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Ha, I hate when the AI doesn't realize that they should end the war by ceding a few provinces, or else launch a huge invasion. Can it not see the illogic behind its current strategy? Anyways, you have the most weird shaped countries...ever :p
 
You should start fast conquering before it is too late!
conquer, conquer and only after conquering question whom you are conquering, no time for dividing. :cool:
 
Just started reading the AAR, but after reading this little section:

Soon the Ilergetes found their excuse to invade the Ilercavones. As ambassador Rhetogenes Culchid (not to be confused with his namesake, the Ilercavoni leader) was there, Tautalus Punicid, an ambitious Ilercavoni noble, murdered Rhetogenes Culchid (the Ilercavoni leader, not the ambassador), blaming the ambassador for the deed and imprisoning him.

I had to go ahead and post this:

Scene: A courtroom somewhere in Ilercavoni territory

Judge: Rhetogenes Culchid, you have been brought before the court on the charge of the murder of Rhetogenes Culchid. How do you plea?

Rhetogenes Culchid: Not guilty, your honor?

Judge: And your defense?

Rhetogenes Culchid: Why, I'm standing right here!

*raucous laughter erupts from the onlookers*

All in all, I'm enjoying what I've read so far. Keep up the good work! :)

EDIT: Just read it through. I'd advise taking down the Lusitani after dealing w/ Carthage; after that, taking the rest of Iberia should just be a mop-up. (Of course, I don't actually own EU: Rome, so I'm not sure how the mechanics work, but if they're anything like EU3, you should be able to deal w/ them now.)
 
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In the eleventh year of the war, Tingis fell to the Ilergetan forces. However, the Carthaginians still refused peace, due to the relatively vast forces they had near Carthage itself. Caraunios began to actively attempt to control the islands of the Mediterranean, hoping that it would be enough to convince Carthage that it would be prudent to accept the Ilergetan demands, as the Massaesyli blocked the land route to Carthage, and would be unlikely not to harass any army moving along the coast, and an Caraunios thought it would not be prudent to invade directly until after the Islands were secure.

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After having ruled for six years Caruanios died and Caros Auarosid once again came to rule the Republic. For six years he ruled and was unable to end the war with Carthage, however the Lusitani caused trouble two years after the death of Caraunios, and in a swift war the the Lusitani was crushed, after two years of fighting they ceded all territory save their capital of Olissipo and agreed to pay a large monthly tribute to the Ilergetes.

Audax Culchid, who had been the one to bring the Ilergetes into war with Carthage would also be the one to rule as the war ended. Twenty years after he lost power to Caros Auarosid, he managed to once again take control of the republic, and while he initially had no better luck to end the war, after two years the Carthaginians decided to act and they sent a vast army of nearly 70,000 men led by Hiram Hiramid, and after a march along the African coast they faced 24,000 Ilergetan warriors led by Leukon Ambonid outside Tingis.

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In an indecisive battle Hiram stood victorious, but he lost more men, and Leukon managed to escape back to Iberia with most of his army intact. Tingis quickly opened its gate to the Carthaginians, and soon Hiram began moving his army accross the straits towards Gadira. However when the Carthaginians approached Gadira, they found that Leukon had spent his time preparing for the battle well.

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Although Hiram in the end managed to lead his army to victory at Gadira, it was a costly victory, almost the entire Carthaginian army lay dead, and the Ilergetan army had only suffered few losses. Hiram prepared himself, and through the desperation the remnants of the Carthaginian army did managed to repel a few attacks, but after three months the Carthaginian army was completely crushed. With the loss of Hiram's army, the Carthaginians quickly decided to accept when the Ilergetan Republic once again offered peace. Bastetani, Oretani and Contestani was ceded to the Ilergetes, and the Punic-Iberian war had ended.

However peace had barely come before a new war started.

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The Bituriges no longer could accept paying tribute to the Ilergetes, and decided that it would be a worthwhile gamble to invade while most Ilergetan armies remained in the south. The Bituriges were supported by the Aulerci, Veneti and the Boii, all of whom save the Boii shared the Bituriges concern over the growing strength of the Ilergetan Republic.

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Well, good. Hopefully, you can somehow knock the rest of Carthage off the bucket so you can take all of Hispania... :D

Took part of it, they might have accepted to giving up more, but well, that is for the next war with them.

Hope your navy is large enough to lure the Carthaginian forces to Sardrinia and Corsica in insufficient strength to defeat your forces. Pick off the small fleets.

My navy was large enough to deal with what the Carthaginians had. They did managed to assemble a fleet of 8 triremes at one point. Didn't help them.

Ha, I hate when the AI doesn't realize that they should end the war by ceding a few provinces, or else launch a huge invasion. Can it not see the illogic behind its current strategy? Anyways, you have the most weird shaped countries...ever :p

Yes, it can be annoying, but in my experience when it happens, it tend to be because they have a sizeable army, it may not be able to easily reach you, but it is there.

You should start fast conquering before it is too late!
conquer, conquer and only after conquering question whom you are conquering, no time for dividing. :cool:

I don't tend to conquer that fast, generally at least.

Just started reading the AAR, but after reading this little section:



I had to go ahead and post this:



All in all, I'm enjoying what I've read so far. Keep up the good work! :)

EDIT: Just read it through. I'd advise taking down the Lusitani after dealing w/ Carthage; after that, taking the rest of Iberia should just be a mop-up. (Of course, I don't actually own EU: Rome, so I'm not sure how the mechanics work, but if they're anything like EU3, you should be able to deal w/ them now.)

Enjoyed the courtroom scene. As for the Lusitani, they decided to cause some trouble, giving me a CB, and well, they were dealt with during the war with Carthage, it would have been smarter of them to wait, and have a go while I try to face the Bituriges and not while I had two big armies sitting near their border with nothing to do.
 
That was surely an epic war and battle. I thought that once Carthage sent a 70k army, you were surely doomed, but you managed to pull it off. Congrats, nicely done.
 
Yeah yeah, nice victory!

Agreed.

Hopefuilly you can hadle the logistics of this new threat... :)

Well I have 19k there, they are invading with 19k, what could possibly go wrong :D

That was surely an epic war and battle. I thought that once Carthage sent a 70k army, you were surely doomed, but you managed to pull it off. Congrats, nicely done.

I expected to suffer higher losses, but the terrain advantage I had at Gadira was quite useful to say the least.
 
Caros Auarosid led an Ilergetan army of 19,000 men against the Biturigian army that was of equal size led by their Chief Galba Iacid and the two armies met near Santones. The Ilergetan army was smashed to pieces, and had to retreat to the south while the Bituriges laid siege to the city.

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Caros was replaced as commander by the more capable Caraunios Tautalid, who managed to strike a victory against an Aulerci army in Cadurci the next year, capturing its general Aneroestes Sinatid. Fierce fighting followed, but in the next year Caucenus Punicid led a freshly raised army to victory over the Aulerci in Volcae, after which the Bituriges agreed to resume paying tribute. While Galba had not been defeated, he was isolated in Arverni, and Caraunios was marching against him with 24,000 men.

Peace returned, and apart from a small boundary dispute with the Cantabri the last years of Audax rule passed quietly. Ten years after he had resumed power he resigned from power, letting Leukon Culchid, the former governor of Vettones, rule the Republic. Nearly three years after leaving the office Audax died at the age of 80.

In those times of peace the road network was greatly expanded, first in the core territory from Emporion to Pallantia in Vaccaei, later it was also expanded in Gaul. However roughly ten years after the latest peace with the Bituriges war started again, this time it was the Republic that responded to Biturigian support of rebels and assassinations. The Bituriges were not only supported by the Aulerci, the Veneti and the Boii, but also by the Carthaginians. However the small Carthaginian forces in Iberia were quickly overrun, and while many hard battles were fought in the north, the Ilergetes had the upper hand.

However the Carthaginians had not waited idly, they had restored their fleet, and an invasion attempt near Emporion temporarily halted the advance in the north as Caisaros Audaxid had to move his army of 20,000 men south to deal with the Carthaginians. In the battle of Emporion the 12,000 men strong Carthaginian army was annihilated.

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In order to aid the fight against Carthage in the south the Carpetani were called into the war, and while it soon stood clear that the Carthaginian navy ruled the sea, Caisaros managed to destroy the armies of the Aulerci and Veneti, in fighting in Pictones and Santones, initially losing but causing considerable losses for the enemy, eventually defeating them in a number of fierce battles.

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Having been crushed the Bituriges soon agreed to a peace. The Carthaginians had to cede the province of Turduli to the Carpetani, while the Bituriges themselves surrendered all claims on the territories they had lost.

After a rule of fifteen years Leukon died and Viriathos Culchid was elected new leader. One of his early acts was formally making the Lusitani an ally.

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Pictones seemed to be their Pyrrhic victory, well, good on ya! :D

Pyrrhic victories is the only type of victory one tend to want ones enemies to have. To bad they they tend to get the other types as well :D

You annex the remaining powers in Iberia and Gaul. :rolleyes:
To avoid humiliating defeats. :p

Avoiding humiliating defeats is easier said then done, but working towards the first part of your post ;).

21k and only one province. That battle probably wiped out 50% of their fighting males :D

Well it was both Veneti and Aulerci there, so 21k from three provinces :p

That's a proper sized Carthaginian fleet.

Another war with Carthage should clear them from Iberia. The Atrebates look like they're going to be a formidable foe.

And as one can see the new update the Carthaginians decide once again to put the first person they can find in charge of their fleet regardless of his abilities to lead.

And yes the Atrebates are looking like they can be trouble.
 
Now the Ilergetes turned their attention to Massilia. For many decades the city and its environs had been ruled by rebels against the Aulerci leadership in the north. With no allies to protect them, the Republic declared war on the Aulerci in Massilia, and Leukon Auarosid led 24,000 men against them. The Aulerci army was caught unprepared, while the ruler of Massilia, Atis Duratid, was regarded a skilled general and a brave warrior, the one to led them in battle against the Ilergetes was on Cavarus Elitovid.

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The Aulerci army was crushed in the battle of Massilia, and after many months of siege Massilia was taken and annexed by the Ilergetan Republic. A few years of peace passed until war was declared against the Bituriges who called their allies Aulerci, Carthage, Veneti and Boii to arms, while the Ilergetans were content to of their allies just involve the Carpetani. The Carpetani led the offensive against the Carthaginians in Iberia, while two Ilergetan armies numbering 48,000 men in total, half led by Mandonius Culchid and half by Leukon Auarosid marched north to deal with the Gauls.

As Leukon smashed the Biturigian army, and the Aulerci army was also promptly crushed, and their cities put under siege and taken. However by the time that had happened, the Ilergetes fought the wars first battles with the 20,000 strong Veneti army. Neither Leukon nor Mandonius managed to win against the Veneti, in fact they suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Veneti. However after two years of fighting the Veneti army had been reduced to roughly 10,000 men and they had little manpower with which to replace their losses unlike the Ilergetans. The Veneti offered to end the war, and the Ilergetes, not looking forward to suffer further losses, agreed.

Mandonius then marched south with his army and first embarked to the Baleares which was soon under Ilergetan control, the Carthaginians once again having left their leadership of the navy in the hands of men of dubious skill. In order to force the Carthaginians to accept peace Mandonius landed with his army near Ikosim in Africa, laying the city under siege. However after some time the Carthaginians sent their main army under the leadership of the skilled general Baalhanno Milikramid to crush the Ilergetan army.

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In fierce fighting against the ponderous Carthaginian army, Mandonius managed to hold them pack for long enough to retreat to the ships and the Ilergetan expedition returned to Iberia. The war continued for a few months, but eventually a peace was signed in which the Ilergetan Republic recieved Baleares, Pictones and Aremorica, while the Carpetani recieved Turdetani and Cynetes.

After seventeen years under the rule of Viriathos Culchid, the Ilergetes elected Audax Auarosid, High General of the Ilergetan army. However merely two years later he died and Viriathos once again was elected to lead the Republic who now faced a new threat. A boundary dispute had occured with the Nervii, who now claimed Arverni as to being rightfully theirs. It did not take long for this dispute to escalate into war.

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Only a few days after recieving the declaration of war from the Nervii and their allies, the Atrebates and the Eburones, Audax died, and as has been mentioned Viriathos was re-elected.

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Good luck, you shall overcome 'em all!

I would have to say that the Atrebates proved underwhelming in this war. They did land an army of 42 units at Massilia (my fleet was in port, otherwise I would have stopped them), but 42 units isn't always 42,000 men, when I fought that army roughly 12,000 was alive. Still don't know why they thought it would be a good idea to sail all the way to Massilia. But while the Atrebates didn't provide any trouble the Nervii and Eburones on the other hand did.

How can carthage support 100k in a province like that. And how can you support 120k overall? It surely must be a drain on your economy.

The Carthaginian army was IIRC 22k from Hippo Regius and additional 102 units that had marched in from further east. And as for how I can support 120k overall? Easy, my monthly income is at 12, so I have more money than I truly know what to do with, and I've been lucky with cultural conversions, so that both Vaccaei and Arevaci is Iberian rather then Celt Iberian so I get the full amount of manpower from them, in fact most of my provinces are Iberian. Have a fair number of Celtic provinces (and some Carthaginian ones), and they on the other hand don't provide any manpower, but they do provide money (and all of my provinces have those +50% income buildings). Support limit was at the end of last post at 75.
 
The Nervii laid siege to Gergovia in Arverni, and it was there that Cesarus Punicid led 47,000 Ilergetan warriors against 50,000 Nervian warriors led by the Nervii leader, Mallaius Elitovid.

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In a fierce battle the Nervii were beaten, and began to retreat towards Allobroges. Cesarus led part of the army north towards Bibracte, deeming the 24,000 men led by Leukon Auarosid enough to deal with the Nervian army.

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The Nervii lost many men, but a charge of their cavalry turned the battle in their favour and forced the Ilergetans to retreat. Soon the Nervii gave command to the great general Celatus Divicid, who managed to halt the Ilergetan advance, by among other things destroying Cesarus' army. As the war in the north bogged down in indecisive battles (mostly won by the Nervii), war started in the south as Carthage declared war on the Carpetani. However that war never really divided Ilergetan attention from the war against Carthage. It ended after two years, a few months after the death of Viriathos and the election of Leukon Auarosid, the eldest son of Caros Auarosid.

Around two years after those events Celatus' army was destroyed after having been greatly reduced in size by many battles with no hope of reinforcements. Leukon felt that the war against the Nervii was practically won and started a brief war with the Bituriges, after a few months the Ilergetes conquered Avaricum and annexed the Bituriges. A few months later the Nervii agreed to cede Aedui, Sequani and Allobroges as well as surrender their claims on Arverni. The Nervii allies soon agreed peace, the sporadic acts of Atrebatian pirates and Eburonian armies had not been able to halt the Ilergetan advance into Nervii territory and there wasn't any willingness to continue the fight on either side.

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At that time war had erupted between Carthage on one side and Epirus, the Seleucid Empire and Illyria on the other side. While the Republic maintained neutrality during this conflict, it took the oppurtunity to take control of Vocontii. After roughly four years that war had ended with Carthage paying tribute to the Seleucids as well as ceding Tingis to them. After Leukon had ruled for twelve years he lost power to the charismatic general Caucenus Culchid.

Most of Caucenus rule was peaceful mostly but eight years into it a boundary dispute with the Parisii, resulted in a war between the Ilergetes and the Parisii and the Parisian allies, the Aulerci and the Veneti. The Aulerci army was swiftly crushed in a single battle by Caucenus.

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After a short siege the Aulerci cities had been taken and the Aulerci lost their independence. The following month the Veneti, while undefeated on the field, agreed to pay a monthly tribute to the Ilergetes. As the Ilergetes focused their attention on the Parisii, the war had practically ended. After some sporadic fighting the Parisii army had been destroyed and all their major cities were under siege. However as Caucenus was getting bored with the war he agreed to let the Parisii to get away with merely paying a sizeable monthly tribute to the Ilergetes. After only having ruled twelve years Caucenus died, and Leukon Auarosid came to power again.

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Rulers of the Republic:
Code:
(Caraunios Tautalid		474-484)
Punicus Auarosid		(484)-490
Rhetogenes Mandonid		490-511
Mandonius Mandonid		511-518
Caisaros Mandonid		518-526
Arganthonios Culchid		526-527
Caisaros Mandonid		526-572 A second time
Caros Culchid			573
Caisaros Mandonid		573	Once again
Caraunios Leukid		573-576
Cesarus Auarosid		576-587
Megaravicos Culchid		587-593
Caucenus Auarosid		593-594
Caros Mandonid			594-596
Audax Auarosid			596-603
Megaravicos Auarosid		603-605
Megaravicos Ambonid		605-614
Audax Punicid			614-616
Audax Culchid			616-626
Cesarus Ambonid			626-628
Caros Auarosid			628-632
Audax Culchid			632-636 Again
Caros Auarosid			636-644 Again
Caraunios Culchid		644-650
Caros Auarosid			650-656 Once again
Audax Culchid			656-666 Once again
Leukon Culchid			666-681
Viriathos Culchid		681-698
Audax Auarosid			698-700
Viriathos Culchid		700-704 Again
Leukon Auarosid			704-716
Caucenus Culchid		716-728
Leukon Auarosid			728-?	Again


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