Seleucid 0-turn - Rex Basiliscus

**Rex Basiliscus** · October 13, 2011, 10:38 AM

Campaign #1 (due to changes coming shortly):
Campaign difficulty: H/H
Engine: Alex.exe
Recruitment: 0-turn

A few things:
1. The description for Meridarchos has Deleucid instead of Seleucid written in it.
2. Is it normal that when Palmyra rebels from me, it turns over to Parthia?
3. The same with Zadracarta, but it turns over to Armenia (?)
4. The economy is a bit tight, even after conquering Egypt and Parthia ... although I have 5 full armies on field and several cities have large garrisons. At war with Pergamon and Ptolemies (who have the southern part of Asia Minor) who have large armies.
5. My capital is at Antioch which gives me quite some trouble keeping the eastern cities happy - around 120 SE, it seems I am slowly getting there, with Parthian threat gone
6. I don't seem to notice the lack of income the AI factions have right now (I haven't yet updated tone's changes, if there were any for this campaign) ... at least not Pergamon and Armenia. Ptolemies had some trouble right at the start when I destroyed their armies, but now (I imagine with the help of the script) they have firm control over Hellespont (Lysimacheia and Byzantion) and souther Mikre Asia.
7. I am on the offensive against Ptolemies and Pergamon in Mikre Asia, but with just two armies (Antiochus III and Antiochos, his son) ... both upgraded and experienced. Will see what I can achieve.
8. Antiochus III has both VictorOthersVirtue 3 and Prosperity_Index 7, but neither Nikator nor Soter epithet. It has been that way for at least 10 years ...
9. Antiochus III got the 'Librarian' ancillary twice.

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What I also noticed is the huge amount of rebel armies - especially in Germany, Britain and parts of Gaul. The Cimbri haven't been able to push toward modern Bavaria and I'm afraid that Belgae might be destroyed if the rebels go agressive.
Looking at all these maps for the first time in this campaign, I can see how the money problem affects each faction's military and expansionist growth. It's still hard playing as the Seleucids, because you are pressed from all sides, but I imagine it might be a lot easier for, say Carthage, or to some extent Rome.

**dvk901** · October 13, 2011, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Rex Basiliscus

Campaign #1 (due to changes coming shortly):
Campaign difficulty: H/H
Engine: Alex.exe
Recruitment: 0-turn

A few things:
1. The description for Meridarchos has Deleucid instead of Seleucid written in it.
2. Is it normal that when Palmyra rebels from me, it turns over to Parthia?
3. The same with Zadracarta, but it turns over to Armenia (?)
4. The economy is a bit tight, even after conquering Egypt and Parthia ... although I have 5 full armies on field and several cities have large garrisons. At war with Pergamon and Ptolemies (who have the southern part of Asia Minor) who have large armies.
5. My capital is at Antioch which gives me quite some trouble keeping the eastern cities happy - around 120 SE, it seems I am slowly getting there, with Parthian threat gone
6. I don't seem to notice the lack of income the AI factions have right now (I haven't yet updated tone's changes, if there were any for this campaign) ... at least not Pergamon and Armenia. Ptolemies had some trouble right at the start when I destroyed their armies, but now (I imagine with the help of the script) they have firm control over Hellespont (Lysimacheia and Byzantion) and souther Mikre Asia.
7. I am on the offensive against Ptolemies and Pergamon in Mikre Asia, but with just two armies (Antiochus III and Antiochos, his son) ... both upgraded and experienced. Will see what I can achieve.
8. Antiochus III has both VictorOthersVirtue 3 and Prosperity_Index 7, but neither Nikator nor Soter epithet. It has been that way for at least 10 years ...
9. Antiochus III got the 'Librarian' ancillary twice.

Pics:

Reports

Maps

What I also noticed is the huge amount of rebel armies - especially in Germany, Britain and parts of Gaul. The Cimbri haven't been able to push toward modern Bavaria and I'm afraid that Belgae might be destroyed if the rebels go agressive.
Looking at all these maps for the first time in this campaign, I can see how the money problem affects each faction's military and expansionist growth. It's still hard playing as the Seleucids, because you are pressed from all sides, but I imagine it might be a lot easier for, say Carthage, or to some extent Rome.

1. Fixed description for Meridarchos

2 & 3. Yes. When a region rebels, it can rebel in two ways...to the slave faction, or the original 'creator\owner'....which in these cases are Parthia and Armenia. Odd you say? Why do it that way? The reason for this is that making a distant region, or a region that is in the direction you want a faction to go, owned and created by that faction will 'compel' that faction to move in that direction. I've only used that in a few cases in RS2, because for the most part, I don't care where factions expand. But there are particular cases where a faction needs a 'push' to expand in a certain direction. In Parthia's case, because they created that region, and either do or do not 'own' it, they are forced to try and get it back or expand towards it. Just one of the necessary evils of RTW.

8. This is likely due to a trigger snafu that Tone pointed out to me, and that I am trying to fix for the next round of trait updates.
9. Apparently, Antiochus has been a busy fellow, and picked up BOTH the Pergamon and Alexandria Library ancillaries. It is fixed, I have excluded one from the other. Guess I didn't expect that one character would be so well traveled.

**Rex Basiliscus** · October 13, 2011, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by dvk901

2 & 3. Yes. When a region rebels, it can rebel in two ways...to the slave faction, or the original 'creator\owner'....which in these cases are Parthia and Armenia. Odd you say? Why do it that way? The reason for this is that making a distant region, or a region that is in the direction you want a faction to go, owned and created by that faction will 'compel' that faction to move in that direction. I've only used that in a few cases in RS2, because for the most part, I don't care where factions expand. But there are particular cases where a faction needs a 'push' to expand in a certain direction. In Parthia's case, because they created that region, and either do or do not 'own' it, they are forced to try and get it back or expand towards it. Just one of the necessary evils of RTW.

I understand that concept. The weird thing is that Zadracarta goes over to Armenia, instead of Parthia IMO.

9. Apparently, Antiochus has been a busy fellow, and picked up BOTH the Pergamon and Alexandria Library ancillaries. It is fixed, I have excluded one from the other. Guess I didn't expect that one character would be so well traveled.

Hmm, Antiochus has never been to Pergamon in my campaign ... not even close