[Dowly's EU:Rome AAR Collection]

[Dowly]

EDITED: October 31, 2015

So, another attempt! This time, I am primarily writing this to another forum, so updates to this thread might be a bit slower.

Anyways, playing EU:R version 2.32(?) and using the Epigoni mod... screw it, I'll just copy paste text from the other forum.

Hola!

So, EU:Rome is my favorite game from Paradox (and I hate them forever for not making Rome 2), so I thought "Why not start writing an AAR?".

I will be playing as Romans, normal difficulty and using the Epigoni Mod mainly because how it changes many of the barbarian provinces of modern day France to actual tribal provinces (=easier to conquer ).

I use the earliest start available, which begins the game on June 1st 306BC, when the soon to be mighty Roman Empire is just a tiny country with 3 provinces.

Here's the map at the start of the game:


Colored areas on the map indicate countries/tribes and gray areas are barbarian lands which you need to colonize (which takes ridiculously long).

Staying with the "history book" style.

INDEX

Chapter I – Second Samnite War (306 BC)
Chapter II – Expansion to northern Italy (304-303 BC)
Chapter III – Roman–Apuli War (300-298 BC)
Chapter IV - The Syracusean Question (297 BC) - 1/2
Chapter V - The Syracusean Question (293–291 BC) - (2/2)
Chapter VI – Plebeian Revolts (280-279 BC)
Chapter VII – The Illyrian War (276-274 BC)
Chapter VIII - The End.

[Dowly]

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[Dowly]

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Didn't start as I had planned, I wrote the first two chapters while I was drunk,
and they really arent up to par to what I had meant to do. The goal was to write
in such way that would be like reading a book or wikipedia, where screenshots/pictures
aren't needed. So the story can be imagined by the reader.

Like I said, I'll take my time, though with the two first chapters I didn't. I record
everything I play, so I can look back to what happened. The first 2 chapters
were written from about 20 minutes of footage and there are a lot of things that
I should've added but didn't. Character backgrounds and such.

Morale of the story: Don't write AARs when you are drunk.


Next update will be within a week.

[eddie]

I see this is starting off real well! Hangovers don't help when writing these either!

[Dowly]

Hangovers I spend on the couch, watching The Sopranos for the millionth time.

[Stealhead]

Perhaps all those Roman historians from back then also started their writings drunk.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Perhaps all those Roman historians from back then also started their writings drunk.

Could be.. they drank a lot of wine..

[Dowly]

BTW, those who may or may not be following this, do you want to see the raw unedited
footage of the gameplay? As I said, I record when I play so I can go back to it
and don't have to write everything while/after playing.

But do note, if you watch the actual gameplay, it will show stuff that happened differently
than what I might write in the AAR. Say, I might write that an army surrendered,
but in the actual gameplay, I might have disbanded the army.

On the good side, it shows how the game is and works. Epigoni mod doesn't really
change much in terms of gameplay mechanics, so you get a good idea what kind of
game EU:R+Vae Victis expansion is these days.

Lemme know.

[TorpX]

I'm confused about exactly what game this is. Is it the much talked about Total War, Rome II, or is it something else?

[Stealhead]

No. It is Europa Universalis:Rome, Vae Victis (which is an expansion for EU:Rome) with the mod Epigoni.You could also call it Europa Universalis:Rome Gold Edition with Epigoni.

It should not be confusing it says what the game is right in the first post.

[Red October1984]

I want this game...

I spent an hour the other day with the demo...sadly it's all I had time for...but this weekend I'll play some more and hopefully not get whipped by Carthage again.

[Dowly]

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[Oberon]