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[Roma_Victrix]

Your campaign is just like an old movie that I loved, incredible

Nice touch with those travelling pritanoi troops! It's nice to see that even after 1000 turns, you could go on to more conquest without any problem.
About the trait that you get once your finances are over 100k, the emblezer trait or something like that, is it too punitive? Do many of your FMs get the trait?

Yeah, about half of them have that stupid trait, unfortunately! However, I consider it too dangerous to let the money situation get out of hand or less than 100,000 mnai with an empire of this size. Going bankrupt means you can't immediately recruit troops where you desperately need them, or client rulers where allied settlements need better public order, or to quickly build better infrastructure for improving public order.

In that same token, I've had to put down multiple major rebellions due to low public order in some areas, when there just aren't enough quality governors with good traits/ancillaries to keep a lid on things. It's such a relief to get a family member who has an orator, historian, carnifex, fasces/lictor, elder senator or pontifex priest ancillary, but it's usually a disappointment when they develop bad traits like Embezzler, Indulgens and Glutton over a period of several years as governor. You really have to babysit and supervise them at all times to make sure the taxes are set right and that public games are held if things are getting out of hand and the populace is discontent or worse, rioting.

Also yes, it is fun to use regional auxiliaries in exotic, distant regions, all under the banner of Rome.

Heh....did you intentionally leave every blue faction alone? Pontos does not count, they're more purple-ish.

Heh! You're right! The only non-blue factions left on the map are the Saka in Central Asia and the Sabaeans in Arabia. The Pritanoi have been reduced to one settlement in Northern Ireland, though, and the Scythians, who look beige/orange on the campaign map, only got booted from their territory at the last minute in turn 999, as I explained above. I was hoping for the Parthians to become the eastern superpower, but that never materialized and the Armenians filled the Seleucid void instead. Well, them and the Baktrioi, even though the Greco-Bactrian kingdom should be long gone by 23 BC.

[paleologos]

Nice new eye-candy, guys, I am hoping to see someone conquering all the regions.

[Dooz]

Nice new eye-candy, guys, I am hoping to see someone conquering all the regions.

I wonder if anyone has ever done so... I'm over two irl years into a campaign, 700 or so turns, and the world is split east and west between me (Makedonia) and my Greek allies, Pergamon. I can't imagine slogging through a war with them to take over a whole other half of the map after all this.

Maybe it's because I've been enjoying warring against different cultures and units and it wouldn't be as much fun fighting similar ones? Or just the sheer amount of time and effort it would take... Also I guess because I don't autoresolve battles and play them often at super slow speeds so everything takes forever.

Hell, if anyone has literally conquered the whole map in EB2, I'd like to see that myself!

[Roma_Victrix]

I wonder if anyone has ever done so... I'm over two irl years into a campaign, 700 or so turns, and the world is split east and west between me (Makedonia) and my Greek allies, Pergamon. I can't imagine slogging through a war with them to take over a whole other half of the map after all this.

Pictorial proof or it didn't happen!

[Dooz]

Rome has fallen.

Spoiler for 132 B.C.: 

Thirty-five years later, the last great non-Hellenic empire will know what it means to become civilized. Makedonia begins its invasion of Carthage.

Spoiler for 97 B.C.: 

The first years of the war see many great battles as Sicily and eastern Iberia are synchronously invaded, conquered, and subdued.

Spoiler for 97 B.C. - 95 B.C.: 

The next year will see the invasion of Afrika, as well as the continued subjugation of Iberia. The wholesale slaughter of the enemies of Hellenism has only just begun.

Spoiler for 95 B.C.: 

[Roma_Victrix]

The next year will see the invasion of Afrika, as well as the continued subjugation of Iberia. The wholesale slaughter of the enemies of Hellenism has only just begun.

Large clashes ensued. Qart-Hadasht was among the lands taken, its people nearly vanished into the mists of history, the rest to the slave mines of the Empire....

...At year's end, Makedonian armies had established more than a foothold along the coasts. Few Carthaginians were spared from death or chains.

Excellent screenshots and awesome, way better screen resolution/graphics settings with anti-aliasing than mine due to my crap laptop computer. Thanks for sharing! I also like your Blitzkrieg-style expansion and reports about your commanders and what they are doing. Very cool! But seriously, dude, it sounds like you're an evil conqueror. I mean, the Romans sacked and burned Carthage, but they peacefully occupied Utica when it surrendered on negotiated terms. Even the Romans, who otherwise fed criminals to lions in the arena and forced gladiator slaves to fight each other, weren't entirely savage or barbaric when it came to granting clemency to former enemies.

In other words, it sounds like you always hit the "enslave" button instead of the "occupy"/"sack" the city or "release"/"ransom" the prisoners buttons. Come on, man! Have a little variety! Variety is the spice of life, and also a good sign that you're not a total psychopath.

[charlieh]

@Dooz: I do miss those phalanxes. They make great shots. Thank you for sharing.

[Dooz]

94 B.C. was a bloody year.

Spoiler for Beginning of 94 B.C.: 

Three Makedonian armies already operating in Iberia would continue their push west. Having blockaded the straits between it and Afrika, the southern coast was quickly swallowed up by a grizzled old commander making a name for himself in the peninsula. Meanwhile, having subdued Sicily, four more armies would launch across the Mediterranean and onto the northern coastline of Afrika. Large clashes ensued. Qart-Hadasht was among the lands taken, its people nearly vanished into the mists of history, the rest to the slave mines of the Empire.

Spoiler for 94 B.C. Battles of the Coasts: 

At year's end, Makedonian armies had established more than a foothold along the coasts. Few Carthaginians were spared from death or chains.

Spoiler for End of 94 B.C.: 

The conquering Imperial forces would spend the next year establishing unquestioned authority, stamping out any resistance with impunity. There would be many more great battles to come in the following years, many more lives lost and taken, many more lands blessed by the grace of Hellenism.

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Here's an album with a few more images. Because I got a fever. And the only prescription, is more screenshots.

[Lusitanio]

Great work and images Dooz! I would upvote you but you just destroyed my favorite faction
So my upvote for you will be on the other thread related with the conquest of Britain

[Dooz]

93 B.C. mostly saw occupation, consolidation, and preparation for further conquest.

Spoiler for 93 B.C.: 

It was at the turn of the next year that bloodshed would begin anew as Carthaginian forces would launch reinforcements and assaults towards their recently lost territories. Makedonia marched ahead to meet them in force, resulting in brutal clashes. Two armies would push further inland, into the deserts, while the other two continued east along the northern coast. Meanwhile, the last Iberian villages, towns, and cities still under Carthage's control would fall to the might of the besieging Makedonian phalanxes.

Spoiler for Conquests of 92 B.C.: 

By the end of 92 B.C., the numbers of dead were mind numbing. But there was more to come.

Spoiler for 92 B.C.: 

Album with a few more screens from these battles. Cause there is a 100 screenshot limit I just learned.

[Dooz]

The Makedonian Military Machine rolled on throughout 91 B.C. without much serious resistance to slow it down.

Spoiler for Beginning of 91 B.C.: 

The final Iberian tribes claiming independence were destroyed in the corner of the peninsula, while the Afrikan armies continued their march west along the northern coast, eliminating all in their path.

Spoiler for Battles of 91 B.C.: 

By the end of the year, so many ethnic Iberians had been killed it would seem impossible for them to ever rise again.

Spoiler for End of 91 B.C.: 

[Dooz]

The Makedonians were mistaken in their belief that Iberia had been pacified. As soon as they sent two of the three peninsular armies out of Iberia and into northwestern Afrika to expedite the subjugation of the coastline of that enormous landmass, Lusitania exploded into revolution.

Spoiler for Beginning of 90 B.C.: 

But now those two armies were otherwise engaged in Afrika and could not quickly return to quell the revolt. They would, however, destroy the remaining Carthaginian armies in the far west of the continent, one of which was made up almost wholly of Iberian troops, fighting against the encroaching Makedonians any way and anywhere they could. Another was a fully heavily armed and equipped main Carthaginian army, also destroyed by the unstoppable phalanx. Other notable battles included the continuing deep desert expedition of one of the Makedonian generals, slaughtering all who took up arms against his army, installing mercenary leadership to keep the peace in their name. As well, a huge roving band of nomadic Numidian nobles who had been given apparent free reign under Carthaginian dominion of Afrkia, was now finally put to rest for good.

Spoiler for Battles of 90 B.C.: 

By the end of the year, the writing on the wall was clear for all of Makedonia's enemies. Death or capitulation were the only options. If you were lucky enough to be given an option. In the coming year, the rebelling tribes and nobles in Lusitania would not be given a choice.

Spoiler for End of 90 B.C.: 

Album with couplefew dozen more.

[Roma_Victrix]

It must be said, of course that these are excellent screenshots all around by Dooz, so kudos to him for sharing all of that.

As for me, I'm too lazy to share all the pics of my latest Epeiros campaign. That's a lot of hard work, uploading, cutting, pasting. No! I don't wanna do it! Wah!

So for now, I'll just show a map of the latest save point of my campaign, turn 700, i.e. the year 98 BC. I might call it quits here...or I might help my Seleucid allies destroy the Sabaeans while I expand my client state, the Nabataeans in Arabia. Or just not. That also sounds like a lot of hard work! I don't wanna do it! Wah!

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[Rad]

Roma, you don't play games... Well, you do, but you don't

[Dooz]

Doomed stand of youth

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Charge of the Athenians

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Clash of eternals

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Between a spike and a sharp place

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[charlieh]

Great shots, Dooz. I particularly like the first one. It has a personal quality to it.

Coming in with one my own. Just fought a second siege defense of Luppae. Arguably, it is bloodiest struggle I have had yet.

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[Roma_Victrix]

Great screenshots as always, Dooz!

A screenshot of my Koinon Hellenon campaign, which I've unfortunately had to abandon with my new computer as explained in this thread...got up to turn 500 at least before abandoning ship, but I might start a new KH campaign, as painful as that is after building such a huge empire over several months. I was in the process of moving into central Gaul by 148 BC:

[RodriguesSting]

Lost a general (on land) to the world's most violent localized sea storm.

[paleologos]

Surfer?

[RodriguesSting]

KH Campaign Hard turn 100 report. Considering I managed to squeeze the most potential of all my generals, managed to have 0 Atimia so far, and now have a basis of comparison with other Helenic factions, I think my guide might be made after all, upon finishing this campaign. Notice the ungodly amount of money, specially trade, from such a small empire.