past Campaigns

[century x]

Hello everyone. Just want to hear a couple of people best or worst campaigns. I remember I build an army of 500,000 troops to invade the middle east and asia. At the end of it I lost like 350,000 troops and the remaining defending my newly captured land. I was playing RTR. So yea.... Post yours.

[Maximus Lazero]

Ah...that would be my....2nd campaign for RTR (my first was cut short by an update or something >_>).
Playing as Rome, I started by making peace with the Greeks, and moving my small army to besiege the southern Italian settlements. However, Pyrrhus got there first, so I made an alliance with the Greeks and attacked the cities. Now, alone, both our armies could easily defeat the inhabitants. Therefore, I let Pyrrhus' army do the work, with excellent results: Pyrrhus and over half of his army died do to stupid AI, and I got to keep the town. From there it was a simple matter of defeating the Rebels and Greeks in Italy. After that I had my war with Carthage, which ended with my control of Scicily.
However, before I could move to finish the Carthaginans, the Gauls attacked me. I responded by invading the Gallic lands, with huge success. Their armies were no match for Roman legions. Time and again I found myself outnumbered and surrounded (due to the way I conduct battles), and time and again I was victorious.
Unfortunately, the Germans decided that the time was ripe to attack me. Their war was short lived, and caused the Gauls more grief. Due to the Germanic invasion, I offered Gaul and her last 2 territories peace so I could concentrate on the Germans. They refused, and it only took one or two crushing defeats for the Germans to accept that Rome could not be conquered. Gaul made one last stand, but superior tactics undid their superior army.
Bad news soon came from the East, though. The Seleucid Empire was close to gaining 50 territories, so I came up with a plan: first, diplomats would infiltrate and bribe away Seleucid cities, then hand them to other nations...preferably ones that I wouldn't have to fight. In this way the Parthians were saved, as the bribed territories that I gave them in Middle East allowed their leadership to flee, years later, from Bactrian invaders.
The next phase of my plan was to conquer my way through the Balkans, defeating the Illyrians, the Macedonians, and the Greeks. All campaigns went well, as the Illyrians barely put up a fight, the Greeks were already expelled from their homeland, and the Macedonian phlanges were easy to surround. But difficulties did arise. The Iberians, who had long given me trouble, finally forced me to invade their lands. This also forced me to move my last legion away from the German border (in case they attacked again). The Thracians also attacked, but by the time they did, the Macedonians were so beat that I could divide my forces and take both peoples out. By the end of my Balkan campaign, I had destroyed three factions, secured my borders in the North, and, in the West, crushed Iberia.
Peace did not come, though. After a short period of rest, in which I rebuilt and rearmed my legions, the Carthaginians once again declared war. Having regained a territory from the Iberians, they felt that they could take the rest of the peninsula from Rome. This was fatal. After forcing them out of Hispania, I launched a naval war that ruined Carthage. Their fleets were destroyed, and they had no way to launch a land offensive. In Asia Minor, the Pontics had dared to fight me. They were easy enough to defeat, and after a few battles, I had made them a protectorate of Rome. It was now time for the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucids, who had long occupied the position of greatest nation in the world, was very dangerous indeed, and large. Although my army was easily larger than theirs, who knew what might happen if they had several large armies ready in Anatolia. The stage was set for the largest war the Mediterranean had yet seen.
What set it off was Roman expansion. After capturing a rebel territory on the borders of the Empire, the Seleucids attacked. Immediately, I launched over 5 legions against them. And here was where my strategy truely shone. The strategy was simple: NEVER attack the enemy. Let them attack me first. In order to make sure they would attack, I would have a legion besiege a settlement or, in this case, multiple settlements were besieged. In turn, the Seleucids sent several large armies to relieve them. My armies easilly crushed each one. The result was that the Seleucids were left without a western army. Their military forces could barely garrison their cities. Within ten years, all of Asia Minor (minus the Kingdom of Pontis and Armenia) were in Roman hands. From their, my offensive pushed south and east, capturing Syria and Mesopotamia. By the time the Seleucids finally surrendered and became a protectorate, they had control of only Persia and Media.
The Roman Republic became huge as a result. Adding to their west and southern European territories, it now had the rich lands of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Mesopotamia. Most of Cyprus also lay in Roman hands. The Seleucids, on the other hand, were reduced to a shadow of their former selves. They soon lost control of Media, which the Armenians were more than happy to take afterwards. The Empire was a group of 6 territories held together by a pathetic military. Worse, to the north, the Bactrians now began to invade Seleucid lands, and the Seleucids were forced to fight alone, for the Republic now had another enemy: Egypt.
Shortly after the I conquered Phoenicia, the Egyptians began to invade. They had long faught a border war in that region with the Seleucids, one that almost never changed. One side would gain a territory or two, then lose it to the other side. Even after seeing their greatest rivals reduced to a petty princedom, the Ptolemies were determained to have the western end of the Fertile Crescent.
It was nothing short of disaster. My legions quickly dispatched of the Egyptian armies, and it wasn't long until the Ptolemies were dead. From there, I could now launch my attack against Carthage. That war was somewhat more lengthy, but the Carthaginians greatest weapon, their war elephants, were rendered useless by Roman pilla.
Carthage's defeat did not, however, bring peace. The Germans, after over 100 years of peace, once again attacked the Republic. Quickly dispatching my armies from Africa, I finally convinced the Germans to become a protectorate after they lost two territories, among them their capital.
Shortly after the end of the Germanic campaign, the Marian reforms took place. My old manipular soldiers were reassigned to replace or supplement garrison in territories throughout my lands. With no more enemies, I used my new Marian legions to conquer the Brittish Isles, and other expeditionary forces to subdue Africa. When I stopped playing my campaign, in order to switch to RTRE, I controlled nearly all of the lands that the Roman Empire controlled at its height, and I had about 16 legions (what I called my full stacks), two expeditionary forces, and one group of elite cavalry used to defeat brigans in the Empire.

[century x]

wow dude. Amazing. Sounds like it was alot of fun.