1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Unintended BM]

The Parthians.

[Ferdiad]

Nope.

[Ower]

then the you must be Casse how else would they withstand the red jugernout which you could not posibly be

[Ferdiad]

How could you possibly think I'm the Romans?

[Olaf The Great]

255 BC
I'm playing as Hayasdan and I'm roleplaying the Kingdom as a hermit kingdom until atleast 200 BC, though I may push into the Levant if I'm forced.
I had just attained the King of Kings event, Ptolemys declared war on everyone and the AS threw all their eggs in one basket and lost horribly in Syria, they literally have no significant armies anymore.

250 BC
The AS are pretty much a hollow power now, the Ptolemys are besieging Babylon and vassalized the Saba. They also keep throwing stacks of elites at Karkatheriokerta, and I have a fullstack there with stone walls, but I get massive casualties with each fight and my population is being drained horribly, and my the Ptolemys show no signs of stopping(and yes...I have been using force diplomacy on them but nothing is happening) Pontos is my ally and they took full advantage of the power vacuum in Asia Minor and are besieging Naiosos and Ankyra with large armies are are fighting the ptolemys in the south too, which for some reason seem to ignore them and beeline to my city in the area, thus losing many battles to Pontos.

I've never seen the Sauromatae expand like that, and so fast, they're at war with the Getai and the Parthians.



245 BC
I force diplomacied Antioch and Edessa back to AS after destroying the factional barracks in both, because I'm getting really annoyed with facing full stacks of elites every 3rd turn. AS recruited a few armies from Seleukia and are doing the same thing the Ptolemy's did to Karkathiokerta with Palmyra, except a lot more crappily.
I'm slowly recruiting a decent army(Persian Hoplites, Armenian Infantry, Kinsmen) from Palmyra, so I might actually decide to go on the offensive and capture Syria and mesopotamia soon.

[Marcus Darkstar]

Heres my latest from my new Roman campaign (started a new one to impliment some mods into my campaign). Set it to Very High Diffculty in campaign setting due to the ease of victory from my last roman campaign. In the middle of my Second Punic War with Carthage.

This faction progression suprised me quiet a bit.



As you can see Pahlava has forced both Saka and Baktria to become its protectorates. Though while that is interesting what i found more interesting was Koinon forcing Eperius into becoming its protectorate and the fact Pontis has been blitzing AS like crazy to the point it has reached to the very doorsteps of Seleukeia itself. Koin has been annoyingly powerful this campaign though has had a wandering army in Italy that doesnt know how to leave (small one fm in it so i cant even bribe it away) and attacked Taras a decade or so back.

when Pahlava forced Baktria into a protectorate it forced a ceasefire between it and the AS I had hoped earilier that it would give it breathing room for the AS to retake Antioch from the Ptolemaios but all it did was delay Pahlava for a few years with Baktria rather siding with their new protectors than their old allies the AS.

The Romans become the worlds largest faction after the tremedous losses the AS has had in this campaign it held up rather well for awhile at the begining taking Ptolemaios territories near antioch and retaking some territories from the Pahlava but it got utterly wrecked from the Pontis explosion i've been seeing this campaign.

[Hax]

That's an incredibly good Pontos AI you have there.