1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 10-08-2010, 15:51

Originally Posted by FriendlyFire

Edit: look at this lovely Baktrian stack I found in Apameia. Mercenary phalangites as the main line, thureophoroi to hold the flanks, Hyrkanian hillmen to run round the back and chop things up, peltastai to annoy, Indo-Iranian cavalry to harass and then charge, and archers to shoot up the enemy as they approach. This is a stack I'd be VERY happy to command, and the AI put it all together itself!

You do realize that stack was just put together by recruiting all the mercenaries in the pool right?

**Africanus** · 10-08-2010, 20:11

My latest Romani campaign, 206 B.C., VH/M, BI exe. All factions still alive. The AS are down to one settlement, but are currently besieging Antioch with a full stack. This is the best I've ever seen Pontos perform, usually they're the first faction eliminated.

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**Lysimachos** · 10-08-2010, 22:35

Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin

You do realize that stack was just put together by recruiting all the mercenaries in the pool right?

Ah, could've fooled me!

**johnhughthom** · 10-10-2010, 20:40

214, Pahlava campaign.

**FriendlyFire** · 10-11-2010, 17:49

Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin

You do realize that stack was just put together by recruiting all the mercenaries in the pool right?

Awww, don't spoil my dreams of a smart AI!

Besides, it's still a lovely stack, no matter where it came from

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

214, Pahlava campaign.

Europe looks very pretty, just the Greeks and Aedui spoiling the nice regular color blocks. That Epeiros-on-the-coast/Makedonia-inland thing going on in Illyria is bizarre but fun. What's happening in Africa -- are Carthage and Ptolemaioi actually at war for a change? And what happened to the Saka lands??

**johnhughthom** · 10-11-2010, 18:16

Originally Posted by FriendlyFire

What's happening in Africa -- are Carthage and Ptolemaioi actually at war for a change?

Yup.

Originally Posted by FriendlyFire

And what happened to the Saka lands??

One AS FM wandered up there and in the fifty or so years since his family has carved out their own personal domain.

**QuintusSertorius** · 10-24-2010, 16:10

196BC:

Heavily meddled and interfered with by me, both through FD and more direct intervention. Most recently I sent an army to Syria and restored the flagging Seleukids, kicking the Ptolemies back into Egypt.

All those Sabaen holdings in North Africa are gifts from me after taking them from Qarthadast and Egypt. Casse in the Belgae lands, and Lusotanno in Ireland are my doing via FD. As is KH in Syrakousai.

I gave the Romans the Illyrian coast a while back, after taking settlements from Makedonia. Just about to restore Singidunum to the Aedui for yet another war with the Makedones.

My independent little kingdom of Kyrene has held against both the Ptolemies and Qarthadast. With no support from the homeland, just what they can recruit plus mercs.

**QuintusSertorius** · 10-26-2010, 02:44

235BC in my Epeiros-as-Massalia game:

Only minor meddling on my part, such as giving Bratosporios to the Casse after taking it, and when the Romans attacked, taking Segesta off them and giving it to their allies (yeah, I know) the Aedui.

224BC in the same game: