1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[The General]

BI is definitely better for naval invasions than R:TW.

There are no naval invasions in RTW.

Or, well, I've never seen one.

[bigmilt16]

Naval invasions are a common occurrence in BI. In my Romani campaign, the carthaginians will invade sicily, corsica, and sardinia when you capture it from them. I've also had the Epirotes and KH invade Italy too. For the first time, I am forced to built and keep up a half-way decent navy to protect myself. The AI also assembles much better armies too (no more skirmisher armies either).

BI is definitely worth trying. It is far more challenging.

[VinDic]

Guys, I know this is not the post, but how I can see the whole campaign map without fog?

[Reality=Chaos]

Get the script (the ` an ~ key) then type toggle_fow, and presto it's off. If you want to put it on aagain simply open the script again and type the sama thing again.

[Bacchus]

How do I play 1.1 under BI?
I have Bi . What else do I do/need?

[Yossarian]

How do I play 1.1 under BI?
I have Bi . What else do I do/need?

You will not find a guide here. Try the unofficial mods forum.

[Dayve]

267BC. I'm Seleukia.

Not much happening yet, will post more when i get home and play again later.

Oh and just FYI - I'm not playing BI.exe or ALEX.exe, just regular RTW 1.5

[Hax]

Dayve, you're a traitor to Seleukos I Nikator's memory! How dare you let Zadrakata, Asaak and Hekatompylos fall into those stinking nomad's wool-filled claws!

[Tyrfingr]

Romani campaign, EB on Alex.exe, VH/H, 262BC:

The arverni is my greatest threat for the moment, constantly throwing armies at me through the Alps. When the Aedui lost Mediolanum, the Arverni rushed Bibracte and the fortified rebel city west of it, thus creating their empire.

AS lost 3-4 of their eastern colonies to the parthians, but retook them and are now going into war with the Sauka Rauka, which by the way has the upper hand on the steppes.

Makedonia and the Koinon Hellenon are conquering cities back and forth from each other, and Eiperos has stopped attacking both independents and neighbours.

I have begun my conquest of Sicilia. Took Libeo from the carthaginians to prevent them from interfering with my conquest of the rest of the island by land.

[Dayve]

Dayve, you're a traitor to Seleukos I Nikator's memory! How dare you let Zadrakata, Asaak and Hekatompylos fall into those stinking nomad's wool-filled claws!

There was nothing to be done. War on 3 fronts is difficult. I gathered an army to take back one of the cities, hired light mercenary archer-spearmen, but was beaten back by the mountain axemen fighting under the Pahlava axemen. The battered army retreated to defend another city and its important mine from the Pahlava but it was hopeless. Poorly trained Pantapadoi, poor morale, vs. Pahlavan archers, horsemen and mountain men... 'twas a massacre.

However, we have not let them go for good. An army is being raised as we speak, heavy on the awesome Caucasian archers. The empire as it was will be once again, and perhaps even a little bigger than before?

[Tartaros]

my current Seleucid game 229bc

i reduced my empire to 8 towns and conquered step by step back. first target was micra asia and syria. after i secured my holdings i go eastward to india and west to the mediteran island. my last conquer was egypt after kyrene rebeled to me. but i lost it two times back to karthadast (very big battle at the moment!!).

i am in war with:

Karthadast - losing iberia to lusotanna, but just conquered Syracousai (war since 245bc)
Ptolemaioi - slowly and painfull dying (war since 272bc)
Sabaean - Attacked Petra (war since 239bc)
Baktria - Take over my abandoned territory´s (in war since 245bc)
Pahlava - Constantly attacking Susa, Gabai and Ekbatana (war since 272bc)
Pontos - first i want that they conquere the rest of micra asia - but they send there stacks against me... (war since 255bc)

neutral:
Saka Rauka - under Baktrian protection
Haiyasdan - slowly pressing north against Sauromatae
Sauromatae - pressed westwards, but a little bit lazy
Koine Hellenon - peace since 242bc after taking rhodos and crete, they managed to hold against the macs and got some oulaying territory´s
Epeiros - finally killed macs off and sending fullstacks north against the alps. Segesta just rebeled a turn befor
Getai - under Epeirotai protection
Roma - fight down all boii territory´s, but struggling against aedui, epeiros, sweboz and Karthadast
Sweboz - slowly pressing south against the alps
Averni - under roman protection
Aedui - first under roman protection, but now they rebeled and fight against them
Casse - as usuall

Alliance:
Lusotannan - my only truth friends (far away...) after Karthadast declared war they managed to drive them out of spain

Gone:
Macedonia - grinded by Epeiros

At the moment i want to take taksashila and probably kophen. i want to wait till the march of time brings new eastern bodygards. After this i strike back!

update 228bc

[STuNTz2023]

This is my Bactrian campaign.

The AI progression has been very interesting..

Spain has been rather boring.. other than Romans and Aedui fighting over emporiom..

In gaul the romans pushed about half way thru France, only to be beatin back by the Aeudi.. however with the Swezboz now attacking them.. and the Romans.. their future doesnt look bright.

Greece has been most interesting.. First the Makedonians were pushed out to Mytilene where they have expanded to where they are now. Eperius owned everything that KH and Maks have split.. Pella.. Ambrakia.. Byzantion.. and north of that.

KH has pushed and taken over greece, still fighting with the exiled Makedonians and using their resources to overwhelm the enemy.

The yellow death is slowly strangling Carthage like a snake.. They have a peace treaty with the grey death, so not much expansion in Asia.

The parthians and myself pushed and carved our own empires out of the Arche.. however soon after they attacked myself and are currently being crushed.

Saka has yet to try and move south..

[moriluk]

AS244 BI.exe m/m


allies: Epeiros.
enemies Baktria, Hai, Pontos, Kart, Saka.


Nothing too unusual about AI expansion so far except I've never seen Casse so weak or Sauromatae so broken up.

[moriluk]

Romani 223 bi.exe h/m. 3.1 minimod. This for me is the most fun/realistic set up for any faction. used to play rtw.exe all difficulties. just recently started using minimod and bi and permanently switched to hard campaign. Almost feels like a new game. Navy becomes critical. I see ai expansion patterns in BI that I did not see in rtw. Some odd, but overall better.

[LusitanianWolf]

Lusotannan campain at 263 Bc with Alex.exe and Jirisys Mega Pack (Vh/m)

My first with Alex exe and is being quite fun!
I had played Lusos many times (can you belive that? =P ) but usualy I first blitz the Carthies ou of Iberia and then focus in economy and in conquer the rest of it but now I'm doing the things the other way: conquered 2 eleutheroi settlements, paid some tributes to Cartage while developing some basis economy and them waited for them to betray me. Belive me, fighting them all over iberia is much more fun to just siege eleutheroi towns so I'll let them stay around more time. Theire bringing reinforcements by boat (mostly sardinians and balearians), I'm hoping that they bring some elephants, but unfortunly AI almost never use them in my campains, maybe with Alex things will be different (I hope).

And btw LOOK AT THAT GETAI, who gave them steroids?
Thinks are pretty hot in the steppes, almost a shame I'm so far away
And lol, Casse was destroyed very early by eleutheroi.

Its being a fun campain

[Greenlizard0.]

Epiros, medium/medium (bi.exe)

An invasion of Punic troops in Italy from see. (They didn't came from Messana).



In 272 I took Pella and Demetrias and Serdike, the Koinon Hellion took Korinthos the same year. Removing Chalkis did cost the Greek more time though. I lost Taras twice, yet nice rebellions gave it back.

The Koinon sieging and taking Mytilene, while Makedon had succeeded in invading Rhodos isn't someting I've seen often. (Note: In the second picture The Koinon is invading Rhodos). And Pontos has Pergamon.

Edit: AS has Salamis.





However succesful the Free Greeks have been so far, they made a huge mistake in sieging Demetrias, the first time I'm in war with them. I have four full stacks (thanks to the mines, and I have even 5000/6000 mni each turn), they have one stack (with some non-professional alongside some professional troops).






As you can see, the Ptolemaoi, Bactria an Pahlava are doing wel.

[QuintusSertorius]

There are no naval invasions in RTW.

Or, well, I've never seen one.

In my Romani game, the Karthadastim just reinforced Sicily with an additional family member and three decent pike units. Not exactly an invasion, but better than nothing.

[Yabusama's Ghost]

Sab'ryn Campaign 249BC



I am using the ALEX.exe had have not interferred using forced diplomacy. "The Grey Death" seems cancelled out by "The Yellow Death", but the Epirius "Pea Green Soupy Sea of Death" seems to be winning in the Balkans

[The General]

In my Romani game, the Karthadastim just reinforced Sicily with an additional family member and three decent pike units. Not exactly an invasion, but better than nothing.

Not an invasion. ;)

Afair in vanilla RTW the AI won't land units on foreign soil.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Maybe it's too early for a serious conclusion but there seems to be a massive trend that the Epirotes are the new winning force of Greece. The Maks got even weaker than they were in 1.0. And that is really sad.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Maybe it's too early for a serious conclusion but there seems to be a massive trend that the Epirotes are the new winning force of Greece. The Maks got even weaker than they were in 1.0. And that is really sad.

Too soon for that conclusion.

Personally I think that Pyhrros is the best general in Greece at the start of the game, and he's giving Epirus an edge. Once Phyrros is dead, the Epirotes probably won't be so effective.

[QuintusSertorius]

In my game, taking Epiros' early Macedonian holdings off them with Force Diplomacy seems to have paralysed them. They're a Macedonian protectorate now, not at war with anyone, and have literally done nothing for the past 20 years. They have two full stacks immobile outside Ambrakia.

[We shall fwee...Wodewick]

I have found so far that Macedonia is underpowered and in my experiances so far have been smashed by Eperios and KH at the same time, becuase Epeiros and KH can only go at Macedon.

I mean, in my romani game, I decided to save Macedon by giving them back Thermon and Demetrias (Not with force diplomacy, I just sent a legion, and then gave them the two cities and 100,000 out of my treasury. Also, Epeiros have pella and they are my allies and I ran out of men to take Corinth so I couldn't save them completly in the mainland)

Also, is there no way to make the Averni better? I mean they always get to a bad start, and despite me giving them over 500,000mnai (without cheats) by 230bc, they are still useless, but with full stacks in two cities!

[Visitor13]

Not an invasion. ;)

Afair in vanilla RTW the AI won't land units on foreign soil.

With RTW.exe I saw Lusotann invade the Carthage-owned Balearic Islands in EB and RTR Platinum.

[Olimpian]

I might have seen an Epirote invasion of Italy in a short KH campaign with 1.1.They lost Taras early-on and around 260BC when I lifted the fow I saw they had Taras again.It could have been a revolt,but they did have a navy in the area...so who knows.I also had some random Ptolie naval actions in 1.0,landing and withdrawing a few units in some locations.So I guess it is possible...just very very rare.

[General Appo]

I´ve seen Carthage landing armies in Sicily, but only in areas controlled by them. Playing as the Sweboz with the Fow off I noticed a Carthaginian fleet with a full stack on it, but the ship just roamed around the Med aimlessly for twnty years until it dissapeared near a pirate fleet, I reckon it got them. Stupid AI.
I´ve also seen KH gather a huge army at Rhodos but only puting it just outside the city, even when they have a fleet nearby that could easily transport it to the mainland. Stupid AI.

[jtareb]

In my romani 1.1 campaign which is at 189bc the ai factions are progressing in a somewhat similar fashion to 1.0 but with a few major exceptions. Carthage will land armies in sicily if you attack them--the strength can vary. I had to face two full stacks which appeared almost out of nowhere. In Spain they had another two full stacks with pikemen as well but once they lost them they did not reinforce and lost all their provinces in spain fairly quickly. The lusotani were not as aggressive as i would have thought probably due to the strength of the rebel cities in spain.

In gaul the aedui were going strong until the sweboz showed up--now they are down to one province(noricum). The averni struggled initially but once I allied with them they began to fight back against the aedui and the sweboz and now hold most of gaul. The sweboz still run amok making a bee-line straight down towards milan and my homeland.

In the balkans there is a stalemate with the eperiotes holding their lands and macedonia and the hellenes still in control of greece. Eperios is fighting the getea with neither side making any progress. Macedonia is held to their asian lands and is involved in a war with the seleucids and Pontos. The seleucids and egypt are currently at war with neither side making any progress against the other.

As far as the east is going from what i can tell the Bactrians are the largest faction.