Rome II

[Gusington]

HAHAHA...I'll err on the side of Star's heynow...always a safer bet.

[GDS_Starfury]

 

[Martok]

Gods, I'm such a slut for Pontus.  Started a new gam as them.  I really need to break out of my rut.  Maybe the Iceni?   


Incidentally, did anyone notice Armenia is playable in the main campaign as well (not just the IA campaign)? 

[Nefaro]

Gods, I'm such a slut for Pontus.  Started a new gam as them.  I really need to break out of my rut.  Maybe the Iceni?   


Incidentally, did anyone notice Armenia is playable in the main campaign as well (not just the IA campaign)?

Pontus was my favorite game thus far.

If you like their mix, I'd also recommend Egypt because it also has a mix of Alexandrian and native troop types.  Not so much the Eastern cavalry types but some unusual locals nonetheless.  There used to be a spending issue with some of the minor factions near Egypt; single city factions would build multiple full armies and still be economically fine.  But I saw fixes for that mentioned in patch notes a couple months ago.  So should be gtg.


Speaking of cavalry, it seems like their speed is slower than I remembered.  I'm sure they slowed everyone down, but the cav don't seem to run all that much faster than infantry these days.  ???

[undercovergeek]

Starved of territory and money the Parthians make one last desperate attack. Mustering all their forces (4500) they attack the Armenian 1st Army, the Claws of the Hawk in the open. Auto resolve puts me at a massacre of my troops, from 2% - 0% survivors. Ill take charge of this one.

The Parthians have 2000 horse to my 80, but i have 1500 Persian Hoplites to point at them. When thats done there are 2000 Parthian swordsmen and spearmen to deal with, for that i have 1500 Kirtli Axemen - seriously crazy chopping fanatics.

Their attack would come in 3 waves - a small tattered army and then 2 massive waves of reinforcements.

I lined up the Hoplites and charged through the woods as quick as we could in a hope to break this small army and use their line as the first line of defence. But the Parthian cavalry was there much faster - the charge was halted and a tactical withdrawal sought. But the Parthian horsemen were desperate to fight for their homeland and King, as my spears turned to run and form a defensive line in the forest, with the still hidden axemen behind them, the cavalry charged on the outer flanks. I stopped the far 2 spear units on either flank, turned them round and counter charged the horsemen, the cavalry had no chance and routed in disarray. I attempted to withdraw these 4 units of heroes but more horse came, i pulled 2 units from the spear reserve, that left 2 spear units in reserve.

The axemen broke their cover from the forest as hordes of spearmen and swordsmen attempted to flank the spearmen decimating the cavlary. The axemen charged, cutting a bloody path through swordsmen, spearmen, peasant mobs and any cavalry attempting to help. Raus, the Armenian General charged his 80 Royal Kataphract into the side of the swordsmen, shouting for his men to trample anything in their path - the enemy melee troops shattered and ran, Kartli axemen rushed into the gaps to engage the enemy reinforcements. Out in no mans land Raus charged to the rear of the enemy  to break the 500 strong slinger and archer line peppering the axemen. Facing the storm of stones and arrows Raus arrived at the line with 28 horse brothers and charged.

In front of the spear line, enemy units were pinned down mercilessly and then cut down by the axemen. Amazingly, against all the odds small pockets of enemy resolve was breaking and they turned to run. Troops were ordered not to persue so the line could hold, and step by step the melee battle was been won by the Armenians. Sensing a huge rout, spearmen were ordered to disengage and run around the flanks of the enemy to the rear of the field.

Here at the back stood a bloodied Raus and 9 remaining bodyguard - the corpses of 300 slingers and archers lying all around. Here Raus waited for the battered spearmen to meet him and form an anvil line of spears that the axemen would hammer the Parthians into. Ubar, the last of the Parthian Generals chose this moment to charge the 'Bloody 10', he would get there before the spearmen could protect Raus, could he kill the Armenian leader and have the army rout without their General and steal victory from the jaws of defeat. Shouting a battlecry to chill the bones Ubar charged.

One small band of quickly called up Armenian hillmen were still near Raus. Mocked by the Kartli 'professionals of war' with their white robes and guilded axes these hillmen took 3 javelins on their back to war as well as their axe. One brave soul stood his ground and threw his first javelin towards the charging Parthian General



and with that the resolve of the enemy broke like a twig - they ran from the field leaving 4280 dead. After the battle Raus would count 2400 dead Armenian heroes.

Parthia was dust and the east belonged to Raus

[Gusington]

Hey man...nice shot(s).

[GDS_Starfury]

 O0

[Gusington]

 8)

[Nefaro]

OHHHH!

Right In The FACE!

[Sir Slash]

That's gonna leave a make for sure. Hope he has "Impaling" coverage on his insurance.

[GDS_Starfury]

he dropped it last week after doing battle with Gus.   

[undercovergeek]

I didn't think I was emotionally invested in this game as I was,  I rushed the start and felt it was more of an experiment to see what Armenia was like for Gus but I must admit crushing parthia made me very happy. From the first turn they treated me like scum when I asked for a peace treaty and my power rating to theirs was so poor, as the tide turned the chance of a treaty turned from low to moderate, and then they came to me for peace and I kicked them out of the tent and told them to go fk themselves, I resolved there and then to grind them into dust - if there was an eradicate this nation from history option I would have taken it..... fk you parthia

What i have learned is you lose a lot of connection and empathy with the troops when you auto resolve, you lose a lot of their story and journey through the game and I will definitely play more battles as we advance west toward Rome

As for the game, I'm on a boring ass drive to Bristol and all I've thought about is my next moves, what to build and where to go - awesome game

[Gusington]

^Did you cry?

[undercovergeek]

^Did you cry?

only tears of joy

[Nefaro]

I didn't think I was emotionally invested in this game as I was,  I rushed the start and felt it was more of an experiment to see what Armenia was like for Gus but I must admit crushing parthia made me very happy. From the first turn they treated me like scum when I asked for a peace treaty and my power rating to theirs was so poor, as the tide turned the chance of a treaty turned from low to moderate, and then they came to me for peace and I kicked them out of the tent and told them to go fk themselves, I resolved there and then to grind them into dust - if there was an eradicate this nation from history option I would have taken it..... fk you parthia

What i have learned is you lose a lot of connection and empathy with the troops when you auto resolve, you lose a lot of their story and journey through the game and I will definitely play more battles as we advance west toward Rome

As for the game, I'm on a boring ass drive to Bristol and all I've thought about is my next moves, what to build and where to go - awesome game

As with most games bordering them, my Armenia game has consisted of expanding northward into the steppe barbarians.  I suppose they have negative relations penalties with everyone else, so they're always in the red and declaring war on you. 

Parthia, the Seleucs, Medians and all the others nearby haven't given me a second look.  They're too busy fighting each other.  It has actually been quite peaceful after I took the first two big provinces to the north (the Caucases and the Crimean one).