1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[schlappi]

Seems to me that in 1.1 AI Makedonia almost always loses out to either KH or Epeiros. In my game even with me (Epeiros) out of Greece, they still don't seem to be able to actually beat KH. Why is that?

Epirus gets kicked out of Italy pretty soon in 1.1, they have the resources to fully concentrate on marching on Pella and Illyria, making life a Hell for AI-controlled Macedonia.

[burn_again]

In most of my 1.1 campaigns Epeiros uses its Nellies to take Pella in the first turn and often Serdike in the second turn. Then the Maks are screwed. I have seen them coming back sometimes, if they manage to take Pergamon or if they can grab Athens early on.

[General Appo]

256 BC. Aedui. RTW.exe. No cheats ´cept toggle_fow and some Perect_Spy (and only to look at what the Baktrians and those guys are doing). No FD (though if the need arise...).



Arverni: Dead. Mohahahahah!

Casse: Not much, usual slow expansion.

Sweboz: Damn, looking much to good. These guys are really worrying me, though I have managed to negotiate an alliance with them.

Getai: Not much here really. Slow steady expansion. Been trying to take Naissos for some time now.

Qarth-Hadast: A bit depressing here really. Nothing at all ´cept some African conquests.

Lusitannan: Finally, someone to make me happy. Blitzed all the regions next to Carthage´s and are now going for Emporion.

Sab´yn: Meh. Really, just meh.

Sauromatae: Holy shit! When Foot said the steppes have teeth he wasn´t kidding. Killed of Hayasdan, took Sápmi and Pantikapaion, and are aiming for the rest of the Caucasus and Olbia.

Hayasdan: Owned suckers!

Pontos: Took Galatia early, I was hoping it would revolt to me or the Arverni, but no luck. Not really done anything since then.

Saka-Rauka: Some usual fighting with the Settlers of the Evil East , not much else.

Baktria: Some usual fighting with the Savage Indians of the Evil East, but not much else. Still friendly with the Evil Capitalists of the Evil East and the not-quite-so-Savage Indians of the Evil East.

Pahlava: Going good against the Sele´s, not much else to report.

Arche Seleukeia: Losing the war against the Pahlava. Lost Hekatomplyos to revolt exactly 6 times before the Pahlava took it. Lost Drangiane to rebels. No news on the western front, the Syrians war are at an standstill. They did took Sidon though, but that was years ago, and nothing really came of it. Should be praying that the Yellow Ukrainians and the Wannabe-Xerxes doesn´t gang up on them, or Scythian nobles will be dining in Babylon before the decade is out.

Ptolemaioi: Booooooooring. Took Kyrene, lost Sidon.

Koinon Hellenon: Kicking ass. Driven the Black Diadochi out of Hellas proper (well, apart from a stupid little island that refuses to surrender) and are looking comfortable against Epeiros, though that might chance soon...

Makedonia: Beaten badly by the Orange Philosophers but are hanging on in Pella. Perhaps not for long though...

Epeiros: Got driven out of Biggus Grekus by the ILF (Italian Liberation Front) but Taras revolted back and they´re now kicking the ass of those damnded barbarians.
Staying strong back on the mainland, even if they aren´t doing much ´cept taking Serdike. Have an alliance with me that might just prove very, very fruitful sometime soon.

Romani. Took Taras and Rhegion in the first years. Nothing´s gone right since then.
I did some really great campaigning in northern Italy, on both the strategic and tactical level. Anyway, the result was that I took all of Northern Italy, defeated 4 of their big armies and sacked (enslaved, razed every building and left) Arretium and Ariminium. Shortly after lost Taras to revolt. Been trying to attack me, but they´re still weak and I´m doing some very aggresive defending, striking their small armies on Roman soil before they can gather into one big one.

Aedui. Most glorious incredibly great Gallic tribe ever! WOOOOOOOOT111111111111!
Blitzed Arverni and most of Gaul, kicked the ILF´s ass and just made Illyria my clients (L4 Gov, have it in Liguria as well, will probably have it in all non-Gaul regions I take, at least the ones with non-Gaul but tribal regions) and have a Wannabe-Brennos army ready. And no, not the Rome-sacking Brennus, the other one. Might make it as far as Galatia, who knows.

[Ayce]

Shit dude, I've never seen the Sauro's do so good before!

[General Appo]

Yeah, scares the shit out of me. Though in just the 2 yearss I´ve played since that screenshot they´ve aleady had 3 revolts that still havn´t been smacked down. They have however taken Ani-Kamah. I noticed in the RV a couple of days ago that Kappadokia has the Nomad resource. I´ll be funny if they take it and start churning out HA´s in the middle of Turkey. Even funnier when my guy in Greece finally reach Galatia, then we´ll have the Gauls and Sauro´s kicking as in Anatolia. Heirs of Alexandros, tremble, your doom is approaching.

[Janius]

Romani VH/H, Alex.exe

The year is 222BC:



Some notes:

Aedui have taken control over Gaul, making the Arverni their procterate.
Currently they are at war with Lusotannan, trying to take over the Pyrenees.

Macedon is the domanting faction in Greece, at this moment they are besieging the last KH settlement there.

In Asia, Pontos, Ptolemaioi, baktria and pahlava are kicking Seleucid butt. At this speed, I estimate them to go down before 200BC.
This is btw the first time ever that I actually see pontus expanding like this.

Great campaing so far

[Hax]

That's some really awesome expansion you have there, especially on the Pontic and Pahlavan parts.