Madness? This is SPARTA!

Sydia

TNPer
The Greeks could rule the world. Alexander did. He took a Greek army to the far Indus, there was nothing left to conquer, the world was his. But Alexander is dead, his empire gone. So we live in evil times, the Greeks fight against each other, instead of their proper enemies, all who envy all the Greeks have accomplished...

But the world turns. What was may come again. The fates still spin the web of men, what once was may soon be again!


If you have a copy of Rome: Total War patched up to 1.6 just post if you want in! This shall chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of the Greek peoples. Medium difficulty. Huge units.



The Greek world, 270 B.C. I get to work on building ports. Ports for cash. And train a phalanx in Sparta. Top priority should be uniting Greece.

Turn 2; our spy opens the gates of Corinth. A glorious victory!

I occupy it. We get the Statue of Zeus; one of the most useful wonders. Loyalty!

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Back to business!

Not a whole lot going on for the next few turns, I focus on economic buildings to get a good cash-flow. I lay siege to the rebel city of Athens; after all, their "democracy" will never catch on.

Unfortunately the Macedonians didn't take kindly to me swiping Corinth from them and attack my besieging army with two of their own! I deploy in my favourite formation; Hannibal's Crescent. Weak units in the center, stronger units on the flanks to envelop the foe when the weaker unit begins to cave.

The Macedonians cometh, notes our King. Fortunately, our army outclasses them.



The bloodbath begins! Bwahahaha!


I dispatch the first army of idiots (sadly I didn't manage to kill the enemy general - he scarpered, and since I have no light cav he got away), only to have the second attack my right flank.

Good think I remembered the military maxim "Make the right strong!". The fools run into my Spartan hoplites. Then for good measure I get the King stuck in too.

The rest of them sound the retreat and high-tail it back to Macedonia. Athens falls. I occupy the city. Winged Nike favoured the sons of Hellas this day!

I hand the Hellenic States over to you, Strategos Nam! Press the attack! Show no mercy!

We're rolling in riches. You should have no serious problems. I'm starting to think we might have picked a too easy difficulty for strategic genii such as us. Give it a pop, and if you're comfortable with M/M, we'll keep it on that, otherwise I *think* I can change it with RomeSage. Or I might just change it for my games, if you definitely don't wanna be fighting VH/VH, just gives a bit more of a challenge IMO.

For Spartaaaaa!
 
Take II!

Bumped the difficulty up to Very Hard/Very Hard.

We're at war with the Romans, who have taken a shine to our holdings on Sicily.
Grim tidings! The enemy besiege Syracuse, and they're not messing about. The initial stage goes well, we manage to destroy their battering ram. Unfortunately our boys are outnumbered and outclassed.


Bloodbath!

The decadent Roman scum capture our walls and open the gates! Fortunately they run into our massed sarissas.


Run, cowards! The action at the gateway has routed the Roman's initial vanguard.


They return for a bit more a rumble, until they decide they've had enough and scarper. The Romans don't get their generals bodyguards involved, but horses can't scale walls - with the recapture of our gates and the routing of all enemy infantry the sons of Hercules declare victory at Syracuse. What a mess, though!


The Hellenes celebrate a victory that will be recalled through the ages.

The same turn Macedonian reinforcements arrive to relieve our siege at Corinth (no such luck with our spy, this time!). They outnumber us by a paltry 2.5 to 1. Good odds for any Greek! I decide to push my luck and fight. I can always withdraw if it goes tits-up.


Hmm...
My army squats in 'pussy formation' in the corner to avoid being flanked whilst the Macedonians loom to the left.

This is gonna be a bloody one.

Ha! The initial clash goes well. The enemy general is slain.

The battle is far from over, though.

The Gods be praised! Frontline action sees the commander of the second wave slain, too.

My General's bodyguard took heavy casualties in the action, though, and we've still got the bulk of the Macedonians to hack through.

Nike favours us, although only just. Little swine merc peltasts and archers harassed our immobile phalanxes with devastating effect, even to our bad-boy Spartans.
A lone Macedonian flees the carnage:


Our king yet lives, though!

Our boys hack through 2221 Macedonians at a cost of 695 freemen of Greece. Unfortunately, our main army has lost most of its men. We'll need serious resupply before we try and conquer anyone else.

Another brief skirmish between the survivors (and a few mercs hired to boost our numbers) of The Battle of Corinth on the streets of the city herself sees the city delivered into Greek hands.

Our navy keeps being batted around the Med by pirates, which is why we've got 2 battle losses, scum. Pontus decides it wants its empire to be consigned to the dustbin of history (eventually) and lays siege to Pergamon. Unfortunately, our garrison in the city is cheap trash.

Summer, 265 B.C. Over to you, Nam! I expect we'll lose Pergamon, we'll get it back. Take Athens! Build up our main army; I'm developing Thermon as our cav centre and Sparta for infantry. Syracuse will likely come under another serious siege as soon as the Romans have recovered from the last battle.

To glory! Again!
 
I loved Rome back in the days when I played games. I liked especially the heavy cavalry of the Seleucides and Armenians! And the British head-throwers! And Carthago's elephants! And...

I think I know what I'm going to do now! :)
 
I loved Rome back in the days when I played games. I liked especially the heavy cavalry of the Seleucides and Armenians! And the British head-throwers! And Carthago's elephants! And...

I think I know what I'm going to do now! :)
You want in, fellow strategos? It would be an absolute pleasure to add you to the list of Hellenic heroes. PM Nam your email and he'll email you the save game for you to email back to me when you've finished your thang (i.e., 10 turns of conquest). T'will kick ass.

British head throwers.
:lol:
 
56k?! It's not the 19th century, VZ! What is it, steam powered?

The average save game file is...1402 kb, FYI. I could do some maths, but I'm not gonna.
 
Nothing related to the current Greek campaign; but I think TW fans and enthusiasts for carnage would appreciate this from my M2TW campaign: The Bridge o Death!

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I'm not cleaning that up. All those prisoners got the chop, by the way; the enemy refused to pay ransom!
 
The moral being; don't mess with France!

Especially when they're commanded by a guy who revels in the name of "Prince Lancelot the Chivalrous". Sadly he died of natural causes straight after this battle! The next turn my king, "Louis the Saint" kicked the bucket, now I'm stuck with "King Regnaut the Mad". :(
 
Oh, and if you really cheese me off (by, say, invading Earth) you get an Ion enema!

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Not even from the same series now, but what the hell.

Wake up Nam!
 
I just only watched that movie tonight.

I felt like I should have grown testicles after watching it. That's how epic it was.
 
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