500 AD global campaign - Year 512 battles are up

[Ludendorf]

No complaints from me. Never played City Arabs before.

[kongxinga]

Hello all, I'd like to take a side, will prefer Silk road factions, but will play any available. I figure the more the merrier.

[Vardus]

No complaints from me. Never played City Arabs before.

They're fun, but the mountains are likely to make this a bit of a fuckfest, unfortunately. No chance to use all our pretty lancers. Still, they swarm with meh heavy infantry and so incredibly many lancers, plus decent melee skirmishers, which are rare if not especially useful.

I made the game, by the way. The password is sass - the game has himyarids vs sassanid allies in the comment field, s should be easy to find.

Also, I'll probably get whipped but I can take one of the ERE's battles for this turn, if someone else has the others.

[Nijis]

Hey kongxinga, great to have you aboard! The two Silk Road mod battles will both be against jomni.

Yujiulu army (NPR) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Hexi
Rouran vs Northern Dynasties in Middle Eastern Agricultural
Yujiulu victory results: None, move pre-empted
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Wei army (jomni) to fight Liang army (NPR) in Chu
Northern Dynasties vs Chinese (Southern Qi) in Mediterranean Agricultural
Wei victory results: Reunites
Liang victory results:

Do you want to take those?

[Nijis]

Vardus - if you want to take a battle for the ERE, do you want this one?

Roman Empire army (NPR) to fight Ostrogoths client (Kabill) in Dacia
Byzantine vs Byzantine in Northern European Hilly
Roman Empire victory results: Conquers
Ostrogoths victory results:

[kongxinga]

Hey kongxinga, great to have you aboard! The two Silk Road mod battles will both be against jomni.

Yujiulu army (NPR) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Hexi
Rouran vs Northern Dynasties in Middle Eastern Agricultural
Yujiulu victory results: None, move pre-empted
...
Wei army (jomni) to fight Liang army (NPR) in Chu
Northern Dynasties vs Chinese (Southern Qi) in Mediterranean Agricultural
Wei victory results: Reunites
Liang victory results:

Do you want to take those?

I'll take the Liang and the battle against Jomni in Chu. Can you link me to an on boarding post/thread? I've messed around with the tool in SP, but never in a real multiplayer campaign.

IIRC, we set up a multiplayer game with those settings, then (northern versus Chinese, etc), play it out and record the results, then input it into the master turn file? I need to read up more on how this works.

Would we run into issues if both players lack the Belisarius DLC? I know if at least one has it he can host. I chose silk road armies to kinda get around that potential issues, plus shooty armies!

Edit* I am running into a bug where the version 3.1 of the tool can't start, error message below. How would I take out version .2 of the tool?

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of K:\kdownloads\FoG Campaign 0.31\FoG Campaign 0.31\FoG Campaign.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ You cannot start application FoG Campaign from this location because it is already installed from a different location.
+ You cannot start application FoG Campaign from location file:///K:/kdownloads/FoG%20Campaign%200.31/FoG%20Campaign%200.31/FoG%20Campaign.application it is already installed from location file:///K:/kdownloads/FoG%20Campaign%200.2/FoG%20Campaign%200.2/FoG%20Campaign.application. You can start it from location file:///K:/kdownloads/FoG%20Campaign%200.2/FoG%20Campaign%200.2/FoG%20Campaign.application or you can uninstall it and reinstall it from location file:///K:/kdownloads/FoG%20Campaign%200.31/FoG%20Campaign%200.31/FoG%20Campaign.application. If you reinstall the application, be aware that you might lose any customizations that you made to the application.

[Nijis]

Great! The standard multiplayer format works like this:

Jomni, the first player, will challenge you and start the battle on multiplayer. He'll DM you the password or post it in this forum. Then you go to Multiplayer in the Field of Glory game, hit "Accept Challenge," find the game jomni posted, and enter the password jomni gave you. If you need to download a mod then I think it lets you know.

I think Kabill took another of the Liang's battles. I don't want to interrupt a battle in progress, so let's let that one continue. If you want to try a second battle you can also be the Yujiulu/Rouran in this battle, in which case you'd post the challenge. Let me know if you want to do this (the second battle) and I'll walk you through the steps.

Yujiulu army (NPR) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Hexi
Rouran vs Northern Dynasties in Middle Eastern Agricultural

...

For that error, try downloading 0.33.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mb5l4r8yu ... 3.rar/file

Extract the file completely onto the desktop - ie, right-click to extract, so that a separate unzipped folder appears. Then click on "setup" inside.

You don't need to have the app to fight the battles, though, so we have a couple of weeks to sort this out...

[Vardus]

Vardus - if you want to take a battle for the ERE, do you want this one?

Roman Empire army (NPR) to fight Ostrogoths client (Kabill) in Dacia
Byzantine vs Byzantine in Northern European Hilly
Roman Empire victory results: Conquers
Ostrogoths victory results:

Sure, sounds good.

[Nijis]

Great! I've updated the battle listings with the latest players for each side.

[kongxinga]

I think Kabill took another of the Liang's battles. I don't want to interrupt a battle in progress, so let's let that one continue. If you want to try a second battle you can also be the Yujiulu/Rouran in this battle, in which case you'd post the challenge. Let me know if you want to do this (the second battle) and I'll walk you through the steps.

Yujiulu army (NPR) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Hexi
Rouran vs Northern Dynasties in Middle Eastern Agricultural

...

For that error, try downloading 0.33.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mb5l4r8yu ... 3.rar/file

Extract the file completely onto the desktop - ie, right-click to extract, so that a separate unzipped folder appears. Then click on "setup" inside.

You don't need to have the app to fight the battles, though, so we have a couple of weeks to sort this out...

I'll take the Rouran (Tibetans?) (*Edit apparently Xianbei descendents, got it) for the battle and empire then.
.33 of the tool fixed the install issue.

Let me know what I need to do to get the battle rolling, thanks!

[Nijis]

Okay! So...

In Field of Glory, hit Multiplayer
Hit "New Challenge"
Hit "Create Skirmish"
Hit the icon with three pages to the right of "Field of Glory 2"
Choose as a Module, "Silk Road Skirmishes 1.3"
Side A army Rouran 500-555 (I think)
Side B army Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei)
Open battle, Medium
Map type: Middle Eastern agriculture
Hit "Create"
Player side A
Comment: 500 CE campaign, for jomni (or something like that)
Password: (your choice)
Hit "Create" again

Message jomni the password or post it here, then check in to Multiplayer Lobby/My Games later and choose and deploy your troops!

[Nijis]

And, here's a map of the wars in the west...

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... and the wars in the east

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King Geraint of Dumnonia, fresh from his victory over the Saxons in Mercia, organizes a raid into the heart of the Saxon kingdom in Kent to take the fight to the pagans and keep them off-balance.

The Franks, their candidate having lost out to an Ostrogothic ally in the struggle for control of Rhaetia, launch a pillaging expedition to remind the Burgundian lords there of their folly. They happen on an Ostrogothic army mobilizing there and bring it to battle. Meanwhile, the Ostrogoths' allies, a rump tribe of the Vandals in Noricum, raid a Frankish client in Alamannia.

In the disputed province of Dacia, where an Ostrogothic bid for supremacy was thwarted by Roman allies two years ago, the Romans are taking their turn to send an expeditionary force to assert their hegemony.

Because an empire long divided must unite, the Wei of northern China and the Liang of the south are attacking each other across the divide between the Yellow River and the Yangtze. The Wei (for now) mustering greater force in a bid to take the crucial province of Chu, while the Liang are raiding with no intention (yet) to conquer.

The rising kingdom of the Gepids is building a name for itself by avenging old border grievances and attacking their Slavic neighbors. The Slavs have reached out to the Franks.

In southern Arabia, a proud Himyarid prince is also attempting to show his neighbors that a new regional power is born, launching a punitive raid into the arid mountains of nearby Yemen over disputes in the collection of tariffs from the lucrative frankincense caravan route.

An army of the nomadic Rouran descended on the arid Hexi region of northern China and looted the Silk Road caravan stations there. The nomads liked what they found and began preparations to conquer in earnest, but were interrupted by a Wei force coming up from the south.

The Sassanians, stung by a raid from the Hunas kingdom of central Asia, have sent their forces to attack the Hunas' nomadic allies in Transoxiana, while the Hunas are attempting to ravage the rich turquoise- and wine-producing province of Aria.

The Romans, responding to a call by fellow Christian (albeit non-Chalcedonian) nobles in Armenia, have sent in a force to try to help them throw off Sassanid suzerainty, interrupting a Persian army in its preparations to attack into Roman territory.

[Nijis]

So Najanaja will take the Saxons against Ludendorf's Romano-Britons. Here is an updated (and maybe final) version of the player battles:

Enjoy!


Yujiulu army (kongxinga) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Hexi
Rouran vs Northern Dynasties in Middle Eastern Agricultural
Yujiulu victory results: None, move pre-empted
...
Roman Empire army (Vardus as proxy commander) to fight Ostrogoths client (Kabill) in Dacia
Byzantine vs Byzantine in Northern European Hilly
Roman Empire victory results: Conquers
Ostrogoths victory results:
...
Ostrogoths allies (Kabill) to fight Franks client (Ironclad) in Alamannia
Vandal vs Frankish in Northern European Hilly
Ostrogoths victory results: LootsProvince
RESULT: Vandals defeat the Franks, 11-40
...
Franks army (Ironclad) to fight Ostrogoths army (Kabill) in Rhaetia
Frankish vs Ostrogothic in Northern European Mountainous
Franks victory results: LootsProvince
RESULT: Ostrogoths repel the Frankish raid 3-42,
...
Wei army (jomni) to fight Liang army (kongxinga) in Chu
Northern Dynasties vs Chinese (Southern Qi) in Mediterranean Agricultural
Wei victory results: Reunites
RESULT: ND 63% - Chinese 9%
...
Liang army (Kabill fight as proxy general) to fight Wei army (jomni) in Lu
Chinese (Southern Qi) vs Northern Dynasties in Mediterranean Hilly
Liang victory results: LootsProvince
RESULT Chinese defeat Northern Dynasties, 66-31

Dumnonia army (Ludendorf) to fight Saxons army (Najanaja) in Britannia
Romano-British vs Anglo-Saxon in Northern European Woods
Dumnonia victory results: LootsProvince
Saxons victory results:
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Gepids army (shadowblack) to fight Franks client (Ironclad) in Quadi
Gepid vs Slavs in Northern European Hilly
Gepids victory results: LootsProvince
RESULT: Gepids beat Slavs 62-47%
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Himyarids army (Vardus) to fight Sassanids client (Ludendorf as proxy general) in Yemen
Arab (City) vs Arab (City) in Middle Eastern Mountainous
Himyarids victory results: LootsProvince
RESULT Sassanid Client defeats Himyarids, 7-43%

[Kabill]

I've just set up the Liang v. Wei battle in Lu for jomni. However, as we've not started, if kongxinga wants to take that battle instead it wouldn't be an issue as it's not yet started.

[Ironclad]

Nijis - have you or are you posting the app turn for the turn 2 battles or is that entirely being dealt with by textual reports you have posted above, and our outcome reports sent to you in response? And if the latter will that be the format for future turns ie we just get the app turn download for each turn start/end and not for the battles stage?

[Nijis]

I've just set up the Liang v. Wei battle in Lu for jomni. However, as we've not started, if kongxinga wants to take that battle instead it wouldn't be an issue as it's not yet started.

For this, jomni and kongxinga are fighting two battles this turn and as the two main contenders for the emperorship of China will probably fight more on the next turn, so go ahead and continue with the Lu fight for now (unless you've already made arrangements to hand it over, or have less time than expected, etc.)

Nijis - have you or are you posting the app turn for the turn 2 battles or is that entirely being dealt with by textual reports you have posted above, and our outcome reports sent to you in response? And if the latter will that be the format for future turns ie we just get the app turn download for each turn start/end and not for the battles stage?

I wasn't going to send the battles stage as a file. It wouldn't hurt but there's no need and it might be confusing. I can send it to anyone who asks.

FYI, the game sometimes yields the wrong army list so I tweak that manually before posting the battle list.

[kongxinga]

Okay! So...

In Field of Glory, hit Multiplayer
Hit "New Challenge"
Hit "Create Skirmish"
Hit the icon with three pages to the right of "Field of Glory 2"
Choose as a Module, "Silk Road Skirmishes 1.3"
Side A army Rouran 500-555 (I think)
Side B army Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei)
Open battle, Medium
Map type: Middle Eastern agriculture
Hit "Create"
Player side A
Comment: 500 CE campaign, for jomni (or something like that)
Password: (your choice)
Hit "Create" again

Message jomni the password or post it here, then check in to Multiplayer Lobby/My Games later and choose and deploy your troops!

Challenge up! I'll DM the password to jomni.
Just FYI, will be away from computer just this weekend, but should resume in earnest Monday.

Also from the looks of the map, my lack of Belisarius is ok until I attack Sassanids, then we have an issue . At least I have legions triumphant, so Hepthalites are fine.

[Nijis]

Great! Look forward to getting the battle reports when these epic clashes are resolved. Two weeks would be ideal, but no deadline and no rush! Good luck to all.

[jomni]

I've just set up the Liang v. Wei battle in Lu for jomni. However, as we've not started, if kongxinga wants to take that battle instead it wouldn't be an issue as it's not yet started.

I will accept this soon. When I get home from work.

I will also set up that other match.
Busy times for Wei.

[Nijis]

Nice! Is that one of the Three Kingdoms films/serials?