Post Your Empires

[Kara Kolyo]

One, admittedly it makes it easier for the archers, but i always use 1hp

 

[Diomede]

heh, I'm honest enough to say there's no way I'd use two HP if playing as Parthia. It's incredibly useful against them and Rome though...

 

[xsithspawnx]

I put some more time into my Rome campaign the last few days and it has been going very well. After effectively wiping out the IGC's armies in mainland Greece I took the Adriatic Coast and let the money start flowing in. I then built up a second army and brought it over to supplement my main army and did a quick lightning campaign to take the Peloponnese from Macedonia. The Macedonians used what troops they had left to besiege a few of my cities in the area, but I was able to drive them off before they could do any damage. I then managed to take Larissa, Pella, and Ampipholis, effectively taking Greece for myself before the Macedonians could bring any more reinforcements to the area.

Meanwhile, now that I have all kinds of crazy money coming in I'm actually starting to colonize North Africa and Iberia, though I have a sore lack of generals in the area. Speaking of generals now that I'm getting more and more huge cities I'm mass producing generals like crazy. I'm just sending them to Rome for a few turns to beef up their stats and then I'm using them to shore up Greece and any other settlements that need help with public order. I have about 13 generals in Rome and a few in Carthage that I'm going to send to North Africa and Iberia to help smooth the colonizing process.

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As for what I'm going to do now, I'm probably just going to try and mop up the remnants of the IGC and Macedonia in the Balkans and finish off Iberia in the west. After that I'll probably finish off the IGC who still have a very strong presence in Asia Minor, and then I might go after the Ptolemies. As you can see from the pics above, the Seleucids are in the midst of being crushed by all their neighbors and will probably be destroyed in a decade or two. I'll also try and take Gaul at some point in the future, but I'm not eager to start colonizing yet another area, when I'm still working on converting about 1/3 of my empire.

Also, I'm kind of sad that no superpower is developing to challenge me. I never really got to the point in any of the games I've played in total war, vanilla or mods, where it was just me and one or two giant empires so I was looking forward to (as weird as it might seem) facing an enemy at least as strong as me such as a giant Parthia or Seleucid Empire. I'll probably start playing on hard after I finish this campaign. I've played all my campaigns on medium since I started playing total war (only about a year ago) and assuming I make it all the way through this campaign I think it would be fun to have a bit more of a challenge.

 

[Total Roach]

Also, I'm kind of sad that no superpower is developing to challenge me. I never really got to the point in any of the games I've played in total war, vanilla or mods, where it was just me and one or two giant empires so I was looking forward to (as weird as it might seem) facing an enemy at least as strong as me such as a giant Parthia or Seleucid Empire. I'll probably start playing on hard after I finish this campaign. I've played all my campaigns on medium since I started playing total war (only about a year ago) and assuming I make it all the way through this campaign I think it would be fun to have a bit more of a challenge.

Nice Roman Empire you're carving out there. Going after the Ptolemies sounds like a good plan, do you intend to conquer down to Ethiopia too? I did I my Rome campaign, the result was Saba constantly sending stacks over and forcing me to take Arabia as well. If Parthia keeps going the way it is you are in for a good fight with them (I hate fighting them!), and if you are playing with the 1HP system be prepared for a long fight.

 

[Grimbold]

228 bc, Parthia still has time to build up, unless you move into Seleucia.

 

[Pinkie Pie]

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considering the amount of campaigns i have running i have decided to finish a few before i start a new one
first up is my bactrian campaign

 

[Grimbold]

What?! Greece actually managed to overcome Macedon?! Unbelievable!

And i dislike baktrian campaigns, its a to come up with money. I've tried it 3 times and 2 out of those 3 i had to do add_money 5000 to retrain my troops. Invading seleucia is a good move if Parthia maintains its alliance with you for a long time and actually helps softening TSE armies, but if you get Parthia as an enemy early on, you're practicly screwed cause just a few turns later, most of the time anyway, you'll get TSE invading you, and combine that with not having enough money and you'll have a screwed campaign.

 

[xsithspawnx]

Nice Roman Empire you're carving out there. Going after the Ptolemies sounds like a good plan, do you intend to conquer down to Ethiopia too? I did I my Rome campaign, the result was Saba constantly sending stacks over and forcing me to take Arabia as well. If Parthia keeps going the way it is you are in for a good fight with them (I hate fighting them!), and if you are playing with the 1HP system be prepared for a long fight.

Thankfully I'm playing on the 2HP system, so Parthia should be a tad easier to take on if they end up becoming a superpower. I personally hope Bactria miraculously manages to take on Parthia to become a superpower because I always thought Bactria was one of the coolest factions with their mix of Hellenistic and eastern style troops. I do think I'll try and take on the Ptolemies next as soon as I manage to secure my borders in Greece. How much of the Ptolemies land actually tends to be Western Civilized? I know some of it is eastern and I really don't feel like converting their entire empire.

 

[Pinkie Pie]

What?! Greece actually managed to overcome Macedon?! Unbelievable!

And i dislike baktrian campaigns, its a to come up with money. I've tried it 3 times and 2 out of those 3 i had to do add_money 5000 to retrain my troops. Invading seleucia is a good move if Parthia maintains its alliance with you for a long time and actually helps softening TSE armies, but if you get Parthia as an enemy early on, you're practicly screwed cause just a few turns later, most of the time anyway, you'll get TSE invading you, and combine that with not having enough money and you'll have a screwed campaign.

they havent just beaten macedon, they are also on the offensive against rome
by the time TSE broke the alliance i had already destroyed parthia and ek's small empire in the east
as pointed out earlier i also failed the first few times

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the romans continue to lose to the greeks
i look forward to battling them

 

[Total Roach]

Thankfully I'm playing on the 2HP system, so Parthia should be a tad easier to take on if they end up becoming a superpower. I personally hope Bactria miraculously manages to take on Parthia to become a superpower because I always thought Bactria was one of the coolest factions with their mix of Hellenistic and eastern style troops. I do think I'll try and take on the Ptolemies next as soon as I manage to secure my borders in Greece. How much of the Ptolemies land actually tends to be Western Civilized? I know some of it is eastern and I really don't feel like converting their entire empire.

You will be doing well to find that any of them apart from Alexandria and Memphis are western civilized does happen but with their small empire they may not have had the cash to convert, Salamis will be but that is a side show anyway, the only problem which is the age old RTW problem is if you don't take the provinces you only have to guard an increased border area. If you can take only the province next to Cyrene and take Alex and Memphis then hold those and fight a war of attrition which you will win and launch an attack into Asia Minor which should be well developed and rich by now, then you can pincer the remnants of TSE and be on your way to campaign victory

 

[Total Roach]

they havent just beaten macedon, they are also on the offensive against rome
by the time TSE broke the alliance i had already destroyed parthia and ek's small empire in the east
as pointed out earlier i also failed the first few times

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the romans continue to lose to the greeks
i look forward to battling them

I like the units Bactria has too, Hoplites in blue look cool. How difficult is it to get up and running, I'm a M/M player so I hope not to hard. Will have to try them some time. But before I do as a 1HP player I have decided that both Scythia and Parthia need their unit size reduced back to normal 100 (on huge) instead of 140. Can anyone tell me how I'd do that?

 

[Pinkie Pie]

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i just found out why rome is losing, its armies refuse to move from massilia
i like the baktrians units and their relative position on the map, its a pity that i cant mass produce their elite units

 

[Diomede]

Wow, I've never seen the EK beat Egypt before.

 

[Grimbold]

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i just found out why rome is losing, its armies refuse to move from massilia
i like the baktrians units and their relative position on the map, its a pity that i cant mass produce their elite units

It looks like you may be facing the Greeks soon on your northern border. Its also interesting that they didnt make the move Macedon usually does: moving into Asia minor.

 

[Total Roach]

Greece has fallen to the TSE, with many battles been fought and won so easily it appears that the Romans were just not prepared for me to betray our alliance and attack them, it's great to have the upper hand for once and be able to choose when I fight them rather than the other way around. The quality of the Roman leaders and troops has been very poor, with many Generals retreating their army on 1st contact or running off the field before battle has been joined, even those supposedly mighty legionary cohorts that come out of training with 2 silver chevrons have withered and broke under the pincer moves. With all these battles and 1st cohorts to annihilate my FMs are having a field day. Yet to field a truly elite stack, not needed any Cataphracts or Argyraspid Legionaries yet feel I should before I run out of Romans

Proud of this FM:

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This was a 1st for me in RTW!

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Kudos to the Germans, still holding out and rebelling against the Romans, keeping them occupied.

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Using underhand methods to take Tomi and thus it will be the last coastal Province on the Black Sea to fall to TSE.

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[Pinkie Pie]

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rome is about to be destroyed by the greeks
roma is under siege and otunbered 3-1
my plan is to destroy what is left of EK and gift their lands to the ptolomies allowing me to send another army north to help keep an eye on greece

 

[Grimbold]

And this my fellow xgm players, is my Syracuse campaign:



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Order of conquest:

1-Sicily
2- Italy
3- Greece
4- Macedonian holdings in Asia Minor
5- Gaul and simultaneasly moving into PE holdings.

 

[Pinkie Pie]

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the year is 223 bc and i now have onle 1 enemy, GREEK INDIES!!! the little fools decided to join pontus and attacked my ports in asia minor. i have broken my alliance with rome in in favour of an alliance with greece and i gave some land to the egyptians for some unknown reason
now im just going to watch and see what happens
rome has managed to stall greece and both sides are evenly matched in italy although greece is sending another stack down

 

[Total Roach]

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the year is 223 bc and i now have onle 1 enemy, GREEK INDIES!!! the little fools decided to join pontus and attacked my ports in asia minor. i have broken my alliance with rome in in favour of an alliance with greece and i gave some land to the egyptians for some unknown reason
now im just going to watch and see what happens
rome has managed to stall greece and both sides are evenly matched in italy although greece is sending another stack down

Looking good, go Blues! How about some cool battle action shots to put in the screenshots thread? What are your campaign victory requirements? Spread some rep your way when you achieve them


Hi Grimbold, nice campaign you got going but can you put your screenshots in a spoiler please to decrease the page loading time, thanks

 

[Pinkie Pie]

Looking good, go Blues! How about some cool battle action shots to put in the screenshots thread? What are your campaign victory requirements? Spread some rep your way when you achieve them


Hi Grimbold, nice campaign you got going but can you put your screenshots in a spoiler please to decrease the page loading time, thanks

standard requirement is to outlast or destroy TSE and hold 15 settlements
full campaign i believe is the same as most others (50 settlements and roma)

about the screenshots, i wont be battleing now but i might be able to recreate one using the skirmish if that will do
might get 1 or 2 units wrong though

 

[Total Roach]

standard requirement is to outlast or destroy TSE and hold 15 settlements
full campaign i believe is the same as most others (50 settlements and roma)

about the screenshots, i wont be battleing now but i might be able to recreate one using the skirmish if that will do
might get 1 or 2 units wrong though

Finished off those last 2 IGCS cities on asia minor already then?

You should pick a fight with somebody so you get to fight on your own terms, before someone turns around and stabs you in the back at the most inconvenient moment

 

[Grimbold]

Spending several turns forcing / quelling rebellions is no fun. A sign that my empire is too large alrdy?

 

[Pinkie Pie]

Spending several turns forcing / quelling rebellions is no fun. A sign that my empire is too large alrdy?

it just means you need to consolidate your position before starting more wars

the greek indies dont really have much military power so i wouldnt count them as real battles but i could do them

 

[Total Roach]

it just means you need to consolidate your position before starting more wars

the greek indies dont really have much military power so i wouldnt count them as real battles but i could do them

be nice to see some Agema Hoplites on the charge or something like that, doesn't need to be a fair fight either.

Grimbold Spending several turns forcing / quelling rebellions is no fun. A sign that my empire is too large alrdy?

Expanding too quickly perhaps? Rebellions are something that I rarely incur, having learnt many harsh lessons in invading another cultures territory I am now a firm believer in the adage of superior firepower, and that takes time to build up.

 

[Pinkie Pie]

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now that is new
and my army is attacking halicarnassus now

 

[Grimbold]

I wouldnt call it fast expansion. The only major conquest i did was Gaul and those are barbarian lands, they always tend to rebel, although micro managing the loyalty of these settlements is a pain.

Im talking about more individual cases, which gradually show signs of rebellion, for example i had to force rebellions in Arretium, Tarsus and Antioch.

Im a fan of the tactic i used in vanilla. You want to rebel? Fine. Lets out the garrison, set the tax level to very high. Result? I end up earning 10000-20000 denarii from the slaughter of the "ungratefull swine!"

Edit: Martin are u playing with loyalty on?

 

[Pinkie Pie]

yes but i didnt think it affected any factions other than rome and greece

 

[Total Roach]

I wouldnt call it fast expansion. The only major conquest i did was Gaul and those are barbarian lands, they always tend to rebel, although micro managing the loyalty of these settlements is a pain.

Im talking about more individual cases, which gradually show signs of rebellion, for example i had to force rebellions in Arretium, Tarsus and Antioch.

Im a fan of the tactic i used in vanilla. You want to rebel? Fine. Lets out the garrison, set the tax level to very high. Result? I end up earning 10000-20000 denarii from the slaughter of the "ungratefull swine!"

Edit: Martin are u playing with loyalty on?

Those gradual signs of rebellion are easily solved by recruitment from the city of the biggest unit and garrisoning that unit there, or building a happiness/law building/wall/ etc or lower taxes. High influence governors (send come of age FMs to Athens and Pergamom and leave them there for 5-10 years) are a must whilst trying to get a particularly troublesome city under control. Letting them rebel should be a last resort thing, you are only hurting your Empire in the long run as you will take longer to turn those cities into top tier giving you more income in trade and taxes.

Also want to know how the loyalty thing is going Martin, to much extra grief for me to bother with?

 

[Grimbold]

Those gradual signs of rebellion are easily solved by recruitment from the city of the biggest unit and garrisoning that unit there, or building a happiness/law building/wall/ etc or lower taxes. High influence governors (send come of age FMs to Athens and Pergamom and leave them there for 5-10 years) are a must whilst trying to get a particularly troublesome city under control. Letting them rebel should be a last resort thing, you are only hurting your Empire in the long run as you will take longer to turn those cities into top tier giving you more income in trade and taxes.

Also want to know how the loyalty thing is going Martin, to much extra grief for me to bother with?

Im running out of those type of buildings Total Roach and i rly hate that after building baths, hippodromes, the top market building etc that the happiness level is somewhat around 100-120. Also i dont build reinforces walls in cities that are not worth the trouble.

Martin, i find the loyalty feature a pain aswell . I played a few campaigns with that on and let me just say that losing armies with superb units(experience wise) with great generals is just frustrating. Imagine pressing the turn button and seeing your army with a green standard, "Turncoat army"... oh hell no, this loyalty crap is going off now!

 

[Pinkie Pie]

well i dont have loyalty as im bactria and the city shoulnt have rebeled as it also doesnt have loyalty (it was onder the cotrol of the ptolomies as i granted it them)