War Stories

[century x]

Hello Everyone,
I want this thread to be a place to share our war stories. Not many of these threads around anymore, I'll start it off.
Pictures are welcomed

Battle of North Italy
I was securing the borders of my little Republic in north Italy where I sent two legions to handle business. When I was taking the last settlement from the free peoples I was ambushed by 2 full stacks and a small 3 unit detachment. My legions were separated so only one was present for the battle.

I only had 2 minutes to setup a line of defense as I was being surrounded. I went for a square formation as I was able to attack from all sides. i left my cavalry way out in hiding and used them late in the battle.
Luckily my legion was experienced and was able to basically defeat the first wave of free peoples. BUT when the second wave came in I was hit really hard. My Cavalry was out mowing down routing units the square formation started to break. I did a charge into the thickest part of the free peoples and was able to route them at the same time doing a battle cry to scare them off.

I was able to reform the square formation but by this time the line of the free people broke, so I set the formation back to a single line and had them march as exhausted as they were.
My cavalry then started mopping up even more kills.

Oh yea that little 3 unit detachment was destroyed at the start of the battle with my cavalry.

[High Fist]

Nice thread idea. Haven't played RS in so long so I can't really remember specific battles as much as campaigns, but I remember posting something a while ago on the picture thread...

Here it is. This is my child. The culmination of many hours of playing, a battle so horrific the game was like "This is too brutal for me bro" so it corrupted my save and ended the campaign right there and then.

It's a real shame, my old laptop broke since so the campaign I started after that one is lost as well. Well, I can look forward to starting my third campaign once I get it on this machine.

[Love Mountain]

I am currently playing a Roman campaign. Defeated Hannibal, Rebels, and made peace with Carthage. I've lost Emporirae to barbarians and expanded into Illyria and Cisalpine Gaul. Currently planning to invade Boii who have been getting pummeled by Dacians.

However, the majority of my forces are involved with the defense and expansion of my Illyrian holdings. I've been destroyed well over a dozen stacks from both Macedonians and Greeks. The charge has been led by "the Generals". The Scipio family who have consistently produced my greatest generals.

Scipio the Eldest. Veteran of the Eastern Front for over three decades. He is retired and currently the Governor of Dyrrhachium.

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He has sired 3 sons, all of whom are involved from the wee age of 16.

Here's Aulus, who's rushing fresh from a battle in the North to relieve a siege on Apollonia. He's the eldest of the three.

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And brothers Gaius and Gaius, both of whom are undergoing refit and re-recruitment all the way in Rome after slaying 100,000 troops each (using a ratio of 1:10 here).

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And here is the basic picture of the Greek Front

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We are pushed up to Edessa, and the next rotation of legions we will be aiming to break the current stalemate and capture the Macedonian core cities Pella and Thessalonika. My current forces are three full Legions(stacks) for each brother, as well as auxiliary and allied troops that will be used as garrison. I'm thinking of moving another Legion from the Northern Front to Illyria to help with Defense while creating at least two more for the attack on Boii in the meantime.

What do you guys think?

[century x]

@Sukiyama


Very nice campaign

@High Fist
That is the most intense battle I have seen in a long time. To bad it corrupted your game.


Keep them coming guys

[High Fist]

D'yano, I've never attacked the Boii until I have Spain, Greece and Carthage under my belt. Even then I'd rather conquer Pergamon and Gaul before going against the Boii or even the Dacians. I'm not the most strategic player of RS2, I pick a target (usually the most "historical" one, if you get me) and stick on it.

Campaign's looking good though, sooner you take Greece the better. It makes a huge difference to your income, far more than taking all of Spain even (And yet I always go for Spain first ).

[Love Mountain]

Thanks guys. Thinking of posting an update maybe. The situation in Greece has progressed.

[Love Mountain]

Looks like Gaius Scipio the Younger will become a bureaucrat. How surprising!

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Meanwhile, another victory for the Scipio family

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It's been recently announced that the Carthaginian Republic announced war on us. Open hostilities began in 580 AUC with carthage landing two armies near Caralis. A Legion was dispatched under the command of the disgraced General Vibius Lucinius Macer. Outnumbered nearly 2 to 1, Vibius managed to defeat the enemy in detail slaughtering Carthaginians nearly to the last man with merely a few hundred survivors fleeing into the Sardinian countryside where city patrols systematically hunted them down and slaughtered them. The Roman Legion did not escape unscathed. Vibius suffered heavy casualties and as a result, heavy criticism once he arrived home. He received his due awards, but no Triumph. Many senators, including the influential Flavus family, were demanding for his head but... with enemies threatening every border of the Republic and a chronic shortage of able commanders, Vibius retained his command and put on standby. His Legion currently being reinforced by fresh Italian recruits. Carthaginians are likely to launch more naval invasions.

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On the Greek Front, a shortage of troops and a huge amount of objectives to defend, the Scipio family once again finds itself on the defensive. Currently all Greek and Illyrian holdings are under direct command, de-facto dictatorship, of Publius Cornelius Scipio. Incredibly popular at home and in the Senate, Scipio's charismatic and vocal demands have seen the vast majority of the Republic's armies diverted East, but with the capture of Pella and Thessalonika, the Senate and the public sees the war with Macedon as largely over. Other, more pressing concerns have diverted the majority of resources elsewhere leaving Scipio to fight his war alone. Despite that, the Scipio family continues to see tremendous success, slaying thousands of troops every year.

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The future of the Greek Campaign will hinge on the ability of the Scipio brothers to end the Greek threat to Roman greatness. Stay tuned for future updates.

[century x]

@Sukiyama - Please keep it coming. I LOVEEEEEEE Roman Campaigns.
Destroy those Greeks - unworthy bunch they are...

ROMA VICTOR

[Love Mountain]

@Sukiyama - Please keep it coming. I LOVEEEEEEE Roman Campaigns.
Destroy those Greeks - unworthy bunch they are...

ROMA VICTOR

Thanks for the compliments! Yeah, I love Roman campaigns myself and you can really see the work the RS team put into this mod. The level of detail in this mod stuns me every time I play it, and I've played every single version of this mod since 1.6. Absolutely top notch stuff.

As for the Greeks, those heathens will all burn eventually. Hehehe. Anyway, on to the update.



It is a dark day in the Republic. The unthinkable has happened. Our hero, Governor-Commander of Dyrrhachium, War Hero Publius Cornelius Scipio has succumbed to his old age.

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Reflecting back on his long and illustrious career that spans over three decades we can make an indisputable statement about the man, Publius Cornelius Scipio was, without a doubt, the greatest General ever sired by the Roman Republic. To list some of his battles;(image warning)

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Sometime during 565 A.U.C. Scipio's eldest, Aulus became of age and quickly took command of one of the active Legions in the field. Publius retreated to Dyrrhachium and took over strategic command of the theater as well as becoming the new governor of Illyrian provinces. From there, Scipio spearheaded the integration of the local natives into auxilia units to help even the numbers between Greek hordes and Roman Legions. Auxilia units were trained to fight in the style of our own Roman legionnaires if trained by Romans, or in their own natively-formed formations that were recruited from local populations. Either way, the program has been a great success and helped swell our numbers to even the tables with the Greeks.

With all that in mind, it is with great sadness that we will have to bury Scipio. Unfortunately, this does present new challenges to our strategy against the Greeks. With Scipio gone, our logistical problems have only increased. Scipio was largely responsible for the strategy in regards to Greece, with him unexpectedly dead, we not only have a vacant spot of Governor-Commander in Dyrrhachium, we also have a problem of command. Our chronic shortage of Generals and Governors has only been made worse, as Scipio typically micro-managed all these elements himself. With Scipio gone, our armies are without heads. So, here's what will be done.

Aulus will replace Scipio as Governor-Commander. He will take over the seat of our Greek power base in Dyrrhachium and take over all of his father's duties. Strategic command and de-facto regional control will go over to him. The Gaius brothers will each take over field command effective immediately, and we will fill Governor positions as we go on. There is also one final verdict to make about the Greek Front. No more troops will be sent. Aulus may retrain and recruit as many troops as he wishes, but none must be from the Italian peninsula. Aulus will be given total operational control over the theatre.

My choice behind Aulus is simple. He is our most able commander, he has shown bureaucratic talent, and his family has been the greatest military and political asset we've ever had. It's a rather simple choice, as there is nobody else who is capable or loyal enough for such great responsibility.

-Decimus Fabius Maximus


Another large update coming later tonight. I'm gonna put a couple hours in.

[Agrippa19]

@Sukiyama.. Nice shots, why is it that I see some strange buildings in your building ui? eg. Lex et justiita, is this your own modding works?

[Love Mountain]

That's the custom graphics mod for RS. It replaces some building pictures and loading screens.

[century x]

This was just a fun battle I did to test if my computer can handle that many men on the field.
My little civilized army of 3372 men vs. 14583 barbarians....
My computer was able to handle it with no LAG - I got a consistent high frame rate the entire time except for when I will get closer to the ground the FPS will drop a little but not by much.
Average frame rate was about 55 to 60. Which is good

[Love Mountain]

*jawdrop*

What rig do you run?

[century x]

*jawdrop*

What rig do you run?

A very modest rig - it is a rig put together from old computer parts.
With rome total war you need to alter some settings and files in order to get those number of men on the field.

RIG:
Windows 8.1 64-BIT
6 GB RAM
Intel Dual Core @2.99 GHZ (This is the most important since Rome total war runs on a single core having multi core is useless. I set the affinity of the game to use one core in task manager. The higher the GHZ the better performance you will get)
Radeon HD 6870 video Card

[Love Mountain]

A very modest rig - it is a rig put together from old computer parts.
With rome total war you need to alter some settings and files in order to get those number of men on the field.

RIG:
Windows 8.1 64-BIT
6 GB RAM
Intel Dual Core @2.99 GHZ (This is the most important since Rome total war runs on a single core having multi core is useless. I set the affinity of the game to use one core in task manager. The higher the GHZ the better performance you will get)
Radeon HD 6870 video Card

Nice! Thinking of upgrading to Windows 10? I've been on it ever since 10240 came out. Love it, keeps proving people who say "buy every other Windows" right. Almost as if Microsoft themselves bought into it hahaha.


Anyway, here's some news from my Campaign.

As of 585 A.U.C. this is the current stalemate.

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Here's the plan of attack, and ultimately the plan to end this war and Campaign in Greece. Conservative estimates put this operation at around 5 years with the first assault launching in 596 AUC.

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To break it down, Gaius the Elder will leader 3 legions down to Thermos and to Thebes, from there a legion will permanently garrison Thebes to deter any attack from Athenes or Phrasalus. Thebes will be the lynchpin of this whole operation. Once Thebes is secured, Gaius the Elder will take the remaining troops into the Peleponessian peninsula and eradicate the remaining resistance. Meanwhile, Gaius the Younger will use his existing legion, backed up by thousands of Allied troops, and defend our Northern front from the remainder of Macedonian rebels. Some people just don't know when they've been conquered.


Grave news come from Rome.

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Who will rise against the coming threat?

[century x]

Well first off, before upgrading to Windows 10 - please look at this thread I made
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ible-Solutions

Second: HOLY CRAP that is alot of barbarian hordes near Massila. They are easy to kill but the Carthigians in Caralis will be a tough battle.
As you are going South in the Greek lands, remember the Spartans at the end are a tough as nails bunch. Try to cut off the peninsula near thebes so that no army can exit the southern land. That way you can cut them off and slowly destroy them

[Love Mountain]

That's a shame about Windows 10. My ThinkPad Office laptop is the one that mainly runs it(plus the one that I use 90% of my day because of work). I still run native windows 7 on my gaming machine so its a good thing that I didn't migrate yet. I guess me lacking enough external HDD space to back my PC up is what ironically saved me.

Spartans are actually eliminated and exiled to Crete. The Greeks are the strongest faction by far in my campaign. It doesn't really show, but I must've destroyed around 15-18 stacks already. They send me crap from all over the place. Cyrenica hoplites + (that other place in Eastern Libya). Cappodocian infrantry, Crimean mercs with those nasty sarmation royals or w.e. Literally every corner of their empire sent a token force to Appollonia at some point. I finally started running into Aetolian and Biotian troops which is why I decided to start the operation. I figured, they must've run out of expeditionary forces.

Also, by far my toughest battles have been with Carthage. Believe it or not, but on H/H Carthaginian stacks match up 1:1 against Roman legions. It's fracking insanity. The battles I've had in 2stacks vs 1 are probably by far the bloodiest I've ever had to fight. With Spanish hordes it's much the same, but their low armor means that even my crappy light cav can inflict massive casualties on their flanks which makes 2v1 and even 3v1 battles barely feasible. Still, Carthaginians literally fight to the last man, and that sacred band gives me nightmares.

Seriously. When I land on Carthage I will burn every single city without mercy. They will never, ever rise again for as long as I live.

[century x]

That's a shame about Windows 10. My ThinkPad Office laptop is the one that mainly runs it(plus the one that I use 90% of my day because of work). I still run native windows 7 on my gaming machine so its a good thing that I didn't migrate yet. I guess me lacking enough external HDD space to back my PC up is what ironically saved me.

Spartans are actually eliminated and exiled to Crete. The Greeks are the strongest faction by far in my campaign. It doesn't really show, but I must've destroyed around 15-18 stacks already. They send me crap from all over the place. Cyrenica hoplites + (that other place in Eastern Libya). Cappodocian infrantry, Crimean mercs with those nasty sarmation royals or w.e. Literally every corner of their empire sent a token force to Appollonia at some point. I finally started running into Aetolian and Biotian troops which is why I decided to start the operation. I figured, they must've run out of expeditionary forces.

Also, by far my toughest battles have been with Carthage. Believe it or not, but on H/H Carthaginian stacks match up 1:1 against Roman legions. It's fracking insanity. The battles I've had in 2stacks vs 1 are probably by far the bloodiest I've ever had to fight. With Spanish hordes it's much the same, but their low armor means that even my crappy light cav can inflict massive casualties on their flanks which makes 2v1 and even 3v1 battles barely feasible. Still, Carthaginians literally fight to the last man, and that sacred band gives me nightmares.

Seriously. When I land on Carthage I will burn every single city without mercy. They will never, ever rise again for as long as I live.

Glad to see the spartans left.
It has always been my experience playing on H/H as a very unbalanced and unfair campaign. it has to do with how RTW is made it just gives unfair advantages to the AI - I always play on M/M as this is the most realistic and balanced mode.
The carthigians are some of the toughest you will ever fight EVER.

[Love Mountain]

Glad to see the spartans left.
It has always been my experience playing on H/H as a very unbalanced and unfair campaign. it has to do with how RTW is made it just gives unfair advantages to the AI - I always play on M/M as this is the most realistic and balanced mode.
The carthigians are some of the toughest you will ever fight EVER.

I do like M/M myself, but I find that M/M tends to have way easier battles because Polybians literally chew through everything. On H/H I feel like there's a much smaller time clock that you're on. Since preserving troops on 1 turn is possibly the most important thing, I find that it makes the game feel more like an RTS. Coming from competitive level SC2 and BW, I find that it taxes my skills way more.

Imo, there are several unit that simply annoy the Jesus out of me from Carthage.

First off, Sacred Bands, even on M/M, are a chainsaw. They eat everything for dinner. Second, Late Libyan spearmen are a brick wall. They take forever to die, their morale never breaks, and they effectively trade 1:1 with Polybians. Third, Numidians are the single most annoying unit to deal with.
I try to be more diverse than simple hammer and anvil, I like to employ infantry flanks and complicated formations/feints to defeat enemy stacks. I find tho, with Carthaginians there is simply no other choice. 4-6 Numidians force me to grab cavalry every time because any ranged units simply kill them too slowly. And if you want to keep a Legion in the field for more than two battles, you really will tend to only grab 1 ranged unit if even that. Missile cavalry in general is super annoying in this game imo. Units like Mounted Scutarii can effectively act as heavy cavalry against 95% of infantry you will encounter out there and they're ridiculously fast.

[Alavaria]

First off, Sacred Bands, even on M/M, are a chainsaw. They eat everything for dinner. Second, Late Libyan spearmen are a brick wall. They take forever to die, their morale never breaks, and they effectively trade 1:1 with Polybians. Third, Numidians are the single most annoying unit to deal with.
I try to be more diverse than simple hammer and anvil, I like to employ infantry flanks and complicated formations/feints to defeat enemy stacks. I find tho, with Carthaginians there is simply no other choice. 4-6 Numidians force me to grab cavalry every time because any ranged units simply kill them too slowly.

This is why I love pikemen & hoplite combo. I always feel that cavalry in particular are really powerful in RS2.