Greatest comebacks

[SaberHRE]

the Lusotani in my current Romani game started as Carthaginian vassals sometime around 240s. around 220s I started the 2 Punic War and invaded Carthaginian Iberia(Carthage btw owns almost all of Iberia apart from Tyde and Baikor and all of Africa upto Lepki). Within 2 years I conquer Emporion, Arse, Gader, Sucum-Murgi and Mastia. Meanwhile I also land with those armies in Northern Africa. The accompanying diplomats contact Lusotani hoping to lure them into a war against Carthage. A map exchange showed that during those two years they manage to capture Carthaginian Iberian possesions!

Intrigued I send diplomats to Middle East which belongs to the Ptolemies. They own Asia minor, Syria and Egypt and some of Babylon. They destroyed Pontus. A quick map exchange and I soon find that the AS are counterattacking and have reached Antiocheia already!

[Parallel Pain]

Totally Incredible

If the AI for Lusotani and AS had a forum account, I'd give them some s

[SaberHRE]

Totally Incredible

If the AI for Lusotani and AS had a forum account, I'd give them some s

Any... similar situations happened to you?

[anubis88]

Well once macedon did this in my ptoly campaign. They were kicked out of the peloponessos, and they held only demetrias, lesbos and chalkis for a while, but then they managed to defeat both KH and the Epirotes.

But most of the time, once a faction starts losing a war, they actually lose it

[Disciple of Tacitus]

A brief recount of a similar, but not as drastic, a tale as SaberHRE. In my current Romani campaign, I've been expanding historically, meaning that sometimes I leave factions alive once I've taken my historical provinces. This nearly proved my un-doing when I invaded the Greek pennisula. I suffered my most serious setbacks yet, but in true Roman fashion, I kept cranking the legions out. Epirus was soundly defeated, as was Macedonia and KH. As I mopped up Achaea (old KH territory), who comes storming out of the north?? The Epirieotos (sp). Stack after stack. It took some deft manuverings (lesser men call it running away) and the timely arrival of the new Consul with his chevroned Consular Army.

Apparently - distracted by the rich Polis of the south - I had ignored the re-building of my Green Foes. When I arrived, they had 4 territories. I thought they had 1 left when I finally turned my armies south. Come to find, after my conquest of their cities, they had taken 4 more territories to the North. Now they had 5 cities!! And Armies to match.

Thus far, it is the greatest comeback I've experienced in my campaigns.

[Sdragon]

In my Hayasdan game I took the Makedonia holdings in Asia Minor. It wasn't too long before Epeiros, Getai and KH had them down to Thessalikoi with a tiny army with a few family members and was being sieged by one of their 3 foes every turn for about 10 years. They made one hell of a come back taking all of Greece except Sparta leaving KH on their last legs and under siege. Epeiros was sent scurrying into Illiria and the Getai are now back in their home lands with Makedonia knocking. It was the most impressive comeback I've yet to see from the AI. Not sure if it was because I was playing on Hard.