1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

This is the second time I see Epeiros surviving as an alpine faction... I congratulate the EB-team to their stunning achievements. AI-progression seems to have made a giant leap forward since 1.0.

[jhhowell]

Mediolanicus - I've seen both of the quirks you've noticed. Baktria loves to bribe Seleucid troops in Asia Minor for some reason. You're seeing it at the source, I saw it as a trickle of tiny dark blue armies trying to march across my Hayasdan empire (they usually made it, including a lone FM one time; Baktria and I are allies and AS is very weak...).

I also saw the Pontus weak cavalry fixation in the same game. In my case it was because I'd pushed them out of their homeland, so for a time junk like that was all they could recruit. It's not clear if that's quite true in your game, looks like they might still hold their original capital. But certainly troops raised around Pergamon will be remarkably bad for quite a while, until the AI gets a good level MIC into operation.

[Mediolanicus]

Baktria should rather defend her own territories instead of bribing distant armies, they are down to 1 province!
On the other hand they are pumping out Indian and indo-hellenic elites.

Pontos is doing very weird. Suddenly they rush and conquer western asia minor and just as suddenly they let the seleucids conquer half their possession back. Now they have 3 stacks near their old capital doing absolutely nothing.

[Skullheadhq]

Mediolanicus - I've seen both of the quirks you've noticed. Baktria loves to bribe Seleucid troops in Asia Minor for some reason. You're seeing it at the source, I saw it as a trickle of tiny dark blue armies trying to march across my Hayasdan empire (they usually made it, including a lone FM one time; Baktria and I are allies and AS is very weak...).

I also saw the Pontus weak cavalry fixation in the same game. In my case it was because I'd pushed them out of their homeland, so for a time junk like that was all they could recruit. It's not clear if that's quite true in your game, looks like they might still hold their original capital. But certainly troops raised around Pergamon will be remarkably bad for quite a while, until the AI gets a good level MIC into operation.

Baktria in Asia Minor? How did they get so far?

[jhhowell]

Baktria in Asia Minor? How did they get so far?

They didn't. Their diplomats chose to bribe small armies there, which then tried to march home. I've seen Carthage do the same thing, both in Greece and Asia Minor.

[Nobo]

They didn't. Their diplomats chose to bribe small armies there, which then tried to march home.

Ive never seen anything like this... which version of RTW are you running?

[jhhowell]

Ive never seen anything like this... which version of RTW are you running?

RTW 1.5, EB 1.0 (though I can't imagine this would depend on anything in EB, as Mediolanicus sees the same thing in 1.1, above). Maybe it's less common with BI.exe with the AI spending money on ships to allow naval invasions. It may also depend on how far into your campaign you are - I see regular bribery in 200 BCE, and thinking back I think I first noticed the Bactrian bribes in Asia Minor around the 240s.

Might be interesting to spawn a Casse diplomat or two in northern Gaul - they're usually an absurdly rich faction, maybe some bribed armies would get them to do something on the continent.

[Mediolanicus]

I play with BI and so far I've seen a Baktrian stack in Asia Minor and a Roman stack in Trace, both certainly bribed.

[mlp071]

This is the second time I see Epeiros surviving as an alpine faction... I congratulate the EB-team to their stunning achievements. AI-progression seems to have made a giant leap forward since 1.0.

Arverni created Switzerland and Epeiros is pretending to be Austria.

I will keep them there(Epeiros) till they build up towns for me , plus they are buffer between me and Sweboz.