1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[IrishHitman]

Lusotann and the Getai have been friendly for the last 30 years or so. The Aedui have been bordering me since 260BC and are still ignoring me (I took Mediolanum and the Alpine cities from the Sweboz).

Chartage is a problem though. They recently captured Kirta with a fullstack and are laying seige to Atiqa with another.
I'm my main front is in Greece against Epeiros at the moment.

I just signed a ceasefire with Sweboz after their 5 unsuccesful attemps to capture Buridava and Tylis. The cities' garrizons can manage the threat.

Arverni, Macedon in Olbia and KH are no threat to me either. They are weak and when they decide to attack me a halfstack should enough to destroy them if I want.


I wonder what Pahlava and Baktria are going to do now. They've both taken that last patch of other faction and they are building up their armies. I wonder which way they'll go.
Pontos has gained some ground from the Ptolies, but the Seleucids look quite dead.

The Getai always find some excuse to attack me (when I'm Makedonia), I don't see why it would be different for you... The Lusotann territory is rich in mines, not taking it would be a mistake.

My point is to be careful is all.
AI factions declare war for no reason at all quite often.

[Marcus Ulpius]

Romani campaign 221BC:




The Aedui, Arverni and Sweboz are not fighting each other any more. Instead, Sweboz and Aedui are fighting me, which puts my Northern border on fire. Sweboz are sending small stacks to Aventicum, while Aedui are sending their elite stacks to Massilia and were close to taking the city once or twice. They've also sent a surprise naval attack against Quart-Hadashtim and took Balearic Islands My primary front is the Luso war and they are starting to show signs of breaking which is good - I need those legions against Aedui.

In the East I'm fighting Epiros who managed to take Dalminion and right now I can't spare more troops to retake it without compromising my defenses in Greece. Getae were very ineffective in fighting the Epirotes and are slowly losing. KH are my allies and are very weak. They get new towns only by rebellions and can't hold them for long. Maks got themselves in trouble with the Grey Death and are... well, dying. Same goes for Pontos. Pahlava and Bactria are trampled into the dust by the phalanxes. Saka doing nothing important.

The only power who can probably make some progress against the Grey Death is the Yellow Death who made a comeback in Syria and took Antioch.

Qart-Hadasht - dormant after the loss of Balears and Iberian territories, they sometimes go to war against the Ptolies over Kyrenaika, but soon make peace after it rebels back to Eleutheroi (sp).

[athanaric]

Swêboz in 213 BC (playing on H/M). Conquered the Bosphoran provinces in order to help Hayasdan against the Yellow Fever. Arrived too late, though. Ptolemaioi will die.

Apart from that, business as usual (have been backstabbed by Aedui and Getai; Romani trying to "unite" Gaul).

AS and Baktria are now clinging on for dear life. Pontos and Hayasdan have been annihilated, Rhodos (formerly KH) is still alive.

Rhesus the Carrodunum Defender never turned up, maybe because I stormed the town in ealy campaign.

[Tolg]

This may sound like a pretty stupid question, but where does the game save your screenshots?

I think I found it when I first started playing (vanilla)RTW but I can't remember anymore.

[Mediolanicus]

Rome - Total War\tgas.

[Tolg]

Rome - Total War\tgas.

Thanks, but for some reason all files in there can't be opened/only show a black background in programs which can open them... (Which is way I couldn't find the folder myself)

Edit: I don't have any problems opening other .tga files btw...

[Mediolanicus]

Do a forum search, there are lots of threads about this problem.

[Tartaros]

Rhesus the Carrodunum Defender never turned up, maybe because I stormed the town in ealy campaign.

for sweboz: my first conquer is always eburonum and later carrodunum... that saves a lot of blood and money

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Its because they have a staggered spawn pattern. Starting about 260BC or so they all spawn one turn after the other. If u move fats enough u could get there before them, but thats hard to do, and not NEARLY as much fun.

[athanaric]

Starting about 260BC or so they all spawn one turn after the other.

I suspected as much. Well, doesn't matter now because I stormed Eburonum some time ago and wiped out the population *harharharr*. Boy that was probably the most satisfying EB experience I had. The scripted defender arrived too late and could only watch the pillage from afar. Cost me a lot of soldiers and mercenaries though.

I usually conquer Rugolandam or Silengolandam first. Skándzá is also a good province.



@Tolg

Why didn't you take Sind (SE Indian province)? It's a very rich province with a big port. Plus, it's inhabited by Eleutheroi scum.

I still wonder how the Lusotannan could manage to subdue the Romaioi. Do they use a lot of Ambakaro elite guys?

[Tolg]

@Tolg

Why didn't you take Sind (SE Indian province)? It's a very rich province with a big port. Plus, it's inhabited by Eleutheroi scum.

Because of the elephants. I've been very cautious with those beast ever since the defenders of Taksashila annihilated my entire army in my Bactria campaign. And as I'm using HA-armies I don't have much I can do against them.

Bactria (allied with me till ~220BC) took Taksashila and killed most the elephants in Opiana making it possible for me to conquer it with 4 battalions of Indian spearman and 1 battalion Akontistai, Patala however is still properly defended and all my (major) armies are currently in the west preparing to attack the Greek mainland. (No second Marathon!) At the moment I'm moving a 2 Indo-Iranian Heavy cavalry, 2 Dahae Skirmisher Cavalry, 2 Arachosian Skirmisher Cavalry, 1 FM army from Kophen down there, but I doubt it's gonna be enough.
Sometimes loosing can be fun as well. *Eagerly waiting for the Yuezhi to mess up his completely unprotected eastern "border"*


No clue what kind of units the Lusotanna are using though (I'm going to recruit a few spies to find out)