Becoming Pharaoh

[Kendji]

I finally became Pharaoh, felt really rewarding. I had to work myself up while the Sea People (which are turned to max) invasion was looming, which is next on the list. This is with Amenmesse and Akhenaten legacy. The siege of Waset (Thebes/Luxor) took longer than expected so a few fullstack elite Sea People hordes got trough into the heartland. Also the team did great on making Waset, looked great, shame I had to burn part of it down. :D

According to the steam achievements 9.1% have done this, how where your experience, what campaign settings did you use? :)

[oOIYvYIOo]

Congratulations.

In what levels of dificulty and what have you customized in your campaign and in how
many turns?

[Kendji]

Settings
https://steamcommunity.com/id/kendjithagreat/screenshot/2128572842583446465/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/kendjithagreat/screenshot/2128572842583445717/

Map and turn
https://steamcommunity.com/id/kendjithagreat/screenshot/2128572842583238921/

I applied the same boost to AI as myself and added battle realism. Turn 109. I don't like the AI cheating, just as a principle. There's a mod in the workshop that remove AI cheating in battles which I use, other mods I use are a historical quotes, proton fontfix and some other minor cosmetic.

I wasn't actually going for the throne, I was going to build and savour the moment, make sieges on cities like Pi-Ramasses, Mennefer etc. to look at the views, but a faction I invaded went and swore allegiance to Seti II which forced my hand and I went for it.
When I'm done with this save at some point I'm going to try Hecleas AI Overhaul play-through

[oOIYvYIOo]

What do you mean by AI cheating?

[oOIYvYIOo]

Thanks for sharing.

Now you should increase the dificulty of the campaign and turn on the ten of features you disabled 🧐

[Aluminum Elite Master]

One time, I did it same way as you:

Amenmesse, with Akhaten legacy.

I went and sniped the Akhaten city by sailing down the Nile (downstream is north-bound) after taking my starting area and rushing up gold mines. I joined the very first Egyptian civil war and rushed up obelisks to improve my legitimacy just enough to win and become Pharaoh. But I had no real power yet, so had to keep getting legitimacy up over time to get even the lowest Pharaoh powers for me.



Another time, I did it vastly differently:

I went with Irsu, paid my way into being in the Egyptian court, and fought up the Nile like it was Apocalypse Now and had to fight all of Egypt to get the legitimacy needed to be a Canaanite Pharaoh. That was not the easiest path, but it was just on Hard/Normal (Campaign: Hard... Battle: Normal.... diff. settings). Literally went through fighting almost the entirety of Egypt, like it was a Bronze Age World War. Lot of fun battles, but not very efficient, and had to trade resources to the Hittites to fuel the war machine.



I think the achieves are just set a tad high for requirements this time. You can easily win a minor victory without being Pharaoh or King, really. And becoming either one requires manually joining a civil war, so it's very easy to conquer and map-paint and forget to challenge the crown.

[Kendji]

Originally posted by oOIYvYIOo:

What do you mean by AI cheating?

It gets extra resources, damage etc. on higher difficulty levels and nerfs on lower. Imo this is cheating.
I use;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3050630097

So the battle boots are neutralized, which means only economical boosta work. Idk, the difficulty settings are a bit useless for me :D, if I play on legendary I just mod it back down to normal. I want the AI to outsmart and overrun me, and such things.

Originally posted by oOIYvYIOo:

Thanks for sharing.

Now you should increase the dificulty of the campaign and turn on the ten of features you disabled 🧐

x) It's my cup of coffee. When you become Pharaoh you can shine with your much better settings ;)

[Kendji]

Originally posted by Aluminum Elite Master:

Another time, I did it vastly differently:

I went with Irsu, paid my way into being in the Egyptian court, and fought up the Nile like it was Apocalypse Now and had to fight all of Egypt to get the legitimacy needed to be a Canaanite Pharaoh. That was not the easiest path, but it was just on Hard/Normal (Campaign: Hard... Battle: Normal.... diff. settings). Literally went through fighting almost the entirety of Egypt, like it was a Bronze Age World War. Lot of fun battles, but not very efficient, and had to trade resources to the Hittites to fuel the war machine.



I think the achieves are just set a tad high for requirements this time. You can easily win a minor victory without being Pharaoh or King, really. And becoming either one requires manually joining a civil war, so it's very easy to conquer and map-paint and forget to challenge the crown.

I'm trying something similar in anothern save, but with Hittite throne, I'm still uniting the last 1/10 of Canaan. How did you deal with all the incomming sea peoples along the coast?