landed a stack trying to take the island. I was able to ship a force from Greece and pushed them back ( I killed their faction leaded in the process as he was leading the invasion). Then I noticed that there were 3 full stacks heading for Rhodes. I gathered all my ships and begun to attack theirs. I am trying to keep them from boarding the ships and landing on Rhodes. The best part about this is that naval battels have now a purpose. If you don't attack their ships almost all have armies on them. Great enhancement for naval battles. If you don't control the seas you are toast.

While I was focusing on keeping the Pontics off Rhodes to my terror the Egyptians have blind sided me and have landed a full stack on the island as well. It seems that everyone wants it. I was able to beat them back also. So now I keep a close eye on nearby navies and I engage in more naval battles than before.

Pergamum has been left untouched this far as all of the Pontic forces are bypassing them and heading straight for Rhodes. The Selaucids are also joining in by blokading my ports. To my surpise my allies the Macedonians have started blokading the Seleucid ports, so they are supporting me (EXCELLENT)!

This mod is definately a must have. THE BEST MOD SO FAR FOT RTW PERIOD!

I'll let you know how I'm doing.

**DARTH VADER** · March 01, 2006, 11:34 AM

oh god!

Your story means to me it deserves to enhance the vassal_beta.My intention was exactly all this you mention=coordinated alliances-forces and massive decisive battles. The passiveness does not exist in late turns as I have predicted. Also pontus is a vassal to the Seleucids and Greece is a vassal to Macedon.
And....yes they do coordinate together....fascinating. Pls tell me how it goes more .
I suspect that by playing to VH it forces AI to be more aggressive to bypass the passiveness. The recommended will be VH for vassal_beta

**DEMETRIOUS II** · March 02, 2006, 07:48 AM

Hey Darth,

here is a screen of the Rhodes situation. As you can see the Macedonian fleet is blockading the Seleucid port while Pontos is waiting to board their ships that I just sunk

those poor bastards are stuck there. Egypt has landed on the island to my surprise. Who is Egypt's vessal?

**DARTH VADER** · March 02, 2006, 04:32 PM

Excellent screenshot! Do you play with my latest patch for 6.9?
Egypt is Independed . Pontus is vassal of Seleucids.
Generally the superpowers are using their vassals as their hands and they watch from distance to intervene. But try to invade their lands.......you get smashed by superior forces.

**DEMETRIOUS II** · March 03, 2006, 12:24 PM

I have not tried the latest patch since it is not save compatible plus you release them so fast that I didn't get a chance. If it's worth it I might give it a try but I am having fun with the current one also.

Cheers.

**marvius** · March 22, 2006, 05:27 AM

i cant believe pontus beaten all the factions in east...fortunately he is my allies having no problem....b'coz im too busy to this britons.. i ve already beaten macendons greeks and thrace...and now i have my civil war...and my resource is already negative...hew darth you really love the AI dont you?...

**Ahlerich** · March 22, 2006, 10:24 AM

DAY1
i am playing germania..as if i have a choice as a homesick german living in canada. the situation is the front in the west is frozen. my army stack1 at sambrovia is pinned because the brits are knocking at the door every 2 turns. i can not set over to england because of the gallic threat.
in the east i had to take a dacian city and one in the south east..close to roman territory. starting a war with a next faction seemed to be necessary for me to get a better income, which i have archieved now. the ne funds come in handy to raise a second army in the west.

plans for the future are:
1. destroy, slaughter and occupy alesia. this has to reduce pressure on sambrovia by the gauls. i hope they will focus on retaking alesia.
2. after destoring an british stack in defence near ambrovia, retraining and setting over to londonium to fight the brits on they territory. this will relief the pressure on the gallic west front.
3. with the romans being my allies and in war with gallia as well the gallic fate should be sealed. of cours after a long and careful western campaing.
4. if the alliance doesnt remain, to hell with the romans...fight them all. if all borders are owned by enemies there will be no surprises at least. and donar smiles...

haha..really nice gameplay...i respect my enemy finally and fear battles where i m outnumberd 2:1...almost feels like mtw

way to go darth

DAY2
managed to take alesia. boy that was a close call. 1000germs where facing about 1200gauls. i won. less then 100 men survived. i had to let my 3 units of skirmishers which i forgot charge to win it. acually while i was charging with them i though i lost already. but my units where fresh and the leftover gaul swordmen exausted so they finally fled. i was a little worried there.
also a battle at sambrovia against the brits was bloody as hell. i was holding a battle line with my phalanx, covering one flank with a fex axemen and the other flank with a 1:8 ratio of axemen and fanatics. it was looking soooo good. then the british general and his unit of mini coopers decided to drive around the battleline. he ignored all pedestrian warning signs and drove right into my back, killing my captain, took my phalanx apart..drove over some axemen an old grandma and a women eith 2 children. finally he died and i could maintain a thin battleline.
bottomline:
close victory of my best almost gold army, my beer was warm and untouched and half of the cigarette i was going to smoke during the battle was not lit yet but subconciesly i ate half of the filter over the excitement.

i always liked your mod darth as well as rtr spqr terra expundua and a very few others. but this now is a true masterpiece. the battles/gameplay now is how its ment to be, and acually ca should have released nothing less than this kind of balance and challange.
i played long and am tired today so i might not play tonight, if i do i ll write day 3 tomorrow..lol

roman alliance still holds, but they are bumming around at my borders already. as soon as george w. caesar is elected they will come, im sure. gaul is taken apart i fought a breach to the atlantic ocean, but they still ahve armies and are definately not defused yet.
brits start making me angry..building a fleet now. operation sealion is about to be launched.
east is calm, dacians who lost 3 provinces to my keep their feet still so far..but my spies reported they have armies...

ok now i have to go back to pretending that im working to get some needed sleep

**meisverybored** · March 29, 2006, 09:05 PM

Here's my favorite Macedonian battle story:
1). I'm defending a town with wooden walls with 6 Phalanx Pikemen and one general vs a full stack of Greeks(mostly hoplites w/1 slinger and general). They have 5 battering rams and send all 5 forward. At least one full hour later my pikemen have a total of 200ish casualties, mostly from slingers, and the Greeks were completely crushed. It was hilarious, just zooming in and watching them run against the pikes with their spears a good 2 meters shorter than mine.
This mod makes both the AI (battle and campaign)kick massive ass, dude. This mod vastly improves R:TW without damaging any balance at all, plus the elimination of the peasant/town watch(except for in Greece where militia hoplites are available, which was always a tradition in Greece. Is there anywhere else a town watch equivalent is available?) really helps me get my military kick-started in a hurry. Plus the units still look cool, and the new added units fit nicely in the game, both in looks and in purposes.
Also i have a couple of questions. Can i put in my own music into the game, and what would the vassal_beta thing do between the Greek-Macedonian relationship at the beginning of the game if i am the Macedonians?

**Bubbs** · March 30, 2006, 09:48 PM

Ok, here is the battle....

I'm using Darth-mod 7.0 and am playing a custom battle to test out the mod...
I play as the Julii with about 9 legionary cohorts. I made the enemy 15 crazy berserk and naked fanatic Germans. The Germans wad most of their troops on the furthest left and right flanks and creep into the forest.
My legions are on the other side of the forest as the eerie footsteps grow louder and louder. The Germans advance and I form a three sided box to protect my flanks. The enemy then howl their fierce war cries and charge my formation from three sides. My men held them off for a while but every move I made, they countered. The Germans then sent men to the rear while all my other men were already engaged in battle and quickly destroyed me.

This mod is impressive.....most impressive, but I think better Carthaginian and Iberian skins would make it a lot better, the Iberians are too bland and the Carthies are all white. I am a big fan of your mods though, keep them rolling!!

Actually, the Iberian skins look great, I was thinking the Dacians.

**DARTH VADER** · May 06, 2006, 04:24 AM

Do not forget to write here any battles you remember as of great importance while playing with DarthMod.
Screenshots are also most welcomed.

**traitain** · May 11, 2006, 09:02 AM

Well I haven't got a story as such but I've gone the Julii and been battling the Gauls for years and still haven't advanced much in that time. It's been pretty desperate at times with 2/3rds of my family members being wiped out in sucessive defeats, it got so bad that they even took my capital from me while the Senatorial army stood back and did NOTHING (a bug perhaps?) even though they were in a good position to attack. I almost quit because of that but I remembered the saying "Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it" so I thought sod it and decided to see this through to the bitter end. I sailed my Faction Leader (the one you have at the start of every campaign, he was about 80-something at this stage) from his cosy retreat in Caralis and manged to scrape together a meagre force of Hastati, Principes, a velite unit as well as a unit of Triaii. He went on to beat the Gauls back in 2 Heroic Victories and even took Mediolanium where they'd hidden those Roman Eagles of mine. The seige of Mediolanium really was a last gasp for me, all my units were down to something like 25% strength and the Gauls had a full army moving through Alps to my position. The same Faction Leader died peacefully 2 years later, god bless him.

**Shaggy1973** · May 11, 2006, 09:53 AM

Ha ha great campaign stuttering start. This is why I like Darthmod. I play on VH/VH and have started three campaigns as the brutii and failed on three attempts to make any serious inroads into Greece. It isnt through spam armies from the Ai that beats me through attrition either

**traitain** · May 11, 2006, 09:59 AM

The thing with breaking out and taking some territory is that it's important so that your not cought on the back foot, the gauls have now started sending armoured troops with weapon/armour upgrades my way and I'm still stuck with pre-marius armies. As if that wasn't bad enough the Brutii have took Patavium and have now built up enough resources and momentum that they're bolldozing the Greeks and Macedons. It's gonner be hell to catch them up.

**DARTH VADER** · May 11, 2006, 01:03 PM

Yes...the challenge is as I have foreseen....It is created not by uneven and cheating AI army creation but from actually effective AI armies ...sometimes less than yours but with the ability to press human from all directions. The balance of the map is ...I think...in no need of further modding.

**Bubbs** · May 12, 2006, 09:58 AM

You are right there, the Gauls are knocking on Rome's door in my Unified Roman campaign and the war of Sicily has seesawed many times back and forth between me and the greeks. I feel my brain is actually being picked as I have to think of cunning ways to destroy the enemy! Long Live Darth Vader!!!!