1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[LordCurlyton]

Perhaps the Romani made a Huge city before their demise? That pic is 188 BC, which gives plenty of time for the Romans to make the city and still get kicked out. Even if its been 40+ years since the Epeirotes won, that is still 50 years from the start almost.

[Jurdagat]

Anyone seen a unstoppable AI Roman empire?
They have been pushed to the other side of the alps in my current Hayasdan campaign.

Regretably something wrong with my console key.
Can't toggle FOW nowdays.

[Roy1991]

Perhaps the Romani made a Huge city before their demise? That pic is 188 BC, which gives plenty of time for the Romans to make the city and still get kicked out. Even if its been 40+ years since the Epeirotes won, that is still 50 years from the start almost.

I got the upgraded bodyguards 20 years ago at most. Epeiros already controlled Italy by then.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Casse 255 BC (ordinary RTW 1.5.exe)

[The General]

Casse 255 BC (ordinary RTW 1.5.exe)

... An interesting way to do things, certainly.

Also... Is that an Arverni Galatia that I see?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yup. I quite liked how the diplomacy went there too:

1) Pontos conquers Galatia;
2) The Royal Pontic Satrapy of Ankyra goes for the true Celtic way of life. (Joins the Arverni; a Verrix is installed)
3) Obviously war between Pontos & Arverni now
4) The Seleukids see their opportunity and offer them an alliance (the Arverni/Galatians accept)
And that's a nice trick the Seleukids played because they are and were already losing on all fronts; but when the war broke out between Pontos and Seleukeia -- the Seleukids had an 'ally' to do their dirty work. Indeed, the reason why Pontos has yet to expand beyond Mazaka (which they took only recently) is Galatian invasions/raids of Pontos itself.

[Mediolanicus]

I'm having a wierd KH campaign (will post pics soon)

Galatia is doing exactly the same thing as in Tellos' campaign.
The Seleucids are expanding and eating up Pahlava and Armenia.
The Ptolies are behaving themselves and have a solid empirein Egypt and the Levant, but are held in their eastern and nothern advance by the Seleucids. Even although they took Antiocheia, Krakiotheriablabla (sp) (South of the Caucasus) a long, long time ago.
The Saka killed Baktria and have massive indo-scythian empire, pushing into the lands of the sauro's and the seleucids.
The Averni control the whole of Gaul and Northern Spain, reducing the Aedui to an Alpine faction. They now started attack the Sweboz who have expanded as far as they could without encountering the scripted armies.
The Romans are held by a strong Alpine faction, by a strong Illyric Epeiros (put there by me) and by me in Sicily.
The Carthies had three fullstacks of Spanish elites against 1and a half stack of Lusotans. They lost. The proto-Portugese have taken east and south Iberia. Arse is the last Carthy stronghold. Numantia and Emporion are independant and the rest is Averni.
The Casse have two fullstacks but are still scared of the Scots and Irish (perhaps with reason).

[Maion Maroneios]

Here's a pic of the AI progression in my Makedon campaign (with BI1.6 .exe);

So the year is 233BC, no March of Time yet saddly, and here is a summup of all stuff that's been going on;

Makedonia (me): Unified Hellas, subdued Illyria and now conquering Anatolia with two massive full stacks with Argyraspides, Elephantes and the like. Kicking Ptolemaic as well as Pontic butt right now.

Epeiros: Having kicked them out of Hellas early, they started expanding in Italia (with my money, btw) but when I started giving mnai to the Romani, they wiped them out. That's bye bye Epeiros for some years now

Romani: Unified Italia and are now expanding into Gaul. Allied with them fearing they might attack Illyria where my precious mines are (giving them 500 mnai for 50 turns) now that I've shifted attention towards the East.

Getai: They started going on a rampage very early in the game, I even feared for my northern borders. No they have 2 full stacks waiting at Singidunum and Buridava, while doing nothing. Only thing they've done lately, is launch an unsuccessful attack at Kallatis.

Pontos: Gave them Trapezous and Anti-Kamah after seing they did nothing at all, when they started defending they territory from the Seleukidai. They even took Nikaia and Ankyra themselves, the first taken by me after they launched an unsuccessful attack upon Byzantion and the latter taken from me and given to the Arvernii. It would rebel sooner or later (the peasants where rioting) but I wanted the city to go to the losing Arvernii. They are now having they butts kicked by my Basleus

Hayasdan: Another interseting experiment through FD. I gave them Phraaspa from the Seleukidai early on, and they are now even expanding in the steppes, kicking Sauromatae butt.

Arche Seleukeia: Trully the best behavior until now by this faction, in my oppibion. They slowly started losing in all fronts, specifically in the east against the Pahlava, but they have put up an heroic struggle. Now getting their butts kicked by both the Pahlava, as well as the Ptolemaioi in Syria and Anatolia. Long being my faithful allies, I'm determined to keep them alive.

Ptolemaioi: At first they focused on Syria, losing and taking cities by and from the Seleukidai with no one gaining a upper hand. They later took some Aigyptian cities and launched an unsuccesful attack upon Aithiopia. Some years ago they build a fleet of Nees Megistai (Huge Poliremes), launched a naval invasion upon Rhodos and taking it, while wiping out my entire fleet (some Biremes ). After launching another invasion on Krete, the fleet left and I gathered some forces, taking Rhodos back in the process. They lost Kypros from me next.

Saba: Inresting progression here, no FD whatsoever, with Bostra and Palmyra rebelling to them at some point. Now at war with the Ptolemaioi, they are mosty defending their northern-most territories from the Diadochoi kingdoms.

Sweboz: That's a mega-stalemate here. They have 2 full stacks outside their capital, the city itself having another 20 or so units. No intention of moving at any time soon, it seems. Might get a diplomat there sometime and give them some needed cash

Casse: Not much to say here, guys are doing well. They arenow aiming to Caledryn.

Aedui: These guys gained the upperhand in the Gallic civil war quickly, which I successfuly balanced by giving Galatia over to the Arvernii. They now lost Viennos from the Arvernii and are probabaly going to get their butts kicked, as the Romani even took Massalia, Segesta and Patavium from them.

Arvernii: As mentioned above, they where losing first but are now getng back on their feet, with just the slightest of help from ne

Lusotana: Not doing much here, they are expanding slowly towards the east. They recently became a client kingdom of the Karthadastim, though

Qarthadastim: Lost Lilibeo some years ago, even launching an unsuccessful naval invasion to take the city back, they have taken some African provinces and shifted their capital to Ippone. They even forced the Lusotana to become a client state, so I guess they must have some good armies and lots of cash Apart from that, they have a small army near Kyrene, but aren't doing really that much. Even announced a ceasefire with the Romani.

Sauromatae: They where doing quite good, even launching some attacks at Chersonesos and Pantikapaion, until the Hai showed up. They're being owned right now

Koinon Hellenon: These guys proved utterly helpless, facing a complete onslaught early on. Upon losing Athenai and Sparte, they remained at stalemate, until I destroyed their army in Krete. I wanted to wait until they attacked Halikarnassos, but it took too long and I finally crushed Rhodos. That's good-bye Koinon Hellenon, the first faction to lie in the dirt

Baktria: The Baktrians proved very capable from the beggining. They took Marakanda, Kophen and Alexandreia-Eschate and the last years are becoming a real juggernaut. They are currently kicking Saka butt, badly.

Saka Rauka: Started quite well, losing badly now, as mentioned above, by the Baktrians.

Pahlava: Currently the most interesting progression I've ever see, no FD whatsoever. They started losing Asaak which they took early by the Seleukidai, but then they just started blitzing them. They completely destroyed the Seleukidai, reaching as far as Mesopotamia. They even recently took Sleukeia and Charax from them, shifting their capital to Hekatompylos and forcing the Sleukidai to shift theirs to Edessa. The seem pretty determined to become the next Persian Emire, it seems, though a little too soon wouldn't it seem?