Ivar the Boner
Arcane
Update 6 - Let's wash our horses in Neilos.
While we were busy celebrating our conquest of Tarsos and Side we had small "persian uprising" near the heart of our empire. Eleutheroi attacked Charax catching us with our pants down. We will have to recruit some kind of small-ish Babylonian police force to keep this region in line.
Anatolia is free of Ptolmaioi presence, now we must continue our march south.
We shall march right into Ptolemaioi army and let them encircle us if they feel inclined to do so. We are Hellenes we were born without any fucks to give!
4068 Ptolemaioi vs 2270 Seleukoi? we got this shit (unless AI will be all "bork" again and we will have to attack).
Terrain is ok, those stones laying around are worrying me so we will deploy in "cleaner" place.
Here.
And here they are...
Codex is watching Sarpedon, don't fuck this up.
First Ptolemaioi skirmishers are approaching.
Peltastai get ready!
Pewoi Pewoi
Look at my Phalanx, ye mighty, and despair!
Wait for Peltastai to get behind our lines!
This first attack is just to annoy us until main Ptolemaioi force arrives.
We have to reorganize our left flank because Ptolemaioi outnumbers us badly and I'm afraid that they might encircle us.
We dealt with first suicide attack and now we must wait for enemy to engage our phalanx.
And here they are.
They even send their general charging, which is not as stupid as it sounds, in RTW heavy cav CAN break phalanx formation charging it from the front simply because it's heavier.
There is shitton of them but they concentrate their effort on our left flank.
We can either try to save our left flank or attack their left and hope we can break them faster.
And we are going to mess up their left because for some reason it's weaker (Wasn't left flank traditional "honorary" position for elite troops in greek armies?)
That's what I was afraid of, Ptolemaioi fucked up our center by charging it with heavy cav.
Now we must "collapse" our army on them.
Which we just did and encircled army that has two times as many soldiers. Hannibal ain't got shit on Sarpedon.
Then we smashed their lines from behind killing one of their generals.
Now we just keep charging their phalangitai with our cavalry completely ruining their day.
Main body of Ptolemaioi is routing but our left flank is still in deep shit.
We are sending survivors from center and right to help our encricled left flank.
Now they know how it feels to be raped from all sides.
Left flank is saved.
And main body of ptolemaioi phalanx regrouped, we have to prepare for another attack.
All Ptolemaioi generals are dead so egyptians pretty much rout on contact with our troops.
STAB STAB STAB
Yeah, you better fucking run.
And that's it, now our cav have to clean up this running mess.
Seleukeia strong!
And horse niggers are back. But this time we are prepared!
While we were busy celebrating our conquest of Tarsos and Side we had small "persian uprising" near the heart of our empire. Eleutheroi attacked Charax catching us with our pants down. We will have to recruit some kind of small-ish Babylonian police force to keep this region in line.
Anatolia is free of Ptolmaioi presence, now we must continue our march south.
We shall march right into Ptolemaioi army and let them encircle us if they feel inclined to do so. We are Hellenes we were born without any fucks to give!
4068 Ptolemaioi vs 2270 Seleukoi? we got this shit (unless AI will be all "bork" again and we will have to attack).
Terrain is ok, those stones laying around are worrying me so we will deploy in "cleaner" place.
Here.
And here they are...
Codex is watching Sarpedon, don't fuck this up.
First Ptolemaioi skirmishers are approaching.
Peltastai get ready!
Pewoi Pewoi
Look at my Phalanx, ye mighty, and despair!
Wait for Peltastai to get behind our lines!
This first attack is just to annoy us until main Ptolemaioi force arrives.
We have to reorganize our left flank because Ptolemaioi outnumbers us badly and I'm afraid that they might encircle us.
We dealt with first suicide attack and now we must wait for enemy to engage our phalanx.
And here they are.
They even send their general charging, which is not as stupid as it sounds, in RTW heavy cav CAN break phalanx formation charging it from the front simply because it's heavier.
There is shitton of them but they concentrate their effort on our left flank.
We can either try to save our left flank or attack their left and hope we can break them faster.
And we are going to mess up their left because for some reason it's weaker (Wasn't left flank traditional "honorary" position for elite troops in greek armies?)
That's what I was afraid of, Ptolemaioi fucked up our center by charging it with heavy cav.
Now we must "collapse" our army on them.
Which we just did and encircled army that has two times as many soldiers. Hannibal ain't got shit on Sarpedon.
Then we smashed their lines from behind killing one of their generals.
Now we just keep charging their phalangitai with our cavalry completely ruining their day.
Main body of Ptolemaioi is routing but our left flank is still in deep shit.
We are sending survivors from center and right to help our encricled left flank.
Now they know how it feels to be raped from all sides.
Left flank is saved.
And main body of ptolemaioi phalanx regrouped, we have to prepare for another attack.
All Ptolemaioi generals are dead so egyptians pretty much rout on contact with our troops.
STAB STAB STAB
Yeah, you better fucking run.
And that's it, now our cav have to clean up this running mess.
Seleukeia strong!
And horse niggers are back. But this time we are prepared!