1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[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.

[SwissBarbar]

cool

[Hotseat_User]

that's a really well done overview.

[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