Current campaign screenshot

[.Socrates]

I don't see any campaign progress pictures on the first page so I'll just start one.
Here's mine so far:



The Scipii rebeled in their last settlement (On the Italian peninsula) about 6 or 8 years ago.
The Brutii have been kicked out of "The Boot" and have one full stack left, which shouldn't be too much of a worry.
Pontus attacked me about 20 turns ago and got destroyed by my defensive take.
Seleukia tried to take Gallatia and suceeded, it switched hands about 6 times before two more Greek armies form Greece helped to push 'em out.
I've been using Gallatia as a retraining facility for my troops, though the population went form 6,000 to 1,859.
I'm somewhat worried about the Egyptians, fortunately, though, all there armies are mostly in Carthaginian territory. I'm thinking about blitzkrieging all their cities that I can get before they send their stacks over.
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UPDATE:

I have destroyed the following factions: Armenia, Pontus, and Seleukia.
The Armenians weren't too tough, except for the rare cataphract army attacking a city. But they attacked the same city about 8 times, and never once did I lose it. I eventually got my best general out of the city (he was 52, and with a all-silver-chevron army) and with the help of a supporting army, blitzkrieged through the whole Middle East. All that's left is Egypt, and Carthage.

The Dacians have been punding away at Thessalonica, and I've been training armies in Greece and sending 'em up there to kick them back out. The stacks just keep on coming, though.

I finally got a ceasefire out of the Julii, I just needed to pay 6K. Wasn't much so I accepted. I wonder how long it will last. :/

The Brutii took and occupied Apollonia from me. I only had one unit of regular hoplites in there. I killed about 150/400, before they broke through to the left and mowed me down.

Economy is flourishing, getting in about 20K or so every turn.

[Stormlord]

What program do you use to take screenshots? I got a program from my webcam, but to take a screen I need to press F8, and it doesn't work in the game :S
So is it another program I can use?

[DARTH VADER]

Fraps is a good program http://www.fraps.com/

@.Socrates:
Good to see your thread...I just hate to play with normal settings...I always play with huge to control as much men as possible.
What is your difficulty?

[.Socrates]

@.Socrates:
Good to see your thread...I just hate to play with normal settings...I always play with huge to control as much men as possible.

I don't do huge since whenever there's night battles my comp takes apunding and lags horribly on huge settings.

What is your difficulty?

I can't really remember, it was probably medium/medium, since this was the first time I've ever played it.

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

My current campaign in DM 8.1 as the Egyptians on h/h My faction leader is a great Faraoh! He had such epitets as the Conqueror, the Cunning, the Killer already and now is the Mighty hehe

Been having really hard time expanding, cuz AI has formed a huge allied coalition against me - Seleucids, Parthians, Armenians, Numidians and Pontus. My own allies are Greeks (almost defeated by Brutii) and Dacians (huge barbarian empire haha :tooth: )
Been fighting with everyone who I have border with literally. AI don't even accept ceasifire (damn that bugged diplo). If it wasn't filthy rich Egypt and sea trade I'll probably be dead already
Both 3 roman families as you see have been successful expanding so far and I'm eager to kick some nice little armoured roman butt haha

What can I say about Egypt military? It absolutely OWNZ!
My center inf line is made of machimoi pikemen (early period) later a mix of Machimoi + Ptolemaic pikemen (bloody expensive :hmmm: )
On the inf flanks I have Nubian Spearmen (early cheap high charge units also great for garisson) later Nile Spearmen, Desert Axemen (these shock troops rock exccelent flankers) and later high-tech uber Pharaoh Guards (they're Gods )
My foot missile evolution: Skirmishers (good for garisson as well), slingers (also cheap for garisson), bowmen (they pwn) and finally the Mighty Faraoh's Bowmen!
About Cavalry: I used great mercs early on like Beduin Warriors and Archers. Egypt's own cav is light mostly like Desert Cav (great to have max 2 units for chasing cuz of number of men/per unit), Nubian cav (great in deserts), Greek Cav and lastly more elite Nile Cav
What makes Egypt so special is ... yes you've guessed ... BLOODY CHARIOTS! :tooth: They totally outperform AI and I even use less of them, cuz I think it's some sort of cheating (also like HAs army too)
So that's my current campaign

[Oli]

Firstly, good idea for starting this thread

more to the point here is a screenshot of the thrace campaign i started yesterday on m/m



its been real fun to play i think i really like thrace and their unit selection quite suits my style well
i havent found it too hard either
i started off by straight away making an alliance with scythia with the intention of storming down through macedon and into greece knowing that after i did this i would be LOADED!
i did this up to a point very successfully using one army which i gradually built up and improved on throughout the campaign so far (shown in pic)
now today it has begun to get more interesting with those traitors dacia (who began allied to me) broke our alliance by attack me up north and quicky seiged 2 of my towns, it didnt take much to quickly brake these seiges but what made it worse is that they then allied with scythia who havent yet attacked me but we are no longer allies and i fear they also will soon attack me
to make matters worse dacia then allied with greece who as u can see from the pic decided to attack me aswell *sigh*
oh well it wont take too much to break that seige after quickly taking thermon but it might make the matter of finishing off macedon a bit of a harder task
as it stands im not really in any real financial difficulty and i am allied to pontus and gaul... both of whom i intend to stay allied with for a while yet...
as i said really enjoying this mod darth great job some awesome battles (but no losses yet)

k any advice welcome!

[Dorian]

Well, I'm almost done - as you can see.
This is the last Julli city I get, then I'll clean-up with the last cities of Carthagineans, Armenians, Ptolemeans, Scythians and Germans, and head on for the cherry of the DM 8.1.2 cake: Brit isles. I play this since 15/9, a total of circa 50 hours. I have to finish soon, cause I have downloaded Try Total War and I want to see how Achilles copes with Darth's "manouvres in the dark".

[Stormlord]

My Numidian campaign on H/H. I just love the europa_270 map, it's big provinces but they are still small on the mini-map, it's cool
But I think Carthage are too weak, I could easily take all land they got in Africa, and Scipii did the same on Sicily. At the moment Scipii is a *****ing pain, they even took Carthage from me with 4 full armies, but I could reconquer it some turns after. Now I going to take all of Sicily before I going to Italy and try destroy all roman factions, I don't like to fight them after the Marius reforms.
Numidia don't got the best soldiers, but the desert warriors are ok togheter with a general, some cavalry and elephants. My only allies are Macedons, but they only got like 3 provinces left. My enemies are Carthage, Brutii and Scipii. Carthage and Brutii don't got much left, so they won't be any problems. But I really don't look forward to fight Gauls or Pontus. They got like 3 times more soldiers than I do

[.Socrates]

An update on the campaign:
I finally got Thessalonica back from those stinking barbarian Dacians! And to add more damage, I also conquered the Dacian-controlled provinces of Bylazora and Byzantium.
Though the Dacians seem powerful with their control of many provinces, it's lightly controlled by 4 or 5 and the occasional 6 units, with the only full stack being in their capital. The Dacians are in for a pounding.
I lost 3 out of 4 of my greatest generals, 2 dying of old age and another from being sunk at sea. (And he had an almost-gold cheveron army! Darnit!)
The Brutii tried to attack Thermon in 200 B.C., but failed miserabley, with them losing 925 (out of 927) men, with me only losing 7. (out of 947)
They have been beefing up and hav two stacks next to my area, but it isn't too much of a worrying situation.
The Julii are a different matter. The Marius reforms happened about 4 or so years ago and they have been on my borders in Italy for quite some time now, with a 2 pre-Marius armies and one with a combonation of post-Marius and pre-Marius. I've set up forts, preparing for an attack.
As you can see, Egypt has been almost destroyed, with one more province in the lower left hand corner, but not anything at all formidable. It shall fall.
Carthage finally betrayed me, after almost 80 years of alliance between the two. They tried to take back the part of Syracuse that they used to own with a great general, (numbering 7 or 8 stars, I believe) but was taken care of quickly and swiftly, killing him and all of his army.

And that's the news in the Greek world.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Because I am bored and have writers blocking composing music, I thought I would write down my progress going through DM 8.1 (0 unit recruit time). I tried M/M and the Gauls were killing my generals as if they were nothing. So I am trying E/E to get accustomed to the mod before I try M/M again.

Anyways here is the status from the game as I think in my office. Pictures and updates will follow tomorrow.

Alive Factions:
1. The House of Julii (ME)
2. The House of Scipii
3. The House of Brutii
4. The Senate
7. Spain
8. Britianna
9. Carthage
10. Numidia
11. Egyptians
12. Armenia
14. Scythia
15. Parthia
16. The Selucid Empire
18. Dacia
19. Macedon
20. The Greek Cities

Dead Factions:
5. Gaul
6. Germans
13. Pontus
17. Thrace

(More will be added, crap, here comes the boss!)

[DARTH VADER]

Good...give some screenshots also if you can.

[marvius]

In my campaign Im the julii:
simultaneously I destroyed the ff factions : macedons, dacians, gauls, germany and greeks...my next target is the carthage & spain living the 2 roman factions no lands to conquer hahaha...they have no choice but to go to deep east egypt and selucid empire ( if the AI will do it) ... so i can control the whole europe before the civil war comes....

[DARTH VADER]

Merged threads with similar subject.

[Narakir]

Here is my actual Briton campaign on H/H, I've rushed the gauls and the germans and I'm pushing trought barbarian lands keeping away from me letting them growing, I want them to expand to have a good challenge against them.



I realy like this campaign because I think I've found a kind of ultimate barbarian tactic that I'm eager to test on MP one day. If played well I can rout a other barbarian army in less than two minutes of melee that's why my actual army and the faction leader commanding it on the screens got 5-6 chevrons as they started from nothing. I also lose less than 200 men after each battle, it's good to have a healer ancillary with your leader. Coming in contact with the romans isn't so far now, the marian reform is gone so they'll have a powerfull army as I do It'll be the time to test see if my tactic still work, I hope that the greek will survive longer too just to see if the spartans will flee as fast as the germans :tooth: .

[Dorian]

Well, I have it done some days ago, but your curiosity gives me an extra reason to present it: Brits are doomed by Spartans! I am quite proud of it, not becouse I wouldn't play as Brit, but becouse I have long ago come to the botter conclusion that RTW is biased against Greeks: Nobody wants or honours an alliance with them, and everybody is rushing to an unjustified attack on them.
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Thus, conquering the whole world with my phalanxes is an utterly pleasing fealing. Don't you think?
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[U.A.T]

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That is abso-****in'-lutely amazing.
=O
You're my war god now!

You're the first person to conquer all of territorys in game that i've seen.

Plus... I never finished a game. =P
I always tend to go poor and miserable due to high squalor in my major cities. Dunno how to get 'em down.
I've built all anti-squalor buildings, and even so, it increases. =(

[Dorian]

It is not amazing. I did it with all mods I've played (about 20, if I remember well, since the appearance of RTW).
It's kind of a "duty" to see that a mod behaves well till the end. I have to admit that the most hard (and interesting)
to win were Darth's, Barebones, Europa Barbarorum and Terra Expunditae. All far superior to the original RTW.

[Tzif]

Don't know if you guys want me posting here, but I used to play Darth mod before I switched over to Terrae Expugnandae. Here is a picture of my empier on Tarrae:

I am the Greeks and I control about all of Central Europe.

-Germany is nuetral with me at the moment. They sent an army up into Scotland for some odd reason.

-Gual just betrayed me, their only protection against Iberia. They will all die.

-Carthage has betrayed me too, same time the Guals did. They too will die.

-Egypt has been at war with me for quite some time now. I'm about o push them out of the Middle East and back into Southern
Africa.

-The Seleucid Empire is neutral with me at the moment, but they are allied with Egypt and could also betray me at any time.

-Armenia, my closest ally, is at war with Egypt and the Seleucid Empire. Hopefully they don't turn on me too.

-Parthia keeps to themselves, they are at war with Baktria and The Seleucid Empire.

-Baktria is at war with the Seleucid Empire and Parthia.

-Sythia is nuetral with me at the moment. This will change. After a short war I started with them earlier to get a few of their western territories, they asked for a peace treaty, I accepted to gain retraining time. Now time for the real war. They too will die.

-Iberia has the third strongest army in the world and is pushing up into Gual. Hopefully they don't attack me.

Hope you like my empire. Power to the Greeks!

Tzif

[DARTH VADER]

@Tzif:

Your report comes from another planetary system...what can I say..I do not delete it bcs I like your progress....have fun

[Persian Horseman]

to Oli,

thrace is big fun! i had never tried them before until recently. i have to say that i loved my campaign. i didnt play ur map though. i played it on the risk map cuz i wanted a quick fast game before starting on a roman campaign.
how d hell did u manage to get so many chevrons? i guess in the risk map there is less fighting so i didnt get to do that. but ur army composition is quite different from mine. to be honest i find phalanxes quite boring, but i just LOVED the falxmen and the bastarnae. i would made a stack of them and unleash them on the field. they would rape EVERYTHING in their way. even the roman triarii were no match. i conquered all of greece, then rome, and dacia, and went into turkey. one unit of experienced falxmen could easily taken on like few units of hillemen or eastern infantry. i just LOVED watching those men hack everyone to death. i wouldnt advice u to help the pontus too much. they will attack even u sooner ot later. that happened to me. i was allied with them to attack greece but once greece died, they came after me.
once i got to 30 cities i quit. great fun though. i might post a screen shot later once i learn how to and i have the time.
enjoy!