1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Romani 246BC
One of my house rules: Autoresolve all battles(I hate those small fights against brigands since I always loose too many men there!).



Some more interesting factions:
Qarthadastim - Made peace with them after 'Second Punic War' where I took those 3 cities in N-Africa. Left them there because they had no real armies there to oppose mine. They do however have a massive army near Gader.
Ptolemaioi - They took Antiocheia and those rebel provinces east of Hierosolyma. They lost Kyrenaia to the Seleukids however(rebellion or peace treaty?).
Seleucids - Although they lost Antiocheia they seem pretty strong in east. They play 'hide-and-seek' with Pahlava. I think Asaak and Hekatompylos are changing ownership every year. Pahlavan armies are going from one route around the mountains south of Asaak while the Seleucids are using the other one! Really confusing. Also, they have about 10 of those Thorakitai Agema(or something like that) and other elites(Argyraspides etc) near Seleukeia!
Epeiros - Once hold almost entire Balkan! But then Makedonia and Getai got rid of them and they are reduced to only 2 settlements in their homeland now.
Makedonia - They lost Pella and the city south of it to Epeiros and Corinth to KH but somehow managed to get back on track and reconquered their cities from Epeiros(They were not that lucky with Corinth though). Also they have managed to start a nice campaign in Mikra Asia. They have 2 full stacks there and with pretty good units in it.

About my campaign, I just wanted to know how well I can play just in the strat map. It is M/M but looks like a lot harder! For example I had my elite Double Legion with one of my best generals that time attacking Syrakousai but they were defeated easily! I lost half my army there. So I thought I take two Double Legions against them. Well, it didn't go the way I planned and they also were defeated. So, when I besieged the town, again(with two Double Legions, again), I managed to take it. It took 5 years to conquer Syrakousai(I needed to retrain my troops) while I managed to cripple the Qarthadastei in N-Africa with only 2 years!!
Anyway, it's a nice campaign and I can't wait 'til the Polybian Reforms come!

[desert]

Really? You autoresolve ALL battles?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Really? You autoresolve ALL battles?

Yes. I autoresolve all battles. Those battles against brigands are annoying because I could win without losing any men or just couple of them. But in autoresolve I lose some 30-40 and that's just annoying when I have used my main legion against them!
This is also the reason why it took so many years to conquer Syrakousiai.

[PriestLizard]

This is my current campaign:
EB 1.1. with Alexander executable. (I really recommend it, its going so smooth - awesome!) I'm not sure if the ALX exe influences the campaign progression..!?



Not much happened yet... some notes though:
* Saka is expanding rather strong
* AS seems stronger than usual too while Pahlava seems weaker
* Makedonia is doing well vs Epeiros.

About my campaign:



I'd like to get some hints from you what to do. I really tried to keep peace between me and AS, including tribute of 100mnai for 16 turns total... but 267BC they still declared war. This time I blitzed Kophen because if I do a small pox start I always have the situation of one city vs. a huge empire and I cant do anything but turtle arround.

India is way too strong so I cant expand there. Maybe I'll be able to advance to the south... I won a lot of battles against AS there but I dont know whats coming next from them.

Oh and anyone else out there playing with ALX.exe? What are your experiences?

Cu Priesty

[Foot]

Its not suprising they declared war on you in 216. 16 turns of tribute would have finished in 268 (16 turns = 4 years) and after that they would have come a knocking.

Foot

[Zenith Darksea]

No, he said that they declared war in 267BC, not 216.

[Ignopotens]

Well he doesn't say when he started the tribute, but 16 turns is still only 4 years so it's possible the tribute time-period was already over if he started it in 272 or 271, although we can't say for sure if that's what happened.

Foot probably just had a typo when he said 216.