1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[IrishHitman]

Casse Campaign:

Changed the Casse to reddish-brown (because I can) and AS to olive. My Lusotanna campaign is near an end after I've beaten them back from Belgae and I have bitter war with the Qarthadastim to finish for the Italien Peninsula (I got to Rome first :p). AS are terrifying, the Makedonians have plenty of full stacks in the Balkans but instead of protecting their rich homeland they are instead using them to look at the getai menacingly from over their northern borders. Saka are also becomeing pretty big. Ever since about 264 BC the only provinces the Koinon Hellenon have gained have been from revolt.

Care to explain Carthage?

[Lovejoy]

I like the green color on AS. I never liked the old light grey color.

Nice empire btw!

[Tartaros]

my hai-update 228bc
ptoly´s are going west, they look successfull
pontos is now in war with rome and macs

started my orontid-reform in susa and persepolis
short after that pic i conquered kydonia and rhodos and a stack is near edessa and halikarnassos

[Rilder]

Look at them Ptolemics.

[Tartaros]

my hai-update 228bc

another update. 223bc
i have no masterplan for the future, should i break my alliance with pontos or should i conquer antiocheia and wait for a ptoly-attack... (my destructionteams doing well in north africa)

[Marcus Ulpius]

In some campaigns I see that the Romans are not going against western Celts as they should, but are expanding to the North-East, getting stuck and lost in the thick forests of the Eastern Europe. Usually that totally messes up their development.

[Tartaros]

In some campaigns I see that the Romans are not going against western Celts as they should, but are expanding to the North-East, getting stuck and lost in the thick forests of the Eastern Europe. Usually that totally messes up their development.

In my game rome is the protector of the aedui, epeirotes and getai and allied with sweboz and averni...
so there´s not much left

[Raygereio]

EB 1.2 on Alex.exe
Playing Baktria



minimods:
-Ferromancer's BI installer
-some modifications to make EB work on Alex.exe
-Traitchanges (command stars for combat experience)
-Hoplite Density
-Spoils of Victory
-Win Conditions
-Allied Armies (V 0.3)
-Got rid of the giant trees
-Extended Offices Mod (V 2.0)

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At this point I'm probably going to quit this campaign; all I'm fighting is either horsearchers or skirmishers. (Lots of me yelling: "stand and die like a man, dammit!").
That and no one around can offer so much as a challenge.

-Aedui: Was busy fighting the Averni. Then the Romans, Sweboz and Lusotannen came and they just rolled over and begged for mercy.
-Arche Seleukia: Is trying oh-so desperatly fighting a war on 6-7 fronts. They didn't succeed, didn't really fail either; at least they're still there and are now mounting an (for now) effective defensive against the ptolemies. Only problem is that pretty much all their eastern cities are held by a single unit or general and they have no armies in the field left. I have 4 full-stack armies, 5 once the Saka are taken care off... see the problem?
-Averni: See Aedui
-Casse: Nothing spectacular.
-Epeiros: Romans arriving from the north-west, Getai from the north east, fleeing macedonians and conquering Greeks from the south. They're toast. At least they still have the heel...
-Getai: Nothing spectacular.
-Hayasdan: Did some things up north in the steppe, then played dead from a while. I'm not really sure what it is they're doing; all they do is build armies and then start moving them around with no sense of direction.
-Karthadastim: Pretty agressive. They conquered some in Iberia, got kicked out by the natives. Then conquered sicily, lost interest there. And is now busy making Ptolemy's life miserable.
-Koinon Hellenon: Doing great.
-Lusotannan: Woke up one day and decided they really didn't like their neighbours; so they kicked their asses. Then decided they didn't like their new latin speaking northern neighbours either, so they kicked ass again.
-Makedonia: Got rushed by Koinon Hellenon.
-Pahlava: Took a bite of the Arche Seleukia early on. Then did nothing, despite having ample oppertunity.
-Pontus: Kicked Macedonian's ass out of Asia. Then taught Epeiros that thinking they're Alexander is real cute, but they really ought to secure Greece first before crossing over. They then decided to pull a reverse Alexander and start conquering Greece, the Greek did not agree.
-Ptolemaioi: Is busy beating down Saba and - since recently - Karthadastim incursions inbetween beating down Arche Seleukia armies.
-Romani: Went up north, kicked some ass. Is now in the process of getting stomped by the Lusotannan.
-Saba: Took avantage of cities rebelling to them.
-Saka: I took Alexandreia-Eschate and Saka then decided taking that city was their ultimate dream. Two units of Pantodapoi Phalangitai and 4 Subeshi archers foiled their plans. After several years of throwing away their armies at my gates, their military was completely depleted.
-Sauromatae: Did nothing. The Getai and Hayasand conquered their lands and they just let it happen.
-Sweboz: Nothing special.

Edit; gah, so many typo's. It's late, sorry.

[IrishHitman]

another update. 223bc
i have no masterplan for the future, should i break my alliance with pontos or should i conquer antiocheia and wait for a ptoly-attack... (my destructionteams doing well in north africa)

Attack Pontus with a couple of stacks, roll them out of Asia quickly, then blockade the Bosporus Straits with a decent defensive army.
You'll be seizing some pretty lucrative cities in the process, which will allow you to make incursions against Egypt.

[Onehandstan]

Care to explain Carthage?

They decimated Rome, taking as far up as bononia (but leaving Roma) at the same time the Romans were being destroyed by the lusoes in Gaul, it'kll be one hell of a fight to get the Italien peninsula but I'm starting to gain ground.

[IrishHitman]

They decimated Rome, taking as far up as bononia (but leaving Roma) at the same time the Romans were being destroyed by the lusoes in Gaul, it'kll be one hell of a fight to get the Italien peninsula but I'm starting to gain ground.

That'll be amusing..

[Hax]

MAKEDONIA - 205 BCE
No Force Diplomacy (save the switch of Pontos to Bosphoros)
No cheats
BI.exe



And here the mess in the west:

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Casse: United Britain. Woo. Hoo. Then went to sleep.
Aedui: Being killed by the Sweboz and Luso's at the moment, although they did manage to kill a lot of Arverni before the Sweboz decided it was enough. Having a new, interesting future in Venetia and Pannonia.
Arverni: Dying. Sloooooowly dying.
Lusotannan: Does not want to take Baikor for some mysterious reason. I think they like to annoy me with that sharp stingy white in the midde of a brown sea (politically incorrect post to be deleted!)
Sweboz: Deadly, huge, evil. Killing other barbaroi.
Getai: A bit sleepy at the moment, I think they're happy with the fact they've united the tribes.

Sauromatae: Nothing really special, enjoying the horses women of the steppes.
Saka-Rauka: First tried to be somewhat interesting by invading Seleukid lands, but then decided to return to their grassy nomad plains, where nobody is around to see them do things to horses.
Pahlava: Meh. Losing slightly against the Seleukids, though I wonder what will happen when the Seleukids lose their riches in the west. We'll see.

Arche Seleukeia: Involved in a three-way struggle against the Saka, Pahlava and myself. Oh yeah, and the Ptolemaioi, but who cares. They are too busy sending useless stacks to Rhodos and Alexandreia.
Ptolemaioi: Dying lalala dying dying dying soon dead.
Baktria: Sleepy, eh?

Koinon Hellenon: *tumbleweed*
Epeiros: Woohooo! Ever since I kicked them out of Epidamnos and Ambrakia they LIVED with the fact that they lost Epeiros and apart from three attempts to conquer Epidamnos, they're mostly contended with the dealings in Megale Hellas and Illyria to be really annoying me, I'll let them live for the time being. They were renamed to the Illyrioi and given a slightly different shade of green. I'm afraid they're losing to Kart-Hadast in Italy at the moment, but the tide may just change!

Romani: Well, they pretty much got raped by the Illyrians, the Karthaginians, the Aedui and the Lusotannan. Reduced to three settlements at the moment. They did manage to fix me the March of Time before they went! Woohoo for Hysteroi Pezetairoi!

Carthage: Shown on the map as Politeia Karchedonoi. Did some cool things in Iberia at first, even taking Baikor and Oxtraca; but then sadly got kicked out by the Lusitanian warmachine. Now they've conquered all of Sicily and are slaughtering Illyrians in Italy.
Saba: Brains...

Hayasdan: Brains...
Pontos: BRAINS! They are now known as the Basileion Bosphorou, who have a tendency to march armies all around the Black Sea to attack Amaseia. Weird people. Those pigspawn even bribed one of my new generals, who was underway to Sparta. Unreliable little -- *grumbles*

Makedonia: Me. United Hellas a bit, relaxed for a while, then took western Anatolia, finished off the KH, finished off Pontos, and now killing Ptolemaioi and Seleukidai!

Edit: I noted there is an inconsistency in the screenshots. In the first, Kart-Hadast did not take Taras yet, in the second they did. This is a result of the fact that I took the first screenshot in summer 205 and the second in autumn. Sorry.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Nice empire, Hax. Gutenoi? Where does that derive from?

[Hax]

The Greek name for the Goths. I wanted to create the map in such a way that it would seem like it was really created by someone in the 200's BC.

[IrishHitman]

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- Currently fighting against the Getai, Sarmatians, Pontus, AS, and Roman rebels.

Getic Front:
After I seized two towns that the Getai had, they've been unsuccessfully trying to retake them.
My home army at Pella is incomplete, but I could probably beat them if they came down into Greece.
If the Getai were more aggressive, I might be worried, but they're generally incompetent.

Sarmatian/Crimean Front:
I took the Crimean towns before they were taken by the filthy hordes from the North, the tent-dwellers weren't happy. The Eastern town is under siege, and is unlikely to hold.
The Western town is preparing an army to assault it once taken.

Pontus:
My most pressing concern. No matter how many of their armies I defeat, the bastards just keep coming back for more. They took Nikaea last year, and I am being forced to build a levy army from Ionia, Lydia and Caria to deal with them once and for all. Byzantium is threatened from both Getic and Pontic armies, but is well stocked with troops, so I expect to hold the Bosporus Straits.

AS:
My expedition to Babylonia has been successful, and I've seized the heart of the Seleucids.
The two cities were poorly defended, and were easy pickings for one mere stack.
I'm building armies there to join up with the Pontic and Eastern Frontier armies currently being formed in Asia Minor at great cost (hence the low cash).

Roman Rebels:
After I seized Italy, the Latins were never really happy, and rebelled a year ago.
They've got about three turns until Rome surrenders, and I intend to level the place to the ground upon entering...

- Other factions:
Iberia is now united under the Lusotann, and they've seized southern Gaul.

The Ptollies are bit busy with the AS at Antioch, and Carthage in the West. I'm allied with them at present.

The Hai had a go at Tarsus, and failed horribly. They repeatedly fail at keeping the Sarmatian hordes from crossing their lands, despite being at war with them... Hence the Sarmatian foothold in Northern Anatolia.

Everywhere else is normal really.

[General Appo]

Argh. Where's a Delete Post option when you need one?