Pergamon reforms still borked?

[delra]

Playing what I consider a well-executed and pretty natural game with Pergamon:

- Immediately rushed Sardis and Ipsos before they got garrisoned. Plundered both to get going money-wise.
- Destroyed Seleucid reinforcement army in the battle map a couple times.
- Rushed Halicarnassos and other Ptolemie cities in Asia Minor, including an invasion on Salamis to cast them out and focus them on fighting Seleucids on one Palestinian front.
- Signed peace/alliance with Ptolemies after they no longer bordered me.
- Took Mazaka with my army and made Tarsos revolt from Seleucids courtesy of my spies.
- Sold Mazaka (and later Tarsos) to Pontos in exchange for an alliance to create a buffer there.
- Peaced with Seleucids as we no longer shared a border.
- Having secured my eastern flank with strong phalanx garrisons to deter AI from trying to siege, I proceeded to invade and conquer Greece and got the required 21 cities by that point in my game.
- Meanwhile I took Ankyra destroying the rebel army it starts with.

At this point I have enough cities to get all reforms and all that, but: NO REFORM.

I tried abandoning Ankyra, but it revolted to Arverni. Now, if it revolts from them, it won't have enough garrison to count for the sort of a rebel army I am required to defeat to get my reforms. I tried sending a disloyal general to the region with an army of mine but he refuses to go rebel for a while now.

I love the faction and they are the new Baktria for me, I wouldn't want to restart with someone else yet.

So; What do I do? Can I salvage my campaign? And how do I play Pergamon from start to ensure reforms actually happen? :-(

[Appius Pulcher]

Simply bumping for interest. Also my favourite faction, and would love to know what to do to make this happen.

[delra]

Seriously guys, there must be someone who can read the script well enough to be able to tell author's intentions and be able to tell us how exactly to play Pergamon from start to ensure you fulfil the requirements for the reform there.

[Mr. Blob]

Wait for the patch. In its current state EB2 is flawed.

[delra]

Fair enough. Thanks. :-)

I'd probably suggest a design that requires Ankyra to be an allied state within the empire of Pergamon rather than asking for a rather tricky to fulfil requirement of having fought a battle against rebels of certain size in a specific region.

[Dago Red]

Fair enough. Thanks. :-)

I'd probably suggest a design that requires Ankyra to be an allied state within the empire of Pergamon rather than asking for a rather tricky to fulfil requirement of having fought a battle against rebels of certain size in a specific region.

That particular requirement does seem a bit out of touch with how this game plays out in reality. I hope your suggestion is noted, and something akin to this is implemented.

[delra]

From ORG:

You create units to max out the garrison in Ankyra, when it starts overflowing, new units get spawned outside town. Then you can attack that stack once it's large enough and fulfil the requirement. Console around the current script:

For the garrison:

create_unit Ankyra "celtic infantry gaeroas" 3 0 0 0

For the captain, when he appears (replace "Bolgios" with whatever his name actually is):

create_unit "Captain Bolgios" "celtic infantry gaeroas" 3 0 0 0

Thanks Quintus Sertorius.

[roliver33]

So what am I missing?

Just as a test, I added tons of gaeroas to Sardis and Ipsos (Seleucids) and full stack of my forces. I fought two battles against the seleucids, full stacks on both sides with at least 15000 men, and took Sardis, Ipsos. Quickly, I took Nikaia. Then I waited for the rebel generals in the area to move to Galatia. There was one, Menippos Mykenaios, who was in galatia and I added full stack of gaeroas. Did the same to the settlement. I fought both battles, again both full stacks with at least 15000 men. After all of this I didn't have the option to build "basilke patrieus" (sp?) What am I doing wrong? Any quick fixes?