Khajiit will definitely be bookmarking that! Thank you for posting this!

My first plague of the game has struck in Campus Roxolani.

Not far to the west, the Hun horde turned back to strike at Vicus Sarmatae. The besieging army was wiped out by my sallying Sarmatians. That left 3 Hun stacks left. My army marched out and built a fort in front of them, daring them to attack. They did, and I sallied from the fort. Scratch two more Hun armies. The following turn General Ara caught up with the final Hun army. The Huns are now nothing but a memory. That is two factions I have destroyed this game.

Far south, in the warm climes of Greece, I have one army laying siege to Thessalonika. From the Roman armies I see in the field around it, they will probably do the me favor of attacking me and giving me a battle in the open field, sparing me from assaulting the city. Farther south, my second army of invasion assaulted Athens. The Roman Emperor within was laid into the dust!

Only Thessalonika remains of Greece. After that the ERE has about half a dozen settlements in the Balkans. Surely now they smell their impending doom?

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 31 2017, 09:24 PM

With their Eastern Roman noses so high in the air? Not likely.

But hey, that'll make your victory that much sweeter when you descend upon them like a scourge of the gods!

Down with the ERE!


My Saxon campaign is proceeding slowly but surely. My eastern army took the dane-held town of Oium, so the entire province of Germano-Sarmatia is now under my control. A short time after my victory, the Danes offered me a peace treaty and some gold, both of which I accepted. No point continuing that conflict now that I've taken the land that I want.

Not everything went smoothly though, and a horde of Huns showed up to attack the weakened Oium. After my high priestess assassinated the Hun leader, my forces sallied forth and defeated their army. We followed the retreating horde through the winter snows and made sure they were completely destroyed. We're having some food shortages in the region, and Huns on our doorstep really wasn't helping.

Back in the west, I formed a cavalry force at Tulifurdum. They're heavily armed, well trained, elite horsemen and will be used as a Hun hunting force. The second Hun horde is somewhere between Frisia and Germano-Sarmatia, but the exact whereabouts are unclear (and obviously they move around all the time).

A plague on the Hunic vermin!

Looks like slaying Huns is all the rage!

Well video game ones anyway

Actually it'll probably be awhile before Khajiit jumps into BI, and therefore has to face the Huns.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jun 1 2017, 02:14 AM

Ugh, Khajiit is having to spend a fortune on boats to defeat the pirate fleets that keep springing up around Britannia. The bigger boats help, but man those pirates are annoying!

Eventually you will get so rich that you will have to invent ways to spend your money.

My Sarmatian hordes continued their roll through the Balkans, taking both Salona and Aquincum. I didn't realize it, but that met the game's victory conditions!

But three of the Eastern Roman Empire's cities remain. This will not do. So three Sarmatian armies lay siege to all at once. After conquering the second of them, the last of the accursed Roman royal family lay ground in the dust. With him died the Eastern Roman Empire. The final Roman city turned Rebel. That of course did not save them from Sarmatian arrows...

That does it. I not only met the game's official victory conditions, but also my own goal of destroying the ERE. With 35 territories, I am done.

One thing Khajiit doesn't get about our short Briton campaign is why Gaul is our main enemy when our Gran-da on the intro movie is clearly not happy with the Romans' behavior.

And now for a campaign update:

The silly Germans finally attacked our town in the Danish peninsula with a numerically superior force and besieged it. Fortunately they were superior only in numbers, and we were able to sally and rout their army. After the battle some reinforcements from Londinium arrived! 3 warbands and a woad warrior unit disembarked from the ships and joined our army in the town. Now we will replenish our numbers and hopefully the town will grow so we can build more buildings there.

Also the dumb Gauls think it's cute to take a tiny navy and blockade our ports. Given all the trouble with pirates we've had, our navy is pretty big and has no problems sweeping aside their pathetic blockades.


Hail the conquering warrior queen! Hail!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jun 1 2017, 11:44 PM

The way Rome Total War works, whoever is currently your neighbor is your biggest enemy. The game actually has two AIs, which operate completely independently. The diplomacy AI makes alliances and the like based on what the computer thinks makes sense for the faction. But the tactical AI attacks whenever it sees a weakness. So if you have a lightly defended city bordering another faction, or have a small army moving near the border, the AI will attack. This is even if the diplomacy AI made an alliance with you on the same turn!

Basically it is a dog eat dog world, and you will have to fight and destroy everyone you come into contact with eventually.

Congrats Rosa! Man, those Romans didn't know what hit them!


My own campaign is still going slowly. My victory conditions require me to control Britannia Superior and do some raiding. The only problem is that there isn't anyone to raid, at least not without starting half a dozen wars. This will require some finesse.

I did manage to wipe out the remnants of the Ebdanians today. The few troops they had left all fell to the explosive ammunition of my large onagers. Elsewhere, my cavalry forces engaged what I thought was the main body of the Huns - either the main horde is hiding elsewhere, or the Huns are a lot weaker than I anticipated. Their army was primarily infantry, and only a few of those were spearmen. They were dealt with quickly and easily.

The (not quite so ferocious) Huns

My force of elite heavy cavalry

My scouts test the Huns, forcing them out to give chase

By the time my one-and-only infantry unit arrived, the battle was long over

With the Huns all but destroyed, I plan to send a force south towards the ERE lands (or what used to be the ERE, I'm not sure how things are going down there) to find any good raiding targets. I plan to take Britannia through diplomacy, though the Britains and Franks are being stubborn.

This post has been edited by hazmick: Jun 2 2017, 01:43 AM

No one to raid!?! What is a Nordic Warrior to do!

You are right, the Huns don't look very ferocious. Or Hunnish for that matter. That looks like the third string Germanic mercenaries they hired...

Forth Eorlingas!

Diplomacy! What would Donar say! I say negotiate on the blade of your axes!

There is always someone to raid! Kick the poo out of those southron "warriors" Haz!

Since the WRE has been destroyed, I'm guessing that the ERE won't be too strong either. It might be easier to fight them, but perhaps more profitable to fight a stronger faction like the Sassanids. All of this also depends on the White Huns, who should be roaming around down there somewhere.

True. Stronger folks will have more goods. Good luck!

Before he saved and quit last time, Khajiit took a Gaulish town on the lower west coast of what will be France. We then sent a diplomat to check in with our old Spanish trade partners in hopes of forging an alliance and guess who was there. Why none other than our old allies, the Julii (we allied ourselves with them earlier in the campaign, set up a trade agreement, and then left them to their own devices). With the war against the Gauls and Germans swinging in our favor, we appear to be on a collision course with the "Red Romans". Khajiit will need to be especially mindful of keeping a decent force in any land bordering a Julii territory. Those guys are not to be trusted!

Aww crap. Just read part of that strategy guide Subbie posted a link to earlier and discovered a neat little trick: disbanding units in or near a city adds population to that city. Khajiit did not know this! The level of detail in this game is crazy! The Danish peninsula is about to get some emigrants from the Isles!

*Edit*
OMG!!! You can purposefully expose an agent to the plague and send him to a city to spread it?!!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jun 2 2017, 05:04 AM

Biological warfare is a great tactic for weakening your enemies. So is filling their cities with spies and using assassins to destroy their temples and other public order buildings. You can make the cities riot that way, and cause even more damage.

I was doing a defensive Scythian campaign once, and my greatest problem were the Armenians. They sent army after army of cataphracts at me. So I sent a wave of spies and assassins into their cities, and destroyed all of their stables in all of their cities every turn. Their invasions stopped.

Nice! Gotta try that too!

A slow time for the Saxons at the moment, though we're making some progress. An alliance with the Franks brings us close to controlling Britannia - only the Britains stand in my way. They're allied with the Franks, so I can't attack them right now, but that alliance is deteriorating quite quickly.

Over in the east, my Hun hunters are tracking a horde and closing in fast. We were slowed down by the winter snows, prolonged by global warming, but the thaw has now arrived and I can proceed. My spy confirms that this horde is the real deal - more horses than you can shake a pike at. It promises to be a worthy challenge.

As for my raiding plans, I'm still not sure. My slavic allies have more land than I realised, so I need to keep heading south. The Sassanids are my primary target, but we'll have to wait and see.