1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

**Olaf Blackeyes** · 01-22-2009, 16:05

Originally Posted by Olaf The Great

Here's my campaign at 215 BC

WTF THE AS HAS BECOME HAI?!?!!?

**Olaf The Great** · 01-22-2009, 22:40

Originally Posted by Olaf Blackeyes

WTF THE AS HAS BECOME HAI?!?!!?

Hai conquered into the steppes, Pontus and AS conquered them.

**Subotan** · 01-23-2009, 00:18

The Persian Trousers of the Pahlavans must be brown.

**LordCurlyton** · 01-23-2009, 10:53

Mission Accomplished as far as replacing Carthage and relocating Rome goes, plus getting them the Marians. I found it to be much easier to just spend liberally and buy up the Ptolemaioi turf piecemeal and then bribe the first few armies that they inevitably sent to reclaim their goods so that Rome could build up in their new territory. Now Rome is going solo and churning out Marian legionnaires from multiple MICs. They may actually be able to beat the Ptolies straight up now as they can send waves of troops towards the Levant while the Ptolies must split their attention but the Romans have annihilated some pretty mean stacks on their own, though. They've tried navally invading a few times but they haven't used their big ships to do so and I wipe out the small stuff each time. The time between attempts is slowly growing so I think the AI is learning.
But apparently Rome is not quite as interested in Ethiopia as they are halfheartedly fighting the Saba, which has let them catch a reprieve and even go on the offensive (note Charax in their possession).
The Getai are starting to win vs Epeiros, though from what I can tell the current situation has perpetual stalemate written all over it. I bribed and tricked my way into Noricum and intend a similar plan for the Lugians. The Boii homeland will be interesting though, with its 5 full stacks wandering around. the Getai made some threatening moves as soon as I took the Noricene super-city but some timely bribery and they haven't been back since.
The Hai have managed to snag Sinope from Pontus but no more. Pontus has failed to develop ANY MICs outside of their starting province

. Maks, KH, Ptolies go back and forth, with Ptolies with the advantage so far.
Baktria has become the Big Bloated Blue Behemoth and is in the process of finishing up its Parthian stew, though the last chunks are rather grisly. the still remain at peace with the Saka amazingly.
But the single biggest surprise of the whole campaign happened the turn before the screenshot: the Casse invaded. And no, it wasn't the script, since as you can see they lack the unified British Isles to trigger the script. They computer AI actually invaded me. Ponder that, if you will. THE CASSE AI ACTUALLY FREAKIN' LAUNCHED A NAVAL INVASION AGAINST ME!!!*loves BI-exe*
Now I have my excuse to go whomp some British butt.

EDIT:

Forget the 202 BC pic, heh.

**Tyrfingr** · 01-23-2009, 16:07

That aught to be the most fascinating AI expansion ever seen...

**gamegeek2** · 01-23-2009, 16:24

A

for you, sir.

**Marcus Ulpius** · 01-23-2009, 22:07

Romani campaign, 243 b.c.

Surprisingly good Casse expansion. Good Sweboz expansion, Aedui are getting an upper hand against Arverni. Epirotes are doing ok, but Maks and KH are still at stalemate since the start, Maks at least are doing something at Asia Minor, KH are totally passive. AS are doing very good - they've completely kicked the Ptolies out of Asia Minor and Phoenicia, while fighting Hai and Pahlava at the same time. Saba are doing better than usual, they are sending some forces to Egypt proper, but so far without success. The Ptolies on the other hand are in a dangerous position. They are fighting Saba and AS, but recently the Carthagenians attacked them as well, after the Ptolies took Kyrene from them.