Total War Campaign Reports

[HunterICX]

Instead of spoiling the MTW2 thread with too much roman stuff I thought to make a new one to post screenshots and reports of our campaigns if people still play them (doesnt matter which Title of Total war with any mod):

Just to sum up how far I got in my Julii Campaign:

My start was spearheaded to take over a Village called ''Segesta''
easy, took it with weak resistance.

Soon I found out that 2 rebel armies where settled inside my provinces taking down my trade routs and quality of living. Attacked them both my with my Main army with the faction leader as general.

I beat both with little losses.
rebels are dogs I say...have to scare them away.

anyway...now the usual thing of the senate jumps in
Take the town of Narbo Martius, this is located in southern france, this means I have to leap jump over 3 bloody Gaul provinces! are they mad!
yep, anyway I ignore this order as I have economy that isnt going well, going into the red here :shifty:

Solution! higher taxes and wage war gainst the gauls and take their 2 provinces in northern italy : Patavio and Mediolanio

with a son of the Faction leader old enough to join the army he becomes general with under his command 480 Hastati soldiers.

His father who already besieged Patavio is under heavy attack of lose armies in the province,
the first attack I won easy, they fled but they came back for round 2 and this time things went really bad...its starts ok till fleeing gaulish men killed my Faction leader :doh: with the loss of my Faction leader my men Morale sinks faster then titanic-on-12th-of-april-just-after-the-hot-making-love-in-the-car-scene-with-Kate-winslet

Anyhow...a big loss for the Julii :damn:(stupid, stupid, stupid)

Considering that it couldnt be any worse at the moment, I found that the economy start to build up a bit...can recruit men again.
anyway its time for the Son to take the leadership and immediatly I attacked the village Mediolanio. the spy succesfully opened the gates for me so I dropped the rams and entered the village I outnumbered the gaulish with 530 men versus 340 men:

''Knocking on Gaulish doors''

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/4466/rtwit9.jpg

Ha, a good day to smash gaulish people.


No...


not really, it was a freaking mess!
The Death faction leader son throat got gutted by the enemy general cavalery,
2 units flee and I just could manage to win the battle and take over the Village....and I was furious...and when I looked at the victory screen I saw the village was not happy, not happy at all.....they where about to start a riot or rebellion:stare:

*hack slash and some wood and nail work in the form of a cross*

They gave me a big smile and welcomed Rome and its men with grave of the gods, and promised to be loyal to Rome only.

to be continued.

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Okie then. Well, I'm still yet to reinstall CAE to my MTWII. Instead, I stick with the Road To Jerusalem for awhile as I have a campaign going on as the Holy Roman Empire. This time, I decided to break all my traditions and try the speedy approach. Took 2 rebel cities in the first 6 turns, all my cities are very well defended and I'm thinking of starting a war with Denmark (They are real twats atleast in the stock game, so better take them out ASAP). Oh and economy is blooming too. :up:

[SmokinTep]

I'm still playing RTW from time to time. Still a great game.

[stabiz]

Those Danes are really annoying in the early parts of the game, their infantery is ace.

[HunterICX]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5286/369803848db6ab123c9uc4.jpg

Hear me, citizens of Rome, the foul gaulish is yet again attacking the city of Mediolanio just after a season! the city is under heavy siege lets hope the captain will hold! Hold strong, there wont be 1 gaulish barbaric soldier who ever will lay a hand on this brave captain! this was Julii News for this afternoon, tune in tommorow for more!

...

Alright now back to the real thing...
thing is I get sieged just after taking this darn city of Mediolanio, defending is my speciality I had only the gaulish heavy cavalery to worry about.

in the start it was going like the book:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/40/rtw2or3.jpg


but luck wasnt on my side, as soon the generals heavy cavalery came inside my men where pushed backwards to make more room for gaulish troops and they cut the head of my Captain, and lost the village.

I really start to get pissed of by these Gaulish....

but right after the Turn I had the thing I needed to take the village back
a fresh army! with 1 General(gold star) and a Son(silver star) who came of age to become a general.
no matter what Mediolanio will be MIIIIIINE!:stare:

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4481/rtw3tp0.jpg


http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/383/rtw4kw6.jpg

and I took it, I killed the general of the gauls.
lost about 150 men in this fight but they lost all their ~400 men!

:sunny:a better look, now Patavio!http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4198/rtw5dt2.jpg


HunterICX
Senates most hated:cool:

[Raptor1]

As much as M2TW was good, RTW was better, though i never did manage to win as either the Seleucid Empire or the WRE (In BI)

[Dowly]

As much as M2TW was good, RTW was better, though i never did manage to win as either the Seleucid Empire or the WRE (In BI)

Aye, I like them both. The gameplay is pretty much identical, only the era changes.

On the other news. DANG, I love night battles fought in forest! Looks so nice to watch it all from high above. All those torches flicker behind the trees as the armies march forward and all of a sudden you see flaming arrows fly above the treetops. Just beautiful. :yep:

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/NightForest.jpg

[SmokinTep]

I always get my generals involved in the fighting rather than sit back and watch. Gets them more experience and stars to be able to attempt night attacks.

If you have a city that has the plague, recruit a spy then send him with the plague into your enemies city.........:lol:

[Dowly]

If you have a city that has the plague, recruit a spy then send him with the plague into your enemies city.........:lol:

Ah yes, I remember you told about this in the other thread... just too bad my cities have never had plague. :nope:

[Raptor1]

I believe Macedonia gets a scripted plague about 10 turns into the game, so if you play as them (think you need to mod the game tho), it's pretty easy to infect your enemies

[SmokinTep]

Don't build any public baths, etc to get squalor up, I'm sure the plague will find you..........:lol:

[Raptor1]

*Cheers for the Plague*

[Biggles]

In MII:TW, the plauge WILL get to you eventually, when the great mortality strikes Europe, you'll know what I mean...
"Bring out yer dead!"
http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/imagesgrail-bring-out-your-dead-small1.jpg
BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War?:lol:

Oh and on topic....

I've been playing a short campaign as England in MII:TW. Here is a short summary:

Started by smashing the Scots out of my island, didn't want the buggers to harrass me later on. When I was about to take the province that exists in the area that we nowadays calls "Wales", I noticed that it'd been taken by (and you can guess how surprised I was about that) Portugal! I didn't want to start a fight with Pope Gregory (he was rather pissed off when I smashed Scotland) so I didn't bother about them. I took the rest of the islands, and then went on to take some land in inland Europe.

It didn't take long before Portugal tried to take York from me. I threw them away, and then took Wales from them, for good measures. Then we were at war, which lasted until 1402 or something like that. It wasn't much conquest really, mostly it was their fleets harrasing my ports, and then they tried to take back Wales over and over again...always ending up with a defeat and an army less.

I managed to stay out of global war for about 70 years. Then France attacked Caen, but I chased them off like nothing. For good measures, I took Paris from them. Then the usual happened: "Don't kill Catholics or I'll do this and that", yadayadayada, the war raged on for 200 years, with many things going on around that honestly was more interesting than this war.

I happened to get into war against the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, Denmark and Poland. The only one that I took seriously was the one against Denmark, 'cause really, those buggers can ruin any empire in a snatch. After a long and careful conquest, I wiped them out when taking over Stettin. I then owned the major ports in the Baltic sea. Ka-ching!

The Holy Roman Empire attacked Antwerp, I took Metz, then nothing happened for a very long time. Poland blocked the port of Stettin, but that was it. Nothing else.
Milan tried to take Paris from me. Fat chance mate, I chased them off myself (killed 200 of 'em, zero losses for me).

After some fighting with the pope(s) and some random stuff to take care of, I managed to take Genoa, Milan from the Milanese, and Florence and Bologna from the HRE. That gave me a good position to the Med. Sea. Most of my provinces are cities, so my bank account is bigger than my massgrave of Assassins.
So eventually I managed to make peace with the HRE, Milan, Portugal and Poland. At the present time, I just try to sort out any problems in my huge kingdom, and reinforce the borders. I'm ally with Spain, the Mongols (I stay out of the Middle East, best way to avoid trouble), also giving the Papal States some 10000 gold or so from time to time to keep the big guy happy.

So at the present time, things looks pretty good for me!:D

[Dowly]

BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War?:lol:

Nope... but I know of the few on MTWII! :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9iOWF4h68
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8992844752072466738&hl=en

[CCIP]

Me and a friend are planning to copy the "Ptolemy Kings of Egypt" game that someone did where every time their faction leader died, the player swapped places with his partner and played the game until the next leader died. Should be an interesting idea and keep things from getting boring :D

[Dowly]

Me and a friend are planning to copy the "Ptolemy Kings of Egypt" game that someone did where every time their faction leader died, the player swapped places with his partner and played the game until the next leader died. Should be an interesting idea and keep things from getting boring :D

Great idea! :yep:

[Biggles]

BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War?:lol:

Nope... but I know of the few on MTWII! :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9iOWF4h68
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8992844752072466738&hl=en

If you play R:TW and look at the information about the aqueduct, you'll see something from Life of Brian...

Nice videos btw, is that mod out for download mate?:lol:

[Dowly]

Nice videos btw, is that mod out for download mate?:lol:

Nope, never finished it.

[Biggles]

Charge! Hungary started a war by attacking one of my Citadels!
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4233/medieval220080313185835uc7.jpg
They blew a hole in the wall, they charged, they died, they ran away, and my Cavalry took care of the stragglers...

[HunterICX]

The thread is running well :yep:

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/219/1356290816677e064ec1ovd8.jpg

People of the Julii!
The Senate has ordered our brave general Manio Julio to conquer the rebelic city of Masalia, Normally so to speak he would have refused...but rumors has it..the brothels on the other side of the mountain valley are of high quality and contain precious beautifull women from all nations! they marched with a reasonable size of army to attack. lets hope the gauls will stay out of the way!

...

Seeying that Patavio is a bit too much, their garrison is maxed out :o
so I thought I head for france , and lucky me the senate gives me a order to attack the nearest village.

anyhow...before I actually moved their I got attacked twice by the gauls in the province of patavio...and that costed them dearly:

''The Roman Handshake''

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3654/rtw6oi2.jpg

I survived both battles, but my forces where too crippled to continue to attack the city of patavio. so I turned them back to reinforce them with fresh troops and headed with a new general to the village of Masalia.

the battle was a great succes, I suspected some resistance but...farmers with a knife....well....you'll see

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5487/rtw7hr2.jpg

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8134/rtw8xd9.jpg

Making the farmer fly:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3997/rtw9wx2.jpg

the campaign map now:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9927/rtw10wn0.jpg

HunterICX

[CCIP]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3997/rtw9wx2.jpg

:o:o:o

The pain!

[stabiz]

Show them the might of Rome, Hunter!

I have started a campaign in Medieval 2: Total War, Kingdoms. I am the Teutonic Order, and early in the campaign.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1277/kingdoms200803140106485sx8.jpg

I started by claiming Bialystok, a small rebel town between me and the pagan Lithuanians. The loss of men was light.

I then allied myself with Poland, which pissed of the Danes somehow.

Then the Lithuanians decided to strike first, and sent a large force from Palanga, towards Königsberg, one of my larger cities. This had to be countered, so I dispatched my main army from Marienburg and met the Lithuanian force before they got to Königsberg.

My army:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/204/kingdoms200803140137048hg5.jpg


The attack is launched from all sides with cavalry and infantery, and the enemy flee.
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8504/kingdoms200803140150302tb5.jpg


The enemy general is cornered and duly beaten:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6496/kingdoms200803140153100bn2.jpg


The Lithuanians took a beating against my professional army (and they turned down my ransom demand, so all prisoners were executed):
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3324/kingdoms200803140157162yf8.jpg


... and my force is now on the way to lay siege to the city they came from, Palanga.

Unforunately an ever greater enemy force is heading towards Riga, and I dont have alot of soldiers there, so it will probably fall.

Hmmm ... need more men.

[HunterICX]

A great victory, Herr Stabiz:up:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

This is a campaign i had earlier...

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5953/mwahahaay7.jpg

[Dowly]

I think it's time to ditch these rusty armors and go back to RTW... Sparta awaits. ;)
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8841/tokyodrifttv5.gif

[SmokinTep]

So, how goes the campaign? I have decided to start a new one in RTW this weekend.

[Respenus]

Please let me offend every RTW player that doesn't use EB.

YOU SUCK!!!

Go here (http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=128) to read some brilliant AARs!

[Raptor1]

I tried using EB, but my computer couldn't handle it (have no idea why...), so i used RTR instead, Might give EB a try again late...

[HunterICX]

Please let me offend every RTW player that doesn't use EB.

YOU SUCK!!!

Go here (http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=128) to read some brilliant AARs!
No you can not,
:down: Just because of that distastefull text above, I dont even want to hear anything about that mod. good way to introduce a mod towards other players by saying they SUCK if they dont play it.

FYI I'm playing Stock RTW, and just am having some fun with it.

if you read my AAR's and that of others, we having just a bit of fun. we are not having a REALISM competition.

HunterICX

[CCIP]

Realism aside, EB is great. I wouldn't call it an uber-realism mod either, it's kind of like the GWX of RTW. I'm not sure I'd recommend anyone to play SH3 without GWX these days...

I guess that wasn't the best way to introduce it, huh :dead:

[stabiz]

Yeah, that did the trick.:up: Unfortunately, RTW looks a bit old these days. Attack of the clones.

[Dowly]

Never tried EB, but for what I read, it's alot better than RTR and I loved RTR. :yep:

[HunterICX]

Realism aside, EB is great. I wouldn't call it an uber-realism mod either, it's kind of like the GWX of RTW. I'm not sure I'd recommend anyone to play SH3 without GWX these days...

I guess that wasn't the best way to introduce it, huh :dead:

Well, if you say to the SH3 players that dont have GWX that they suck how would they stand against the mod? Are they like ''you're right I'm installing it now''
they would rather tell you to shuff it up your arse and they're gone.
sorry, but what said above really pissed me off.

simple fact that I play my Game , my way and no-one is going to tell me that I SUCK because I dont play it the way they or the mayor percentage of a community does.

you RECOMMEND a MOD , not tell people they SUCK if they dont play it.

anyway back to my stock campaign,

no where did the fat newsreader go....

there he is:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8873/newsreaderrf8.jpg

People of the Julii!
Our allied Brutii atacks the city of patavio, but with the size of army they use they will never have a victory...
that's why our General and his men decided to leave the town of Segesta and becomes in command of a gran army. They marched to the city of patavio to fight a grand battle to take over the city with combined forces! this is the first battle where 2 families of Rome are involved with.

...

Okido like told above
I saw a chance in taking over patavio, or at least to get rid of the threat that armies could be created from there and attack my cities.

so I lay siege right next that of brutii army...but the next turn the brutii breaks off.
the Gauls see a chance and attack my army, I first fled to the open and then I accepted the challenge.

it was 1529 (me) versus 2271 (them)

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7727/rtwez7.jpg

as you can see on the minimap (left bottom corner) I had 2 groups of Cavalery on each side hided in the forest, I knew they will use some units to attack the flanks of my front line...they did and when they charged I attacked them in the rear which inflicted a lot of damage that they fled away. which caused a chain reaction and got all enemy units on the run.

the results:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1146/rtw1mg9.jpg

Translation in the report:

Men Deployed - Men killed - Survivors

I chased the gauls till the very last one.

Next move, re-siege Patavio!

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2698/rtw3pl2.jpg

Stormed throught the gates:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5826/rtw4rh5.jpg

with succes I took over the city of Patavio,
this even shocked the gauls so much that they accepted a Cease fire.

a time to rest and rebuild at last.....

:stare:not!

they lay sieged on Masalia just a season after the cease fire was called!
I was in minor numbers! 3000 vs 1000 poorly equiped Hastati
they took the town with ease, as they rammed 4 holes in the city walls and killed both my generals living there....

this means TOTAL WAR!
The Gauls asked for it now, I will invade france and I will not stop till the last Gaul is lying to rot on the battlefield!

HunterICX

[stabiz]

Go get Asterix!

[Janus]

Unfortunately, RTW looks a bit old these days. Attack of the clones.
You've never played MTW or even Shogun then ;)

[stabiz]

No, RTW was my first TW.

[stabiz]

The Teutons keep battling for control in Eastern Europe:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/981/kingdoms200803160032557oe3.jpg


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8195/kingdoms200803160059281sa9.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2273/kingdoms200803160103261wy3.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3655/kingdoms200803160111570vo2.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/527/kingdoms200803161335336sw1.jpg

[Respenus]

I believe that an apology is in order to everyone I offended.

I sincerly apologise and I hope I hadn't caused too much harm. :oops:

I agree I could have picked a better tactic, yet you must understand. For a GWX player, vanilla SH3 is blasphemy, for an EB player, vanilla RTW looks worse than torture, so in a way, you must understand the pain your images caused me. Those hastati look like... I won't even finish.

Go try EB if your computer is up to it. You'll then agree with me on my previous statement.

[Dowly]

O'm ok Respenus. I think it's in the eye of the beholder how they take it. I didnt find it offensive as I doubt you meant it literally.

[Biggles]

Thing is, everyone should have their own opinion right?

I don't think vanilla SH3 is blasphemy just because I've played GWX. It's not as good, but if people don't want to dl. the huge GWX files for this or that reason, it's fine by me.

If people don't like GWX, or even hate it, it's up to them.

As to this R:TW mod you're talking about, I do not know what it is, and I doubt I'll try it.

[ReallyDedPoet]

I believe that an apology is in order to everyone I offended.

I sincerly apologise and I hope I hadn't caused too much harm. :oops:


Ok.....just getting caught up here with this thread.

Nice of you to do this ^^^^^ :yep:
At the end of the day folks should have the opportunity to play the game the way they want, no harm done in doing so. Although the " you suck " post was not ill intended, sometimes using large fonts to get the point across can have the opposite effect.

Anyway, looks like this one is back on track despite this slight road bump.


RDP

[HunterICX]

@Respenus:

Apology accepted.:up:

be a bit carefull to introduce a Mod towards player that havent got a clue.
Like myself. the ''you suck'' expresion was like slapping a fish in me face.

as a GWX player myself, I laugh at the stock game when I have it installed on my computer before I install GWX over the top. So I get your point, but I also keep in mind that players play other mods or the stock game still (as they havent got a clue, PC requirements or download speed), and I leave them in their respect and their screenshots/reporst are just as worth viewing/reading as mine;).

HunterICX

[Respenus]

I'm glad you all accepted my apology. I shouldn't have used big letters. It was meant as a friendly pat on the back and more of a friendly "you suck".

We learn from our mistakes and I'm sure I won't repeate this one.

Now you can all return to RTW posting.

I welcome you to visit the link I gave you and enjoy novel-like AARs that I'm sure you'll enjoy.

[LaughingSwordfish]

I will try out a new mod for RTW, Roma Surrectum after reading positive reviews at http://twcenter.net. It looks promising with recruitable governors/generals and named legions and it runs faster than Europa Barbarorum. I will miss the latin voices though.

[orwell]

Playing RTW without Europa Barbarorum is like masturbation to marriage. Take that as you will. :)

[Dowly]

What's wrong with masturbation? :stare:

[GlobalExplorer]

What's wrong with masturbation? :stare:

It's said to give you pulmonary phthisis :yep:

[GlobalExplorer]

In between hilarity and discussion about masturbation .. let me join in. I have just downloaded and installed the broken crescent mod and I am going to give MTW2 another spin. So far it has mostly collected dust on the shelf, because I decided to give it at least a year until the first really good mods are there. I guess now is the time.

Has anybody else got some experience with this mod? It lets you play 17 middle eastern factions on a completely new map of the orient, including The KOJ, the Mongols, the Seldjuks etc.

Another question conc. CA. Whats with their patching? Some time ago I downloaded the 500+ MB version 1.2 (and no I did not bother to download 1.3). No as if the ridiculous size is not enough trouble, the installation took like 20 minutes. Wtf? I don't mind if they use some whacky diff algorithm, as long as it gets the job done done .. but 20 minutes is just crazy if xcopying the files takes no more than 1-2 minutes right?

These are the major gripes so far. I will start a campaign and hopefully let you know. One positive thing I can already say is that the graphics run pretty slick on my AthlonXP.

[GlobalExplorer]

Playing RTW without Europa Barbarorum is like masturbation to marriage. Take that as you will. :)

Hm .. maybe know I understand Dowlies question better ..

German phrase: "Don't buy a whole cow when you only need a litre of milk". so much for matrimony ;)

PS: I see a lot of people still use the retarded green arrows for the selected unit. You know that you can disable this in the .preference file right? It was one of the first fixes I applied when RTW had come out. All you have to do is make this change in medieval2.preference.cfg :

disable_arrow_markers = 1

And one more question from me: Have there been any major AI improvements in 1.3 compared to 1.2? I am still not sure when to download the patch.

[SmokinTep]

I'm running 1.3 on my game. It has seemed to make the the calvalry charge better, and fixed some AI issues.

[AVGWarhawk]

What's wrong with masturbation? :stare:

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome...so I heard.

[HunterICX]

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3310/43799937587f297de07oci2.jpg

Hear me people of the Julii!

our Generals are doing great! Our brave soldiers have taken over the village of Iuvavo and droven the Gauls away from the north.

The cowardly Gauls attacked the City of Mediolanio with 3300 men, our General north of Patavio rushed with 1500 men to aid the city which garrisoned 1200 men.
the battle was a massacre for the gauls.

but bad news , the Britons declared war upon us by attack the village of Iuvavo
they want war! they are going to have one!

Also our general has taken back the city of masalia!
good days will come for our people!

...

like said I've been busy,

first I had to take over the village of Iuvavo, the senate rewarded me 1000 dinarii for it..(cheapskates) it was easy pick they left the gates open (Spy was inside the village before I attacked)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8844/rtwmy5.jpg

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/897/rtw1ur5.jpg

anyhow..I saw a huge army aproaching the city of Mediolanio from the west.
I quikly moved my army from north patavio and attacked the Gauls who just layed siege on the City.
the battle was in open field, they only had Light infantry...and in an Open field thats meat for charging cavalery.
I used a tactit to lure the enemy to attempt a flank attack on my infantry while I charged them from the rears with cavalery.

The End result:cool::

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/259/rtw2iz5.jpg


This army came from Masalia, so I thought to counter attack it as I knew it would be drained empty from garrison. I was right, when I arrived there was little resistance and I re-took the city.

HunterICX

[NeonSamurai]

What's wrong with masturbation? :stare:
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome...so I heard.
You would have to be obsessive compulsive with it to get carpal tunnel, but even then it would probably fall off from overuse first ;) Anyhow back on topic :)

[Biggles]

In other words: The Gauls got pwnd!

[Radtgaeb]

All I have to say is...Teutonic Knights FTW! :up:

[GlobalExplorer]

Just finished my first session with Broken Crescent. It's very nice, but the game crashed when loading the first battle. So I guess I will wait for another year until the mods are mature :rotfl:

[Biggles]

I love this one:
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/579/medieval220080321193002rr0.jpg
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Playing as Milan now. Taken most of France, and suddenly Spain attacked Toulouse with aprox. 1000 men! I had about 4-500 men in the fortress, but I hold them off, killing 900+ and losing about 100+ myself. Damn that was a good battle!
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6295/medieval220080321182659hm6.jpg

[HunterICX]

just a quik report without screenshots:

Finally , Patavio is the first city that is able to recruit archers...damn I needed those. I immediatly had to test them out on the brits that attacked the city of patavio comming from the north.

Stone walls and archers :rock: Before the 2 ladders 1 ram and the tower reached the walls heavy casualties for the brits and the battle havent even started yet :D

both ladder groups lost about 50% of their strenght before the finally climbed the ladders just to be welcomed warmly by Hastati swords.

The ram failed, burning oil rained down on them and they lost all men

the Tower did something weird and took a long path towards my wall causing them to lose a lot of men...when they where fighting on the wall and I killed every single one of them the chariots saw no chance of entering my city and retreated.

I was also attacked AGAIN at masalia...by 3000 men!
did I pooped myself for a moment there, I had half what they had in numbers....
but when I fought them I discoverd mostly where poor peasant and most units where ranged...Cavalery food:know:

didnt suffer much , but the enemy siege army was pulverized.
and patched up my army back to full strenght and moved out to continue my invasion of France.

meanwhile sad news, my only barbarian Ally the Germanians where wiped off the map. also the Macedonians have been wiped away by the Brutii 2 years before. Another faction was also wiped out but cant remember which one.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Keep it up mate! Here is one thing I learned from my time with R:TW: Don't buzz with the Britons at the same time as you do with the Gauls. You might come over your head.

[HunterICX]

Keep it up mate! Here is one thing I learned from my time with R:TW: Don't buzz with the Britons at the same time as you do with the Gauls. You might come over your head.

Well, they are still at War with me...but I am offensive versus the gauls in southern france and I keep the roads blocked from the north to defend myself from Briton attacks.

and the story continues...

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People of the Julii family!
we are doing very well..the campaign in southern france has started and our brave captains and generals are advancing with great victories...a Camp has been crushed no survivors...an attack has been repelled over a bridge with heavy casualties for the Gauls! ROMA VICTOR! and we have conquered a village!
but the village was very strange...some mistery was about it..why did we lose 1200 men for 460 defenders...:-? but! dont worry people, at the end Rome was victorius!

...

First of all...the attack on the bridge of masalia...I love bridges..Just the carnage it can cause when you trap barbarians right on top of it and rain arrows on both sides of their flanks.
It was a slaughter as you can see in the screenshot below.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/2049/rtwma8.jpg

later I assembled a second attack army to attack a Army camp in front of the village Lugduno, I rain arrows on them till there was little defense and entered and slaughterd everyone of them

When I mopped that away I directly attacked the Village Lugduno...and here my Gran victory was stumped into the ground...I took the city but not at a feasable price of men.
is the story true? a sort of potion make these barbarians nearly invinsible?:p

Campaign map:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9726/rtw1eo4.jpg

HunterICX

[CCIP]

Well, our two-person "dynasty" game has began. Myself and orwell (yup, him :p) are taking turns playing the Europa Barbarorum campaign for Koinon Hellenon (Greek Cities).

The starting position for this "faction" (which is really an alliance of Sparte, Athens and Rhodos) is quite tricky - challenging the dominance of the area by the kingdom of Makedon is no easy easy task, and the old glory of our cities is long gone.

So, to the task comes...

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Aureus Agiados Lakedaimonos
King of Sparte
Born: 327 BC
Ruled: 272-265 BC

Aureus, as mentioned above, faced a difficult situation. The combined might of the three cities could hardly match Makedon, and the economy was all but in shambles. Fortunately, good diplomacy has quickly gained the three cities allies and trading partners all around the Mediterranean, repairing relations with most of everyone except for Makedon.

This latter problem could only be dealt with by hard fighting, which Aureus led personally.

His first successful campaign had been, however, to bring Crete into the alliance. This took merely a light amount of coercing...
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Aureus was always at the forefront of the fighting with his Spartans. His royal shield could always be recognized right in the front line...

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The first crucial test against Makedon came in a decisive battle against superior forces on the Peloponnessos. In large part due to superior Spartan discipline, the battle was a crushing defeat for the Makedonians, and largely cost them Korinth.

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[CCIP]

Aureus' Spartan forces were merciless to their main enemy, both on the field of battle and in the cities taken. Collaborators of the Makedonian regime were hunted down and exterminated with prejudice. It was a desperate time and desperate measures were required.

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The Peloponnessos campaign diverted resources from Athens, and it fell to the Makedonians. It was recaptured the following year, along with Chalkis, but by the end of Aureus' rule was in enemy hands again. Spartan armies were simply stretched too thin.

Aureus' small army, however, chased down smaller Makedonian detachments all around Greece, inflicting crushing defeats.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y122/Otohiko/stuff/z13.jpg


Aureus' achievements, on the map, did not look large. However under his rule the allied cities managed to recover their economy and weaken the enemy for the upcoming struggle. An alliance with Epeiros helped distract Makedonian efforts to advance back into the Peloponnessos.

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Aureus died in 265 BC, too early to have seen the fruits of his efforts. A sudden illness struck him down while he was gathering forces outside Corinth to attempt a recapture of Athens.

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Aureus' son, who followed him into each of his glorious battles, must now take up the Spartan cause. Before him lies no small challenge: Makedon possesses two large armies, one of which poses a direct threat. Only time will tell who the winner of the bitter struggle for power in Greece will be...

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Now over to Orwell

[HunterICX]

:up:Nice report CCIP,
looks like the real thing is about to start

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Okay, new grand campaign as Poland!

Going pretty well. Taken most of Central Europe (HRE is gone, most of Denmark too).

I took some ground in the Holy Land early, so I could make that are strong through a long time. First a Crusade towards the Egyptian held Jerusalem, but after taken that, I managed a peace treaty with them, and them we became allies! An alliance that has held for a very long time now!:D

I built up my provinces in the area (Jerusalem, Acre (at the moment a Citadel), Antioch and Damascus. I tried to make them as strong as possible to get ready for the thing that would eventually come.

And they arrived.

The Mongols.

Nasty buggers, took Antioch on the second attempt (at the first one I litterally crushed the enemy army, but since my forces was weakened during the attack, I was no match for the second army....)

Then they turned for Damascus, but I threw them off again and again and again...

And then, they attacked my strongest province in the Holy Land: Acre! A Citadel with a full garrison and cannon towers! AND with a helluva bunch of Hospitaller Knights!

Now, the Mongols really show their weakness during sieges. They're not that good at it. On the open field they're devastating, but when they are to attack a Citadel, their cavalry will be under a huge bombardment before they can even inflict any damage to me. During most of the attacks, they didn't even manage to get into the Citadel, but their last attempt was indeed a close call:
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Curses! They broke through the gates! To arms fellow Knights! To arms!

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I sent forward all my cavalry in one huge charge. They took extremely high losses, but eventually, all their cavalry was gone! Then some skirmishing was to be dealt with at the walls, but after that, Acre was sealed once again.

Their army consisting of about 900+ men was smashed to pieces, including their 10 star general! However, I myself lost my King who was in the settlement at the time. He died an honorable death at the side of his men, and will be remembered as the man leading his men to victory against the mighty Mongols. All prisoners I took was executed, I always execute Mongol prisoners. I do not want them to bugger me again.

Now Acre was once again saved, but it costed us dearly. I knew that the next attack would most likely be the end for the garrison, so I needed to give them some time to retrain and repair the damage. I asked the pope for a Crusade towards Antioch and considering that my pope-o-meter (lovely name, I don't remember who made it up) was at full points, he agreed happily, and as a result, I sended 2 Crusading armies from the heart of Europe towards the Holy Land.

After some extremely heavy battles, with many losses on both sides, and with deaths of Heroes and Villians on both sides, I managed to retake Antioch. The Mongols have been neutralized as a great threat for the time being. They have been seriously weakened after their battles against me, every time I lost, I inflicted severe causalties on their armies. I am no longer a neighbour to them (They have Baghdad what I know, most likely some other province too). But I think I'll stay were I am, the Mongols are best met when you have a stone wall between you and them!:p

[eddie]

Although I've never played RTW or MTW, I have enjoyed the AAR's!! Don't know much about the mods for these games, but have any of you ever tried these? Look pretty good BTW!

http://lordz.thelordz.co.uk/index.php?index

[orwell]

[You can have any screenshot you want, as long as it's black. So apparantly my AA settings were, for the majority of shots, on. The last few turns, after the game crashed, have no AA.:doh:]

Having taken the reins from those militant Spartans, the Rhodesian slingers have stepped in. After a attemped, and pretty much failed raid by us on their large stack guarding our enslaved friends the Athenians, it became a stalemate where I brought trade and prosperity to our peoples. For five years, 265-260 summer both times, I ushered in a time of peace in an era of total war. Unfortunately, by this time mainland greece had 400 manpower each, so I couldn't tax them for it.

After this time I had started to build up my armies again, and they matched me weapon for weapon, and always with just a pinch of elite units to frustrate my efforts. Not until the liberation of the birthplace of democracy would Korinthos see peace again. In 259, the Maks had practically abandoned Athens, leaving a sole unit to guard it while they dealt with presumably the epirotes. However, right as I began my build up to take it, an earthquake struck, devastating my manpower pool and ending any plans to siege it from Chalkis, the only people at the time with a large manpower pool, and who had gotten the first MIC, barracks, upgrade that gave me troops who wouldn't flee at the first sight of long poles. For the next ten years a period of breaking sieges and build up occured.

10 years passed, 10 years building up the sinews of war, but still yet we were weak. With a transport out of our reach, the spartan sons occupying Rhodes were unable to sail to relieve the stacks, nor spread the Koinon elsewhere. However at this time, our neighbours across the Adriatic decided to give us some help.

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Just what we needed! Now we could continue the next round of trade developments, and bring greater riches and prosperity to our now growing population. And while this gift was truly a blessing, one must question the intention of the Romans, and what their true aim was. They were building up their troops in Rhegion, looking across the straight to Messina, and...

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...allied with Makedon! Throughout the coming years they'd continue to subsidize our cause, for which we owe them a great gratitude. Although towards the end they began to want results for their payments, and began offering sums along with usury rates in tribute to pay them back. Perhaps the Carthagians conquering some of their land started to influence them.

Shortly after I built a transport, and since liberating Athens still seemed distant, with a enormous stack of many elites roaming the area, I would liberate halikarnossos from the barbarians and bring back good greek values. With 4 spartan companies and a few mercs we began a siege and answered their sally, and when victory was upon us, the jaws of defeat snapped shut, killing three of our valient spartans. The sole survivor wished only to be known as a Spartan, and would not tolerate his name being known throughout the land for the glory he was to bring. He sailed to Korinthos, rallied the base, and in 238 BC he lead the victory charge on the weakened Athens, and re-united us with our lost brethern. Unfortunately, many years of Makedonian rule, they had forgotten what it meant to be a greek, and I had to kill off the heterosexual ones. To govern our new city I brought in our great Faction leader to rule, and for two years he successfully held Athens from the Makedonian hordes banging at the gates. Finally in the summer of 236, our great general has fallen, and Athens was once again under the pike of our barbaric neighbours... [insert pic of siege here that didn't make it, and the second one I took covers it up]

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[HunterICX]

:up: Keep it up,
the reports are good reads :yep:

HunterICX

[LaughingSwordfish]

What a great thread:up:
This inspires me to start a Europa Barbarorum campaign with my favourite faction Carthage.
The Romans will receive a fatal beating:arrgh!:

[HunterICX]

What a great thread:up:
This inspires me to start a Europa Barbarorum campaign with my favourite faction Carthage.
The Romans will receive a fatal beating:arrgh!:


Whats holding ya!
get on wage war on your enemies and report here ;)

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Eh, it's not only R:RW right? Or have I messed up again?:oops:

[orwell]

Eh, it's not only R:RW right? Or have I messed up again?:oops:

Me and CCIP's are using Europa Barbarorum (http://www.europabarbarorum.com/index.html), if that's what your refering to?

[HunterICX]

Eh, it's not only R:RW right? Or have I messed up again?:oops:

if you refering to R:TW (rome total war)
no, read first post
any TOTAL WAR game ;) Shogun, Medieval, Rome, Medieval 2 and with any mod on top of it

HunterICX

[Janus]

I have followed this thread for a while but have not read all of it, so sorry if it has been answered before:
CCIP, you play a coop campaign in RTW? How is that possible, I always thought the multiplayer part of the games is limited to the actual battles and does not include the campaign or am I wrong?

I'd like to write some Shogun or Medieval campaign reports to show those 'spoilt' Rome and Medieval 2 players among you how everything started, but I am too lazy to take screenshots and write comments for them ;)

[CCIP]

I have followed this thread for a while but have not read all of it, so sorry if it has been answered before:
CCIP, you play a coop campaign in RTW? How is that possible, I always thought the multiplayer part of the games is limited to the actual battles and does not include the campaign or am I wrong?
What we're doing is we're taking turns playing the same faction (when the faction leader dies, we switch). So it's not true cooperative game in a traditional sense, but it's fun! We just basically exchange saves.

Some people have actually figured out a (kind of complicated) way to play PBEM by trading saves each turn and editing them to play different factions. The only issue with that one is that the two factions would have to auto-resolve some of the battles.

I thought the MTW2 expansion had some sort of hot-seat and/or PBEM play? I don't have MTW2 yet (still waiting for mods to mature), so I can't tell you exactly...

[CCIP]

Eh, it's not only R:RW right? Or have I messed up again?:oops:
if you refering to R:TW (rome total war)
no, read first post
any TOTAL WAR game ;) Shogun, Medieval, Rome, Medieval 2 and with any mod on top of it

HunterICX

Just for fun, I should go and do an STW or MTW AAR. They're still the coolest :D

[Janus]

That's cool with the PBEM; what battles need to be auto-resolved?

Just for fun, I should go and do an STW or MTW AAR. They're still the coolest :D
That's exactly my opinion with STW and MTW, too. They are the best! :D
I would say the first TW game you played or owned is the one you find is the best; in my case that is MTW.
I recently read around in the totalwar.org forums and there are some "hardcore" members who say that Shogun is the best of the TW games because it is well balanced and is the most immersive because of the Throne room the assassination movies and so on. Although I agree with both points I say that Shogun's balance and low variety of troops among the factions is one of it's major weak spots because the long term motivation suffers from it. On the other hand there are many things better in Shogun than in Medieval, for instance the 4 turns per year which results in only one income every 4 turns = 1 year and the seasons wich have a big influence on the battles and so on and so on...

[Raptor1]

Personally I think RTW is the best (Especially BI), maybe it's just because it's about my favourite era (Atleast ones they made a TW game about, can't wait for ETW, really...)

[Janus]

I started a MTW campaign with the Holy Roman Empire in early period with the XL mod (glorious achievements not conquer the map style).
In the beginning everything went well: I built garrison armies to protect my provinces with the highest income, conquered Flanders and Friesland from the rebels and so on.
After a few years the English got excommunicated and I took Normandy from them to show the Pope on whose side I am (it was more a symbolic act because the english retreated without a fight to the province of Bretagne).
The following year I wanted to destroy the english army in Bretagne but what do the bloody French? They attack my Flandern, Burgundy and Swabia provinces. I had to retreat into my castles without a fight in all of them, except in Burgundy where the battle took place on a river crossing map with 2 bridges. I managed to defend the province successfully but with heavy losses.
So I let my army which was to destroy the English in Bretagne march back to retake the Flandern province. The French gave it back to me by retreating without a fight and I decided to push on to Burgundy (which by then was under siege by a reinforcing French army) via Isle de France. The year after I reached Isle de France and was about to move my army on to Burgundy the pope demands from me to leave alone the French and retreat from their lands withing 2 years and not attack them for the next 10 years (you know the drill...) :damn:
Because I did not want to become excommunicated I retreated from Isle de France and had to watch how Burgundy fall to the French. Now my Empire was seperated into two parts, the smaller one being Provence and the province north of it whichs name I can't remember right now.
In the same year the pope demanded my retreat my Emperor "Conrad I" died from an illness and his heir took over. He turned out to be a weak emperor with little influence and 4 years later the civil war broke out. I decided to support my weak king not only because he owned more provinces and had all the heirs - who have good command values - but because I decided to stick to various "house rules" when I started the campaign.
The rules are: don't attack other catholic factions unless they have been excommunicated, only attack rebels, behave defensively when attacked and only reconquer the lost provinces without "Blitzkrieg" the aggressors etc. All in all you could say I try to be a good catholic faction and do nothing what offends the pope.
So I thought I had to support the new but weak Emperor Conrad II because he would be the person to stick to those rules and the rebel forces demand from him to be more aggressive and expand the Holy Roman Empire and give a damn about what the pope is saying.
Now I am in the second year of the civil war and I have regained most of the provinces from the rebels and their castles are under siege. They will all fall within 2 to 4 years and by that time the civil war should be resolved.

Until the 10 year no-attack-period against the French is over I will take back what is mine (Burgundy).

I'm just upset that the pope did not excommunicate the French when they attacked me, but I guess that's some kind of bug in the game. I've read it numerous times in various AARs that the pope tends to not excommunicate the aggressors but excommunicates the player for defending against the AI and taking back what's his.

[HunterICX]

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ROMA ROMA VICTORIUS ROMA!

Nothing can stop the might of the Roman families!
the british belayed siege on Patavio, but soon they will regret they ever touched a single Roman!
In the west the Gaul campaign has good progress we made a army on the run towards the village which is our next objective. Narbo Martius is our next goal.

...

Its going splendid, the campaign versus the gauls is now in full activity. fresh troops from center Italy are pumped into southern France.
thought the british are belaying Siege on my provine of Patavio I dont really feel a big threat..the city is well defended by a lot of archers and I've a Defending army outside in the province to come of aid when things turn bad.

anyhow..my next goal was to take over Narbonensis , the province is just above Spain. so my idea is to head for the Sea and move myself north to take them all...and also to create a frontline against the british.

anyhow the attack on the village:

This is the army fleeing towards the village, the ones you see running didnt survive..the rest which was reinforcement of the gaulish army fled away as you can see in the minimap:

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the Siege begins!
I alway rain hell upon them before entering the city...good way to destroy their morale.

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Taking the street towards the Village plaza:
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VICTORY FOR ROMAN ARMS!

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I must say the resistance starts to build up, they are getting heavy infantry and cavalery, I really need to get Cohort units and triarii spearmen.

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

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People of the Julii!
the British have attacked the city of Patavio, with great defeat in store of them. our Roman archers had a field day. killing the attacking force in the hundreds!
War has declared against Spain for attempting to kill our gran General in the gaulish campaign with a amatuer Assasin.

In the gaulish campaign the village of Lugduno is under siege and again Roman arms are victorious.
also a new Era has come for the Roman army..Legionares, now every roman civilian can join the army and fight for the might of Rome!

...

Like said above the british felt how it is to be showered with arrows constantly..their armies flet before they even laid a finger on the walls or any roman.
too bad...for them.

Their hopeless last resort:

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The siege on Lugduno by the Gauls:

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Roman Soldiers say ''Welcome to Lugduno'':

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Saying Goodbye:

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Another Captain bites the dust:

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HunterICX

[fatty]

Edward the Chilvarous of England sieges the last French bastion, Dijon, 1282.

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Cannons and catapults softening defences.

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Edward's guard waiting to join street battle raging within.

[SmokinTep]

I love the night battles.............:up:

[Dowly]

I love the night battles.............:up:

Yeh, I always bring tons of archers with me if I know to expect a night battle. Looks awesome to launch a huuuge volley of flaming arrows towards the enemy. :rock:

[SmokinTep]

It is a site to behold............:up:

[fatty]

Don't think it was a night battle literally. It started out as happy cheerful day when I attacked but I hit 'wait' and got that cool apocalyptic-looking sky which seemed appropriate for France's absolute last stand against English power, so I ran with it. The sky I think is part of the Stainless Steel mod I'm using. I'm not even sure if my general Edward is qualified to conduct night attacks but I'll check later.

[Slang]

Man, I think I've been living under a rock or something. I only got into rome total war a few months ago.

All I can say is it sucked me in. And being an older game it runs great on my old machine. plus its only $20 bucks for the game and BI expansion.

Anyhow, I played a Julii campaign on M/M settings. Was learning along the way, but ended up winning it pretty handily. Though the british were really a thorn in my side. I was content to leave them be after taking all their holdings on the Euro main land. But noooooooooooo they had to send pathetic army after army south across the channel to try to reclaim their lost territory. Eventually I lost patience and sent a rag tag force north to wipe them out once and for all. It ended up almost getting wiped out itself, but managed to prevail. Though just barely.

Ended up fighting only the Brutii in the civil war. Scipii seemed content to stay in North Africa while we were duking it out. Ended up fighting some bloody hard battles on two fronts with the Brutii. Then the fronts merged into one and I drove them South through Greece. I stopped that campaign there seeing as I controlled Rome and had around 55 - 60 Provinces.

Next, I had been reading about wich faction was the hardest to play and some people said Selucid. So I figured "why not"? and started a Selucid campain on VH/VH. Actually I was seduced by their troop selection too. By end game you can have good Phalanxes, Cataphracts, Companion Cavalry, Scythed Chariots, Elephants and Legionaries too! Throw in some Cretan archer mercenaries with 3 silver chevrons because they've been in my armies so long, and you've got an elite force.

So i'm still going with this campaign now. The begining was deffinately tough. By then end of like 3 turns I was at war with everyone it seemed like. I remember looking through the diplomacy scroll, and all the other factions only had 1 or 2 enemies. Then I look at mine and there are like six!

Parthia, Armenia, Pontus and Egypt were constantly attacking. And consistently beaten back. Pontus is gone. Parthia, Armenia, and Egypt are down to only 2 provinces each. They flee from battle whenever possible now. Though Armenia has a full stack on its way south. It will be their last. I have an army in position to crush it, and another working its way north to their last holdings.

Thank god the Greek City States held off on attacking me. Though they constantly had spies in my cities causing unrest. They ended up getting clobbered by the Brutii, and in an act of desperation ended up attacking one of my weak provinces. I had been wary of them though and kept a detatchment within 2 turns of them. They now only own Rhodes, and I have a fleet on its way there now. Can't wait to get my hands on that tasty Wonder of the World, and its 40% increase in sea trade. Can't remember what its called.

[HunterICX]

:D Sound like someone is having fun and is very busy, good report Slang:up:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

That would be the Colossus of Rhodes, A statue of the sun god Helios, Slang, Good luck taking it

[SmokinTep]

Started a new campaign last night as the French. Milan is a thorn in my side.

[Slang]

hey thanx guys. deffo was busy with it, but then fell by the wayside due to real life. Oh well you know how it goes...... its always still there when I get back to it.

Good luck with the new campaign Smokin. MTW2 looks really interesting too.

[Biggles]

Battle between England and Denmark, close to the area where Malmö will be in the future (southern Sweden that is).

Night battles are rather cool actually!
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7273/kingdoms200804041958393ox2.jpg

After the death of their Captain to my archers, the danish army did an unorganized charge towards my troops...
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9965/kingdoms200804041958423dz3.jpg

they were brave, no doubt about that...
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5390/kingdoms200804041959543up4.jpg

These danes were engaged with my knights, and took heavy losses. When they decided to run, they got cut off by my other troops. They stayed and fought to the death.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4034/kingdoms200804042001560tf4.jpg

The result. I was hoping to run down more of them, but my cavalry was too spread out and so was their troops, they ran in every direction except towards the sea, so a considerable amount of troops managed to get away.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5820/kingdoms200804042006253pl5.jpg

[fatty]

1305: crisis! Venetian heathens have renounced God almighty and sacked Rome. The Holy Father flees to Corsica. After shattering the French at Dijon and spending many years in peace during the reorganization period (where many captured castles are converted to cities and the towns of England are revitalized) Edward swings his legendary and highly seasoned army south to liberate the Holy See.

Edward, now dubbed the Honourable, leads his crack troops in a siege against Rome. The infidels of Venice have no escape!
http://jmgillis.com/mtw3.jpg

[HunterICX]

:DGood reports all,

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8873/newsreaderrf8.jpg

People of the Julii, while having a great war with the gaulish and british, Spain decided to declare war against us!
they have massive amount of people, but too bad they are cowards...they run faster the oposite direction then they run towards us.

Also big disturbance a General was bribed by the Greeks , it disturbs from what I hear as soon the provinces of Italy are clean from Rebel slave armies we will go and aid the brutii to wipe out Greek!


....

I'm really having many fights now...about 6 each turn :-? The spanish waste their armies by numbers as they are no match for legionares...they colide with them but are easily on the run so they make perfect food for Cavalry.
The britons yet again attacked my city of patavio but this time the arches alone held the attackers at bay, destroying their towers and killing all who carried a ladder.

Spain declared war left their country throught the valley, I placed 1 army there to defend. While I plan to attack a province in Spain and take yet another province from the gauls in the nort...any turn now and the Gauls will be begging for mercy

some screenshots:

A rebel army faces my wrath:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7878/rtwdb3.jpg


Rain of Arrows on the Rebels:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9697/rtw1gk5.jpg

Spaniards are in for a nasty surprise:

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/963/rtw2mr4.jpg

Spaniards running away in a later battle:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5950/rtw3os5.jpg

EDIT:
the breakthrought towards the province and the victory in the village Osca
but for a heavy price, I lost 1000 men for 1500 of them. They seem to defend better in Villages then in the Open field

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1839/rtwwb2.jpg

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/26/rtw2kz2.jpg

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Defending is always easier when there is a wall between you and the enemy

[HunterICX]

Defending is always easier when there is a wall between you and the enemy
Wooden walls are a joke,
its the fact that you really need to soften up the entrance with arrows
but if they arent effective against well shielded infantry you need to go in to melee combat. and Roman units need to be manouverable, and the entrances you made (broken gate, and some holes in the wall) requiere a lot of manpower to enter as on the other side they are waiting for you.

thats why I'm needing those Onagers quikly...so I can bombard them so I can have a free entrance

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

I'm going to reinstall RTW.

I bought it iinitally for teh battle simulator but think I'll go back to it for the campaign.

I had the mods but they seem a bit anal.

[XabbaRus]

I'm having fun as the Julii on easy settings as I am learning but doing OK.
Found a good guide as to strategy so building up my economy so I have loads of money to pump out soldiers.

[Dowly]

Got around installing my RTW last night aswell. Currently playing as the Romans using the Europa Barbarorum 8.1. Excellent mod if I may say! :up: I especially love the little history lessons they've put as loading screens. ;) Tho, it definitly is more harder. I was rushed on the 2nd turn from the south and all around my economy is ****e and have very limited amount of troops. Oh well, Strenght and Honor and so on. :-?

[Dowly]

Awwww, I had forgotten how great the RTW is! :rock: Nothing really to report, except that Rome is gaining ground both in South and in the North steadily. My campaign in the South is finished soon, only one Karthagian rebel town to conquer. Just started the campaign in North recently, so only one conquered town there atm.

Oh and tried the tactic you see in the beginning of the movie "Gladiator". The Karthagians had the advantage of forest and I was in a plain ground.

I put my troops into the usual formation of Spearmen at front, Hastatis covering them archers then and Principes after archers to back them up. And cavalry I had on it's own formation ready to strike when needed.

The enemy had only spearmen, abit over 1100 troops.

As the battle started and I realised the enemy wont be attacking, I moved my formation closer so I can shower them with arrows, of course, the tossers hid under the trees so very few casualties for them.

I took my ~600 men cavalry around the enemy and positioned them to a small opening in the forest, behind the enemy.

I like to be the one on the defence so I tried to lure the enemy to attack by moving my first line (spearmen) forth and back, didnt work. Sooo, I hoped that there isnt no one flanking us and attack with infantry leaving the archers unprotected. Luckily, they enemy had all it's troops in the treeline, so the archers remained safe.

As our troops made contact and started to smash some skulls, I expanded the cavalry line so it covered the entire battle area and gave the order to charge straight trough the enemy. Worked pretty darn well, the enemy panicked and started to flee and my cavalry had an field day taking them out. In the end, I lost 30 men against the crushing casualties of ~1100 troops on the Karthagian's side. The battle lasted maybe 2-3 minutes. :p

[XabbaRus]

I'm using vanilla RTW and using easy level so I can ease myself into it.
Playing Jullii, Got all of northern italy.

I'm trying to play the ecoomic game and building up those buildings firt before I embark on mega troop expansion.

I want to have enough money that I can have decent sized troop units in the field whilst having big enough armies in the towns to crush any siegers.

Gauls are ****s though. Negotiated a ceasfire, got them to give me a province and then attacked said province. Also the province was miles away so I am resigned to losing it.
Saying that I am the most powerful faction. Even more so than Rome. I might try and take Rome early.

[HunterICX]

I would wait a time before taking over Rome, as soon you attack the Senate (SPQR) Scipii and Brutii will go hostile against you, last time I fought them I wasnt prepared and got smashed by the gauls in the north and scipii and Brutii smashed me from the south (I play the Hard Settings).

I would first concentrate on 2 villages in the north,
Patavio and Mediolanio. from there pull west into Southern france and take over Masalia. dont take them in a rush thought...take it easy plan your attacks and wipe of enemy armies in the open fields before they can reinforce the village you want to take over.

Its important that your empire grows, this can really boost your Economy to great hights wich allow you to spend some on Technology (better barracks and Shoot ranges). also if you can always MAX out the taxes in the villages, just be carefull that they stay happy about it (green face).

Taking over Rome too early can be fatal as you will experience that both Brutii and Scipii will go hostile against you. It took me 2 sieges on Rome before I got it, its heavy garrisoned with elite troops no easy picking there, mate.

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Once you get the hang of it, I recommend getting the Europa Barbarorum mod. It's like GWX of RTW. Very detailed and tried to make it as accurate as possible. Hunter, dont know what the frick you were telling me about Romans not having the units they have in stock RTW, but I've seen 3-4 different Hastati units. They are all there + there's now 3 different reforms for Romans, instead of only the Marian Reform. Naturally, you only get some of the units after a certain reform, velites for example are available after the first reform (Polybian reform). Also, the reforms are now harder to start, you cant get most of them until a certain date, so you wont be having Praetorians in the first 10 years of the game. :p

Only one bad aspect in EB, like GWX, they've really modded the game to it's limits, but in RTW that means reduced performance. But I can live with that. ;)

[HunterICX]

Hunter, dont know what the frick you were telling me about Romans not having the units they have in stock RTW, but I've seen 3-4 different Hastati units.

I said ''from what I've seen on their website it looks to me they do not have the same amount of units they have in stock'' there was a screenshot that showed the units per faction.

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Hunter, dont know what the frick you were telling me about Romans not having the units they have in stock RTW, but I've seen 3-4 different Hastati units.
I said ''from what I've seen on their website it looks to me they do not have the same amount of units they have in stock'' there was a screenshot that showed the units per faction.

HunterICX

Ah, okie. Misremebered it. ;) Oh and one more good reason to get EB: There's a place called The Island of Lesbos, I know where I will retire after my Northern conquest is over. :smug:

[HunterICX]

I wont be installing EB untill after my campaign with the julii and after that with the greeks. Then if I'm still active playing RTW I will give EB a try.

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

Which mod is better? EB mod or Rome Total War : Total Realism?

[XabbaRus]

Oh as for strategy I'm moving west and north with a small run east too so I can control the Adriatic.

[Dowly]

Which mod is better? EB mod or Rome Total War : Total Realism? Havent tried new versions of RTR, but for the past versions I can tell that EB is more detailed, it's really like reading a history book, for every year you get a screen telling what happened then and the buildings and units have rewritten descriptions on them to tell their history. But, try them both and see which you fancy better. :up:

Here's both them websites:
http://www.rometotalrealism.org/
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/

[Raptor1]

Europa Barbarorum is a lot more detailed then RTR, But RTR is a lot lighter and is a lot of fun as well, If your computer (or you) can't handle EB then definatly try RTR

Also, RTR's TIC mini-campaign is a hell of a lot of fun...

[SUBMAN1]

I'm almost owner of everything west and north of Rome, with everything in between. I also own all of greece, including its wonders. I'm on a campaign to capture world wonders at this point, since it is sinking in on the benefits of owning some of them. I have one that adds 4 points to the happyness rating. 1 that increases sea trade by 40% (This one is a major money maker. On thing in RTR is that most of your money comes from sea trade, and this one makes it that much more! :up:) and my last one I own cuts build times on long build buildings down by 20%. Makes for building thos large walls that take 6 turns all the shorter! :D Having multiple wonders also has a positive impact on peoples happyness ratings as well.

My next target is a rebel held island that seems to have a pottery trade on it.

Anyway, I'm getting too strong. Moved large army off of Rome since i know that its going to be a fight with Rome soon. I'm also building up the garrison in Greece since I know I will have to fight the Brutii soon if ROme goes after me.

-S

[HunterICX]

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8873/newsreaderrf8.jpg

DOOM!

And end of a Era, the 2 leading Generals of the Spanish/Gaul invasion both got killed in combat in the siege of Osca. they where surrounded by the spanish and there was no escape. The loss of the 2 brave generals trembled towards Rome, a time of grief and no lust to fight. The brits took over the village of lugduno, Romans are losing ground.
but its also a start of a new Era, no more mere soldiers, Cohort Legions are now Romans finest no army can do without them , Onagers to bombard the enemy with fire, archers to rain arrows on them and the finest calvalry that will walk over them. Julii will have its revenge!

...

Like said, I've fallen quiet a bit.
I've lost me 2 finest generals with their finest men at a brutal siege that didnt stop and didnt gave me a chance to pull back out of Osca.

but now I can create units that will simply outclass anything the Spaniards can throw at me, the Gauls are nearly extinct but the brits start to become a real pain in the arse. Soon I will destroy the gauls and take over Spain and then I'm going to kick the british back to England.

screenshots:

The last stand after many sieges without a rest:

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/292/rtwsh1.jpg

Cleaning Italy from Rebel armies with fresh recruits and a new General

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6622/rtw1yj5.jpg

Marching towards another Rebel army in north-west Italy

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4703/rtw2fi8.jpg

Having a Javelin game

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/4042/rtw3wb7.jpg

Killing the Rebel leader

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/1539/rtw4ah1.jpg

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Last stand

Summer 258BC. The Romani campaign in South to 'liberate' Sicily was living it's final moments. Hamalcar, the foolishly brave Karthagian general was beaten time after time in a long and bloody war to control Sicily, but still he refused to surrender the last remaining city he held.

On a sunny and warm morning of that summer, the commander of the Southern army group (also known as 'Spearheads'. After every battle, the battlefield became a horrifying scene of mass beheadings of the dead enemies, lastly their heads were placed to the end of spears and left to rot) general Sextvs Ivnivs Silanvs was looking down to the last obstacle before he and his army were to be relieved and sent to Rome; the city of Lilibeo.

Hamalcar had massed an army of thousand soldiers and volunteers to defend the sieged city, knowing that it will not be nearly enough. The 'Spearheads' were an battle-hardened army, with some of the veterans been serving with it for 14 years and survived the most fierce of battles against the armies of Karthage. Hamalcar's army consisted of only a handfull of trained soldiers, who had seen very little battle. He had 60 horses, roughly a 100 elephants and a mixed band of civilians and army regulars as infantry.

He was facing an army of 1500 infantry soldiers, 400 archers and over 600 horses.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/formationLilibeo.jpg

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"ROMANS! FORMATIOOOON!! PRAY THE GODS AND GET READY, FOR OUR JOURNEY HAS REACHED IT'S END! THE LAST BATTLE FOR US IS AT HAND! HAMALCAR HAS NOWHERE TO RUN, THIS IS WHERE THE LONG AND TIRING CAMPAIGN ENDS AND WE WILL BE CELEBRATED AS HEROS BACK IN ROME!! THE KARTHAGENIANS ARE DESPERATE, THEIR ARMY IS OF NO MATCH TO THE MIGHT OF THE SPEARHEADS! TRIARII, FORWARD TO GLORY!!"

The ground shook as the main part of the formation broke off to attack. Hamalcar had concentrated most of his forces to the gate infront of the Romani forces, just what general Sextvs had expected. The battle raged on the front gate as the general ordered his Principes to move to the east gate and fight their way to the flanks of the defenders on the main gate. He himself led his 600 headed cavalry to the west gate.

The main force werent able to gain any noticable amount of ground in the face of the defenders, both sides were growing tired as the battle stretched on for hours. In the east, the Principes had made an breaktrough and were now fighting their way towards the main gates. The General and his horsemen fought off the elephants and spearmen left to defend the gate in west and were making their way to the city square.

Although the Hamalcar's forces had high casualties, the first line held firm and was constantly reinforced by reserve spearmen units. It was only when the Principes finally got to the flank of the defenders, that the main force was able to push trough the gates and surround the enemy. The walls were captured and the defenders retreated back to the city square.

Meanwhile, General Sextvs was closing the square and send his runner to deliver message to the main force to break off 2 Hastati legions to attack the square from east as he attacked from west.

The last Karthagenians fought bravely, inflicting high casualties to the cavalry, the general's guard inself lost 52 men either dead or wounded. Just the general was about to call retreat to regroup the tired horsemen, he saw the whole of his army's infantry march around the corner, instead of 2 Hastati Legions he though would still be engaging the enemy at the gates, he was reinforced by 1500 mixed units of infantry. Nevertheless, the Karthagenians refused to surrender and were killed to the last man.

The campaign in South was over, but it came not without a price. The last battle of Lilibeo left 470 Romani soldiers dead or badly wounded.

Now, it's time for Spearheads and General Sextvs to head north, to Rome.

[HunterICX]

:up:Good report mate, but eh...screenshots? :D

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Lol, I was too busy to get any except for one I snapped of the battle formation before the attack, but that's it. Stupid that one cant save battle replay of an campaign battle.. only the custom battles.

Will edit the last post and add the pic somewhere. ;)

[Dowly]

Eight long years have passed by and Sextvs, while enjoying the god-like status in Rome after the battle of Sicily (they actually ordered him back to Rome and threw him a party, got +3 influence to his stats), misses back to the battlefield. The campaign in North has been moving slowly and very little progress has been made. Only 2 rebel towns have been conquered.

In the winter of 252BC the campaign in North was halted and the army units spread out to the border cities as garrison. Sextvs had managed to persuade the emperor to reform the 'Spearheads' and let him lead them to South, to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. With the two islands captured, it would mean an economical boost and it would drive the Karthagenians back to the continent of Africa. It would also serve as a staging point for future invasions to Karthage.

And so the 'Spearheads' were reformed and the old dog of war was loose again. But his campaign would be short, the emperor insisted that after the capture of Corsica and Sardinia, no attacks would be made to the mainland Karthage until the military tactics and units have been re-arranged (the first reform starts in 242BC) and in the meanwhile, Sextvs would be needed up North to continue the war against the Gauls.

(While I'm writing this, both Corsica and Sardinia have already been captured.. stupid me, forgot to take them screenshots again, so though not to write anything about them yet. On next report, I should be back in Rome and ready to attack the Gauls up north. :up:)

Oh and about the performance of EB. I got rid of it by making the unit size normal, instead of huge that I normally use. But the thing is, all my troops are still the same size as if the option was set to huge, but no stuttering anymore. :)

[XabbaRus]

I thought Rome Total Realism was supposed to be the most realistic.
It wasn't till I went on wikipedia I found out about EB mod.

[Dowly]

I thought Rome Total Realism was supposed to be the most realistic.
It wasn't till I went on wikipedia I found out about EB mod.

EB is a history lesson, if you are quick enough to read them loading screens. :up:

[HunterICX]

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3310/43799937587f297de07oci2.jpg

UNITED ENEMY!

The Spaniards, Britons and the Gauls have united in a Aliance and are now all attacking our villages and armies in southern France, they are going to pay for everything they cause. as in middle italy the new armies are marching towards Southern france and make sure nothing is left alive.

...

Bloody hell, never seen such devotion of the AI to wipe me out.
Egypt allied the SPQR and I've had a peek of what they had...:o the whole lower right corner is theirs

anyhow...I'm having many fights per turn...the army that are scattered in the southern france are now united but cant risk them to attack a village need them to counter attack any siege the enemy makes...but soon...the new armies I've created are marching with behind them a constant suply of fresh troops.

some screenshots:

the senselles siege of the brits again at Patavio. when are they going to know that slow moving units is a shooting range for archers?

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/4892/rtwio8.jpg

''You're not Welcome!!!, piss off'' - Andreo Pulo 'Princepe on the wall'

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2402/rtw1ge3.jpg
(note: Can anyone see a Javelin going for the jewels in this screenshot ;))

Run forest Run!

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6273/rtw2nh8.jpg

The Preatorians!

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7152/rtw3an6.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2953/rtw4it2.jpg

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Strike them back! :up: I cant wait to get Preatorians meself... gonna be a loooong wait as the Augustan reform is the last Roman reform. And above that, the requirements a b*tch. :(

-At least year 125BC
-Hold 90 settlements
-Have at least 45 type2 settlements
-Fight 400 battles
-Have a general that is:
Sharp/Charismatic/Vigorous
At least Skilled Bureaucrat
At least Arrogans
At least Expert Recruiter
Can't be Selfless
(If these conditions are met, the general will receive a trait telling he wants to seize power. Make him the Faction Heir and as soon as he becomes the leader the reforms will happen.)

[HunterICX]

And so the path to beat the english back to england has started while I'm trying to prevent the spaniards from entering southern france.

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8054/rtwyi1.jpg
(this battle was beeing attacked by both side, I planted my troops facing the spaniards when I got a nasty surprise as the english deployed in my rear...so it was chaos but a gran victory for Roman arms...thought the General got caught in the middle of a heavy fight


http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6026/rtw1sw9.jpg

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

I'm looking a ta similar situation, only a couple of provinces to go till I have all of Gaul. I'm in an alliance with Britain and Spain.

My plan is to build up a few good size armies and march some into Spain and put them near the cities (placing my forces like chess) I'll also set up my naviy ships in a position to blockade quickly.

I'll alos garrison my border with the British provinces with strong armies.

ONce I have everything in position I plan in one turn to blockade all Spanish ports, and beseige as many Spanich cities as possible whilst keeping an eye on the Britons.

Will this wok, I dunno, could be fun to try though.

If I pull that off I'll then take out Britons avoid the Germans and head towards the Macedonions.

[THE_MASK]

I really really really hate gauls:yep:

[Dowly]

I really really really hate gauls:yep:

Tell me about it! And with EB, they have those naked fanatics that are very hard to beat. :yep:

[HunterICX]

Strike them back! :up: I cant wait to get Preatorians meself... gonna be a loooong wait as the Augustan reform is the last Roman reform. And above that, the requirements a b*tch. :(

-At least year 125BC
-Hold 90 settlements
-Have at least 45 type2 settlements
-Fight 400 battles
-Have a general that is:
Sharp/Charismatic/Vigorous
At least Skilled Bureaucrat
At least Arrogans
At least Expert Recruiter
Can't be Selfless
(If these conditions are met, the general will receive a trait telling he wants to seize power. Make him the Faction Heir and as soon as he becomes the leader the reforms will happen.)

:smug: I wonder what the requirements are to get 300 spartans :rotfl:


I really really really hate gauls:yep:

I hate them as a alliance of Gauls/Britons/Spaniards...they all pick on poor little me :cry: not fun anymore I have to use my praetorian Cohort to punish them:D .

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

I'm keeping the Britons and Spaniards off my back at the moment so I can concentrate on the Gauls.

Still I have been giving them a good thrashing though.

Once they attacked a small force I had of about 300 soldiers with their 1000 odd army. Thing is they attacked the wrong force as nearby I had over a 1000 men as reinforcements who came in from behind the Gauls' line.

That was so funny.

[Dowly]

Strike them back! :up: I cant wait to get Preatorians meself... gonna be a loooong wait as the Augustan reform is the last Roman reform. And above that, the requirements a b*tch. :(

-At least year 125BC
-Hold 90 settlements
-Have at least 45 type2 settlements
-Fight 400 battles
-Have a general that is:
Sharp/Charismatic/Vigorous
At least Skilled Bureaucrat
At least Arrogans
At least Expert Recruiter
Can't be Selfless
(If these conditions are met, the general will receive a trait telling he wants to seize power. Make him the Faction Heir and as soon as he becomes the leader the reforms will happen.)
:smug: I wonder what the requirements are to get 300 spartans :rotfl:


300 soldiers and a Ab King Pro. :up:

[HunterICX]

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8873/newsreaderrf8.jpg

HORROR! O THE HORROR!

The spaniards finally have done it, they have slaughtered a 1900 men strong army containing romans finest soldiers. the captain was send out to aid the village of Narbo Martius. southern France is nearly ours, we only have to push the birons back north and prevent more spaniards comming in from the south but its a hard battle to be victorius over.
fresh troops are marching but because they carry heavy siege equipment progess is slower. but its still too soon for the enemy of Rome to celebrate as the Real war has just begun.

....

1 thing I really hate about RTW is those $%@! WAR DOGS! the spaniards really make good use of them...really hate to go up against those War dogs
also the coding is just stupid instead of attacking the dogs they go after the soldiers that commands them so to speak...and if you dont be carefull they ate a whole preatorion squad as breakfast :o. I think the dogs are way to strong, on the other hand I wont be swining my blade anyday if the dog had me by the sausage :dead:

anyhow some screenshots of a quik battle versus a Rebel Army, didnt had time to take shots of the defeat as I was too busy regrouping my men to get them back in line but it was pure chaos :stare:

Marching closer:

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/534/rtwhl7.jpg

Raining down arrows upon the enemy:

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4305/rtw1hw6.jpg

''Come back cowards, let me poke you some more with our spears!''

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/469/rtw2rh4.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

"Oh,oh I see...running away eh? You yellow bastards come back and take what's comin' to ya! I'll bite your legs off!"

[Dowly]

Summer 248BC.

After the swift capture of Sardinia and Corsica from the poorly trained and equipped troops of Karthage, General Sextvs was called back to Rome. He was to reinforce his troops and head north, to start a 2nd campaign against the Gauls.

Some years earlier, when the 1st campaign was halted, only the towns of Segeta, Bononia and Patavium had been conquered from the Gaul. Now, the newly appointed emperor Scipio overruled what was promised to Sextvs; He was to conquer the entire Gaul, before he would be ordered back to south, to attack mainland Karthage.

The first strike came on late summer of 248BC as Sextvs marched his men to the gates of Mediolanum. Little did he know, there was an ambush waiting for him. Instead of the reported 600 Gauls, he faced over 2000 of them. Fortunately, the scouts saw the advancing enemy and the general had time to set-up his defences and won the battle with only a few casualties. After the battle, Mediolanum was left with no defenders and the road was open for the Romans.

Defensive formation. Triariis in the middle as a wedge, behind them the archers and on the sides, Hastatis and Principes. Cavalry in 2 separate groups ready to flank the enemy when the battle starts.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-28-35-50.jpg

Archers!!!
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-29-38-35.jpg

Aaand here we go.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-31-15-23.jpg

The cavalry on the right flank, headed far behind the enemy to take down the other general.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-31-59-31.jpg

They got the general easily with one charge and then were left there to pick up any fleeing enemies.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-32-57-48.jpg

The main battle was going poorly for the Gauls, the veteran troops of Sextvs had a pretty easy job on crushing the attacking Gauls.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-32-37-07.jpg

As the infantry grew tired on both sides, it was time for Sextvs to lead his heavy cavalry to the flanks of the Gauls.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-38-01-89.jpg

That was enough for the Gauls and for their will to fight.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-39-58-79.jpg

The fleeing enemy was an easy target for the fast moving heavy cavalry.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-42-35-89.jpg

End result
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1418-45-08-73.jpg

[XabbaRus]

Very cool.

What is the key for screenshots?

[Galanti]

Dowly, your install looks pretty sweet - what mod is that?

[Dowly]

Dowly, your install looks pretty sweet - what mod is that?

Europa Barbarorum :up:
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/

[HunterICX]

Very cool.

What is the key for screenshots?

Print screen,
but if you have AA - AF enabled the screenshots will turn out black
so you can use FRAPS or do as I do Pause, minimalisize the game and paste it in Paint and save.

HunterICX

[THE_MASK]

I really really really hate gauls:yep:

Tell me about it! And with EB, they have those naked fanatics that are very hard to beat. :yep:OMG , i downloaded that naked men patch LOL and showed the wife . She still asks me to show her them .

[XabbaRus]

Bloody Senate.

I had an army just inside the Britons border, the Senate tell me I have 2 turns to get them out, so next turn I move them to my side do my stuff and end the turn.

What happens, the Senate decides we are at war with the Britons, and the congratulates me for moving my army back to my side of the border.

Anyway that meant the Gaul village I'd just taken was under seige but fortunately I whacked that army, complete massacre 800 Britons killed none left for the loss of 23 men.

Fortunately Spain who I am allied with haven't broken the alliance. I had one with the Britons so I could deal with Gaul. Oh well just two Gaul provinces to get and they are done.

Then I will take the remaining Briton provinces. I'll leave Germany alone, make allies with them.

[Galanti]

Dowly, your install looks pretty sweet - what mod is that?

Europa Barbarorum :up:
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/

Ah, thanks. I had thought about trying EB, but the fact that it ends in AD 14 kind of bothers me (and no, it has nothing to do with the lack of lorica segmentata). I think I'd just prefer it more if the timeline spanned the Republic and Imperial times more evenly. Are there any user mods available that extend the enddate?

But those graphics look very good indeed. Is it 1.1

[Dowly]

Dowly, your install looks pretty sweet - what mod is that?
Europa Barbarorum :up:
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/
Ah, thanks. I had thought about trying EB, but the fact that it ends in AD 14 kind of bothers me (and no, it has nothing to do with the lack of lorica segmentata). I think I'd just prefer it more if the timeline spanned the Republic and Imperial times more evenly. Are there any user mods available that extend the enddate?

But those graphics look very good indeed. Is it 1.1
AFAIK, you can change the end date, check the EB forums, I think there was a thread(s) about it. But mind you, 1 year in EB is 4 turns, so even if it ends to 14AD, it will be a long campaign.

And yes, it is 1.1, the latest.

[XabbaRus]

I've got pague in one of my villages, ok I have conqured it and have little there but how long does it take to clear?

[Raptor1]

I've got pague in one of my villages, ok I have conqured it and have little there but how long does it take to clear?

Take advantage of it with the Spy thingy...

[Dowly]

I've got pague in one of my villages, ok I have conqured it and have little there but how long does it take to clear?
Take advantage of it with the Spy thingy...

Rofl! Make a hole army of spies with plague. :rotfl:

[HunterICX]

I've got pague in one of my villages, ok I have conqured it and have little there but how long does it take to clear?
Take advantage of it with the Spy thingy...

Rofl! Make a hole army of spies with plague. :rotfl:

I hate the plague, out of fear I pulled my general out of the plagued city and moved him to my capital....once long ago (guess the first time I played RTW).:nope: BAAAAD MOVE!

the general was death and the Faction leader.....

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

See, You never know who gots the plague, be sure to suspect your friends, classmates and coworkers as well, they might all have the plague...

[Dowly]

A quick update on the campaign against the Gauls.

238BC

The Spearheads' attack on the Gaul has suffered it's first major setback, putting the whole campaign to a halt. On the spring of 242BC, the Sextvs' Spearheads conquered the hilltop fortress of Gergovia, but were unable to continue the push as the army had lost roughly 25% of it's men, mostly cavalry.

When the summer came, Sextvs lead his cavalry out of Gergovia to south, to the coastal fortress of Massilia that had been conquered during the winter. From there, Sextvs and his men were transported by ships to Rome, to reinforce the cavalry and get few newly formed Polybian Cavalry legions.

This move left Captain Pavlvs in charge of defending Gergovia until Sextvs came back. The Gauls soon realised this and mounted attack after another to take the fortress back. Fortunately, the defences held and in late summer, Sextvs returned to defend the fort, but no further attacks were made by the Gauls.

As the summer came to an end and turned to fall, Sextvs split his troops, taking with him his cavalry and half of the infantry. The scouts had seen the Gaul leader roaming around nearby and the general wanted to act fast to get him. He did eventually find the leader, just north of Gergovia. The Gauls were taken by surprise and a fierce fight began. Sextvs did his usual trick and put his infantry to the open field to bait the enemy to attack them, while his cavalry sat silently in the woods waiting. And once again, the Gauls fell on to it, the battle was quickly over and the Gaullish leader layed dead on the battlefield.

On his return trip, a runner came to give him a message from Gergovia. The Gauls had attacked it with force and Captain Pavlvs needed help fast. On his way back south, Sextvs was ambushed by a ~2300 headed Gaul army. Luckily, the enemy had no cavalry and the most of the battlefield was covered with forest, allowing Sextvs to move unseen with his heavy cavalry, making hit and run attacks from behind the enemy while they were tied to the infantry. This proved to work perfectly, the enemy fell by dozens on each charge. Although he won the battle, he lost ~250 men from his 1100 men army.

On the next day he arrived to Gergovia, only to find it overrun and bodies of his Spearheads thrown down from over the walls. Outnumbered by nearly 900 men, Sextvs was confident that the lust for revenge would give his remaining troops the extra will and strength needed to take the city back. And so they prepared for what was to be the last attack for many of the soldiers in the Spearheads legion.

TRIARIII!! FORWARD!
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-08-28-36.jpg

"You guys do the fighting, I heard there's a stripper on the next village. BYEE!"
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-09-19-10.jpg

Puuuuuush!
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-10-58-53.jpg

In ur flankz, pwning ur army
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-15-39-10.jpg

Run tooo theee hiiiillls, run for your livveees!! :rock:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-16-12-52.jpg

"Right, go past the beerhall and turn left. NO, THE OTHER LEFT!!"
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-24-25-19.jpg

I bet that last Gaul didnt know how wonderfull day it was to be when he woke up in the morning. :yep:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/RomeTW2008-04-1800-28-19-92.jpg

[HunterICX]

Another fine victory right there Dowly,

I'm about to lose one for sure.....Narbo Martius, its full of townwatch and sieged by 2 army strong
I still cant believe that my preatorians where a complete joke against some wardogs and mere barbarians....really HASTATI can do better then that!
so after losing that time taking and pricey army
I turned into something like this:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/823/hadesvg3.jpg

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Aye, might be a nice victory, but now all that is left from Spearheads are those units that survived that battle and Sextvs is 62 years old too. Time to start building a new army and find me a new commander. :cry:

But on the bright side, I now got the first reform and get better armored cavalry and infantry. :rock:

Oh.. one thing about that last battle, when it was over and I pressed the end turn button, I got a CTD.. I surely hope it had time to autosave the game. :damn:

I'm thinking of abandoning the whole Gaul campaign, I hate to fight them. Barbarians or not, they are ******* crazy bunch! Running around with their dick flapping in the wind hacking your guy's heads off, not nice. Much rather would take on the Karthagenian elephants. And the whole of Gaul is covered with forest and the forest is THICK in EB. :nope:

How's you plague going? ;)

[HunterICX]

The plague is gone, havent lost a governor for it...only the garrison has been effected by it and ofcourse the local people.

and I'm too getting sick of fighting these barbarian Hordes....
especially the spaniards....they are freaking annoying.

The brittons seem to have calmed down a bit with attacking me at full strenght...
the gauls have after the next siege only one Province left...huraaaaay...which is in North-West Spain :damn:

I try to get a ''cease fire'' with the Brittons to relief presure from the north so I can focus myself on Spain.

The spaniards are really a crazy bunch, they contain mostly light infantry but there is one unit called the ''Bull Fighters'' (Guerreros de Torro) they are almost immume to arrows....well they dont lose as much a light infantry would... and they are thought to fight sword vs sword.
(sometimes I really start to suspect there is a magic potion involved which give these barbarians abnormal strenght....)

I'm planning to invade spain with 4 main armies...
and screw the preatorians, too pricey and take too much time to create and are easily defeated then the Legionares....which are cheaper and faster to build.
also I hope to get a racing track soon to build Roman Legionare Cavalry...

and perhaps I start to use Gladiators in my armies too :arrgh!: where's Maximus Decimus Meridius when you need the buggah

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Havent met the Spaniards yet in my game. I think I keep it that way until I attack Karthage, at that point I need to go to Spain too as some of their cities are in the southern part of Spain. :hmm: What I really hate about fighting the Gauls with EB is that there's no one Gaul faction perse, but 2. The Aedui and the Arveni. So basically I'm fighting 2 factions at the same time. Sure, they hate eachother too and fight at times, but they tend to unify against me when they get the chance. Taking turns to attack my cities etc.

I really think I need to build more than 1 attacking army. :rotfl:The Spearheads have been my only real attacking army since the beginning of the campaign. :lol:

[HunterICX]

And so my freaking hatred against the spaniards continue...

I kindly asked the British to back down...but nah..they rather die instead.
fine....

Now...the spaniards.....I really start to get very annoyed with these Bull fighters....
they are almost too good to be true...almost everything you throw at them does little...A really pain in the arse for me to fight against...but I manage...I just throw everything I got at them, still trying to find their weakspot...Gladiators..hurry:p!

anyhow...I've lost 1 province Narbo...seen in the above post...but from there on I'm holding them back..I just keep assembling armies that Masalia and push the spaniards back to Spain and try to keep them there so I can kick the british back as they wont want to cease fire...ow wait..they want but not with me
the Brutii and scipii are now in a Cease fire with Spain...and the british as well...the SPQR is negotiating...if they cease fire they will start to poke me in the back to stop the attacks on the Spaniards....Someting I will refuse to do!

the Reformation of my Armies have taken a lot of money.. I had 40.000 Dinarii before I started...now I'm down to 3.000 as a balance after each turn...and I still manage to recruit what I want..only upgrading my Cities to get better units is now on a slow phase.

some screenshots:

versus the British after they refused the Cease fire offer:

''its not smart to try to catch a Fireball from a Onager''

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4760/rtwai7.jpg

''Well, if you dont come to me, I just have to come to you''

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3898/rtw1rv0.jpg

''Comon...1 2 3 4 move those fat blue arses if your too slow you die!''

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1368/rtw2oj9.jpg

Versus the Spaniards:

''CHARGE!!!!''

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8936/rtw3ni4.jpg

''Testing the Bullfighters...''

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5808/rtw4zm7.jpg

the Campaign map (note: look at the size of the Egypt's Empire on the minimap ''left bottom corner of the screenshot'':o lets keep those as a Ally!)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5139/rtw5ld5.jpg

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

I'm playing on easy level at the moment but the bloody Britons. I manage dto get a ceasefire and 1000 dinarii off the Spanish so since the Brits have only 2 provinces on the mainland I'll take them then turn on the Spaniards where I have a standing army ready to go and navy to block the ports.

One more thing the senate wants me to blockade Londinium but I don't know if I can get ships into the Bay of Biscay then north to Britain.

One more thing the Gaulish faction was destroyed but there is still a village in spain with a Gaulish flag in it. WTF?

[HunterICX]

One more thing the Gaulish faction was destroyed but there is still a village in spain with a Gaulish flag in it. WTF?
Was there message that said the Gaulish faction was destroyed, if YES then its probally the ''Fog'' over the part of the map that will prevent from updating it for you so it might be that the spanish already re-took the city.

just to explain that quikly , you can only complety see the provinces off your allies and ofcourse you can follow their movements easily.
the enemy provinces are covered with a sort of Fog, this will be a blind spot for you to spot enemy movement, also where the fog covers the map wont be updated each turn, it will update as soon you have a unit Spy/Army entering the province.

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Meh, I think I start all over. My economy is starting to fail and I hate the ******* Gauls (nothing's stopping them now that I attacked them, need to go South the next time). :hmm:

[HunterICX]

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3310/43799937587f297de07oci2.jpg

REVENGE IS SWEET!

People of the Julii, at last we are gaining what the spaniards took of us, Narbo is ours again! and now a brave captain took up the responsibility to hold the spaniards in Spain!

The senate gave the order to attack Lugduno..the village that the brits took from us, for once Julii agrees and is planning the assault on Lugduno!

In Narbo, the spaniards felt the wrath for every roman brother they slain! the victory was epic as we crushed the spaniards and we found out what the Bullfighters fear...Fire!

---

Finally! Narbo is mine again and I smashed every spanish in the province...Ha!
now I saw there was a gran army of the Gauls in the north..I first asked for a cease fire...but they said its time is not ripe yet....fine....then I will talk to you up close and personal.

I killed the lot..only the general and some units escaped....
I asked with a diplomat again to come to reason and cease fire...now here was his answer...

''Talking with you is just a waste of Time'' :o

they got balls I tell ya, only one province left in north spain and they dont want to come to reason.

some screenshots:


''Having a shot at the Rebel army''
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7079/rtwro4.jpg

''Its not healthy to eat a rock''

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2571/rtw1pe9.jpg

''Catch!''
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3846/rtw2xi5.jpg


''Ah...Narbo....back again''
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9093/rtw3rc3.jpg

''I love the smell of roasting Spaniards in the cold winter morning''
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/381/rtw4om2.jpg

''Cleaning the mess from the battlefield''
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5145/rtw5cg6.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

I find it quite amusing that you yourself is from Spain Hunter!:lol:

[XabbaRus]

Hunter is Dutch.

[Dowly]

But lives in Spain. ;) I bet the fecka had something to do with the bus accident costing few finnish lives today or was it yesterday. Taking flying lessons or something and decided to "land" to the road. :D

[XabbaRus]

Hunter how do you get those closeup screenshots of teh senators when you do your background bit?

[HunterICX]

@Biggles:

Yep, I'm dutch but my anger against the spaniards is pure RTW wise ;). They are stuborn and thought to beat in battle..so yeah they annoy me a lot :lol:.

@Dowly:

I know that road the bus flipped over...its a highway that goes downhill and you have some crazy fecks going 120KM/H - 140 KM/H and that in a long turn...slowing down and you may lose control like what happend to that 4x4, lost control slamming against the rails and then heading towards the bus....:nope:

@Xabba: click on a Unit and press ''delete'' button on the keyboard...that will LOCK the camera onto your unit and you can zoom in by scrolling and arrow keys.

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

i know how to do that in battle but I am talking about the pics you have of teh fat Roman senator, ie photo not ingame 3d.

[HunterICX]

Ah....

thats Ian McNeice from the Rome TV series I've been following,
i just have the pictures of the web.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Ah, sorry mate, figured you were Spanish since you play R:TW with spanish text, and your sig. says Malaga so...

[HunterICX]

No need to apoligize, mate

I'm a Dutch living in Spain and I'm rather here in Spain then in Holland
(nice people, Weather is better down here ;) , less things to worry about)

and ofcourse if I buy a game here it mostly is dubbed over in Spanish language.

HunterICX

[Midnight Hunter]

Any more stories about??? Althought I am not a huge fan of the RTS genre (due mainly to my lack of orginizational skillz lol) I do enjoy reading these reports and following along. Keep up the good reports guys, look forward to seeing some more :up:

[Dowly]

Well I'm currently trying to decide what to do, continue this one or start a new one where I either a) attack the Karthagenians instead of Gaul or b) try to follow the historical timeline when and what city I take using sources like this (http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/romans.html), this (http://resourcesforhistory.com/map.htm) or this (http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/rome1.htm).

[Raptor1]

Okay here's mine, I'm playing BI with the Invasio Barbarorum mod as the Western Roman Empire (Yes, I'm feeling quite suicidal)

HISTORY OF THE IMPERIUM ROMANUM OCCIDENTALIS
By retired Praefectus Classis, Raptorius Unus

Chapter I

410 AD


The once mighty Roman Empire is on the verge of crumbling, the Empire has split in 2 and the Western half has not been faring so well, There have been numerous desertions and revolts, most notably one emperor-usurper named Constantinus, a common soldier who has declared himself emperor of the Western Empire and is now in control of most of Gaul, the Visigoths are at the gates of Rome and the capital has once again been moved to Ravenna.

The Army of Constantinus Flavius is now poised to attack usurper Constantinus' capital, the City of Arelate, after attacking and annihilating a small vanguard force led by one Captain Magnus outside the city, which has been slain by Flavius' gigantic army at night in order to cut it off from reinforcements by the usurper's no less gigantic army now sitting inside the walls of Arelate

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3674/are1co6.jpg

The poor saps never really stood a chance, did they?

Emperor Honorius is now attempting to gather an army from the surrounding cities in Italy in an attempt to drive off the Visigoths, but their vastly superior numbers are tough to match in such a small timeframe...

Chapter II

The Vandals are attacking the Roman Provinces in Hispania, they're invading force has been repelled at Corduba by the considerably smaller garrison, which has destroyed or routed most of the Vandal army after they're attempt to attack the city with 4 battering rams, the 2 breaches at the gate and near the gate had enough troops to break through the defender's ranks, but the 2 flanking ones we're repelled and this allowed Captain Valerius to bring his small cavalry force and his remaining infantry through the breaches and attack the Vandal troops rushing into the city, But the Vandals have returned, and they are once again sieging the City, and their siege of Carthago Nova is still in place

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/595/cor1vp0.jpg

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3070/cor2kn7.jpg



http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/944/cor3ta0.jpg

Meanwhile, Usurper Constantinus' army has sallied forth to attack General Flavius' troops outside of Arelate and has been utterly annihilated by the Roman force in a bloody battle with massive casualties sustained on both sides

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2668/ar1nf9.jpg


http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/5549/ar2oj5.jpg
The Battle

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6008/ar3hv2.jpg
The Usurper is DEAD, MWAHAHAHAHAHA

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6821/ar4vj6.jpg
The Reorganized Roman Formation
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2586/ar5vs7.jpg

Chasing the Survivers through the City
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/401/ar6ao4.jpg


Lastly, The Visigothic Hordes have apperantly left Italy, but a few of them we're left behind and Imperator Honorius' assembled army moved to intercept them, the superiority of organized Roman troops over masses of disorganized Barbarians is apparant, as the smaller Roman army outnumbed 2/3 has practically crushed the Visigothic Horde by dividing it with 2 flanking cavalry forces and then moving the main Infantry body forward to attack

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8623/goths1kq6.jpg
Big Horde
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3135/goths3gu1.jpg
Squish

[HunterICX]

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7241/369803848db6ab123c9ya1.jpg

The Empire Strikes Back....Harder.

People of the Julii, we are on the move again! we are gaining grounds from the Britons, the Spaniards are now hold back by a brave blocade which will give its life to defend roman grounds.

The Roman senate has ordered to take back lugduno, for the first time I thought the Senate made some sense, 2 Armies marched towards the province and confronted the heavy defended village as there was a grand Briton army just outside the walls.
but they where no match for Roman steel and none was left alive.
When the siege was laid, Roman Onager bombarded the Britons with fire, our Roman Archers rained fired on them , the morale of the enemy was very low and the plaza was taken with little resistance.
ROMA VICTOR!

...

Finally I'm beating some serious spaniards and taking back what the britons took from me. The Spaniards are still stuborn to accept a Cease fire, they are battering my Army that holds them down there in Spain very hard...I've lost many men but I will not let them set 1 foot in my provinces anymore...I keep rearming the troops from Masalia while another army is assembling.

anyhow some screenshots:

The Blocade battle (Round1):


''I dont like the sight of this''
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2702/rtwyt2.jpg

As you can see now, the Bullfighters really made my whole army run for its money, I just could win by making the last unit flee (managed to kill their Captain which dropped their morale too) and at the end I had the luck that most of the units that ran away came back to fight another day.

Pfew...
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2479/rtw1wv2.jpg

Somewhere in southern France
a left over from a Spanish army attacked my Main army that was heading to Lugduno.
they regret it...I've lost nothing as I bombared the hell out of them.

INCOMMING!:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9052/rtw2ks8.jpg

Blocade Round 2....

''Its payback time!''

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/250/rtw3nm3.jpg

Blocade Round 3:

''They are not giving up are they?''

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5589/rtw4ku3.jpg

A heavy debate with swords and shields

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8877/rtw5zw0.jpg

The grand Army of the britons outside the village of Lugduno

''The british are comming, the british are comming!''

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/8726/rtw6tf7.jpg

FOR ROME!!!!!

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7470/rtw7nf2.jpg

The Siege of Lugduno

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1812/rtw8pl6.jpg

the Gladiators are a nice bait, they pretty much beat the living hell out of enemy soldiers and they attract a lot of units when they are in the walls so my archers can have a nice shot at them

HunterICX

[Jacky Fisher]

I have so many campaigns in TW its kinda scary...:o so just the Persian factions (my favorite besides the Celtic ones) for now (I still haven't figured out how to capture screenshots. sorry:oops:)

in the Rise of Persia mod (Rome Total war)...........the men of Parsa currently are punching into Mesopatima, but the Medes have made some threating gestures against Parthagadae, which may force a withdrawal back to Pars

in the Roma Surrectum mod (Rome Total War).........in less than twenty years the Parthian kingdom has become an empire, driving the Seluecids before them. Damascus, Dumatha in Arabia and Antioch are all under siege with one army poised at the Cilican gates to invade Galatia

in the Flagellum Dei mod (Barbarian Invasion)...........the Eastern Empire is reeling after several crushing defats in Syria, but the Armenians have treacherously rebelled against thier rightful ShahInShah and declared independance, but the Savaran have moved to lay siege to the new Armenian kingdom's capital.

once I figure out how to do screencaps, I'll post some more on the exploits of the readers of the Avesta.

[XabbaRus]

I'll have to play tonight.
I have 3 more provinces in spain to capture and then I turn my attention to wiping out the Britons and the Germans before the Bruti do.

I need to rationalise my armies.

I think I will just make Legionnaires, Archers, Principes, Cavalry and Ballistas.

Once I have Spain under control I can leave a standing army there and dispatch troops north west.

[Jacky Fisher]

Rise of Persia update...

The advance of the Medes has thrown the forces of Parsa on the defensive in Mesopatima, while central Seistan and the Lurs have, with a little monatary incentive, declared for Parsa. Darius has joined his father Cyrus amongst the honored dead, but the Medes and Babylonians have yet to defeat the sons of Parthagadae. The Babylonians have lost three kings to Pars arrows, while two Medes princes have fallen in battle as well.

more later on...

[Jacky Fisher]

bump....

Flagellum Dei update...The treacherous Armenians in Tigranokert have paid the ultimate price for thier treason, while Antioch and Ceasarea have come under the rule of the Savaran. However, trouble has come to the Caspain gates, as the fortess of Derbant has fallen to the treaty-breaking Bulgars. The advance of the elite forces of the ShahinShah into the lands of Cappadocia has been halted as the Delymites and Sarder have been re-deployed to counter the Bulgars. I smell Roman treachery...

Roma Surrectum update...the last territories of the house of Selukos in Asia have fallen to the house of Arsces, but the Armenians have stupidly betrayed thier Iranian bretheren. One border town has already fallen, while other armies of Parthia, along with our honored ally Pontus, move to crush these upstarts before they can challenge the throne of the ShahinShah...

[XabbaRus]

OK now where?
I have Gaul and Spain, and a couple of German provinces. I'm the largest faction and most advanced and popular with the Senate and the public.

The Bruti are also moving into Germania.

I'm trying to consolidate my economy whilst moving forces to the north and west. I'm secure that my internal lands are OK. I leave a good sized town watch backed up by a couple of cohorts to maintain control.

Thing is I'm getting really nervous. Do I sit tight and do nothing for a few turns except move troops up, build money making buildings and consolidate my forces?

[Dowly]

Thing is I'm getting really nervous. Do I sit tight and do nothing for a few turns except move troops up, build money making buildings and consolidate my forces?

Attack is the best defence. ;)

Sitting tight also gives the AI time to grow. :yep:

[XabbaRus]

so sonce I have gaul and spain I don't have to have heavy garrisons in the towns, maybe town watch and some legionaries.

Meanwhile I move my strike armies to the border and have guard armies near the border towns till they are secure.

[Jacky Fisher]

Roma Surrectum update...(2 gameplay sessions) The war with Armenia is already almost over as three out of Armenia's 6 settlements at the start of the war have fallen to the men of Parthia. One settlement fell to combination of a spy and an understrength unit of cataphract archers, while one Armenian field army was bribed with the wealth of Parthia to disband. Meanwhile, in the Arabian desert, it appears that the sons of Ptolemy are eyeing Petra, which was bribed away from them by a clever Parthian emissary, but a crack army of cavalry is moving through the burning sands to aid the defenders of the the wealthy trading town in case the Egyptian dogs try anything stupid. At the Cilican gates, one Seluecid army was destroyed by the gate guard army, which now contains two units of war elephants...

[HunterICX]

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8873/newsreaderrf8.jpg

*BUMP!*

after a breather, the spaniards are back trying to get into southern france which is blocked by the brave captain and its army.

Our diplomat gave them a final chance to come to reason and drop arms and cease fire...his reply:

''Tell that Son of a (Bleep) that he can kiss my hairy arse''

-El Rey Hispanico

*sighs*

Let the invasion begin, 3 companies are going to enter Spain the next season.

''walking towards their doom''
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1933/rtwwl6.jpg

''Doom Awaits''
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/9553/rtw1md6.jpg

''Doom wins (quite obvious isnt it?)''
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/4135/rtw2cj8.jpg

''...again they attack''

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8356/rtw3fr4.jpg

''Beating some sense into them''

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2221/rtw4ho7.jpg

''Marching towards Spain, taking down a Gaulish remain while we are at it''

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8122/rtw5ye1.jpg

''Campaign Map''

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4853/rtw6kr0.jpg

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Ok, I've finally managed to reinstall RTW & Europa Barbarorum and gonna start a new campaign like I described some posts earlier i.e. trying to follow the historic path of expansion whenever possible.

ROMAAA VICTOOOOOORRR!!! :D
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/castra.jpg

[Biggles]

Bump?:lol:

[HunterICX]

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7241/369803848db6ab123c9ya1.jpg

The Stuborn Spanish people

Again, and again they try to beat through our forces but fail.
Our general however...is wondering when they run out of men as they keep comming in large numbers. Good news, the elitest Bull fighters are now in minor numbers and our men have a field day beating the Hispanic armies.

Our Diplomats tried to get the Hispanic generals to come to reason, but as stuborn as they are they refuse. As our forces have found a way around the Valley they will enter Spain from the eastern coast and secure a the town of Osca.

---

Again?!
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/6612/rtw9nj6.jpg

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4941/rtw10hh0.jpg

Mmm..Mercs....running short on recruits?
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/870/rtw11ot1.jpg

Military March along the East Coast:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5781/rtw12jl9.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6749/rtw13kc8.jpg

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5959/rtw15wo5.jpg

Back at the Valey...

Soon..I'm going to have my men screaming they cant take it anymore of this killing...

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9866/rtw16lh6.jpg

The Aftermath...what a mess

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7609/rtw17oz7.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Great! Teach those spaniards a lesson!

Playing as HRE using SS 6.1. I wage a bloody war againts the Kingdom of Denmark at the moment (doesn't bother me the slightest:lol: ) and since they're not all too high on the pope-o-meter, I can do whatever I want.

A crusade was called against Nyköping (Or as the game calls it, Nykoeping). I sent two armies to the baltic, one through our provinces in Sweden (in a war that ended several years earlier, I manage to annex Århus (Arhus), Roskilde, Lund and Kalmar. I later lost Århus to the Norwegians, but I really had no desire to pick a fight with them at the moment, so I managed to make peace, and form an alliance, so now they fight with me againts the danes!

The other army (thought I'd forget about that one, didn't you?) I sent with a fleet towards Gotland. I was worried that the Danish highfleet would interfere, but they seemed to be busy elsewhere. The army reached the island, and soon besieged the main settlement, Visby.

After a year outside the walls, the General decided to strike.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9848/kingdoms200810262209227lm3.jpg
They really hadn't much to hope for...it was 300 against more than 1000 germans...
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1669/kingdoms200810262209326gd9.jpg
The gate was breached, and the troops poured through, heading straight towards the towncenter.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5313/kingdoms200810262211162ie7.jpg
At the center of the town we could find Prince Tworzymir who fought to the death together with his men.
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5307/kingdoms200810262215560yf9.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7431/kingdoms200810262216053dd7.jpg
310 danes died with him. The entire garrison. Gotland is now ours, and will make an excellent outpost from which we can organize further attacks along the baltic sea. The army is now being sent to help out in the Crusade, and Visby is reformed as a castle. This island will be held at all cost! The German-Danish war just took a considerable turn to the better for the germans....

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Scotlands Greatest Victory!

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8324/0000lj0.jpg (http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php)

[danlisa]

Ok, last night a certain 4th edition game was deleted from my HDD to make room for RTW again.:D

Cos, I'm lazy and can't be arsed to trawl this thread to find out, I assume everyone is using RTW Realism Mod (v1.9 Plat)? Is this the end-all mod to use?

[Dowly]

Ok, last night a certain 4th edition game was deleted from my HDD to make room for RTW again.:D

Cos, I'm lazy and can't be arsed to trawl this thread to find out, I assume everyone is using RTW Realism Mod (v1.9 Plat)? Is this the end-all mod to use?

Europa Barbarorum is the GWX of RTW if you ask me. :up:

[danlisa]

:o Ooooo, downloading.......

[HunterICX]

Running stock RTW here :p , on hardest settings (Campaign & Battle)

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Medieval II: Kingdoms, Stainless Steal 6.61 mod.

The german campaign is with campaign difficulty Hard, battle difficulty easy...

[Rilder]

Europa Barbarorum is the GWX of RTW if you ask me. :up:

Yes, EB is the greatest thing to happen ever imho. ;)

[HunterICX]

THE SIEGE OF OSCA

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7820/newsreaderct1.jpg

Hispania!
Why didnt you listen, why so stuborn and resistant.
We only requested a truce and think over our best interest but you choosed death and terror. Rome shall reply! and Rome shall reply that when we are finished your people shall obey ROME. the ones who resist shall be crushed, the ones who refuse to obey Rome shall be crucified.

---

At Osca:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8168/rtw18hl1.jpg

Bombarded by Roman Catapults:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6070/rtw19ts3.jpg

Osca Burning:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2302/rtw20ag6.jpg

Catapults are out of ammunition....but there isnt rest for the defenders Archers are getting in place:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7260/rtw21gw4.jpg

FIRE!
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8219/rtw22po8.jpg

Javelins rain on the enemy:
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9351/rtw23qk2.jpg

Death is raining on top of them almost everywhere:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/6049/rtw24bt4.jpg

They still dont give up when we march inside the walls:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1256/rtw25ic7.jpg

Run little one, Run!
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4316/rtw26gv1.jpg

Marching to the center plaza:
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/1826/rtw27ap5.jpg

In the battle, our General has fallen.
While the Elite Bull fighter was chasing a group of cohort fleeing he charged right into them and gave his life in the very first charge. His death wasnt in vain as the Cohort regrouped and re-entered Osca to make sure they pay dearly.
Victory came at last!

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2593/rtw28ng3.jpg

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

After...how many years have you been trying to take Spain?

[Biggles]

I'm tellin' you, you either fight Spain or the Britons, but not at the same time!:stare:

[HunterICX]

I'm tellin' you, you either fight Spain or the Britons, but not at the same time!:stare:
:88) The reason the war against Spain takes so long as I need to fend of the Britons from the North :stare:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Can't you just invade Britain, mop them up (IIRC they only have 2 or 3 provinces) and then finish off Spain?

[HunterICX]

Can't you just invade Britain, mop them up (IIRC they only have 2 or 3 provinces) and then finish off Spain?
Look at the Minimap of the Campaign map :shifty:
they have about half of Germany, Holland , Northern France and Britain.

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Can't you just invade Britain, mop them up (IIRC they only have 2 or 3 provinces) and then finish off Spain?
Look at the Minimap of the Campaign map :shifty:
they have about half of Germany, Holland , Northern France and Britain.

HunterICX

Oh, I thoughts that was the Scipii :damn:

[HunterICX]

''THE ROAD TO CARTAGO NOVA''

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7241/369803848db6ab123c9ya1.jpg

Our Roman brothers are gaining territory quikly in Spain, we defeat the Hispanic troops with ease as it's been completly disorganized and exhausted.
Their stuborn attitude hasnt changed, they still have the balls of a bull to attack our troops but they pay dearly for every skirmish they make. Now one army has reached Cartago Nova, layed sieged and conquered it in the name of ROME!

---

somewhere in Italy, a rebels didnt like the way of Rome...
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/9181/rtw29tj4.jpg

Didn't bother me , I didnt like them neither....
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8945/rtw30ba2.jpg

The Hispanic troops trying to regain Osca?
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7619/rtw31bn6.jpg

Not a smart idea to come close to my troops.
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6346/rtw32kt5.jpg

Another Hispanic Army tries to attack Osca.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8244/rtw33rp8.jpg

Let's destroy their Morale
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/345/rtw34ph9.jpg

CHARGE!
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2610/rtw35qj1.jpg

Comon brothers!
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2674/rtw36ri2.jpg

At Cartago Nova, they decided to attack me before I could lay siege, with perfect advantage that I was standing on a cliff.
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6228/rtw37an8.jpg

Charging down on them
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5174/rtw38sp1.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5936/rtw39iz8.jpg

Part 2 comming up

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Part2:

At the gates of Cartago Nova
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4797/rtw40ih5.jpg

Archers getting into place
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/44/rtw41tz9.jpg

Fire!
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/7235/rtw42dk0.jpg

Behind the walls
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9989/rtw43iu0.jpg

Take that plaza!
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9536/rtw44gi9.jpg

Roman Soldiers: We got you now!
Hispanic General: Ehm...eh...I want to speak to your General at once!
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4450/rtw45fb1.jpg

Roman Soldier: No Need he gave me this message : SILENCE!!!!!
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5366/rtw46lg9.jpg

Campaign Map:
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1763/rtw47ak5.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Damn, that game world sure looks interesting! The egypts are building up quite an empire over there!:o

[XabbaRus]

Just reinstalled MTWII going to have some fun i think.

[XabbaRus]

Ok for MTX II there seems to be no uber mod a la RTW which had either EB or RTW.

I'm not going to Mod MTWII right now but what would be the best.

I'm looking for historical accuracy as well as AImods..Saying that the Ruisich mod looks interesting.

[Rilder]

Ok for MTX II there seems to be no uber mod a la RTW which had either EB or RTW.

I'm not going to Mod MTWII right now but what would be the best.

I'm looking for historical accuracy as well as AImods..Saying that the Ruisich mod looks interesting.

The reason why theirs no ubermods for M2:TW is because its still relatively new, the EB team begain work on EB before RTW was even released and it still took a couple years to get to its first open beta.

[HunterICX]

Damn, that game world sure looks interesting! The egypts are building up quite an empire over there!:o

Got me worried too, it's such a huge territory he has now
imagine the resources and menpower :-?

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Little pic for Hunter, I think he'll get the reference ;)

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/9131/lsdiscofloorlww5.jpg

[HunterICX]

Little pic for Hunter, I think he'll get the reference ;)

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/9131/lsdiscofloorlww5.jpg

:rotfl: Ow yeah,
that flickering doorpath of that gaulish building :up:

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Ok for MTX II there seems to be no uber mod a la RTW which had either EB or RTW.

I'm not going to Mod MTWII right now but what would be the best.

I'm looking for historical accuracy as well as AImods..Saying that the Ruisich mod looks interesting.

Well if you have the kingdoms expansion there is a few good ones....

Stainless Steal Mod, as I use. I'm very happy with it.

Deus lo Vult, bit more hardcore...

Then with stock MII there is Broken Crescent. Also a rather new mod that I find interesting, For King or Country, based on the English Civil War.

[Biggles]

My way to bump this thread.

Playing as Armenia in Broken Crescent. My King attacks Iraklion with his army....
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5184/medieval220081107202200zm7.jpg

[Rilder]

Deep in Dacia, Oxyartes Kotyoraios and the Bosphorian Army is marched against by a Makedon Puppet Warlord.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Bridge.jpg

The Getai Tribe in the north had for years resisted against Makedon, but with War between Pontos and Makedon becoming a large scale conflict, an alliance was soon signed with the resistant barbarians and the Bosphorian army was deployed to the Getai Home Provinces.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/Charge.jpg
Oxyartes deploys his army on the side of one of the only bridges in the Area, the Makedonians, consisting mostly of Barbarians, charge across the river into the Pontic lines.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/arrowfodder.jpg
The Hellenic-Skythian Hoplitai resist the charge while the Bosphoran Heavy Archers and Skythian Horse Archers rain hell upon the weakly armed barbarians.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s311/Rilder/runn.jpg
The enemy soon routes, A great victory!

[HunterICX]

GAULISH DOWNFALL

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7820/newsreaderct1.jpg
As long known the Gauls still had 1 province left, in middle Hispania they settled themselfs away from our reach protected by the Hispanic armies.
but since the invasion of Hispania we managed to clear our way towards the city of Numancia.
The king of the Gauls refused to come to reason, and that was his downfall.
Roman arms are victorious yet again, and its almost certain that nothing can stop us from taking Hispania.

---

A Hispanic army standing between the Romans and Numancia.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1654/rtw48td1.jpg

The Battle in full heat:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8952/rtw49cf0.jpg

The Hispanic army in full retreat
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3424/rtw50kl8.jpg

Storming Numancia
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4253/rtw51gc0.jpg

Defendors of Nurmancia
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7711/rtw52pq9.jpg

The Road to the center plaza, its a bit messy
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4549/rtw53nh6.jpg

The Gaulish King, has fallen
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7783/rtw54ae9.jpg

ROMA VICTOR!
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8936/rtw55dk2.jpg

Campaign map:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8524/rtw56yy7.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Well done! Well done indeed!:up:

[HunterICX]

British Breakfast and a Hispanic Siesta

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/219/1356290816677e064ec1ovd8.jpg

In the early morning, the guards of Patavio where awaken by a foul screaming horde of British troops, with them they towed siege engines which the people of patavio havent seen before. Huge towers with balista's on the top of it, slaughtering our troops on the walls while they moved close to mount an attack on the walls.
caught by surpise and attacked both sides the brave general retreated to the plaza to invite the British for a meatgrinder..and a Meat grinder it turned out to be in Favour for Roman arms!

Meanwhile in the North-West of Hispania there was a little village called Asturica, a quiet town live continued there as there was not a War going on at all...until Romans arrived to take the town in the name of Rome! we took it, with very little resistance.

For the British slaughterhouse at Patavio, Roman who taken part in it wanted to see revenge and revenge was granted we marched to Luvavo a town North of Patavio who we lost many years ago, it was time to take it back! and we took it back!
the Julii are now currently unstopable, Hispania has only 2 provinces left and after that we focus our strenght completly on the British. Be warned Britons...We're comming...SOON!

---

The Walls of Patavio:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/7711/rtw57zd7.jpg

The Brits took the walls:
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/91/rtw58dr8.jpg

the Defense at Patavio's plaza:
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/8093/rtw59pb5.jpg

The brave troops who defended it:
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4005/rtw60rq9.jpg

Chaaaarge!
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3420/rtw61oh8.jpg

Victory at Patavio:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6237/rtw62fv2.jpg

At the gates of Asturica:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/624/rtw63wt2.jpg

The defense
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9057/rtw64zp5.jpg

Moving in:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5633/rtw65gr6.jpg

Archers moving in:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9831/rtw66ey4.jpg

Open...Fire!
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7457/rtw67ck8.jpg

At the gates of Luvavo:
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6453/rtw68eg7.jpg

Siege underway:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5492/rtw69wn9.jpg

This is for Patavio!
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9648/rtw70ps2.jpg

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6654/rtw71uh9.jpg

Campaign Map:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1979/rtw72ja7.jpg

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Done South, Up North!

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3310/43799937587f297de07oci2.jpg

At last, Victory for Romans! The Hispanic are no more, their people now obey the word of Rome.

It was a swift siege on both Settlements they had left. Corduba fell with little resistance, Scallabis needed a harder beating before we could take it over.
Hispanic King who was based in Coduba didn't surrender till a Roman sword shut his eyes.

Now with Hispania under control, we move North...North towards those Britons.
Britons are brave, they had the balls to attack Patavio and now they shall pay dearly for that one.

---

Testing the British on the open Field:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8885/rtw73cp8.jpg

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2316/rtw74jx3.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9086/rtw75gr0.jpg

The last Hispanic attack in the open:

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/8043/rtw76yd5.jpg

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6986/rtw77of9.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5750/rtw78qy0.jpg

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2004/rtw79oe7.jpg

The siege of Scallabis:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1595/rtw80zu3.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6126/rtw81kn5.jpg

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4926/rtw82eu0.jpg

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/3249/rtw83uc0.jpg

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4338/rtw84te6.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/530/rtw85re4.jpg

The last stance at Scallabis
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4702/rtw86er3.jpg

Part 2 comming soon.

[HunterICX]

part 2:

The End in Sight, Corduba:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6509/rtw87yh6.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/595/rtw88zr2.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3946/rtw89eq8.jpg

The king, the last man
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8650/rtw90hw3.jpg

The fall of the Hispanic King, The fall of Hispania.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/1552/rtw91bt1.jpg

The Campaign map:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/259/rtw92qu2.jpg

HunterICX

[Biggles]

The long war will soon be over...Roi Louis the Merciless of France is killed in northern Iberia in an epic battle against an overwhelming foe, two great armies from the County of Flanders.

After the battle....
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9790/kingdoms200811291519438nm2.jpg
The main army was given the order to hold their position as the second one charged the routing frenchmen. The main army had taken most of the fighting, so this was a kind of award for them.
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/3088/kingdoms200811291519560fv8.jpg
They held the hill...
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/3872/kingdoms200811291520036qx1.jpg
The french forces are now no more. Their last stronghold is besieged as we speak. This will be the fall of France, in the hands of Flanders.
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/1707/kingdoms200811291520530tj9.jpg

[HunterICX]

Good report Biggles :up:

The Britons are....Pushed back

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7241/369803848db6ab123c9ya1.jpg

Hear me people of the Julii, it has begun the conquest of the northen provinces occupied by the Briton barbarians. They prove not able to hold our advantage at bay and are pushed back quikly. In Hispania the cleaning of the former Hispanic armies has begun rebelled in the countryside we hunt them down and make sure they will not cause any trouble.

---

An Briton army gambled and tried to attack me:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7262/rtw93la8.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2119/rtw94bl9.jpg

Bad gamble:
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Cleaning Hispania, someone has to do it:
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Pitch Forks! the first time I see it used against me
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Householding service on the way
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hup hup hup hup hup hup hup
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Ramming the lines:
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Great there is more to clean:
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Catch!
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For ROME!
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Hold the line!
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reform the line!
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Part 2 comming up

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

part 2:


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Campaign map:
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HunterICX

[Biggles]

A battle as the Teutonic order. Crushing a Danish army on Gotland.


They were cornered. Amongst them were King Bjarke, leading his troops valiantly towards the end.
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As the Teutonic archers let hell rain over the danes, the norsmen rushed forward, deciding that it's better to die by a spear than an arrow.
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The two forces clash and a meatgrinder appears between them.
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The Danish King is slain. He died like a hero like his men. Alas, the day is ours.
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[Rilder]

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200BC, A time of great turmoil on the frontier for Roma, in East the legions, simply running out of fresh troops for battles with Makedon, are forced to abandon Illyria due to increased pressure, many battles were fought and are continued to be fought, but priorities are elsewhere.

Brave Romans Fighting:
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[HunterICX]

Romani!

272 BC

Peace was distrubed when the enemy army of Epirote laid siege on the city of Capua, Roman General Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio is summoned to march upon the enemy to aid the people of Capua.
Enemy scouts spotted our Army marching towards the besiegers and they retreated to the south-west of Capua.

The Army of Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio followed them untill there was no place for them to go and where forced stand and fight!

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This act of aggression by Espirote was of high concern for the Roman council, this issue had to be solved immediatly.

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HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Romani!

271 BC

News from our capital that our Faction leader Manivs Curivs Dentatvs passed away. A sad day as this great man has gone to the afterlife.

Cnaevs Cornelivs Blasio, the heir of our faction took over this great task as our new leader and promised to create a greater Roma.

Meanwhile Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio marched into Espirote's land in Taras to face the enemy's armies that where near our borders.
As hoped for...they attacked.

Roman troops where about to have a field day for Roma!

Our Roman forces where deployed in the south West, the main forces of the Espirote came from the East and some of their reinforcements from the North-East.

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HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Oh noes, the v's replacing the u's must mean one thing...Europa Barbarorum!

Crush the Pyrrhic army for me, I failed to do it miserably the first time I ran an EB campaign.

Oh, Espirote?

[Dowly]

Nice to see you finally tried EB Hunter, aint it good or wha? :salute:

[Biggles]

Bah, the romans are history, here is something more modern!
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Swedes bustin' some russian bums!:shucks:

[HunterICX]

Nice to see you finally tried EB Hunter, aint it good or wha? :salute:

Ah yes, it's very refreshing to have a TW game that is more in depth and more on the historical lines then the stock game.:yeah:

Swedes bustin' some russian bums!

Bustin russians bums.....*sprays beer against the monitor*

Yeah you Swedes are known for that ''bustin bums'' :O::rotfl:

HunterICX

[stabiz]

:rotfl:

[HunterICX]

Romani!

270 BC

The time was ripe to remove the Epeiros from the peninsula, the army of general Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio marched onto the town of Taras and sieged it.

The Epirote Army had different ideas and attacked the army of Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio.

Execellent!

Misfortune hitted the Epirote Army good, a group of hoplites stood utterly alone while the rest of the Epirote's army was a bit further away.

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Another Epirote army of was somewhere located in the North-East of the province of Taras. 2 units of Principes where dispatched to deal with these remaining troops.
The battle was a Roman glory and the Captain became a General of Roma.

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HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Espirote

May I politely inquire as to who are these of which you speak?

[HunterICX]

May I politely inquire as to who are these of which you speak?

they belong to the faction Epeiros

EDIT: oops...I see ''typo''

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Romani!


268BC

Traitors!

Avlvs Decivs Ivbellivs the governor of Rhegion betrayed Roma, he no longer wanted to deal with our interests and in a act of agression he dispatched a rebellion army led by the General Qvintvs to polute our lands with the word traitor of Roma under their footsteps.

Ofcourse the famous General Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio was send to make them pay!

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Soon the rebels where utterly crushed by Roman arms.
The captured General Qvintvs throat was sliced and let to bleed to death.

There was another throat to be cut and General Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio was marching right towards his settlemant to execute the will of Roma to make this Traitor pay!

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Part 2 comes up shortly

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

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The siege was costly, many good Romans died but they shall be remembered.

The traitor Avlvs Devivs Ivbellivs was dragged out of his hiding and his throat was cut for all of the people of Rhegion to see.

Also there was a little thing that had to be done in the name of Roma.

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HunterICX

[Biggles]

Nicely done, and finally a new page, that last one was unbearably long!

[HunterICX]

Romani!

266 BC

Messana and War!

For a couple of years it was quiet around Roma, our leader Cnaevs Cornelivs Blasio decided to expand our territory and had his eyes on Messana the Roman council objected as this would break the alliance between Roma and the Karthadastim. Treaties where signed a time ago that stated that crossing the Messana strait with an Army would be received as an act of agression against the karthadastim.

''I do not let these Elephant riders and it's treaties with us stand in my way to create a greater Roma'' Cnaevs shouted.

So the Legions of Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio marched onto Messana to lay siege.

As expected the Karthadastim declared war against Roma.

The siege of Messana
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HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Romani!

265 BC

The march towards Syrakousai

Plans where made by General Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio to siege the city of Syrakousai. Conscripted Hoplites where crossing the Messana strait to increase the strenght of Scipio's Legions.

The day finally came and Roman legions marched to Syrakousai.

Scouts reported a suprise, troops from Karthadastim at the walls of the city too.

A great opportunity to have a little practice in the open fields before we attack the city of Syrakousai.

Quikly the center of the Karthadism army broke and spread to the flanks and soon all of them where running for their lives.

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HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Romani!

265 BC

The Siege

After regrouping from the battle agains the Karthadastim Army, the construction of the siege ladders and towers began.

The plan was to attack the walls from many points to stretch out the defences so much that they are easy to break.

The day came and siege began.
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HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Romani!

263 BC

Pushing the Karthadastim into the Sea

A messenger came from Roma to inform Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio that Cnaevs Cornelivs Blasio will come down from Roma to siege the city of Lilibeo personally.

When Cnaevs Cornelivs Blasio arrived he received reinforcements from Scipio's Army to increase the numbers that can be thrown against the defenders at Lilibeo.

It was time to push them into Sea
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HunterICX

[Arclight]

England V Scotland

My men regroup after the main skirmish, facing a horde of peasant archers and what remains of a generals' bodyguard.
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Left the Sherwood archers as a screen and let the infantry fall back out of range. 2 units of peasants march up after running out of arrows, like my archers did long ago, and are quickly dispatched. At that point, the English archers went on a rampage, overrunning and routing all other peasant units. Finally, one unit marched on the enemy general.
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Hunter's general stands as the last Scot on the field, bravely fighting till the bitter end.

Never even had a chance to bring in the main infantry, those Sherwood archers are mean fighters. :lol:
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Bloody affair, war.

[HunterICX]

England V Scotland.

Ehm...it's actually England Vs France,
after seeying the early Scottish units I quikly swapped to France. :DL
Maybe I shouldn't have...the Scottish units didn't look much...but at least they had big axes that might have done something to those Sherwood Archers in a Melee fight.
Those Sherwood Archers are a bunch of hardasses to kill :shifty:

HunterICX

[Arclight]

That explains it; was expecting bloody Highlanders, not knights. Half my army was unarmoured for gods sake, miracle that I survived that. :lol: