1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[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.

[Rilder]

238BC

Update:

220BC

West to east:

In the Far west the Lusotannon battle fiercely with Kart-Hadast colonies, Though neither make much headway, probably because of the Romani's domination of the Seas

Emporion is attempted to be brought under Iberian Rule, but fail and the colony signs on with Sparta.

In Gaul an apparent change in leadership brings new wind to the Struggling Averni who go on the Offensive, even making incursions on Roman soil.

Casse fights the various tribes in Briton without success.

Roma fights feircly with Kart-Hadast across the waves, on land not much Expansion. Besides Mediolanium.


Massive Wars are fought in Greece, Makedon marches on the Koinon Hellenon, leaving only Sparte Free. Pontos Marches north against Epeiros and divides the land, Epeiros takes Byzantion, cutting off Pella from the Pontos homelands.

The Getai move west against the Independent tribes, but looses her Bosphorian Holdings.

In Asia Minor the Makedons push east ward, while Seleukia fights for her survival, every battle a seemingly last stand.

The Ptolmies move north Splitting the already fractured Seleukia in half.

The Hai push north in her campaigns against the Sauromatae.

Bactria, no longer needing Pahlava in its war against Seleukia, abandons the Anti-Seleukid pact, and together with the Saka Rauka, decimate the Near-Empire Pahlava, leaving it a position rapidly approaching the position the Remaining Seleukids are in.

[anubis88]

My carthage campaign...

The seleucids kinda got the upper hand against the ptolys early on( they besiged alexandria), but then they were hit hard by pontos and lost their posesions in the near east...
Pontos had control over entire asia minor, but lost almost everything against macedon... All they have left now is the starting seleucid capital Antioch...

Ironic ain't it?

[Cyrus]

My Epeiros Campaign, 243BC. H campign\ M battle on BI.exe

Almost all empires have stagnated, the AS after loosing many territories in asia minor to the ptolies, got the upper hand and now control also Kypros, the pahlava are being pushed back and even lost Nisa to the AS but it revolted back to them, Bactria had the upper hand against the Saka but now has lost almost all her former stllements, the saka are expanding slowly but shurely. The sarmatians, after a breef period of brightness have stagnated, right after chersonesos rebelled to the KH, the hai have formed a nice caucasian empire and haven't been at war with the seleucids yet, Pontos has laid seige to misa for the 100th time and finally seems to be able to take it, the KH have stagnated, so have the ptolies(who lost all their conquests in africa and asia exept ammonion), it's like the saba don't even exist and the luso only took 1 settlement!!!!!!!!!!!
The gallic wars have "stopped" because they still fight but noone wins, the Aedui have just laid seige to patavium. The Karties have stagnated and conquered only 2 settlements in africa.
The Getai took many cyties in thrace but kinda died after their 100th attemt to take Sciordisci homeland failed, they are my allies. Rome has been kicked ot of italy and now owns only corsica and sardinia, though inexplicably they are the richest factions!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have a fullstack just sitting outside caralis.......... Oh and the sweboz are kiking ass, exept they seem to have stopped conquering in the last 2 yers.
Anyways if this is how much BI improves EB? it sucks! i have no resistance if i go anyware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anubis88]

My Epeiros Campaign, 243BC. H campign\ M battle on BI.exe

Almost all empires have stagnated, the AS after loosing many territories in asia minor to the ptolies, got the upper hand and now control also Kypros, the pahlava are being pushed back and even lost Nisa to the AS but it revolted back to them, Bactria had the upper hand against the Saka but now has lost almost all her former stllements, the saka are expanding slowly but shurely. The sarmatians, after a breef period of brightness have stagnated, right after chersonesos rebelled to the KH, the hai have formed a nice caucasian empire and haven't been at war with the seleucids yet, Pontos has laid seige to misa for the 100th time and finally seems to be able to take it, the KH have stagnated, so have the ptolies(who lost all their conquests in africa and asia exept ammonion), it's like the saba don't even exist and the luso only took 1 settlement!!!!!!!!!!!
The gallic wars have "stopped" because they still fight but noone wins, the Aedui have just laid seige to patavium. The Karties have stagnated and conquered only 2 settlements in africa.
The Getai took many cyties in thrace but kinda died after their 100th attemt to take Sciordisci homeland failed, they are my allies. Rome has been kicked ot of italy and now owns only corsica and sardinia, though inexplicably they are the richest factions!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have a fullstack just sitting outside caralis.......... Oh and the sweboz are kiking ass, exept they seem to have stopped conquering in the last 2 yers.
Anyways if this is how much BI improves EB? it sucks! i have no resistance if i go anyware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow, that's a cruel colour for Epeiros... I almost got a seizure

[Cyrus]

Well after it became the greek-italic-thracian empire i wanted to change the colour........

[Rilder]

Update:

220BC

2 Years later, Bactria still continues her brutal massacre of the Pahlava, Makedon makes war on the Ptolmies,(pushing east) and Epeiros, Sparte is taken leaving the KH with Emporion and 1 family member stuck in Illyria.

Kart-Hadast marches against the Lusostannon, being unable to get troops to Corisca.

Pontos marches east from pella to reunite her lands.

The Averni attempted invasion is met by the Consular legion, it is also cut off from being able to get home by the 4th Legion, The Averni toops starving they march against the legion over a stone bridge, pushing through the roman lines with fierce desperation and rage, the legions tribune at some point attempts to flank the attackers but is merciously cut down with the rest of the Roman Calvary. Spurius Cornerius Blasio, the legate is forced to retreat and marches the survivors back to Rome.


EDIT:

215BC, Epeiros is no longer a threat to anybody, Makedon and Pontos kicked them out of greece and Illyria.

Pahlava is now even smaller then the 2 province Seleukids, its not being sieged yet but One strong Bactrian Army could end them. Bactria making war with Saba too.

Greece and Asia minor are Divided in half by Makedon and Pontos, right now their friends but if they break into war it could be an epic fight.

[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.

[General Appo]

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

[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.

[SwissBarbar]

cool

[Hotseat_User]

that's a really well done overview.

[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.

[Marcus Ulpius]

Makedonian campaign, 210bc:


This one is from 217 bc:

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So, during these seven years:

The Lusos have pushed the Carthaginians and the Aedui out of Iberia.
The Aedui are fighting Sweboz and Lusos now, it is yet to be seen how they will perform under these conditions.
The Sweboz are fighting the Aedui with unclear results, but Aedui assault seems to be stopped.
The Romani are still doing god knows what in the area where they shouldn't be in the first place at this time. They are also fighting Epiros in S. Italy and still can't kick them out of there.
The Getae were harassing my Dacian provinces for some time and I took Singidunum from them for that. But they are still making progress against Sauromatae (new Bosphorian province).
The Sauros and the Hai are still fighting over the same territories practically since the campaign start.
The AS are fighting Pahlava and Bactria.They've signed a peace with me (no forced diplomacy) after we didn't attack each other for a long time. The peace cost me around 20000 mnai and it appears the Seles are preparing an attack on Phalava from the West.
Pahlava and Saka both fighting poor Baktria which will probably die (it's unfortunate as I really like this faction).
Saba are my allies and aren't doing that much.
The Ptolies are on the verge of collapse. They managed to give me 3 big battles - one for Alexandria and 2 for that city west of Alexandria. They lost 3 full stack good armies in these battles and it looks they won't be able to pose serious threat any more.

[desert]

Sweboz Campaign with Alex and Minimod, 1.1, 172 B.C.



First, I'd like to say that I fixed all the inaccuracies in the map (territory control, etc.) in paint, in case you notice something weird.

Sweboz - well, I bribed the middle province in India once, but later lost it to amazing Baktrian generalship ( mofo had his armored elephants walk through the men sent to distract them and they LITERALLY RAN UP THROUGH THE SIDE OF MY LINE AND KILLED 15,000 PANTODAPOI). I had conquered Sind/Patala so oh well.
I have razed all cities in France and Patavium + Mediolanium at least once. Currently moving into Iberia. I took a province from the Arverni and it rebelled to Lusotana, which you can see
The two provinces bordering the steppe rebelled to me from Sauromatae, they came with full stacks of trip gold chev, gold weapon elite inf and HA, **** was so cash!!!

Casse - I ****** with them a bit a few decades ago by razing their capital and bribing Scotland after it rebelled from them

Epirus - was smashed by KH juggernaut and had 2 provinces left that were defended by fullstacks of golden supermen and 10-star generals; that's been the situation for like 50 years or something

Ptolemaioi - after some time of fighting Carthage over Kyrene and Paratoinon, they got raped around 200 BC and only had Eritrea and Megale Oasis left. Eritrea was taken by the burgeoning Kingdom of Axum (Saba) and after some years of heroic defence by some super FMs, Megale Oasis too fell; all they have left is Kypros

Saba - lost Gerhaia Arabia to Pahlava and have Nabataia through rebellion; also, Axum
At one point, their homeland rebelled from them

Sauromatae - they were nerfed by KH and the two rebellions to me

KH - holy ****! The KH want revenge on me for overwriting their savegame!

Getai - getting slowly and periodically raped by KH

Lusotana - had an empire but lost it

Arverni - were getting screwed by Rome + Aedui so they migrated into Iberia and obliterated Lusotana's large empire; unbelievable

Aedui - they've been slaugthered by me countless times

Romani - they once had all of Southern Gaul and northern Iberia AND much of central Gaul, but they just rebelled over many years, one by one; they've been completely inactive for at least 20 years, they have like 5 fullstacks sitting near Bononia doing nothing, even though they are at war with everyone

Pontus - nothing much, took part in the recent Pergamon land grab

Hayasdan - were blitzed by Pahlava in ONE YEAR; Caucasus my ass-us

Baktria - were doing well, had Taksashila, lost Baktria to Saka in 180 BC, somehow repeating history; very good friends with Pahlava, I saw some FMs near Persepolis that had apparently been exiled or something, lol

Saka - bastards are really messing up Pahlava's groove; lost Margiana, which they had owned for 50 years, to Pahlava recently (it might not be shown on the map)

Carthage - mastered Ptolemies, took Phoenecia and had lots of parties; are currently raping Pahlava
Their Capital is Still Carthage

Pahlava - these guys were KINGS! but they took Antioch, and sometime around 175 the Carthaginians declared war on them and they suddenly went all French!. They lost Antioch, Assyria, and Babylon in short order; they also lost Aria to Saka soon after fall of Baktria and have been unable to retake it, although they just took Margiana

Makedonia - were driven out of Greece by the KH bulldozer and became Pergamon, and recently got blitzed by Seleukia and Pontus; it was really funny, they allied to Pahlava and within 2 years they lost everything; their last city, Lesbos, rebelled to Eleutheroi, guess they got what was coming to them :P

Seleukia - after desperate fighting, they lost Antioch to Pahlava; they had southern Anatolia, but got Pergamon and Kappadocia in the Pergamon land grab\


PS: In case it wasn't clear, yes the Seleukids have all of southern Anatolia, and the KH ARE in Central Europe

[IrishHitman]

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Getic Front:
Seized the Getic Capital, and am currently sieging the surrounding towns.
They eliminated my first wave attacks with ease, killing two of my best generals in the process.
They failed to prepare properly for my second wave, which was much more powerful in terms of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.

Eastern Front:
The Pontic and Seleucid Fronts have been merged, as they are effectively the same fight at this stage.
Ancrya is under siege from a reasonably large Pontic army, but is filled to the brim with levy phalanx units to the point that it won't fall. Army building continues in Ionia, Lydia and Pergamon.

The Mesopotamian Expedition was defeated after lasting five years of constant assaults.
Three massive reinforcement armies that were sent from Macedonia by ship were ambushed and took heavy casualties in the desert, finally arriving in Fertile Cresent depleted. After losing Babylon, the remaining forces lasted a further year in Seleukia before being ousted.

The loss of these very expensive elite/merc mixed armies and the continued investment in mines resulted in a massive boost in income, which has allowed the largest military build up so far.

Western Front:
The Arverni, my allies, were defeated the season that has just past.
Aedui spies and assassins are stalking around the Po valley.
Fortunately for me, the Lusotann are friendly, and have cut the Aedui in two.

I expect an attack from either of them in the near future.
My investment in large defensive armies in Italy will pay large dividends, as Carthage is inactive and weak in Sicily, and the Aedui cities in northwest Italy are vunerable to attack.

Crimean Front:
Sarmatian invasion repulsed in 225BCE by horse archer armies mixed with some Macedonian medium & heavy cavalry. Invasion forces currently being built up at a steady rate to seize surrounding Sarmatian settlements. If successful, swinging west into the Getic Front, and east into the Eastern front, will be possible.

The Plan:

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Red dots represent major army groups, blue dots represent major steppe army groups.

[Rilder]

Romani 208 BC

In Iberia the Lusotannon finally kicked the Kart-Hadatism out of their land.

Gaul is relatively calm, though under the surface a vicious cold war is being fought with the Romani, Hundreds of Spys and Assassins have lost their lives in it.

After the Makedon's failed attempt at taking Arpi and conquering Italia, 2 legions were sent to Illyria to fight Makedon, After winning a Heroic battle in North Illyria, 1 legion had to retreat though, and another Makedon army pinned down the other legion and nearly destroyed it, Spurius Cornelius Scipio barely making it out alive, this Bought the Consular Army to Alert which then marched on Southern Greece, Taking Sparte and Kornith and making the 2 provinces allied states. The Consular army now digs in for the coming storm.

Makedon herself is now surrounded by foes, Romans and Epeirots in west, Pontics in the North, Ptolmics in the South.

Pahlava continuely proves that a wounded animal fights the hardest.

Things Im hoping for:

Bactria stops prancing around and destroys the Parni Rebels.

Lusotannon Advance northward against the Celts.

Pontos owning Makedon and giving me awesome Mithridatic wars

[athanaric]

Good luck against the US- er... Baktria. I guess you have spared the Karchedonoi so far so it's more fun crushing them when they are powerful?

Why haven't you taken Krete though?

[Lovejoy]

KH 253BC (alex .exe)



I am besieging what's rest of Epeiros and the eastern most Pontic city.

The AI has been VERY smart and fun in this game.

I really like how things have played out. In the beginning AS was very active in asia minor. When I had kicked Mac out of greece, they had captured most of it. Except Pergamon(rebel), Lesbos(owned by Mac) and the Pontic cities.

I didnt like AS dominating asia minor, but didnt want war, so I trained a team of expert spies, and was able to delay their progress causing disorder. AS didnt like that, so they attacked and captured Byzantion(owned by me). But at that time I had build a large army with who I landed in Asia minor and captured Halikarnassos. Now, much of asia minor was undefended, so they agreed on peace in exchange of Byzantion to me.

A few, 5 years later the AS attacked again. They once again captured Byzantion. I moved my army, killed a large stack outside Sardis and captured the city. And I send new stack to recapture Byzantion. The AS saw they were fucked. So I asked for peace in exchange of Byzantion AND Ipsos. They agreed. I was shocked.

And so the KH vs AS wars ended.

[Rilder]

Good luck against the US- er... Baktria. I guess you have spared the Karchedonoi so far so it's more fun crushing them when they are powerful?

Why haven't you taken Krete though?

I haven't Invade Karchedonoi because frankly that would be a costly bloody war and after its finished I'd be probably getting too much money and make me to powerful, besides after the amount of crushing naval defeats and losing Iberia to the Lusotannon they gave up trying to take Corsica and have left me alone.

Krete was being besieged at the time of that screen, just gonna make it an allied state for now and bugger off, if someone takes it, It won't matter much.

[IrishHitman]

No one going to comment on my campaign?

[Lovejoy]

IrishHitman: Why go so much up north? Concentrate on the east! :P Step-lands and muddy wood-lands is not a worthy target for your Macedonian warriors! :D

[IrishHitman]

IrishHitman: Why go so much up north? Concentrate on the east! :P Step-lands and muddy wood-lands is not a worthy target for your Macedonian warriors! :D

The Getai are too threatening at present.
I need to beat them to a bloody pulp and force a ceasefire before pushing east in a big way.

[desert]

Hey, what about my campaign! :P

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

No one going to comment on my campaign?

Makedonia in pre-imperial stage. Ahh, the days of yore... *sigh*

[IrishHitman]

Makedonia in pre-imperial stage. Ahh, the days of yore... *sigh*

I resent that, I currently hold the richest areas in Southern Europe!

Hey, what about my campaign! :P

You referred the French in a bad way, so I'm ignoring it.
Ever heard of Napoleon? Sort of conquered Europe?

[Lovejoy]

KH 253BC (alex .exe)

234BC KH (HEHE, sry for bad image. By accident I included a small army defending Asia Minor)



Army setup:
Spartan Army - in Italy.
Syracuse Army - also in Italy
Athenai/Rhodos Army - in Asia Minor
+several small hoplitai armies defending the borders.

To go east and west at the same time proved to be difficult. The Romans are tough. But the Syracuse Army just had a crushing victory against them outside Arpi - so things look better. The Spartan Army is under siege by the Romans in Capua.

Back east the Athenai/Rhodos army just captured Tarsos from the AS.

I am allies with the Ptolemaioi.

Comments?! :P


Desert: I would LOVE if my Pahlava faction could get that huge. :O