1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[anubis88]

Well this is my Aedui campaign on VH/M ... It's preety interesting... The Arverni don't dare to attack me because they would face war with Lusotana, who is my ally and the arverni are under their protectorate... I had a long war with them, but i never tried to exterminate them... On the West the Germano-Roman alliance keeps giving me headaches, but i'm managing to stop them with no problem, and now the time of soldiers has come, to help me. I tried to play as historicaly as possible, not conquering any settlements unless i really needed them for money. I conquered the belgae and helvetti cities only fot them to be buffer states. I also conquered lemonum a few years ago, becouse of the chariots, but it seems i will not be able to use them now since the reforms have come.

Seleucia was destroyed a year ago, while the romans seem to be in trouble with carthage slowly making stronghold in south italy.

It's really a very interesting campaign... I struggled for money till few years ago, when i decided i had to conquer a few more provinces in order to stop the arverno-romano-germanic attacks. Thankfully my long term allies of Lusotanna are helping me now.

The most interesting part was a Koinon Hellenon kingdom in southern gaul. Since massalia rebelled to them, they've managed to conquer Tolosa and Emporion as well and they had become a powerfull regional power. Unfortunatly they were destroyed by rebelions ( tolosa rebelled to me) and lusottana.

It was fun fighting hoplites though

[Subotan]

Nice KH/Qarthadast. Saka looks pretty sweet too.

[bobbin]

203bc from my Pontos campaign using BI.exe At war with Arche Seleukieia

Carthage was kicked out of the Iberian pennisula a few years ago and are now involved in a on/off war with the romans for Corscia and Sardinia.

The KH was sitting cooped up in greece untill about 30 years ago when Messana revolted to them, they conquered the rest of sicilly pretty quickly after that. They are now happly shipping troops to there building up for a invasion of italy.

After a intial rush the Pahlava have been making a slow steady push into the Seleukid lands.

Baktria has form a lovley indogreek kingdom and been at war with the saka for ages but neither seem to be getting anywhere.

Eprios is starting to recover from my devastating invasion of hellas that wiped out the maks and left them nearly dead by capturing segestica from the aedui.

As for the others the Gauls are fighting each other and Rome, the Sweboz are trying to capture the central european cities without much luck, the Hay and the Sauromatae are fighting it out on the steppes with the sauro only still in the fight due to repeated rebellions and the getae are busy building a nice balkan empire.

A few years after this pic was taken the ptolemies started a war with me, me and my saba alllies have driven the back into egypt and i'm just about to assault alexandreia.

[Zim]

I guess that didn't work.

[Hax]

IGNORE - error

[Hax]

Faction: Pergamon [detailed in my mod thread]
Engine: rtw.exe
No Force Diplomacy
No Monetary Aid given

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EDIT: seem to have missed somethings while I was making the map; will make a better one tomorrow, with some feedback on the factions.

[penguinking]

Nice Romani expansion. It's surprising that KH is managing to hold the Macedonians off without Epeiros to divert their attention.

[A Very Super Market]

Eh, they usually manage anyways.

[Tartaros]

My new 1.2 Hai-game
250bc
Phaaspa (270), Trapezous(269), Mshketa(?) (263), Kotais(259), Ani-Kamah (256), Karkathiokerta (253), Arbela (252), Babylon (251), Seleukeia (251), Ekbatana (250)

Ptoly´s are very interessting (peace with sele since 270bc), so they storm Kart Hadast- they never do this befor

[GnaeusCotta]

my Romani campaign.
The first faction that died were the ptolemaioi. Then Hayasdan and The Maks were killed. All by AS. And I finished Lusotana and Eiperos.
I was allieds with AS but then they took Byzantium and started pouring full stacks of phalanxes and other elites into my lands. But I had no problem holding them of thanks to the Rhomompodoroi (it's writen something like that I think) that I used as flanking troops. Then a few years ago AS came to beg for peace. We had a few years of peace but then I bribed a city that revolted from AS to Eleutheroi, you can see it in the East between Pahlava, Bactria and AS. They immediately started besieging the city but I was capable of keeping it.
Now again every turn they assault me with a couple of full stacks. it get's a bit boring. I'm waiting for the Marian reforms. I have 4 possible reformers but they didn't become consul yet, it's a bit early so maybe it's for the best. One is already 40, then two around 35 and one is 25 I believe. So there are still 80 turns of fighting full stack AS armies before the reforms can kick in.

[SwissBarbar]

OMG the grey death!!! Ptolemaioi the first faction to be destroyed? Wow

[A Very Super Market]

Grey Death still happens. Apparently, if they keep control of Antioch, it will be the Grey Death and vice versa.

[bobbin]

Pontos 195bc

SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea

[IrishHitman]

Pontos 195bc

SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea

.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

[Centrius]

My first post on this forum!

Okay, so I'm playing the Sweboz, H/M. It's just 245BC and I recently got around to capturing Iuvavoaeta and Eburonum. (God, I hate those scripted defenders.)



Any suggestions on where to expand next?

I'd like to keep my peace with the Averni and Aedui. They stay away from my turf, I stay away from theirs.

So either; destroy the Romani before they can grow powerful, or just expand east towards the Sauromatae?

- Centrius





P.S.

lol @ Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon surviving against Epeiros and eachother.




P.P.S.

River defending can save your life against those stupid scripted defenders.

[bobbin]

.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.


Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

[Lovejoy]

Centrius: Dont go east! I went east and I went crazy fighting the Sauromatae. Cata + HA is not fun to fight with poorly armoured germans

[Rilder]

Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)

[A Very Super Market]

What an interesting campaign...

Even Saba has got a piece of the AS?

[IrishHitman]

Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)

Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Typically the way the Grey Death/Yellow Fever thing work out is into three possible solutions.
1.AS keeps Antioch for the whole game=Grey Death
2.AS loses but then regain Antioch=stalemate
3.AS loses Antioch for good=Yellow Fever

[Rilder]

Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

Really I felt if I kept it my empire would be too big, I try only to expand when I have to, Italia is a highly profitable zone and I already have to much cash, besides I did so much damage to those cities, Roma had like 30k Population before my attack and now has like 2k.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

... besides I did so much damage to those cities, Roma had like 30k Population before my attack and now has like 2k.

A man after my own taste!

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My Makedonian Empire of my AAR, in the year 182BC:




In the year 172 BC, the civil war broke out!

[A Very Super Market]

Cool!

What faction did you use to do that?

And on what criteria did you choose the rebel territories?

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Cool!

What faction did you use to do that?

And on what criteria did you choose the rebel territories?

Baktria. I editted the picture so that Baktria itself can be distinguished.

I scanned all my FM for their traits. The traitorous (roughly 40%) are now the "Eugeneis Makedones", the Nobles.

[Berg-i-dum]

Roman Empire, 198 BC.



The long war in Asia against Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

[Tartaros]

very nice red (and pink) empire!

[SwissBarbar]

Love it!

[The Persian Cataphract]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.


Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

Now this is a really promising screenshot: Pahlava actually goes on to conquer Caucasian Albania and the Gerrha strip. This is, as far as Pahlavân progressions go quite a rarity. Especially the latter.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Roman Empire, 198 BC.



The long war in Asia against Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

...And this is of course so messed up I can barely find the words for it. I have never seen Pahlava go this batshit crazy (Now, of course, we'll have to consider limiting them down to EB2, but it's still quite a sight to see them divide the world quite like this!)

[IrishHitman]

Roman Empire, 198 BC.



The long war in Asia against Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

I'd be more concerned about the Getai.