roman AI expansion

Id like to hear if anyone have had roman AI expansion along both sides of the meditarreanean. Feel free to post pics of best roman ai expansion!

Usually they just bust north through the alps, and decide to become the Roma-Germanic Empire.

That happens often, but I've also seen a number where they go for Sicily or where they do move to Massalia and parts of spain and southern Gaul. Sometimes Illyria instead. But since there are no factions to the NE, they do move that way more easily.

Has anyone seen them
- taking Greece
- or parts of Africa?

when i play i give the romans an ungodly amount of money per turn, to make sure they do expand a bunch. They usually expand into spain and in illyria and are on the road to greece when the germans come and slow them down.

well in my new aedui campaign i didnt let them expand i just whiped them out with the starting army, well i usually see them expanding to dalmatia and wage war to the epirotes, when i played with with the sweboz they usually expand really fast to the north, but unless you play with a gallic faction ive never seen them take mediolanum, but well i always try to slow down the romans if i am near them i really hate their merc armies i.e. their ceto-latin armies, those armies are really annyoing

If you play a far-east faction the development of the western powers is very interesting check out my posts in faction progression thread and it's very interesting how things change. If you're not near them they will fight each other as soon as they share a long enough border and don't have another front open.
As soon as the Lusitans kicked out Carthage they started fighting the Aedui who were close to finishing off the Sweboz, than the Romans joined in allied with the Lusitans and pushed the Aedui north a lot, as soon as the Lusitans stopped sharing borders with the Aedui they made peace and went at the Romans, very cool stuff.

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Usually they just bust north through the alps, and decide to become the Roma-Germanic Empire.

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Yes this is a consistent pattern in my EB campaigns.

I find that AI Rome typically fails to overrun sothernmost Italy (Tarentum or Rhegium), and instead expands against those neighbouring provinces that it is at war with; rebels.

That means that AI Rome expands into the Po Vally and Danubian provinces, but not into Taras, or Sicily, or Gaul.

Interestingly, AI Rome does seem to adopt a pattern of launching naval invasions of Corsica, and, if successful, subseuqnt naval invasions on Sardinia. This is good.

I just wish they sought to expand against Taras, Rhegium and Sicily rather than always opting for a Roma-Germanic empire!

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The main problem is when Rome goes North they seem to pay little attention to Italy and those Southern cities are lost causing the whole faction to slump.