1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[miotas]

Wow, your taking it veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.......

This makes it funner, especially when you get Established AI Factions that are actually able to fight you.

On that note I'l probably have to pull out of Greece in my Romani campaign, I have a vicious fight with Kart-Hadast coming up, which may be a bit of a pain. They have three stacks (known) available to fight, one on Korsim fighting my garrison legion, (full of elite African pikemen.)

The Consular legion just deployed and is heading into battle.

Yeah, i surprised myself actually when i realised what the year was, in my romani camaign i've basically conquered everything north and west of italy bar the british isles and all of the islands in the med bar kypros and all this by the year 230bce. I'm enjoying my baktrian one more though so i think i will start another romani one after i feel i'm done with the baktrian one.

[Shadowwalker]

@Teucer:

This looks very promising.
Looking forward to further screens (and of course a beta).

[Raygereio]

Hayasdan campaign. 270BC-210BC
EB 1.2 on BI

This has been a pretty fun campaign so far and it looks like I'm going to finish this one. I'm busy with the persian reforms right now.


(I didn't get a picture of 215BC)

minimods:
-Ferromancer's BI installer
-Traitchanges (combat experience: blooded 1 command, veteran 2 command, grizzeld 3 command, STHE 4 command & removed command penalty from lover of beauty)
-Spoils of Victory
-Win Conditions
-No giant trees
-Activated units: Dosidataskeli and Dubosaverlacica and Ordmalica
-Darth Stalin's Roman Units
-TWFanatic's PhalanxMod

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

-Aedui: Won the Aedui-Averni civilwar, held against the Romani, but eventually lost against the Sweboz juggernaut.
-Arche Seleukia: they ignored me untill I broke our alliance when I completed the pan-caucasus reforms. At that point, the Arche declared war and started besieging only Armavir (while ignoring all other cities). This enabled me to easily amass an army and attack them (targetting the cities needed for the first Persian reforms, cutting the Arche in half).
While still mighty, the Archy isn't much of threat anymore; they did get the Cataphract Reforms and have started recruiting Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou in Syria, but their most developed cities (those in their western holdings) are - besides me - also fighting against Pontus, Ptolemaioi, Makedonia & Koinon Hellenon.
Their eastern holdings - while also not that well developed are also fighting against Baktria and the terrible Saka.
-Averni: Lost their chance at writing history and is now trying to survive. Funny bit of AI diplomacy: when the Averni began to lose against the Aedui, they became the protectorate of the Romani. When the Lusotannan came and started pushing the Romani back, the Averni became their protectorate. And now that the Sweboz have arrived, guess who the Averni turned to this time for protection? I'm actually impressed by this.
-Baktria: did pretty well in the beginning, but got overun by Saka. Attempted several times to get the Indian cities, but failed against the strong garrisons. Baktria itself did rebel from the Saka back to Baktria several times, but that was more of a curse then a blessing - especially the last rebellion as that one gave them a halfstack of Armoured Indian Elephants (!!) sending their already weak economy to the grave. I'm expecting Saka to kill them off soon.
-Casse: Haven't done anything special.
-Epeiros: Fiercly fighting for dominion over Greece with Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon, the fighting has also spilled out of Greece actully and onto Asia Minor!
-Getai: Got a rude awakening from Makedonia. When the Maks had more pressing concerns to the south, the Getai expanded a bit, but soon got a bloody nose from the Romani to the west and is now fighting with the Sauromatae to the north; no clear winners there yet.
-Karthadastim: Got kicked out of Iberia. Entered in a bloody war with the Romani over Sicily. At some point they remember having boats and invaded central Italy several times (joygasm!). Eventually they fell before the mighty Romani war machine.
They then took avantage of Ptolemaioi's distraction to the east and invaded them, seem to be doing pretty well.
-Koinon Hellenon: Took avantage of Makedonia's going-up-north-and-leave-our-soft-belly-unprotected-strategy. Is now fighting with both Makedonia and Epeiros over Greece with no victory in sight.
-Lusotannan: United Iberia and kicked some Romani ass. It'll be interesting to see if they can win against the Sweboz.
-Makedonia: Went up North in a badly prepared manner and allowed Epeiros and the Koinon Hellenon to become threats. Is now busy paying for miscalculations from the past, more precisely; they're losing, but it seems they do have a stronghold in Asia Minor that can hold out.
-Pahlava: *sigh* oh, the disapointment. When they went on their "Nomad! Whoo!" spree and started taking the steppes, I was happy; I could already picture them attacking me from the North! Then their conquered holdings rebelled back to Sauromatae and the Pahlava AI seems unable to deal with that, it just kinda died. No moving armies, etc. Anyone know of way to get them going again?
-Pontus: Doing pretty well. Became my allies once the Arche declared war on me and remained friendly. I am however getting tired of their diplomates constantly trying to bribe my cities, so I'm going to conquer the treacherous scum. I already have my Arkahen Arkah make a tour of his realm together with an entourage of assasins, killing all Pontus diplomates they're coming across.
-Ptolemaioi: I am at a loss of words at how poorly they are doing. I expected them to become huge once I took the Arche's strength away, but instead this happened.
-Romani: did pretty well, got their polybian reforms as a reward for winning their punic wars. Are now bearly holding their own against the barbarian onslaught.
-Saba: Doing pretty okay. They maybe just field skirmishers and other light troops, but they're fielding a lot of them!
-Saka: Has become the mayer eastern powerhouse; constant rebellions are wrecking them however. It'll be interesting to see if they can overcome that, or if the Arche can mount an effective attack against them now that they're somewhat weaker.
-Sauromatae: Got overun to the east by Pahlava, rebellion saved them however. Now the behemoth from the steppes is busy attacking rebels, Getai and Makedonia to the west, all of those are holding the Sauromatae back however.
-Sweboz: Ah, the european powerhouse. Nothing I can say about them really.

[Rilder]

Romani 188 BC.

Finally getting to the end of the Second punic war. Hannibal is the current Carthagian Faction leader, but I think he's come a bit to late to help much...

Second Makedonian War is about to begin, probably because Makedon got thrown out of Anatolia.

Bactria... Excuse me while I beg for mercy.

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign.

Early on the seleucids and ptoly's became allies, but thankfully the seleucids always accepted my ceasfire offers, and after a short blitz of tarsos and antiocheia i managed to get some money, and claim the crimean peninsula...

the strongest faction is probably macedon, who were my allies, but then backstabed me... now i'm allied with almost everyone around macedonia, since they all fear them... when they backstabed me i quickly conquered ancyra, nicomedia and ipsos, but lost tarsos...

I just won the last year probably the greatest battle in my carrer. The macedonian FL suddenly attacked cheronesos and i had a preety weak army guarding it but somehow managed to defeat their really awesome army. They had 3 units of thraikan rhompaioi or sth, 4 of reformed phalanx 2 bosphoran archer + 125 men of the faction leader with 3 silver chevrons... I had 12 men left standing, including 2 family members... If i had lost the battle i would probably lose the game, since the crimean is an extremly important income source for me. It was probably the greatest battle i ever won

P.S. i've never seen the seleucids take Chingu

[Elcmar]

I'm kinda amazed the KH have managed to survive with Makedon so dominant!

Sounds like you had one of those truly epic victories anubis88 - gotta love 'em

[Cyrus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

[Rilder]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?
Oh and Rilder would you tell me what the diplomatic situation is on your campaign?
Also I would love to be able to fight against such a worthy buch of enemies, look at the getai, the lusos, the sweboz and the ptolies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you please upload that save? I usually get too tired too soon of a campaign to actually get strong enemies. Please!

Diplomacy: Bactria is at war with Saba and Saka, + one other I think. (not Ptolmaios)

I'm at war with Carthage, Makedonia, and Averni, while Allied with Epeiros and Lusotannon.

Dunno the complete diplomatic situation though.

Edit: DL the save here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4...db6fb9a8902bda

(note, theres some legions being transported at sea)

[Aemilius Paulus]

Anubis, yor map is very weird. Mine looks nothing like it, i'm talking about the terrain. Why is that? Is it just the detail of the campaighn map?

He is using RS (Roma Surrectum) textures. Google it or go to TWC where you should find it. Heck, you can find plenty of references to them on this forum as well, after a Forum Search.