I liked the music actually..then again, I have a thing for over the top stuff. And yes, the Roman commander wasn't great, prolly AI. But those were a whole lot of Gauls attacking from higher ground, heh. Those numbers are what you get when you choose the 'huge' setting with the gauls, single warbands are MASSIVE.


lol@ Satis and his screaming women. What's their role anyway? Increase troop morale, decrease enemy troop morale, scouting, skirmishing?

i'll try and make some more screens as I go along...meanwhile, a tip: change the screenshot button from prnt screen to something else, like F12. When I pressed prnt scrn before ot did just that, go to the clipboard. Now I changed it they go immedeately to my RTW folder for me to sort out later. Much nicer.

hmmm, I'll give that a shot.

Screaming women seem to boost your troops morale while screwing with the enemy. They're not all that good in hand to hand combat unless taking out fleeing troops. Btw, now the Gauls attacked my ass. The slaughter is magnificent. I commonly go into battles of me at about 1000 men and the enemy around 1500....I lose about 100, he loses around 1300. It's awesome. Spears absolutely ROCK against light infantry, which is what the enemy seems to be fielding primarily. Screaming women break the first enemy, then stuff turns into a route while I move my spears into hammer and anvil. Cavalry used to help clean up afterward.

The only problem I had was with some heavy infantry...they were doing some nice damage to one of my warbands. Once I broke all the light infantry, though, I just smashed em between two different spear-groups and my cavalry....annihilated them to the last man within about 15 seconds once I got my men involved. mu-hahahaha.

lol, methinks Satis likes the slaughter more than anything else in this game. Nothing wrong with that at all. Ever had one of those battles where you slaughter everyone but 1 man manages to escape. I gave out a big lol to that one, it was really funny. I imagined, hed be the one to run home and tell the leader "We were ambushed!".

lol yeah, like "there were 500000 of them!!" Or something.

Good to see you're having fun with the massive barbarian tactics ya texas scum, and k@ screaming women. Sound interesting enough. And what spears do you mean, thrown spears or regular spear/pikemen? Cos for me thrown spears never did much, but then again i've seldom fought barbarians. I hear their strongest infantry cohort have mad attacking capabilities. Anyway, I'll continue this later and post a pic or two, gotta be off for squash

K, as promised: some pics. I'm finally gaining some momentum as the seleceud empire: I'm still under mad pressure by the egyptians, but i've got a general and an army trained up especially to root them out. Whenever I see them at the borders of my 'empire' I send this guy out, who's got absurd (and I mean ABSURD) attacking bonuses, but absolutely sucks in defense. I usually leave the city and meet them in the field, makes it easier to attack with my sort of troops. The seleceuds have awesome shock troops; but they're lacking a bit in terms of standing up to enemies, so you see why I would do that.

But I'm not complaining...those shock troops are awesome to play with, you have no idea. Scythed Chariots for example are made for the sole purpose of cutting through infantry, good fun. They are what they sound like: fast chariots with all sorts of sharp metal attached to it. And then there's the elephants of course...since I have those guys things have been going erh, slightly easier. It's a spectacle to behold watching those fellas charge. And to think I only have the 'small' elephants for now, war elephants and armoured war elephants are even bigger and badder.

Anyway, check out the pic.

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Some hoplite pics, they're pretty cool too.

This one's for Derf...I did a little test fight between one urban cohort and one unit of spartan hoplites, both maxed out on armor and XP. The outcome was...remarkable. Even though the hoplites lost their commander early on they completely smashed the urban cohort.

a big lol to you screens. Quality stuff. That sole guy running into the pahalanx is fuckin funny. I left my copmuer at uni, now im at home for a few days so i cant get screeneies of my campaign. Might do some custom battles.

Hoplites rule... unless the enemy has a cavalry and is smart enough to outflank them.

the spears I mention are spear infantry (like hoplites sorta), not spear chuckers. The spear chuckers suck ass. Phalanx with spears rocks, though...just smash smash smash! I had one of my best battles ever.... about 2200 enemy versus around 1200 or so of me, mainly spearmen.

The enemy lost over 2000 men, I lost around 120. Completely smashed the Gauls and removed them as a serious fighting force. I've had similar victories against the Britons. Great stuff.

Mm, k, I can see how phalananxes would totally rape the glorious tactics of the barbarian armies. (ie, running straight ahead and killing everything in sight)

Phalanxes can be great, but they have their limits. Being ridiculously slow, for one, and virtually useless in the attack because of that. Plus vulnerable when out of formation and archerbait because of their tight ranks. But if you manage to drive troops unto their spears-like Satis seems to have done-they're awesome idd. I compare them with heavy bomber planes: devastating potential but they need other troops to watch over them.

Played some more, suffered some serious defeats against the egyptians but managed to drive them back across the Nile, virtually destroying their empire. I'm very advanced (one step away from armored war elephants )so I'll take care in no time of the other small fractions around, I'll wait and see when I meet a roman. But they don't have phalanxes so I'll be ready to use my cataphracts. Hehe.

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lol, all your base are belong to us, eh? lol. That's good stuff. I really need to figure out a way to take screenies. I've dealt some horrendous damage out lately. War dogs RULE. My biggest problem is cash, I'm afraid. I own most of Europe now, but I lack the cash to build up my cities and recruit massive armies. I still have to rely on superior tactics to pwn. Thankfully my enemy so far are retards.

I had a victory of 2200 kills vs 100 casualties, a minor improvement over my last record. :p If the enemy fought more intelligently, I'd be screwed.

Hehehe...bastard. Here I spent most of my time surviving Egyptian armies and you're massacring barbarian morons. Not that Egyptians are that brilliant, but their tactics are somewhat more sophisticated than those of a horde of savages. But they lack the barbarian ferocicity and staying power so it'll even out in the end.

And yeah, wardogs are extremely useful...the fact that you can use them over and over again if you keep the tamers alive maks them very experienced very quickly too. Unfortunately, the seleceuds don't have war dogs. Are you keeping an eye out on developing decent infrastructure, or just rampaging along destroying stuff? (sounds like the latter )Cos I found that if I paid attention to the management of my cities (unlike usually before) I could use them quite efficiently without too many riots.

Attached one pic of a handful of survivors of a greek cavalry unit (there's 108 men in them normally speaking) running away towards the edge of the battlefield with my cataphract wall chasing them down. I'd run too if I saw that stuff coming.

I've come to the point where enemy armies just run away from the moment I move towards them...I've even seen an entire army rout before I cam within 100 meters of them. Truth be told, I did make special armies for that with a lot of shock troops in them. But it works