1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[gamegeek2]

Hey, at least the Sauromatae are doing better!

[Dooz]

I'm about 20 years into a Roman campaign right now, been taking pics of the map every 5 years but I can't post them yet as I haven't been looking with the fow off. I want to do it the old fashioned way and preserve the mystery a bit, having to use spies and all that fun stuff to figure out what's going on and what the strengths are of mine enemies. Once I'm done or something changes, I'll have all those maps up and see it for the first time myself!

[Visitor13]

Anyone here playing a campaign in which the Saba actually try to conquer all the coastal rebel provinces before they head for Ptolie territory, like they used to in 1.0? So far they seem to take the first province to the east of their starting position and head west/north west from there.

[Voice]

Baktria M/M 235BC no interference by me toward other factions, started rtw.exe, changed to bi only around 238

Should mention epeiros was cleaned up by maks after a good start, now only have 2 cities full of leftover elites/locals (and pontos has 2 stacks near byzantion)

Also, after switching to bi the maks have landed and seiged kydonia

[Ayce]

Baktria M/M 235BC no interference by me toward other factions, started rtw.exe, changed to bi only around 238

Should mention epeiros was cleaned up by maks after a good start, now only have 2 cities full of leftover elites/locals (and pontos has 2 stacks near byzantion)

Also, after switching to bi the maks have landed and seiged kydonia

Maks prevailing and KH becoming the Kingdom of Karia isn't something you usually see in 1.1

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Very cool AI development. First time (!) I see a really cool Makedonian hegemony even on the far side of the Aigaion. Also the Romans, Pahlava, Armenia, Getai, Lusos and the Sweboz deserve an honourable mention.

Edit: Voice, I saw you voted for Medium campaign difficulty in my inquiry and I see you played this on medium too. What armies are fielded by the AI? Full stacks or three-unit-stacks? Are the AI-factions weaklings against you or do they put up a fight?

[Voice]

Very cool AI development. First time (!) I see a really cool Makedonian hegemony even on the far side of the Aigaion. Also the Romans, Pahlava, Armenia, Getai, Lusos and the Sweboz deserve an honourable mention.

Edit: Voice, I saw you voted for Medium campaign difficulty in my inquiry and I see you played this on medium too. What armies are fielded by the AI? Full stacks or three-unit-stacks? Are the AI-factions weaklings against you or do they put up a fight?

Well at the moment ive got 3 sele stacks at about 15 units each moving in to assault Baktra
Getia have 3 fullstacks standing around 1 settlement
Epeiros have both remaining cities full
Romani have a 3/4 stack moving to sicily and a couple half stacks in the north east.
Maks have half and 3/4 stacks all along northern border
Sweboz pushing every direction with good sized stacks
i think the only faction with less than half stacks are the sauro

Forgot to say they are not just stacks of cheap levies or similar, but arent full of factional elites either

[Pezlu]

Baktria M/M 235BC no interference by me toward other factions, started rtw.exe, changed to bi only around 238

Should mention epeiros was cleaned up by maks after a good start, now only have 2 cities full of leftover elites/locals (and pontos has 2 stacks near byzantion)

Also, after switching to bi the maks have landed and seiged kydonia

uh? no interference by you? how did the saka die then?

[Voice]

lol well besides saka theres been no interference

[Olimpian]

AI progression in 1.1 is much better than in 1.0.The Eastern War seems to be raging in everyone's campaign and those steppes finally count Great work EB team !!!

[Voice]

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Baktria M/M 235BC no interference by me toward other factions, started rtw.exe, changed to bi only around 238

Should mention epeiros was cleaned up by maks after a good start, now only have 2 cities full of leftover elites/locals (and pontos has 2 stacks near byzantion)

Also, after switching to bi the maks have landed and seiged kydonia

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Loving BI ^^

Slowly making ground against the Sele's and moving into Indian territories, still allied to pahlava since day 1

Pahlava losing/taking territories with Sauro all the time and slowly losing ground to Sele's

Hai are strong , holding their recently taken territories, but seem uninterested in expanding

Pontos ignoring everything else except Mak settlements in Asia minor

Ptollies only seem interested with Sab' Yn who are always sending stacks north, though there is a half stack of Ptollies seiging Kydonia

KH still hanging in with a couple cities revolting to their ownership

Maks have blitzed poor Getai who have been destroyed and are now focusing on Sweboz to the northwest, Sauro to the northeast and Pontos in Asia minor (yes they are attacking basically everyone they can ... and winning )

Romani slowly falling apart since the Carthies landed(!) and took Capua(!), they have a full stack of polybian and allied elites in Roma and Arpi to hold off Carthies who actually have alot of units in Capua, maybe from continued landings?(i have no idea)

Carthies, as above, have invaded mainland Italy, secured all Sicily and are pushing their way through southern France. Carthies and Luso's were allied untill Luso's betrayed them and took Gader. So now the Carthies are sieging Numantia and have a fullstack (in screenshot) heading to retake Gader

Arverni/Aedui are fading powers, offering minimal resistance and petty skirmishes against each other and should have been destroyed years ago if not for Sweboz fighting Maks, Romani fighting Carthies and Luso's fighting Carthies

Casse took a few territories but have stagnated

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Wow! I really like that expansion in Konny and Voice's campaigns. It shows that Macedonia really doesn't need that much help - folks who say they are wiped out in every campaign are just selectively viewing these things. That Mak Anatolia is just awesome and the Mak blitz in Voice's is very interesting too. Parthians were doing well in Voice's too till he stopped them. And I like that KH is still hanging around in multiple places in Voice's also. Carthage in Voice's is great too!

[konny]

Yes, that is first of all for the survival of Makedonia in Greece. They are usually not able to hold themselves in Pella, but really have a good starting position in Asia.

I think if we would rename the faction "Epeiros" into "Aeikides" and "Makedonia" into "Antigonides" (not ment as a serious suggestion) no one would be complaining, because Makedonia does not disspear it simply changes from one ruling hellenic family to the other, while the former rulers of Makedonia create themselves a new Successor Kingdom in Asia.

[Lovejoy]

~255BC (cant remember)


244BC


I just conquerd those pavhlan settlements. They declared war on me after many years of peace. After taking their homeland provinces I forced them to ally with me and to give me 1000mnai for 25 turns (I love force diplomacy )

Right now I'm building up my cities and preparing an army. The Selues should be afraid!

Mac and Epeiros seems evenly matched. KH is still around, holding two provinces, Rhodes and Lesbos. :P

Both the romans and Carthage are massing in Sicily. Soon the Punic war should start.. I hope for carthago to win!

[Voice]

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Carthies showing their dominance in west with almost all Iberia taken aided by a stream of naval reinforcements, which are now landing around Massalia and moving north and east

Arverni/Aedui still holding out, Aedui having some Mak regions rebel to them before being destroyed;
Casse still stagnant

Sweboz been cut in two by the steamrolling Maks and seem to be on the defensive with a lot of full stack settlements

Romani actually very strong despite losing ground to Carthies, many full stack polybians around northern Italy

Poor KH somehow still holding on despite constant attacks against Rhodos, also having Chersonesos, Emporion and Syrakousai rebel in their favour within a few years. Almost took all Sicily in one year but were beaten back by Cart naval landing.

Makedonia ... Must have a total of ~20 full stacks from Asia minor to the Baltic sea, beating all enemies in their rather unusual path. Also taking advantage of the reformed phalanx they currently are clearing Pontic territories, putting down Aedui revolt and sieging a couple Sweboz settlements.. havent bothered with Romani or Sele's yet (being allied to them might make the difference, maybe)

Sauro declining though they still have a lot of nobles and FM's to be dealt with

Pontos holding remaining territory against Maks with full stacks in cities, yet are still losing

Hai taking advantage of the weakening Sele's along with Ptollies, Pahlava and myself. Also attacking Pontos and have several full stacks roaming around wherever they are needed.

Sele's, having been focusing more on the western enemies have lost a lot of ground mainly (if not only) to myself. Surprised me with 2 full stacks including Hyspatistia(sp) and other elites, retaking Babylon/Seleukia, and then running back to western side, leaving the cities virtually undefended again

Ptollies, besides fighting a stalemate war with Sele's have sent a few stacks Carthage's way to no avail. Defending against Saba constantly

Saba sending the best they can against Ptollies, with one emerging around Seleukia and roaming up and down the border

Pahlava has become tied down endlessly trying to take Sele controlled Hekatmopylos, which has really drained their army to the extent that they only have a couple of 5-6 unit stacks in all their territory, with minimum garrisons in all settlements.

As for myself, recently finished taking Indian regions after underestimating them half a decade earlier. Factional and regional armys pushing all the way to Arbela until both armies were severely depleted, taking advantage of weakened Sele's and a couple slaughtering bridge battles. Now have the Indo-hellenic army and factional army returning to Baktra to begin attack on Pahlava.

[Spooky32]

176BC

[Voice]

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Carthies losing ground to revolt in Iberia and to the Romani in southern France and southern Italy. May have a comeback but they seem to be lacking troops in north Africa and southern Europe.

Arverni/Aedui , being allied, have held out against the Carthies, Sweboz for decades, now the resurgent Romani are taking territory from them

Sweboz solidifying ground to the north, pushing back the Maks and taking advantage of revolts and Mak retreat (...though it may not look like it, those Mak settlements are almost empty, and Sweboz stacks lurk everywhere)

Romani, currently the richest faction, are recovering from almost being defeated to driving out the Carthies from Italy and taking more ground to the north, also...whats the trigger for AI marian reforms??

KH by some miracle are still in the game despite having only 2 settlements for 5 years, have set out and attacked+claimed territory for themselves (not through revolt)

Makedonia, have had a change of heart and are now focused on fighting the Hai, leaving most northern territories undefended, they now have about 5 or 6 full stacks worth migrating south-east

Sauro have been quiet, only defending from Maks and skirmishes with Pahlavans, still neutral to me somehow

Pontos tried to reclaim territory from Hayasdan, now they sit in Trapezous with half a stack waiting to be put down by an impending Hai full stack

Hai punched a hole through the Pontos/Mak war, all but destroyed Pontos and took Pontos' place against the Maks, looking very strong

Sele's, down to 3 settlements, lack any military strength after nearly 20 years of fighting turn after turn with me and the Ptollies

Ptollies, declared war on me in ~180bc (by crossing enemy Sele lands) , were defeated, sued for peace which i accepted, attacked same turn, was again defeated... now laying seige to Damaskos with a full stack

Saba have the odd skirmish with Ptollies but otherwise inactive

Pahlava lost their homelands and fled north before the Sauro came back for their land, now Pahlava is isolated and at war with all its neighbours

Casse havent moved in nearly 50 years

Baktria after fighting sometimes multiple battles per turn after turn for 20 years against the Seles, finally recieved armies from the Pahlavan conquest and pushed to the mediterranean coast, now retraining and consolidating new winnings, holding off Ptollies, waiting for Hai to declare war, and in the north, hunting Pahlavans