Age Of Basilius

[Masis]

THE OBJECTIVE

Well, an objective to aim at if you play the Romans is to create the frontiers of the Empire as it was at the time of Basil II's death in 1025AD.
If playing the Iberians you will want to annex Abasgia to create the kingdom of Georgia.
If playing the Armenians you will want to defend your reborn realm.
If playing the Fatimids you will want to destroy all infedels and heretics.
If playing the Buyids fend of the Fatimid heretics, annex Azerbaijan, the Emirate of Diyarbakir (Place of Copper), Emirate of Mosul, Emirate of Arran and the Emirate of Shirvan. Watch the booty you get for each captured Emir!
If playing Germans you will want to annex the Lombards and independent cities of Neapolis and Salerno in the south and the French realm in the west any other move is up to you.
The Bulgars? Well try and take Nea Roma (called Tsargrad by the Bulgars) and sweep up all Roman towns in the Balkans...

[Masis]

Many Thanks

Originally posted by Prometeus
Superb work, Masis!!!

Many thanks Prometheus, though this is only the first version. What do you think could be added to it?

[Masis]

Help!

You may well utter as you seek to play the Romans at Basilios level only to find some of your cities rising up in revolt when you were hoping for a glorious campaign against Bulgaria and the Muslims. The game was designed for play at Basilios level and with some rapid building of churches (fairly cheap) and garrisoning of those cities (Made easy with the Paved Roads terrain, which is why the Romans built them in the first place to tackle these problems). Once this is done you can concentrate on driving the Bulgars out of the Balkans and the Muslims from the eastern Themes.

[Prometeus]

A special unit...

...what can be added to this scen... Maybe a special unit: dunno, the Tzar simeon as a special unit for bulgarians... Pandolfo Capodiferro as a special unit for Lombards... there are endless possibilities about special units. Too bad i haven't finished my "Gök blue" scen yet...

[Masis]

Re: A special unit...

Originally posted by Prometeus
...what can be added to this scen... Maybe a special unit: dunno, the Tzar simeon as a special unit for bulgarians... Pandolfo Capodiferro as a special unit for Lombards... there are endless possibilities about special units. Too bad i haven't finished my "Gök blue" scen yet...

Have you played the Age of Basilius scenario? If you had you would know that a unique unit is used for the Bulgar Tsar, and a unique unit Lombard Duke is garisoned in he south of Italy. What did you think of the units I have made so far for the Age of Osman scenario?

[Prometeus]

I downloaded it shortly after I went back home from the hospital. Haven't played it yet...

Perhaps I expressed in a bad way. I was meaning another special unit. after all, these great persons were a more thought match for Bizantyne Empire.

Great units for your Osman scen. A suggestion for you: do a journey to www.elisena.com or www.aitnamodel.com ( or it was www.aitnamodels.com ? Can't remeber very well now... ). There are a lot of turkish and arab units...

[Masis]

Considerations

Originally posted by Prometeus
I downloaded it shortly after I went back home from the hospital. Haven't played it yet...

Perhaps I expressed in a bad way. I was meaning another special unit. after all, these great persons were a more thought match for Bizantyne Empire.

Great units for your Osman scen. A suggestion for you: do a journey to www.elisena.com or www.aitnamodel.com ( or it was www.aitnamodels.com ? Can't remeber very well now... ). There are a lot of turkish and arab units...

Dear me, I hope your visit to hospital was not for anything serious?

Less important matters now (yes!) I have never been to those sites, I will now though, thanks Prometeus!

[Prometeus]

I explained it to Fiera in my HS Spanish League poll, Masis...

Anyway, check out your Osman Age thread also - and look at Aitna link page, there are sites with several bizantine-venetian-turkish miniatures you can use as model for your units.