AI faction expansion in your campaigns?

Oops - starting a new page now. Make sure you go back one post and see Wardo's AI expansion pics!

It's very interesting that in yours by 210 all of europe, anatolia, and asia (except the subcontinent) - every bit - belongs to a faction. The romans are doing well it seems. Poor pontos though. :grin:

Also that Arabia is faction-free! Carthage looks like they are losing ground, and ptolemies doing very well as usual. In another couple of decades the Seleukids will be totally gone it seems - very very interesting. Also good to see the Maks spreading out in that pattern (a little unusual). The romans taking all of sicily but not driving epeiros off the heel is funny.

Very nice sequence. Good work! :2thumbsup:

Yeah, I really like how Arabia remains independent.

To the team, are you going to make it harder for these areas to be conquered in the next build?

Arabia you mean? If that's what you're asking than we have something up our sleeve.

*dies*

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:laugh4: Good old days of fan torturing are back! ~D
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My game in 225 ( I play as Pontos )


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Wow.. that all looks fairly insane.

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Originally Posted by Spendios

My game in 225 ( I play as Pontos )


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There's probably an interesting story behind what's going on with Aedui and Rome!
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This is from my Ptolemaic campaign, autumn 238BC, just after I conquered Pontos. It's a very weird campaign, with the Romans locked in an eternal war with Epeiros and never gaining ground, the Iberians keeping a somewhat powerful Arverni as their protectorate and the Koinon Hellenon actually managing to hold two cities in Greece against the macedonian attack.

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Unlike most of the campaigns posted here, in mine the Seleucids are the second most powerful faction. I guess my conquering of their western provinces in the early game left them with a more efficient, easier to manage empire, and now they want their lands back.

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Originally Posted by Spendios

My game in 225 ( I play as Pontos )


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What is with Armenia? That's some wierd stuff right there...

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Originally Posted by Wardo

Hi, here's the AI expansion in my first EB Campaign as the Casse.

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I spent the early decades isolated in my home island but after a while I couldn't restrain myself any longer and I had to attack, so I made a viking invasion on reverse and landed in "modern Sweden", expanding from there.

As you can see the great kingdom of the Britons has "liberated" and "allied" with the Scandinavian protectorate which claimed territory from the evil Sweboz as the true, rightfull rulers of the North, and we're now also moving West to free the lands our ancestors left for Britain, I've reached my Pax Britonnica though, to the East my army is battered, weak, small and if the Sweboz mount a large offensive they will gain land, I can't expand to the West right now because of the large masses of Roman armies in the South, I'm struggling against these Romans, their armies are huge and powerfull and they have gained the allegiance of some of the Southern tribes, those traitors, we shall exterminate their settlements if we ever conquer them! That should teach them a lesson! Great campaign, great fun, I can't wait for the next EB build.

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Brilliant! :2thumbsup:

Keep us informed.

Casse campaign, 209 B.C.

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The east is still as crazy as ever... maybe even more so with the sprouting of Koinon Hellonen rebels all over the place. They're in Sicily, soutern Turkey, in between Pontos and Armenia, and across the sea to the north of that. Incidently, KH and the Getai have way too similar faction colors on the camp map.

I have begun my invasion of the Roman peninsula, leaving a wake of destruction in my path. I expect that odd stretch of Casse territory to be retaken soon, as my main goal is destroying everything on the way to Rome itself, which is next on the agenda after destroying the current city I'm laying siege to. Also, the last Arverni stronghold is under siege by an army of mine and will fall soon.

There's been an uneasy peace between myself and the Sweboz after many years of ruthless killings. The two northern 'Gawjam' cities were taken from them, their inhabitants exterminated and buildings destroyed. They are constantly revolting, killing themselves and damaging the remaining buildings some more but won't become rebel cities because I'm playing on M campaign difficulty I suppose. I don't even have any garrisons in there... *shudder* You don't want to be living in either of those towns... The Sweboz themselves are concentrating on the east, recently having started war with the Persians.

Of my Iberian allies, I am afraid... they have around 7-9 full stacks and haven't declared war on Rome yet. They are however constantly trying to bribe my cities and planting spies. We've been allies since I first invaded the mainland and it's been working out so far, but war seems inevitable unless they attack Rome, especially since the last Arverni town is soon to be mine.

That's interesting: the Koinon have got some of their traditional colonies (Trapezus, Syracuse etc), though I suppose that that's through rebellion. And have Epirus invaded Asia Minor? That's quite cool.

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That's interesting: the Koinon have got some of their traditional colonies (Trapezus, Syracuse etc), though I suppose that that's through rebellion. And have Epirus invaded Asia Minor? That's quite cool.

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Yup, that's Epirus in Asia Minor. Tried to take that Pontic town several times to no avail over the course of the years.

This is from my Sweboz campaign, spring 245BC.

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As is becoming usual in my games, the Romans never expand much. There has been a lot of interesting activity in the eastern steppes though, pretty much all of the factions in that region have fought each other at some point.

I have also formed a barbaric league of sorts, getting alliances with the Aedui, Arvernni, Getai, Yuezhi, Iberians and British. Hopefully we'll have destroyed the "civilized" nations by the turn of the century. That will teach them. ~;)

Rather stupid question: how does one take a screenshot of the minimap?

For us few tech-illiterate people.::sweatdrop:

I'd recommend you go to http://www.howiesfunware.com and get his screen capture program, for the easiest screenshot-taking.

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Originally Posted by Malrubius

I'd recommend you go to http://www.howiesfunware.com and get his screen capture program, for the easiest screenshot-taking.

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Thanks! Now how do I post it...:embarassed:

Go to https://imageshack.us

Yeah!
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I would like to thank my mom, my dad, and Malrubis.:laugh4:

The Rome/Epeiros situation is more interesting than it looks. At one point epeiros captured Caupa and was besieging Canne, at another point, they lost all there cities in Italy and had both of there other cities besieged!

I'm Casse if you can't tell!

Edit: btw it is 231 BC

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I'm playing as the Sweboz. The major front in the campaign right now is Iberia, I blocked them off with two forts from rampaging through Gaul. I decided to sally out and meet them, and the next few turns was large army against large army.

On the Eastern front, the Dacians and Armenians don't have a hope of launching an offensive, and the Romans haven't given me any problems in awhile;)

By the way, this is my first campaign in EB, and in my faction victory conditions, it says I have to take Vicus Vendelicum. I looked all over the campaign map posted here, and ingame, and I can't find this damn place. I'd be thankful for some help:)



Wonderland, the same thing happened to me with Iberia. They had around 5 full stacks and I only had two, now my numbers stand at 2 full stacks and their numbers stand at two full stacks. Hopefully I'll win some big ones and continue my attack, slaughtering their cities(which is really driving my war effort, my numbers are kept up only with mercenaries payed for with blood money and loot) and rid myself of the Iberian pest. I'm really annoyed with them, not one of my generals has died to them on the battlefield but quite a few have fell to their assassins.

Here is the situation of my Pontic campaign in 201 BC

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In the East, Baktria is now at war with the Seleucids while Pahlava is a Seleucid protectorate.
The Ptolemaioi and the Seleucids are in peace leaving the Ptolemaioi at war only with Carthage for the Sahara provinces...
Koinon Hellenon has been destroyed (their last city, Chersonesos rebelled)
The Makedonians do nothing since they are allied with both Seleucids and Getai.
Hayasdan and Sauromatae fight in the steppes of eastern Europe since I have wiped Hayasdan from their land...
Aedui are a protectorate of the Arverni.
The Romans who were "sleeping" few tours ago are now in the process of attacking Gaul and the Sweboz...

I have a summary of my on-and-off Aedui campaign, now at 215BC, at three stages.

250 BC
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A heavily fragmented situation in the East, as usual, but otherwise not too much going on this early in the game. The only big news is in Gaul, where my Aedui have crushed the Arverni pretenders and are currently fighting the Sweboz for control of the lands of the Belgae.

235 BC
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Now things begin to get interesting. The Easten situation is still chaotic, but Baktria is beginning to emerge as a power. Hayasdan aren't doing much, but Pontos and Sauromatae are making slow progress. The Seleukids and Ptolemaioi are locked in combat, but both sides seem to be holding their own. In the West, the Getai are also expanding, as are the Casse who have succeeded in uniting Britain under their dominion. The Sweboz have expanded eastwards, but their homelands have suffered greatly at the hand of the Aedui, who captured them but decided that they could not be held, and so restored them to their rightful owners on condition of an alliance on favourable terms. The SPQR has consolidated Italy and the Epirotes driven out, although they still retain control of Messana, but the Romans' efforts at northward expansion have been frustrated. In Greece their is still no sign of a clear winner in the conflict between Makedonia and KH, while in Africa the Karthadastim continue their aggressive expansion. However, they have suffered badly at the hands of the Iberian peoples, who have all but driven them out of the peninsula, with only a single, surrounded settlement remaining. The Iberians seem set to emerge as a power in the future...

220 BC
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War! Chaos! Bloodshed! Pretty colours! The Casse have been sucked into conflict with the Aedui and have crumbled, while the Aedui are now a force to be reckoned with indeed. In the East Baktria is slowly pushing aside Pahlava and the Yuezhi to become master of the region, while it's beginning to look bleak for the Seleukids, though they still have strength. The Koinon Hellenon, which were reduced to possesing a single settlement at one point, have rejuvenated thanks to rebellions which have given them control of much of western Asia and the southern and northern coasts of the Pontus Euxine, as well as the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, oddly enough. They have even forced the anaemic Makedonians into a protectorate. Further west, Epeiros has been pushed back into it's homelands and seems to be in terminal decline. The Romani, despite temporary successes have failed to wrest control of the Alpine provinces from the Aedui, and now set their sights westward and begin to expand into Illyria and Pannonia. They also seem to have something of an uneasy truce with the Karthadastim, who have slowed down somewhat, being in something of a stalemate with the Ptolemaioi in the east, while in the west they have been entirely driven out by the Iberians, who have emerged as a formidable nation. Allied with Rome, they extorted money from the Aedui to preserve peace, but eventually the temptation was too great. In 222 they spilled over the Pyrrenees in strength, with no fewer than 5 full-strength armies. The Aedui swiftly assembled their forces in southern Gaul, but though they succeeded in throwing back one Iberian army, a second attack led by the leader himself broke them. They fled back to the settlement of Tolosa, where after a short siege they were overwhelmed in a dramatic and eventful siege battle which would have been thoroughly deserving of an AAR if it hadn't been 3:45 AM.

There were a couple of other interesting events which don't show up. Messana, which went through about 5 different owners eventually ended up in the hands of the Iberians, who opportunistically sent a few soldiers over with a fleet. Stranger, at one point I recieved a message that Baktria and the Casse had opened hostilities, which was sufficiently weird that I turned off fog, to discover that a Casse diplomat had bribed a city in the Pahlavan heartland which had been foolishly left to the defence of a single unit of Sarmatian mercenaries. Unsurprisingly this did not turn out to be a wise investment in the long run, as they lost it within a year. Even stranger than that, I have seen rebels behaving like full factions in this campaign. For example, when I was finishing off the Casse I was surprised to discover that, in a foreshadowing of real events many centuries later, a large army of Goidils had appeared in Caledonia. Seems that they were able to build up their forces to the extent that they could combine the excess troops from both cities on the island into a large force and send it across the landbridge, curious.

That went on for a while, this is certainly been one of the most enjoyable TW campaigns I've played, and I'll keep things updated.

Antagonist

Very nice Antagonist!

I can't wait to see a good AAR of a failure and loss of an empire after it's been going ok for a while. :grin: I played a Hayasdan where I think if I had kept going for another couple of decades the Ptolemies might have been able to push through and take my lands.

Casse campaign, 192 B.C.
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I can't wait to see a good AAR of a failure and loss of an empire after it's been going ok for a while. I played a Hayasdan where I think if I had kept going for another couple of decades the Ptolemies might have been able to push through and take my lands.

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I have an embarrassing fact to admit... That's exactly what was happening in my campaign about 8-10 years ago, at war with Rome and the Sweboz. I had a lot less land and they kept army spamming, and economy was becoming an issue. I was in a costly stalemate. Then what put the nail in the coffin was learning that any Casse reforms would come at 107 B.C. I believe, almost a hundred years=400 turns away.

I made a save of my current, pure game and put a copy of it safely in another folder. Then I did the worst thing I could possibly do... I got a protectorate from the Sweboz, launcing me into the over 2 million mnai stratosphere, not to mention not having to worry about my Northern front anymore. Well after that, I was at peace with the Romans as well and I began building up huge armies with which to invade my Iberian allies, strong by my side since I first invaded the mainlands decades ago. And so, with this new source of income filling up my war chest, I launched my current invasion and yeah... not someting to be proud of but I damn sure had a hell of a lot of fun the whole time, and am continuing to do so.

Before the jackpot though, while still at war with the Romans, I did the most fun thing I've done yet in any version of this game. Took my faction leader, my original Barae's grandson and a great leader in his own right, and lead him through a march to Rome, sacking every city along the way until finally destroying Rome itself. Some of these cities were then given as charitable gifts to other nations, dividing up Rome something awful, including handing over the city of Roma itself to the Sweboz.

Now here's where some interesting occurences...... occur. I had given the city just to the north of Roma to Epirus. A short while later, I realize that the southern Italian cities had either rebelled to Epirus or they had invaded the peninsula and taken them. Shortly after, a fleet arrived with a nice force on deck to the eastern coast of the peninsula, but did not unload because the shores were under Roman control. And there they remained, waiting for the opportunity. Then, more and more Epirote forces channeled into the peninsula and eventually got a garisson to their undefended city. All this time, Iberia is at war with the Romans and have maken some good headway, including having taken the city to to north of the Epirote one but lost it to rebellion. This was taken advantage of by Epirus as they took that one for themselves as well. And there they currently stand, with the two southernmost cities on the peninsula, and the two to the north of Rome, as seen on the map. Oh and not to mention, they're doing pretty well on their own part of the world as you can tell.

Ok by this point, the Sweboz are my protectorate, I declared war on the Iberians, and the Romans immediately jumped to ally with me and I agreed. After decades of bloody fighting, the swords were put aside between our two nations and we joined forces against the Iberians. To prevent any possible conflict between the Sweboz and the Romans and the chance of alliances falling apart, I bought back Roma, now rebuilt by the Sweboz, and gave it back to the Romans. Now here they stand, slowly rebuilding their forces after having been depleted of the resources necessary to withstand the long, drawn out wars.

As for the Casse, we've pushed back the Iberians into the confines of their peninsula, which will soon be invaded full force. Ah and an interesting note. Over between the Sarmatians and the Getai, a large chunk of that land is ownded by the Koinon Hellonen (you can see the color difference in the full image). After almost having been obliterated, they've risen from the ashes and have migrated north. They've also invaded the mainland and taken two cities to the north of Rhodes. For a brief while, they had a presence in Sicily due to rebellion again, but Carthage pushem them out and claimed all the island for themselves. The Gauls have two strongholds, thousands (hundreds?) of miles apart; one in the middle of Turkey, surrounded directly by 4 nations, the other to the east of Italy, stuck between the Romans, Sweboz and Getai. Carthage and Ptolemy, well... they're Carthage and Ptolemy. I've posted an image in the bugs forum about Carthages armies not having moved for decades. The Ptolemies have recently declared war on the Armenians and have reached their cities. The Persians, divided up all over the eastern world. Baktria's been split in half, the Yuezhi are maintaining their lands strong as ever. Seleucids are banged up pretty bad as they have some fragmented lands, still under the rule of the main empire. The Sarmatians are at war with the Koinon Hellonen who have been looking to expand their holdings to the north and the Getai were at war with the Sweboz for a good while, loosing some lands to the southward expanding Germans. I don't know if there's been much action there lately however because of the protectorate deal and all...... Ah yes, and the land of Pontus have been pinched in by the Epirotes and Armenians.

Oh man, this has been the best campaign ever. A very interesting situation in the world right now as so many things are happening and are yet to happen. Once again, thanks EB!

Well i am on the best road to loose campaigne.
Its 231 so i am good 41 years into game.
I play as Gatai, and evrything was going really well until sometihing like 12 years ago jaguernout named Romani decided to anihilate me.
At this time my faction was at its peek with 7 setlemnts and aroung 12K seson income. I was wining war with Pontos and was very happy that i propably will achive my Victory conditions in 20-30 years.
It seems so funny now :laugh4:
Now i control only 5 provinces (one i luckyly got when it rebeled to me). I lost one of my homland provinces (i had 3 of them).
My cities are devastated, i had to seell all not esenital buildings to keep my war machine going and my teritory is romed by roman army that i propably cant handle, it already once destroyed my rolay army.
I tryed to save the day by becoming protectorate of romani but this only stoped them for 6 sesons.
In fersome fightings i conquered 13 diffrent settlements total (including my starting province). And 12 year war costed me at least 200K manai (counting only training costs). I fuled my war by sacking and burning to the ground Vindebora, Sagestica, Ak-Ink and Nicodemia. But enemy counteratacks alway drove me back to my homelands.
I could most likly hold on for few years but withough outside help, like masive AI invasion on Romani my chances are less then zero.

Whats most funny is that i will be the first faction to loose in this campaigne.
All other factions are dooing quite well.

Some pictures:

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I read few times about people migrating to diffrent part of world.
It seemed that they do it for the fun, but now i will try it becouse of necesity.
I will choose one or two selfish, charismatic generals and i will try to capture Rhodos and proclaim myslef thyrant of Rhodos. By this point i will basicly stop being Gatai, and i will have to rely on mercenaries (like reall tyran).
I wonder where this will lead me. It may be mighty fun but this expedition will be very difficult and i may never be able to sack this rich island.

Wow. Very nice indeed. I also hear the Crimea is nice this time of year. :grin: It does suck that the Romans are coming straight after you though. Good luck finding a boat!!

What armies are you using LorDBulA?
Have you tried full cavalry army - 1-2 gen cav, 2-3 heavy cav, 3-5 HA(possibly the Skuda sth ones they have spear as additional weapon), maybe some light cav?

I know this is expensive, but as Romani are not full-archer you could exterminate them almost without losses, attacing small armies or when faced with bigger enemy try to hit and run - kill as many as you can and then withdraw from battle.

Just never use precious heavy cav if enemy hasn't lowered morale. Be like flowing water if you couldn't be like iron wall :)

Use inf to protect towns and for really big battles - poor inf dies so fast :(

Edit: Never use HA as a shock troops in other situation than last desperate need, you will need theire arrows in the next battle!

Well my expedition to Rhodes was very short. I never left mainland.
First i had to get a boat so i launched offensive to recapture Katallis (my homeland with navy port). Unfortunately it turned out that its protected by big pontic army. It was tough battle, pontos had 400 Horse archers. Other then that forces where more or less even. Around 2300 men on each side.
Unfortunately my only selfish generals where not exactly military geniuses. This combined with quite light nature of dacian troops end up in massacre.
My royal army was gone. So was its leader. Second general run north leaving remains of his once proud army behind. You are right Teleklos Archelaou Crime is nice is nice this time of year, and full of horse archers.

Second attempt was more sucesfull. Afther my much better general defended Sardika he took all gold horses could caried and run like hell toward Pergamon (province owned by Makedons my only ally, loyal for 20+ years).
Spy reported insignificant Seleucids presence in Halikarnassos and in Lydia.
Afther about year and a half, Maks where blocking my progress i got to Lydia.
I hired mercenaries (by that time i had quite a lot of cash) and attack Lydia.
Seleucids where fighting back but i sack the city within 6 months.
I made a big mistake by not slaughtering citizens. Its really hard to keep control of 16K foreign city. In 6 months i captured Halikarnassos but i lost Lydia to revolt. It cost me 20K of manai to higher all avaible mercenaries to face 2600 angry citizens and 800 reinforcments from outside the city. I won the battle but my 2000 mercenaries have still to capture Lydia capitol. Its still defended by 1400 seleucids. Meanwhile Maks 3000 strong army is few kilometers away most likely coming to help Seleucids (Maks chose alliance with Seleukids over alliance with me, i wonder why :embarassed: ). So i have to hurry.

Back at home i have only 2 province left. I was attacked by Hellenes, they sacked Sardika most likely as a revenge for my looting expedition to Athens, them that was so long ago.

O'ETAIPOS i duped HA would work, they are great but Romans use lots of triari and HA cant hurt them much.
I can win in filed against Romans, the problem is that they economy is so much stronger then mine. I destroy few stacks, no problem they rebuild and keep coming. What worse i was their only enemy and they trow everything they got at me. And pontos attacking me from the east is not helping. Before my migration i won 97 battles and lost 18.
I would give kingdom for one unit of ellephants. With them i could repel romans.
I dont fight at river crosing. They are very unrealistic.

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After a big ctd as the romans i decided to take a break and play some age of empires, star craft, and medieval total war, but soon i was called back to my true passion, EB. In my KH campaign, things started out great, i got macedonia to become a protectorate on turn one as a sort of joke, but they listened. The 13000 mnai that came to me the next turn really helped out. My economy was booming, i disbanded 2 fleets but used the third to bring a second general to krete and quickly took over. Shortly afterwards i returned and began to build up my economy, leaving my units depleated from the krete campaign as garrisons. For about 12 years things were going great, pyrrhus decided to take thermon for me, and i quickly took advantage of his weakness. At the same time, an eleutheroi band attacked athens and ended up killing one of my young generals. I took thermon and broke the athenian siege, then made peace with the epirotes. Soon after, i noted the depleted garrisons of the eastern aegean and decided it might be a good idea to build a fleet and transport one of my two armies over to take pergamum, and from there perhaps i could take asia minor and eventually liberate my fellow hellenes in sinope and trapezous. I spent three turns to gather the six thousand mnai needed to create a low level fleet in rhodes. I didn't realize how foolish i was to waste so much money that could have gone to my army or economy in greece itself. My fleet sailed to athens, but an epirote fleet hiding nearby came and destroyed it, crushing four turns of a foolish plan. Enraged, i sent my full stack army to destroy ambrakia, but on the way the epirotes made peace and i decided i would wait and build up my economy for a few turns. Makedonia at the same time decided to ally with them. A few years later epeiros blockaded athens so i resumed my attack. I didnt expect it but makedonia took this time to declare their independence. I thought nothing of it as i wasn't gaining much from the protectorate anyways, and makedonia's 5 full stack armies were busy with the getai, elutheroi, and pontus. A few turns later, however, i noticed a full stack army sitting on rhodes. I wasn't sure that an attack was imminent, but nor did i want to lose because of a stalin style defense. I recalled my army from campaign in epirus for an attack on corinth, which i took, as well as chalkis, in a matter of turns. Then, halicarnasus decided to revolt against their seleucid overlords and joined my cause, but at the same time the makedonian army returned to rhodes and overwhelmed the pathetic garrison. I didn't think that the island was so important (-2000 income wasn't good for me) but i lost an immense ammount of trade. Meanwhile, epirus has besieged thermon once again and athens is about to be overrun by my former makedonian protectorate. If i can repel epirus at thermon, then i can probably launch a counter offensive to retake athens and advance into makedonia. At the same time, war with the seleucids seems imminent but the logical choice is to wait until my baktrian allies declare their independence so that

Pontos is looking good, as are the romans and baktria. Carthage and iberia haven't done much, and the seleucids have been pushing south towards the ptolemies for a while. even parthia is doing alright. Epirus had a large presence in italy for a while but i haven't paid much attention to the celts and sweboz. Casse are doing great. This campaign has been so much fun because i am losing hopelessly despite my best efforts. I was surprised that makedonia would invade rhodes, and i'm really hoping to have the good luck that the kh normally have in campaigns, and that many greek colonies will start rebelling to me, it saves the ai so why not? Also, the romans have a relatively large naval pressence near epirus which is pretty good for me, i wish they'd start putting some armies in their fleets though. It seems that once an ai faction expands too much, they start running out of full stack armies, just an observation.