Hello, I am trying to complete this mission on hardest and am having the hardest time. I have watched a couple youtube videos but there are none uploaded recently so I am thinking an AI update might have changed the strategy for this one. I have tried building my economy very quickly to get to the Iron Age as fast as possible, but at about the 15 minute mark I get bombarded by the enemy, unprovoked I might add, and have no chance to build any sort of army/decent defenses to defend myself. Is there a new strat for this one or am I just unlucky with the enemy AI attacking early?
During his campaign against the Roman Republic, which started in 280 BC, after a couple of years of hard fighting, he got two offers for kingships simultaneously. One for Macedon and the other for Sicily In our timeline he chose to become King of Sicily. What would happen had he decided on the other option?
Unfortunately I don't have any screenshot, but if you siege Argos as Pyrrhus, there's an event that recreates his historical's death : the mother of a soldier throw a rooftile at your head, which kills you...
Pyrrhus dies and there's no way to avoid it, and you get a "lucky rooftile" treasure
I doubt I'm the first to think this, but both Abimelech and Pyrrhus died from flung masonry (a millstone for Abimelech, a roof tile for Pyrrhus) courtesy of women residing in places they were besieging, which could make one think that one story could have influenced another.
Given that the Book of Judges was probably composed a couple of centuries before the life and times of Pyrrhus, this would've been the Hebrew Bible influencing the writers of Pyrrhus' biography - is this probable or is it just a coincidence?
Say that it's the plot of a book or movie. During this Crisis, Military geniuses Rise up, hell, have Caesar, Hannibal and Pyrrhus travel in time with the task to defend the WRE. Assume they know what they need to know of military, technological, cultural etc advancements and that they don't care about the past (I.e hannibal was an enemy of Rome)
So Pyrrhus' name, as you may know, means "Flaming Red". Red hair is extremely rare, so people often give their red-haired children a name related to that trait. So my assumption has been that he had red hair.
However, pretty much everywhere I go online claims that he had yellow hair. A claim which I've found no evidence to confirm. The kings of Epirus claimed descent from Neoptolemus, and members of their own Aeacid house often named their lads in honour of their mythical ancestor. The original Neoptolemus was sometimes called Pyrrhus for his own red hair, so I could see Aeacides naming his son that as an homage to his family's frequent namesake.
Any information would be appreciated.
I play a lot of strategy games and something has been bugging me for a while. It finally crystallized when I got into Imperator: Rome and noticed just how underpowered Epirus is. Unless the game is very inaccurate, Epirus had only a small fraction of the population and wealth of Rome and Carthage at the time of Pyrrhus' campaigns.
Browsing Wikipedia to get an answer, I was unsurprised to read about him having to retreat any time he faced a major army from any of the Diadochi. But he was somehow able to defeat or draw the Romans and later the Carthaginians multiple times, with no info on how he got the army other than Ptolemy lending him the elephants.
So, what gives? Was 20,000 soldiers a small army that his minor kingdom could easily raise, and the Romans and Carthaginians just couldn't be bothered to send more than a tiny fraction of their troops? Or was it a big army, and if so, how did he raise it? Was Epirus just a lot more densely populated than Italy, giving it competitive manpower and income? It would have to be hella more densely populated if this map is accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diadochen1.png
Just a FYI, don't siege Argos with Pyrrhus as your leader if you don't want to be rooftiled.
