Seleucid Campaign [Play-Through]

[Vindictus]

I realized that the thread I made about this was in the wrong area. I do not believe it belonged in the battle sections of the RTW forum, so I'm asking for it to be deleted and posting it here. I have decided to do a play-through with Seleucid Empire. I find their composition enticing and flexible. Their phalanxes are amazing and so are their cavalry. Clearly a fun faction to play, and thus I am!

Conquest of Egypt 10/5/11

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I am ambushed by a rebel army consisting Judean Zealots in 269BC. Dreadful stuff. Fortunately, I manage to put my units into a viable defense position and stave off the infantry with my one unit of Levy Phalanx. Militia Cavalry are so beautiful things. My beautiful Heroic Victory! Tonight we dine in Hell!

After-effects.


Kleitarxos of Armenia lays siege to Jerusalem in 268BC.


Egypt retaliates with a nearby army. Unfortunately I chose a horrible spot to siege Jerusalem.


I feel horrible after this heroic. I could have got less deaths, but Egypt had so many missile units. Also, their bowman with flaming arrows sent my militia hoplites AND my levy pikemen running off. Sweet.


I took Jerusalem in that little skirmish. Hip-hip hooray!

Conquest of Egypt 10/7/11

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So as you can see here, the odds are that I will get dominated by the Egyptian army. They've got a general and a far larger army. My army consists of Levy Pikemen (horrible morale), one militia hoplite, one militia cav, and one peltast unit. I got cocky, all I can say.


Wait for it .... wait! I got lucky and managed to cause a huge route . Cheers!


Militia Cavalry are a life saver in this situation!


Hmm ...


Oh well, here's my battle results. The battle didn't require much strategy. Well maybe it required some basic thinking of the RTW mind. I set my units up on a rather small hill (more like a dune), forming the infamous pike box (half a box in this case). Levy Pikemen have extremely long spears and I kept my Militia hoplite as backup. Encased in the semi-box were my peltasts and militia cavalry. The Egyptian AI General (as smart as he is), charges into my Phalanx (I left them OUT of phalanx position until the general charged me). I killed the general, and all his troops, already on "very tired", or "exhausted", starting getting scared of my spears. I realized that a single Numidian Spearmen group had routed, so I decided to charge straight in with my militia cavalry, focusing directly in the center of the horde. What ended was a huge mass route from every single unit besides one bowmen, which took out 10 of my cav. Victory!


Yes, yes, I know this is the Egyptian conquest by the Seleucids, but hey! Land is everywhere, and throwing in a few settlements non-relevant to the title is completely tempting. I lay siege to a Parthian settlement.


Oh, and bribe their nearby HA stack... those things scare me.


Did I also mention I laid siege to Hallicarnassus? No? Oh... well they sallied to attack. Luckily for me, there were TWO groups of Cretan archers ready for hire, and sallying to attack from a settlement leaves the sallyers in bad spots. Why? They are so unorganized coming out of their city.


Victory!!

To be continued. TBH I saw a Scythian campaign and a Thracian campaign. So I got pumped and made this.

[chris88]

looks like you are doing good and having fun so far. Once you get into late game, Selucids become unstoppable. There realy is no match for phalanx, legionaries, catas, companion cav, chariots, and eles in one stack.

I hate the begining of the campaign as you always fighting a war versus 4 different opponents. Two of them mob you with horse archers and the other mob you with skirmishers.

Good luck rebulilding the empire of Alexandros!

[Mr.Mad]

Yea, that first bit of the Seleucid campaign can get rather hectic. As you said though, the unit roster is one of the most varied in the game, (asides from the Romans) and many of the units work so well together. Good luck on this, and it'll be interesting to watch. Playing as the Seleucid's was one of my favorite campaigns.

[Rougeman]

supress populace? are you using barbarossa's vanila balance mod?

or did you mod it to say that?

either way, good luck! ill be following

[SavageFeat]

Would be better in AAR section. But cool work

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The Seleucids starting position looks like a gun

[Vindictus]

Would be better in AAR section. But cool work

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The Seleucids starting position looks like a gun

It's pointing me to the direction of Rome

[The Kybrothilian]

It's pointing me to the direction of Rome

More like Carthage's direction

[Vindictus]

Carthage is my love. I'd never attack it. But alas my allies end up attacking me because I've expanded too close to them...