This is going to be an interactive AAR, I am going to play and you guys get to choose the strategy that I will do my best to carry out.
So we are the Kingdom of Macedonia, so let’s first look at what we start with. Macedonia is a 4 province country, we have 4 different resources, wood, iron, horses and fish. Although fish is useful (it increases manpower) the other three are really important. Iron gives us heavy infantry, wood archers and triremes and horses cavalry and horse archers. This gives us excellent military building blocks for going conquering. The only down side is that the Elephant appears to be extinct from Greece or we could have all the units. Although we could try our luck at trying to trade for elephants to be honest elephant units are expensive to build and maintain. For a medium sized country like Macedonia Elephants are a luxury item.
Being a aristocratic monarchy we get 3 idea slots and if we were to pick 2 military ones and civic one we would get a nice bonus on trade income. To some this may seem not that useful but personally trade income means more money, which we can turn into armies.
Next let us turn attention to our neighbours. To the South we have a collection of rich one province Greek states, these are highly tempting targets for liberation. To the West we have Eprius who at the moment is at war with Rome; more often than not Carthage joins in this war as well. This creates a problem for us; if we do not intervene in this war we stand a really good chance of ending up with Rome or Carthage as neighbours (this is bad). To the North are the Illyria and some Barbarian provinces. Illyria is our most powerful neighbour and have they have 3 provinces and have been known to jump on us if we give a sign of weakness.
So that underlines our military prospects, however we also have possibilities for diplomacy, we are larger that our Greek neighbours to the south so they may be persuaded to play us tribute. This can be pretty good. Tribute income obviously means more money; we don’t increase our costs for pig stabbing (the importance of pig stabbing will be explained later) and conquering non core provinces will give us a tech hit.
Another route for expansion is the barbarian North, we can send our troops up there to say hello to the locals, if the barbarians become weak enough we will be able to colonise there allowing Macedonia to grow. We are going to have to keep troops up in the north anyway because Greece is fairly wealthy making it a magnet for Barbarian hordes (they like to go and loot civilised, wealthy provinces rather than just wandering around aimlessly).
So while I set up the trade routes and pick a few ideas you can decide how we will restore Macedonia to its glory.
P.S. this thread will be locked and a seperate thread will be created for plans.
So we are the Kingdom of Macedonia, so let’s first look at what we start with. Macedonia is a 4 province country, we have 4 different resources, wood, iron, horses and fish. Although fish is useful (it increases manpower) the other three are really important. Iron gives us heavy infantry, wood archers and triremes and horses cavalry and horse archers. This gives us excellent military building blocks for going conquering. The only down side is that the Elephant appears to be extinct from Greece or we could have all the units. Although we could try our luck at trying to trade for elephants to be honest elephant units are expensive to build and maintain. For a medium sized country like Macedonia Elephants are a luxury item.
Being a aristocratic monarchy we get 3 idea slots and if we were to pick 2 military ones and civic one we would get a nice bonus on trade income. To some this may seem not that useful but personally trade income means more money, which we can turn into armies.
Next let us turn attention to our neighbours. To the South we have a collection of rich one province Greek states, these are highly tempting targets for liberation. To the West we have Eprius who at the moment is at war with Rome; more often than not Carthage joins in this war as well. This creates a problem for us; if we do not intervene in this war we stand a really good chance of ending up with Rome or Carthage as neighbours (this is bad). To the North are the Illyria and some Barbarian provinces. Illyria is our most powerful neighbour and have they have 3 provinces and have been known to jump on us if we give a sign of weakness.
So that underlines our military prospects, however we also have possibilities for diplomacy, we are larger that our Greek neighbours to the south so they may be persuaded to play us tribute. This can be pretty good. Tribute income obviously means more money; we don’t increase our costs for pig stabbing (the importance of pig stabbing will be explained later) and conquering non core provinces will give us a tech hit.
Another route for expansion is the barbarian North, we can send our troops up there to say hello to the locals, if the barbarians become weak enough we will be able to colonise there allowing Macedonia to grow. We are going to have to keep troops up in the north anyway because Greece is fairly wealthy making it a magnet for Barbarian hordes (they like to go and loot civilised, wealthy provinces rather than just wandering around aimlessly).
So while I set up the trade routes and pick a few ideas you can decide how we will restore Macedonia to its glory.
P.S. this thread will be locked and a seperate thread will be created for plans.
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