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[mainiac]

I am a bit confused by why you feel the need to let the sieges drag on.  Surely one of your abilities needs fear no hordes!

[Zrk2]

Everything in moderation.

[Stworca]

I am a bit confused by why you feel the need to let the sieges drag on.  Surely one of your abilities needs fear no hordes!

The fights tire me. Mostly, because while they are supposedly against greater forces, our forces just waltz through them. The next update has dozens of fullstack battles, that show absolutely NOTHING new, and thus i blitzed through almost a decade already, with nothing exciting to show..

Except maybe this.
Note that I am the attacker.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also note, that i will reuse the image for the next update tittle.
Lastly, Sassanid generals on VH are just fucking ridiculous. I had my carriage balista's wipe out the bodyguards till there were only 24 left, and..
These 24 bodyguards killed 495 of my troops.

[Shadowgandor]

So much for high quality

[mainiac]

Lastly, Sassanid generals on VH are just fucking ridiculous. I had my carriage balista's wipe out the bodyguards till there were only 24 left, and..
These 24 bodyguards killed 495 of my troops.

Trolololololol

[Zrk2]

I are has very excited for next update. Godspeed!

[Stworca]

Spoiler: Lombardi (click to show/hide)

Ostrogoths pack four stacks. They immediately attack us with one.. How wise of them.


Our general has 4 cavalry, 6 archer, lots of heavy infantry. The map is full of forests, and we are positioned on a hill.


We win by default.


No crushing victory.. Yeah, there will be NO crushing victories in this update, despite.. Just watch..
Now i predict the remaining OGoth stacks attacking us one by.. What? They go around? It took only 2500 deaths for them to learn not to screw with us!


No way you're getting away from battle! COME BACK HERE!
..View the battle in the last spoiler..

A turn comes, a turn goes, a second one is upon us.. Did i mention, that Alexandria can train generals now?


Greece is almost completely in our hands, and Thessalonica is sieged by a strong army, thus we can focus on modern-day Turkey.



We end the turn, and.. Lombardi attack us with half of our forces..? I am sorry viewers, but they are too stupid to be allowed to live as a horde.


What is my plan? Well.. Take a wild guess.


Can you see the pattern already?


How about now?


I have no time to waste on retards, it's enough that i have to deal with Ostrogoths.


Besides, Their horde has mostly infantry anyway.

Spoiler: Capturing random villages (click to show/hide)

After the Retardi faction has been wiped out, i took care of the already sieged cities. Taking Ancyra, the Lombardi "Capital", Helicarnassus..


..Thessalonica..


..Jerusalem..


..Philadelphia.. wait.. Oh, Philadelphaea!


And by that we wiped out Eastern Empire Rebels.. How cute.


In the very same turn (it's still the very same) we captured Kydonia..


Turn ended, Burgundi surrendered (we captured their province, they formed a horde)


We sacked the future-Slav capital.. (They arrive around 410 AD. By then we will win the campaign... seven times.


..and Salamis. Should  be enough.


In other news : Big Balls arrived at Hunic capital.


..and sacked it in the following turn, forming another unwashed horde.


ERE launches another impressive attack..


But ERE has so far proven to be a disorganized bunch of idiots.. This was no exception.


Burgundi are moving south.. I wonder, if my 'scouting parties' have scared them off?


Our Eastern advance party can be called a horde on its own.


Except : Unlike a horde they do not suck five times a week, free of charge...
We also begin the siege of Sidon.


Lastly, we celebrate a second border with Sassanids, by sieging one of their cities.


We slaughter them from a distance, and kill their general. His unit has "Immortal" in the name.. I wonder why?


Oh.. i see.. This fucker killed almost 500 of our units!
Including mercenary heavy spearmen, two heavy infantry, light cav, half of our general unit and the commando infantry..


VH sure is fun.

Spoiler: Capturing random villages.. The short version (click to show/hide)

Bla.

Spoiler: Tri-Stack Horde.. of unwashed, barbaric retards (click to show/hide)

Enemies have truckloads of missile cav. Let us hope for some terrain to use as advantage. Hills, rocks, woods, it does not matter..
Oh, i get a flat plain with nothing on it.


A total of four cavalry units on our side, including the generals. Tier 1 heavy infantry. Basic archers. The only unit that is not available at the very beginning of the game are the carriage balistas.
Despite running on 60 fps, the enemies do not arrive at once anyway.. I don't get it.


We form a wide line of spread out heavy infantry, and simply charge forward, with our cavalry widely flanking the foes, picking the horse archers. Finally something that looks like a god damn BATTLE!


Our infantry line is far wider than theirs, and we have javelins that make a swooshing sound when flying.
Our cavalry quickly gains advantage and wipes out enemy missile cav. Our infantry is free to begin operation "Come 'ere, Jimmy, and give grandma a hug".


It's super effective.


Wave number two is closing in, we..
Reform the base line!


Also : Enemy general is a fool.


This time we are not charging with the line though. The enemies have sent their cavalry forward, and their infantry is still far away. Besides, we are winded. We hold the ground and let the javelin+arrow party start.
OUR cavalry is still going out though.


Lone horse archers are an easy prey..


On both flanks, they fail.


Heavily. And soon are completely wiped out, with only their infantry left.


It appears that the third wave is appearing early, with most of the second still on the field. However, all missile cav from the second are gone, so we can reform the line.


Everything that can throw or fire stuff, focuses on wave 3 horse archers, so that we face only infantry.


We succeed, thanks to our mercenaries serving as shields, and heavy infantry having large shields and heavy armor..


Now it's just their crappy infantry and generals vs our epic, veteran, badass infantry, archers, big ball relatives (generals) and 8 experience carriage balista.

Archer + Balistae focus fire, followed by spearhead charges in two places - and not across the line - does the trick. Unwashed barbarians flee.


Rout actually, and the remaining ones flee.. I guess they lost too many people.


Why attack me in the first place you retards?!


Oh, wait.. I was the attacker! Nevermind.
Come on now, if that's not a crushing victory, then i do not know what is.


We will never, ever again see Ostrogoths in this Let's Play. I will slaughter the survivors offscreen.


Perhaps i will show the "Faction Destroyed" screen..  But do They really deserve that much?

And yes, i too wonder why the Sarmatians that killed 900 enemy cavalry got ONE experience bar.. This blows.

[Heron TSG]

What the hell is wrong with you? I mean, what? How?

[Stworca]

What the hell is wrong with you? I mean, what? How?

What?

[Heron TSG]

Spoiler: This. (click to show/hide)

And no pausing?

[Stworca]

It's easier than it looks.

First of all, i have positioned my infantry at the very beginning (before the battle) in the wide-spread formation, and then grouped them. So that reforming the entire line is as easy as reforming a single unit.
Horde spearmen can not switch formation, they have the same disorganized-mob formation as peasants, thus we can easily outflank a much bigger force. This time there were more of us anyway (infantry-wise, per wave)
AI always puts the horse archers on the flanks, with two wide-spread cavalry you can encircle them in no time.
Roman heavy infantry is much stronger than the horde infantry. On VH they are still stronger than the spearhorde.
Entire line of heavy infantry tossing javelins all at once, and then charging, is extremely effective, especially against enemies with crap armor. They are wavering even before they meet in swordfight.

As the infantry and archers run towards the enemy to start volleys, i focused on cavalry. It didn't take too long.
Afterwards all i had to do is tell all infantry to attack some backwater target in the center, and redirect 2 or 3 units per flank to different ones.

Once the enemies were wiped out, all i had to do is press "1", right click with the mouse on the ground and shuffle it around to form a stable front against the next wave.
And so i could focus on cavalry again.

To quickly move to a unit, doubleclick on its portrait.
To quickly move to a spot on the battlefield, doubleclick on the terrain.

Some things i have to leave to fate, dice roll or whatever you wish to call it. Since one can not see the entire battlefield the entire time, minimizing the risks and putting troops that will surely win against their immediate foes allows you to pay attention to other places.
Our heavy infantry > spearhorde, thus i didn't even need to watch the line.

Watching the portraits and minimap is easier and faster.

It was unlikely that my line would break (very unlikely, as neither spearhorde nor arrows can deal significant damage to heavy infantry)
and impossible to get encircled by enemy infantry (we are wider, remember?)
Thus it once again, as always against hordes, came down to horse archers. And our cavalry has a degree in wiping horse archers by now.

I will toss some more explanatory commentary in the following updates, as there is not much left to do. Except for Huns, Roxolans, Burgundii and Sassanids, there is nothing.
Maybe Slavs, if we prolong the campaign.

[Zrk2]

I would like to see a detailed lesson on your killing of missile cavalry, I just end up sicking some heavy cavalry and letting them ride off into the sunset.

[mainiac]

I am surprised to see that you keep using the preventores.  I was of the impression that they were a waste of money and army slots compared to regular troops.  The only time they've ever won me a battle was in multiplayer, and that was only because they made my opponent panic and screw up, not because of they were effective in combat.  What do they do that regular troops can't do?

[Stworca]

I was hoping that they would allow for some neat encircling, and once or twice enemies have passed them heading for my main line, only to be charged from behind by the "commando" troops.
They are however too few of zem in the unit, and their power is limited, and so i don't plan on building any more.

In short : We keep using them, because we have built them already, and disbanding is bad.

[mainiac]

Well, I suppose you can always do the other kind of encircling.  As one army marches across persia from the west, general big balls and friends come storming in from the north to cause havoc!