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[EmperorNuthulu]

The mercs are also a quick and easy garrison. Also out of curiosity, what's everyones favourite factions?

[Sheb]

You can manage plague using spies and small useless cities* as reservoir. Plague is such a useful little pathogen, you should always keep some.

*Or large, useful, ennemy cities.

[Dsarker]

I'm currently trying out Armenia, but in 1.0, the Germans were the best. Phalanx troops + spamworthy axemen, plus the great wealth they build up there... If Germanian bribes could get the armies to join you, it would have no betters.

[EmperorNuthulu]

Ah but Germania has the problem of not very good starting cities, and access to good starting cities is hard. You either go south and take Roman ones, or go south east into Macedon.

[Dsarker]

What do you mean? By the time Rome has it's first army ready to take Gaul, I've already captured Germania and have a good 20k income or so each turn. You can just bribe your way to victory then.

[EmperorNuthulu]

Really? Whenever I've played as Germania or took their cities i've had income i'd expect from gaul.

[Dsarker]

Just have to make sure to use mercenaries as your main army. Less money but more population.

[EmperorNuthulu]

Eh, the mercenaries in northern Europe tend to be Barb cav and Warbands, nothing too good. Although I can see that conquering rebel provinces.

[Dsarker]

It's effective against barb nations too. And against romans when you have a decent numbers advantage.

[Stworca]

Got some progress with Armenia, but the update will take a while to make (editing, writing, sacrificing goats on a stone altar.. you know.. the usual. I'm actually struggling with humor now, as the same stuff is happening over and over again. That's the main reason for delay.)

In the meantime (so you have something to read) , i present you the continuation of my Numidian adventure (Because we left it at a cliffhanger, did we not? Will Egyptian stacks attack us? What about Scipii? What's going on in the far West?)

Spoiler: Numidia, Turns 8-18 (click to show/hide)

Still turn 7.

Despite capturing Pyramids, our western cities are still rampaging. Nothing can be done about it, for now. But a future aim should be capturing the Greek Wonder.


Carthage is a wonderful city. It has stone walls!


..and nearly the entire Numidian roster ready to be recruited. A strong position.


Now that we have these useless informations out of the way.. It seems that Egypt is determined to save Alexandria. And they pack 3 units of chariots, against our all-infantry army. Then again...


..We are on a bridge.


Egypt fails.


Turn 8.
Alexandria is ours. Yay!


But unwashed Egyptians arrive sooner than i had hoped.. I have two turns before they hit me.


In unrelated news, we siege Corduba. With the starting western army (+ a few Spanish mercs)


Carthage tries to stop us..


..and fails. Silly Carthage. (The Spanish mercenaries have javelins too.)


Turn 9.
We finally get Corduba. Gibraltar is ours.


Also : We now see what the Egypt army is made of. Camel Manure mostly.


Silly Egyptians attack us on a bridge again.... aaaaaand..


Trollollooo


Turn 10.
Our faction leader dies.. whoever the hell was our faction leader.


Also : Our Carthage army is sailing.. somewhere.. (more on that later)


Turn 12
Our Eastern army is complete, so we proceed to Palestine.


Turn 13
Scipii are said to attack Numidia too.. Surprise! (their main army is engaged with siege of the Greek city)


That's what you get for leaving your city undefended.


Hey! We can train more desert infantry here! Yay!


Turn 14
We need more action : War with Gaul it is.


Jerusalem here I'am
Jerusalem je t'aime (the ONLY reggae track that i like)
Look at our general! 9 stars! WOOOOO!


Turn 15
Needless to say, Egypt failed.


I swear.. it's the easiest nation to beat in the game.


In unrelated news, we do some Island hoping too. Hello Julii. (it's the army we've used to capture the south independant city in Africa. Yes, it took them THAT long to get anywhere.)


How will our forces fare against Roman Elite? You tell me.


The city is terrible, but it's OURS!


We also capture Numantia (i could've done it earlier.. but i forgot i was sieging it..  ) However, this army is now stuck for a while. Spain has two full stacks circling around us (i don't know how either)


Turn 16.
"What's up Scipii?"


Also : Time for some graph showing. I like the part where Numidian line goes up.


I didn't know what to do with this guy, so i had him siege Cyrene.


Turn 17
I wonder if i wiped out all the Egypt armies already..?


Turn 18
Scipii army has moved somewhere (probably to retake Sicily) so..


Yeah.


And by yeah i mean HELL YEAH!


And by HELL YEAH i mean hold my beer and look at this.


Needless to say, the game is already won at this point. But just to not leave any cliffhangers : Cyrene was conquered too, in turn 19.

This concludes our Numidian adventure. In turn 20 our army at Capua is strong enough to beat the SPQR army and siege Rome. By turn 2x Egypt and Romans will be wiped out. The only trouble we can have is in Spain.. but it's Spain. They suck.

Also : This is not how i usually play. I prefer to take it slowly (like with Armenia), have my butt protected from anything that can go wrong, plans B, C and Y24 ready. But i've decided to rush things, to prove that Numidia has very weak enemies surrounding it, and it's possible to bombrush the world with it quite easily. I am by no means an expert, and as Spain i predict pain (Numidian units are MUCH better than Spanish! Desert infantry is AMAZING!).
Especially with the self-imposed challenges that i will implement.. but more on that later, once we beat it as Armenia.

NOW.. i'm off to edit the Armenian pictures and write an update! Yay!

[EmperorNuthulu]

Umm, the other guy fought larger armies somehow, that's all I got.

 Anyways, also in awesomness I just held off 1900 pre marian reform romans with most illyrian mercenaries, two units of falxmen(Which are badass) two archer warband and a general.

 It was pretty amazing, considering I had to start using the illyrians for melee. I didn't even know how I caused a chain rout. Just to clarify though it was in a fort.

[Dsarker]

The other guy didn't rush, as you can tell by the higher pop number for massacring.

[Stworca]

The other guy didn't rush, as you can tell by the higher pop number for massacring.

You can tell by the date on screenshots too.
The last SS in his first post is 261 BC. (Siege of Siwa was in 262)
My run ended at that date.

Update is very close to being finished. Greeks throw everything, their mothers including, at us. It's not pretty.

[Stworca]

"They are extremely powerful, and quite frankly we haven't a snowflake's chance in Vulcan's forge of winning here.
I advise a tactical advance directly AWAY from the enemy! Run. NOW! Run. Run away! Run away..."

This is a combat update.

Spoiler: The World belongs to the Brave (click to show/hide)

Once upon a time, Armenian forces invaded Greece. They were expecting to face two armies. The core of Greek forces. Armored hoplites, generals, missile cavalry. They were ready.


First wave was of regular hoplites.


And Armenian forces dealt with them quite easily.


The second one, was where the difficult part began. Armored hoplites and plenty of generals. They outnumbered Armenians quite significantly, and it was sure, that many men will die.


At the cost of many lives, the Greek army was destroyed. ( i could have done much better here, but i tend to maneuver myself into trouble )


Now nothing stood in the way of... what the fuck.. No! Where the hell did you come from!?!?


That's what you get for not scouting the entire area before landing..
I considered withdrawing, but instead choose to stay, inflict casualties and THEN run.. Once on battlefield i've noticed "Rout" symbol grayed out. Greeks throw everything they have at us.
At this point, the advisor is telling me to run (quote at the top) I'm not going to. There is no way out.


The reinforcements are pushovers, one unit of missile cav, some militia hoplites and general with 5 bodyguards left.


18, 12, 7, 3... That's one hell of a cavalry force... Not. Not even if you play on small unit scale. Greek balista crew has more units in it. But it has to be enough.


Balista and Archers can take out quite a bit of my troops, i can not have that. At this point, every soldier is priceless..


...unless those idiots charge a phalanx.. HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!


Greeks make a mistake by not staying in formation. Archers are exposed.


compare our unit count on this screen, with the one at the beginning.. All they had to do is shoot... If i ordered them myself, the incompetent cav would charge another phalanx though.. Sigh.


I move the damn horse archers myself. Skirmishing disabled. Circle disabled. These two abilities make your troops retarded. Manual it is.



My cav didn't inflict enough casualties, Archers and Balista crew are returning.


With arrows being next to useless, i need to dogpile on the Phalanx. However, i only have horse archers.. This means, we can take only one at a time, with all our forces at once.. So..


Our cav makes sure that neither balista, nor archers will get in our way.


I'm trying some fancy encircling to wipe the hoplites with arrows.. But by now i've learned that Armored Hoplites on this difficulty don't die to regular horse archers.


With nothing to lose, i begin operation "Take as many of them down, as possible" (not very creative, i admit)


Surprisingly it worked (you can see the routing band on the left) but i get a bit overconfident and don't check the morale before charging the second unit..


Or rather - i don't check if it has the general in it.. They did..


It was a bad move, but thankfully i withdraw them fast enough.
Thankfully our slingers are keeping Greek attention.. We have a chance yet. Oh.. one of my troops routs..


..Bloody hell..

Spoiler: Hard Six #2 (click to show/hide)

The right thing to do, would be calling it a fight, and rebuilding the army, right? Wrong.


Armenians never give up.


Never let down


Never run around and dese--... Wait a minute.. these lines sound familiar.
Anyway... I thought i was making progress.. But then i've noticed the "Balance" bar not moving even a bit.


A healthy defeat would do the LP well anyway.


Damn those slingers are good runners..


At this point, the fight already lasted longer than any other in the entire LP.


This guy didn't rout before, but now we've killed quite a bit of his friends. Enemy general take 2.


For about 10 seconds i was stunned, completely sure that it was one of my own generals that died.. Until i've heard "By the gods! The enemy general was a FOOL!"
.. i love this guy.


You should play an eastern country if only for his brilliant lines.


He mocks enemies, and is very enthusiastic. Unlike the roman dude.


Except when the Roman one screams how enemies are utterly beaten. It's quite nice.


Are we doing good so far? Let's consult the balance meter..


..how is this even possible?!


Militia rout before we even touch them.. I wouldn't normally charge, but a routing phalanx is easy pickings.


At this point, I was speechless, breathless and brainl.. wait a minute.. Let's just say i never had such an exciting battle.


Naturally someone else would defeat their entire army with just one dude, but i'm not that good.


I still giggle like a little girl when i manage something like that. It's a nice change to my usual activity : crying myself to sleep.


Where was i..? Ah yes.. Only ONE unit left!


It took over half an hour.. But..


Or in Greeks case : (in the) Butt


I am aware that it would be much better with Santa, masseur and others, but i couldn't even joke about that.


..A crushing victory..


One look at the chart says it all.


The enemy general was a FOOL!

Perhaps i'm exaggerating, but i think it was a great victory! Negative opinions are more than welcome.

[Taricus]

HOLY SHIT!

The enemy general must've skipped his stone dinner for that loss to be even possible...