1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Spizania]

Pahlava are stopped dead by my policy of fortifying everything I can with stone walls, although they have allied with Hayasdan and Saka, who are both not currently at war with me, but the Hayasdan dont seem to be having much look expanding at all.

Pontus they made the mistake of trying to take Mazaka, so I beat them down and took Amaseia, beating an understrength stack composed of tonnes of Eastern Light Cav and skirmishers, with one unit of Chalkaspides and a couple of understrength units of Pandapoi thrown in.
Another victory for the Pantapoi, I had thought about reducing them just to Galatia, but I have bigger worries.

Ptolemaics: I took all Egypts asian holdings and Alexandria, Memphis and Paranaiton, they seem t obe recovering slightly and keep half heartedly seiging and assaulting Memphis, only to be driven off each time with light losses to my force and huge losses to them, since they seem to love attacking with a ram and a ladder.......

Sauromatae was doing well, took Trapezous which then apparently rebelled to the Koinon Hellenon and is full of a full stack of Im not sure what, as I dont have a spy to spare to go look.

Bactria has broken its alliance with me but hasnt declared war, but unfortunately has overrrun the last of the settlements between me and India, preventing my expedition of doom to secure a supply of Indian uber-archers. Not that I have troops free for that at the moment, but luckily Ive fortified my border settlements with stone walls and large complements of Persian Archers.

The western "barbarian" factions dont seem to be doing much, the Gallic civil war seems to be happening to the advantage of the Aedui at the moment

The real suprise is Getai and Epeirots, especialyl the latter, they have driven Macedonia out of northern Greece pretty much, are seiging the rebel settlement of Thermon and are fighting the Macedonians around Demetrias, although the Macedonians appear to hav elocal superiority of numbers, there are just so many epeirotes, they are fighting the Romans to a standstill in the north and are, as you can see, now loose in Asia Minor, Im at peace with them at the moment, but I may have to delay my Pontus bashing to defend Ipsos and Sidon if they turn agressive again, which they are sure to do.

Saba are doing nothnig as far as I can tell, might give them a tonne of money at some point, if I can remember what teh console command is.
I was also planning on doing an AAR of the rest of this campaign, detailing the sure to be epic war between the Seleukid empire and the Epeirots-who-are-Pergamon-without-modding

[The Persian Cataphract]

Out of what I have seen, Pahlava is taking the "Caspian empire" approach, and from there starts to pour into Medea, and sprawl out to the south and the east (A very desirable, and historically plausible model). Very nice.