What's happening in your current EB campaign?

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

So what's happening?

I have to see if these particular forums have some movement around


In my current campaign as the Great Seleucid Empire, it must be around 243BC.
A constant focused war on the Ptolemies have stripped them from nearly all their empire.
Having conquered all regions in Syria and in Agypt, they 've been left only with Ammonion and a costal city at Erythra Sea.

Asia Minor (exept from Trapezounta) is completely under my control (The Pontic nation was wiped out in two sieges). Two large armies (3/4 full stack) with my best troops have boarded Makedonia and are waging war at their capital city (Pella) and Tylis. Epirus are fighting against Makedons and Romans at the same time, while they 're allied with the Koinon Hellenon while it's in war with me. I know, complicated situation

While the center of the Empire, (From Sidon untill Seleuceia and then at Prusa) are well and prosperous the borders are suffering from all out Total frickin' war. At the Caucasus border after a fallen attempt and two dead family members to seize the capital city of Hayasdan, they have attacked with small stacks the almost unprotected cities of Karkathiokerta and Ani-Kamah. Two family members that were ready to avenge the loss of my troops at the mountains of Caucasus are ready to scatter the enemy forces and move once again north.

While at the eastern border, after a long alliance with Baktria wich got lost and transformed into war in a couple of turns, Propthasia and Alexandropolis are being attacked by many small Baktrian stacks (although capable by having the elite units of Baktria) are being protected by an Allied general who guards the border.

Northern from there, i finally got my beloved Horse Archers ready and with a nearly full stack a Syriakos FM will attack the two remaining cities of Pahlavan and two other FM will attack Antiocheia-Margiane and directly their forces at Baktria.

By the way the TGA files that are saved in the RTW folder after i press "print-screen", when i open them with GIMP 2, all i see is a black screen, anyone knows the solution?

[Saint_of_Battle]

Aedui. Somewhere around 250.

I took Massalia from the Averni who are allied with the Romans. Suddenly 1 and a half stack storms my empire, just because they could not cross the lands of their allies earlier. Eventually I destroyed the Averni.

I am allied with the Carthaginians who are warring with the Lusotann and keep them from storming me. I am making some 6000 every round and I control roughly all France. I am trying to turtle, upgrade and eventually storm Rome with an amphibious operation to sack it and take some 40000 mnai home

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

Aedui. Somewhere around 250.

I took Massalia from the Averni who are allied with the Romans. Suddenly 1 and a half stack storms my empire, just because they could not cross the lands of their allies earlier. Eventually I destroyed the Averni.

I am allied with the Carthaginians who are warring with the Lusotann and keep them from storming me. I am making some 6000 every round and I control roughly all France. I am trying to turtle, upgrade and eventually storm Rome with an amphibious operation to sack it and take some 40000 mnai home

Sounds like a plan. I turtle a lot as well.
Before an hour ago, my general had 3 consecutive clear victories over at Makedonia, wich resulted Pella being sacked.

[Nerouin]

I'm crashing regularly after battles.

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

I'm crashing regularly after battles.

Crashing regurlary after battles? Hmph
You 're using the BI patch? Cause sure i had not even one crash with it since it came out, untill recently there was one before a couple of days.

[Grimmy]

First, confessions of weapons' grade noobtonium.

I've played EB, maybe, a hundred times. I've *only* played as Rome. I've only played up through the taking of Sicily and northern Italy, some of the small villages in the alps and a bit of the provinces held by various Greek types. I hate restarting a game so tend to only play until my arse gets numb and I quit, then start a new game later when the EB bug hits me again.

So, there's lots and much of this game I have zero clue on.

But, this thing that happened in my last game had me completely flummoxed.

Here's what went down.

I had just recently taken the first Gallic town at the southern foot of the alps. I call it Mendioblablum because I can't seem to pronounce it proper, like making fun of barbarians, and can't recall how it's really spelt.

Anyhoo, I was at peace with everyone and working out my transition to the new military changes. I noticed that the light green Gallicers, Averni?, were filtering into my lands in single and double unit stacks. Lots of little stacks.

I'd seen that sort of behavior before and it had always turned out to be just a bit of off duty soldiers doing the tourist thing.

This time, though, there was lots and lots of these little units wandering around my lands.

I got concerned and started some of my own units into the build queue.

BANG! those little unit stacks joined up into a slew of half stacks and every town and city on Italy proper was under siege. All at once. All on the same turn. All when I had disbanded much of my previous army to build new type army units.

I learned the truth behind the old saw "nothing breeds more contempt than being unarmed".

Luckily, it was late at night, I had to get some sleep, so I left the game. Otherwise, I'd have had to look at rebuilding my empire from Sicily, which currently had lvl 2 governments and no real troop production capability. Luckily, I had one family member floating around Sicily as the build manager. Otherwise, my family would have been ex-stinked.

Also lucky me, I don't like restarting a game so I don't have to mess with that mess.

[Durnaug]

I'm crashing regularly after battles.

Have you applied the fixes for 1.2?

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...before-posting

[Metaluis90]

I'm playing as the SPQR, and now I'm facing the worse part of the 2nd Punic War:
The year is 215 B.C., Carpophorus Castulo, the carthaginian who dared to defy Rome in her own soil have destroyed legion after legion the SPQR sent to him; and after the battle of Cannae, the southern cities of Italia, and the greek cities of Sicilia had just defected to Carpophorus' cause. What will be the fate of Rome, and Carthage? even Fortuna itself do not know.

Introduction apart, I'm trying to recreate the Second Punic War in my current romani campaign, that means that I largely need to use force diplomacy and - believe it or not - take out of myself every survivance instinct and send large armies to their doom - I sucesfully manage to recreate Cannae, and Lake Trebisonda, altough the lake itself was merely of landscape. Trying to recreate as historical as possible this part of roman history, I lost to Carthage all Gallia Cisalpina (I give them Medionalum and Bononia, they took from me Segesta), then, Carpophorus' army started to roam across all Italy (I liked that behaviour) and when he was near a lake west of Arretium I confronted him with a consular army, which was defeated, then he moved to southern Italy (maybe because he was trying to get to Carthage?) and when he was between Arpi and Taras, i attacked him, with a full army of 4 velites 4 hastati 4 principes 4 hastati samnici 1 equites extraordinari 2 equites consulares 1 equites romani 1 equites extraordinairi, and, putting them in a formation similar of what it is said the romans adopted in Cannae, i ran to the enemy... IT WORKED! altough the stupid ai was in a defensive mode (so even tough i've alreayd engaged its first line, the other units didnt make a move, so, after some moves, i manage to get trapped in a similar way it is written how Hannibal trapped the romans... I lost +2000 units, leaving only 200-300 alive, (that was because all of which were trapped fought to death) Believe me, it is WAY more difficult to lose against the AI than winning, so It is have been a very fun campaing!

In Spain I captured Emporion circa 219 BC, and made it my base for future raids in punic spain... so far I've got Arsé too, and Im besiegeing Baikor.

In Sicilia I tried to recreate Siracuse's defection to Carthage's side, and give Syrakousai and Messena to Macedon, which whom I'm in war (1st macedonian war) I defeated a huge "siracusan" army in central sicilia (its army consisted mostly of freed slaves, hoplitai haploi, siracusan hoplites and akontistai) with a pretorian army (1 romani legion and auxiliares) , then I recaptured Messena, and planing to move towards Syrakousai.

In Greece, things are pretty heavy; My allies of the Aitolian League (proudly represented by the lone city of Thermon - Macedon controls all other greek cities in Greece) are struggling against Macedon. I sent a propretorian army (led by the legatus of the dalmatian province [army consisted mostly of illyrian auxiliares, but they proved to be unreliant]) but my army was defeated by the larger forcer of the macedonians (I didn't mean to lose, they defeated me well). I was unable to lay siege, and my roman legion was pretty damaged, so I decided to ship them back to Italy, and hired some greek and gallic mercenaries, in addition to the illyrian auxiliares, to carry out the war against Macedon.


This is my situation so far in my current campaing, I won't lie, I've use a lot of cheats in order to help the AI coming where they are now. map is pretty interesting, I think. I'll post it later, if you want

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

This is my situation so far in my current campaing, I won't lie, I've use a lot of cheats in order to help the AI coming where they are now. map is pretty interesting, I think. I'll post it later, if you want

Yeah, it would be interesting. Haven't seen anyone so attached to history to try to recreat it in TW (even by meaning "losing" sometimes to the enemy)/

in my pahlava I ate the selucid empire and their syrian city is now mine, while the OP sakas have invaded me from the north east and the OP potelies have invaded me from the south west........... any advise on how I should deal with the situation ?

Deal with the Saka first and conquer ALL steppes. Then storm into Europe with your HA, Barbarian Invasion style

[the persian Immortal]

Deal with the Saka first and conquer ALL steppes. Then storm into Europe with your HA, Barbarian Invasion style

thanks for the advise but how should I deal with the sakas their fighting style and tactics seem to be pretty much similar to mine with HA spam (though they use more archers then I do) what is the best unit/tactic to deal with those bastereds .

oh and BTW we shouldn't forget about the potelies in my south western frontier, their pretty deadly as well .

thanks for your respond any ways .

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

thanks for the advise but how should I deal with the sakas their fighting style and tactics seem to be pretty much similar to mine with HA spam (though they use more archers then I do) what is the best unit/tactic to deal with those bastereds .

oh and BTW we shouldn't forget about the potelies in my south western frontier, their pretty deadly as well .

thanks for your respond any ways .

Lets the best Horse Archers win the day, is what i say If they spam once, spam twice. That's my motto. Nothing can stand against HA better than HA themselves.

Jukeness i like your army. Baktrian HA man, they 're the *hit.

[Jose150]

I'm playing as the SPQR, and now I'm facing the worse part of the 2nd Punic War:
The year is 215 B.C., Carpophorus Castulo, the carthaginian who dared to defy Rome in her own soil have destroyed legion after legion the SPQR sent to him; and after the battle of Cannae, the southern cities of Italia, and the greek cities of Sicilia had just defected to Carpophorus' cause. What will be the fate of Rome, and Carthage? even Fortuna itself do not know.

Introduction apart, I'm trying to recreate the Second Punic War in my current romani campaign, that means that I largely need to use force diplomacy and - believe it or not - take out of myself every survivance instinct and send large armies to their doom - I sucesfully manage to recreate Cannae, and Lake Trebisonda, altough the lake itself was merely of landscape. Trying to recreate as historical as possible this part of roman history, I lost to Carthage all Gallia Cisalpina (I give them Medionalum and Bononia, they took from me Segesta), then, Carpophorus' army started to roam across all Italy (I liked that behaviour) and when he was near a lake west of Arretium I confronted him with a consular army, which was defeated, then he moved to southern Italy (maybe because he was trying to get to Carthage?) and when he was between Arpi and Taras, i attacked him, with a full army of 4 velites 4 hastati 4 principes 4 hastati samnici 1 equites extraordinari 2 equites consulares 1 equites romani 1 equites extraordinairi, and, putting them in a formation similar of what it is said the romans adopted in Cannae, i ran to the enemy... IT WORKED! altough the stupid ai was in a defensive mode (so even tough i've alreayd engaged its first line, the other units didnt make a move, so, after some moves, i manage to get trapped in a similar way it is written how Hannibal trapped the romans... I lost +2000 units, leaving only 200-300 alive, (that was because all of which were trapped fought to death) Believe me, it is WAY more difficult to lose against the AI than winning, so It is have been a very fun campaing!

In Spain I captured Emporion circa 219 BC, and made it my base for future raids in punic spain... so far I've got Arsé too, and Im besiegeing Baikor.

In Sicilia I tried to recreate Siracuse's defection to Carthage's side, and give Syrakousai and Messena to Macedon, which whom I'm in war (1st macedonian war) I defeated a huge "siracusan" army in central sicilia (its army consisted mostly of freed slaves, hoplitai haploi, siracusan hoplites and akontistai) with a pretorian army (1 romani legion and auxiliares) , then I recaptured Messena, and planing to move towards Syrakousai.

In Greece, things are pretty heavy; My allies of the Aitolian League (proudly represented by the lone city of Thermon - Macedon controls all other greek cities in Greece) are struggling against Macedon. I sent a propretorian army (led by the legatus of the dalmatian province [army consisted mostly of illyrian auxiliares, but they proved to be unreliant]) but my army was defeated by the larger forcer of the macedonians (I didn't mean to lose, they defeated me well). I was unable to lay siege, and my roman legion was pretty damaged, so I decided to ship them back to Italy, and hired some greek and gallic mercenaries, in addition to the illyrian auxiliares, to carry out the war against Macedon.


This is my situation so far in my current campaing, I won't lie, I've use a lot of cheats in order to help the AI coming where they are now. map is pretty interesting, I think. I'll post it later, if you want

Looks fun i wish i can have a save game of the Second Punic War i can pass the 2 turn becouse of the FU&%$N Rebelion crash

[Holdfast]

I am playing the Arche Seleukeia and its 248BC.

In Asia Minor I took Side, and Taros from the Ptolomaioi and then eventually got around to taking Halikarnassos. Finally I built a cheap Kerkuroi Fleet and took my army to capture Salamis. This is a good idea as the income from Salamis is high but with my army sunning itself in Cyprus the Makadonians decided it was time to attack and beseiged Sardis. Fortunately the garrison just managed to hold out, I was able to bring my army back to the mainland and then go on the offensive. I have now taken Pergamon, which was Makadonian, and more recently Mytilene. I had a really hard fight for this as the AI finally got its act together and sent a large Makadonian relief force to Mytilene. However the Makadonians have now been cleared from Asia Minor and I remain at peace with Pontos.

In the Levant fighting with the Ptolomaioi started early on but I have managed to keep the initiative with good old Sarpedon Syriakos leading an ever more effective army. Over the last twenty odd years he has taken first Sidon and then Hierosolyma from the Ptolomaioi and then moved on to capture Palmyra, Bostra and finally Petra. He is now crossing the Sinai Desert on his way to invade Egypt.

In Media the action has been a lot less spectacular. Having been at peace with the Hayasdan so far the only action has been around Phraaspa. Once I had built up something of an army in Ekbatanana I was able to use it to capture Phraaspa from the Eleutheroi only to lose it to the Pahlav. They built up a strong garrison and maintained other forces in the region so that it has taken me a long time to rebuild an army capable of re-taking it. I have finally succeded though with an army largely based around Klerouchoi Phalangitai supported by Thureophoroi and Caucasian Archers.

In Parthia the war with the Pahlav has been hard work. I initiated the war by attacking with forces in Asaak on turn 1, thereby hoping to keep Pontos, Hayasdan and Baktria allied, something that has worked so far. I retreated from both Alexandreia-Eschate and Marakanda early on and tried to gift them to Baktrai who refused! I then went on to lose Zadrakata, Asaak and (shamefully) Antiocheia-Margiane. My defences are based on Hekatompylos which now has stone walls and a garrison of six units of Pantodapoi Phalangitai suported by a couple of Persian Archers and a couple of Eastern Slingers as well as a FM. I am currently building a level 3 factional MIC so that I can recruit Klerouchoi Phalangitai because I am finding that the Pahlav are attacking with larger and larger forces with more and more of their own FMs and even these Early Parthian Bodygaurds are giving the Pantodapoi Phalangitai a rough time if they get into the city (there have been lots of seiges and sometimes they do get in!). However, I am confident that I can continue to hold on to Hekatompylos whist building up to go on the offensive.

I plan that the capture of Phraaspa will be the first major event in rolling the Pahlav back, Zadrakata next I hope. This will be a long hard fought campaign though. The Pahlav are difficult enemies; horse archers and cataphracts are bad news when the other guy has them and you don't! On the other hand the newly started invasion of Egypt should quickly bring big rewards.

[the persian Immortal]

in my pahlava I ate the selucid empire and their syrian city is now mine, while the OP sakas have invaded me from the north east and the OP potelies have invaded me from the south west........... any advise on how I should deal with the situation ?

[jukeness]

I just created an elite army stack as Baktria which I will use to go all the way to Babylon and the other city next to it (Seleucia?) then I will sack them both.

[Achilleas of Rhodes]

I just created an elite army stack as Baktria which I will use to go all the way to Babylon and the other city next to it (Seleucia?) then I will sack them both.

I wanna see some screenies with that man, if you can

I am playing the Arche Seleukeia and its 248BC.

In Asia Minor I took Side, and Taros from the Ptolomaioi and then eventually got around to taking Halikarnassos. Finally I built a cheap Kerkuroi Fleet and took my army to capture Salamis. This is a good idea as the income from Salamis is high but with my army sunning itself in Cyprus the Makadonians decided it was time to attack and beseiged Sardis. Fortunately the garrison just managed to hold out, I was able to bring my army back to the mainland and then go on the offensive. I have now taken Pergamon, which was Makadonian, and more recently Mytilene. I had a really hard fight for this as the AI finally got its act together and sent a large Makadonian relief force to Mytilene. However the Makadonians have now been cleared from Asia Minor and I remain at peace with Pontos.

In the Levant fighting with the Ptolomaioi started early on but I have managed to keep the initiative with good old Sarpedon Syriakos leading an ever more effective army. Over the last twenty odd years he has taken first Sidon and then Hierosolyma from the Ptolomaioi and then moved on to capture Palmyra, Bostra and finally Petra. He is now crossing the Sinai Desert on his way to invade Egypt.

In Media the action has been a lot less spectacular. Having been at peace with the Hayasdan so far the only action has been around Phraaspa. Once I had built up something of an army in Ekbatanana I was able to use it to capture Phraaspa from the Eleutheroi only to lose it to the Pahlav. They built up a strong garrison and maintained other forces in the region so that it has taken me a long time to rebuild an army capable of re-taking it. I have finally succeded though with an army largely based around Klerouchoi Phalangitai supported by Thureophoroi and Caucasian Archers.

In Parthia the war with the Pahlav has been hard work. I initiated the war by attacking with forces in Asaak on turn 1, thereby hoping to keep Pontos, Hayasdan and Baktria allied, something that has worked so far. I retreated from both Alexandreia-Eschate and Marakanda early on and tried to gift them to Baktrai who refused! I then went on to lose Zadrakata, Asaak and (shamefully) Antiocheia-Margiane. My defences are based on Hekatompylos which now has stone walls and a garrison of six units of Pantodapoi Phalangitai suported by a couple of Persian Archers and a couple of Eastern Slingers as well as a FM. I am currently building a level 3 factional MIC so that I can recruit Klerouchoi Phalangitai because I am finding that the Pahlav are attacking with larger and larger forces with more and more of their own FMs and even these Early Parthian Bodygaurds are giving the Pantodapoi Phalangitai a rough time if they get into the city (there have been lots of seiges and sometimes they do get in!). However, I am confident that I can continue to hold on to Hekatompylos whist building up to go on the offensive.

I plan that the capture of Phraaspa will be the first major event in rolling the Pahlav back, Zadrakata next I hope. This will be a long hard fought campaign though. The Pahlav are difficult enemies; horse archers and cataphracts are bad news when the other guy has them and you don't! On the other hand the newly started invasion of Egypt should quickly bring big rewards.

Nice another son of Seleukeia around
Have a look at my campaign.

[jukeness]

I wanna see some screenies with that man, if you can

That's a fairly elite army for the time, and I lied I guess, I'm actually sending the army to Pahlava to try to destroy their whole faction.

[the persian Immortal]

That's a fairly elite army for the time, and I lied I guess, I'm actually sending the army to Pahlava to try to destroy their whole faction.

if you wanna go for pahlava I suggest using more archers in your army, lazy infantry and horses with levy archers wont do , let me know what happens .

about my own campaign I have smoked the sakas ass they don't have a leg to stand on and soon they will find them self raped by me but while I was dealing with my arch enemys (saka, AS) my foes have build up their forces in the shadows the bactrian bastereds that seemed totally beaten and unarmed have besiged one of my citis with an elite full stack army unfurtunantly I don't have much troops to support that front so my city is on it's own the bad news is the potelies have invaded me at the same time and I'm sick and tired of dealing with their stacks and stacks and stacks and so on , do they ever run out of men and mony?

right now I fighting the sakas in my north eastern borders I fighting the bactrians in my eastern borders I'm fighting the AS in my westren borders and I'm fighting the potelies in my south western borders, this is a tough challange who knows when armania and saba are going to attack me .

any help/Ideas/suggestions with the situation ???

[Sannitico]

In my current roman campaing around 240 b.c I've conquered Italy, Sicily, Illiria, Dalmatia and I've destroyed Epirus with two sieges, now i'm in war with macedon, they play in defence, don't attack my cities in Greece but only my armies near Pella (Macedon are very strong! They retrain troops and have three armies full of veteran). Carthage only now begins to take the cities in Africa and seems to be not interested to Spain. Iberian are totally defensive. Aedui slowly are taking Gallia and defeating Arverni. Casse are isolationist. Bactria and Parthia are allied and they are crunching the east lands of Seleucid Empire. Egyptians lost some territories at the beginning but now they are reacting. Saka Rauka and Sauromates are at war. Ponto are conquering Turkey.

[Charlatan]

Hey I'm enjoying my first experience with EB

Saba VH/M

I was able to secure the saudi peninsular easily enough but was dragged into early wars with both the ptolomaioi and seleukeia (Revolting citys caused the conflicts with both).

My first main advance was against the sele, I was hoping to blitz seleukeia and babylon and retreat back to charax but after taking charax that army stalled. My second main offensive was planned against the ptolomaioi, my main stack would land at petra and blitz north ending in damascus splitting the ptolomaioi in two. Turns out the ptolomaioi created a naval port just in time and my small navy built to crush the rebel navy stood no chance and my blitz army ended in the drink. GRRR Zamir Yuha'min bring me back my men.

I've tried another expedition force into south egypt which has been crushed by three full stacks of ptolomaioi. My saving grace so far has been my start position as I get early warning signs of any advancing armies.

As it stands it's 231 BC, I'm landlocked but at peace with the ptolomaioi (30000 mnari) I'm starting to give up on the idea of acheiving my main victory conditions unless another superpower (hopefully carthage and soon) attacks the ptolomaioi. I'm creating another stack with the ambition of leading them north to mahi khora and out of reach of the ptolomaioi for now. Really enjoying the game though.