1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[schlappi]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.



Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

[Elcmar]

After a long time of EB absence, i tried a KH campaign

My main roleplay objective is to support the free poleis. When Emporoion and Halikarnassos rebelled, i shipped forces there to secure their "independant" status. On one such voyage, a large force got stranded on sicily, revenging hiero of syracuse and just now took lilibeo, after defeating numerous carthagian armies. PLayed on VH/H, every battle is quite costly, especially against those damn elite phalanxes.

Standings in 219 bc:
(currently at war with carthage in iberia, ptolemaic egypt in asia minor and hayasdan over trapezous)

Sounds like a pretty cool campaign - i'm liking the AI expansion too

[Tarkus]

Wow...looks like a titanic struggle is brewing in the East, schlappi. Pahlava all the way down into the Arabian peninsula??!! I'd love to see their battles with the Bactrians.

[Lovejoy]

schlappi: I like the Roman expansion! :D

250BC Makedonia

[anubis88]

My Pontos campaign 180 BC.



The farthest i've ever played a campaign. Playing with BI, it's extremely fun. In italy rome lost almost all of the southern peninsula and Sicily from Carthage, but then i gave them a lot of money, and they kicked the carthies back. The fun thing is that rome controled all of sicily, corsica, and sardinia, but the carthaginians launched a massive 4 full stack force back at them and destroyed everything in their path.

In the west the Lusotanna are monsters, but carthage manages to get invasions at them with the hopes of conquering parts of the peninsula. In the East the first superpower was macedonia, conquering everything in their path. They've left the getai with one province, but i gave them a lot of money also, and after some macedonian city's rebeled due to my spies they've conquered them. I also managed to pillage the coast of Greece and give the regions to rome. Hopefully the romans will start a massive war with macedonia so that i may finally have my Mithridatic wars.

In the further east the Yellow death is destroying everything in it's path. I'm hoping that by giving money to their adversaris they may fight back... Armenia backstabbed and pissed me off so i launched a huge invasion and finally left Kotais and Trapezous (which was mine from before) hugely fortified so they don't start any funny things. Interestingly the Ptolys keep attacking me through antiocheia which i gave to Armenia. They're allies and seemengly have the military acces.

I left the KH only with pergamon to represent the Kingdom of Pergamon, but then Rhodes and Krete rebelled to them from Ptolys and Carthage, and later i saw that in carthage they have 3 full stacks, all with at least 4 experience mainly of spartan hoplites, phalangites and thorakites. If they start a war with macedonia they will probably destroy them. Incredible.

For my part i tried to expand as little as possible, just enough to have the money to hold my many fronts.

[schlappi]

Update, Map in 211 b.c.

Rome took Syracuse and Lilibeo from me and Carthage steamrolled the iberian peninsula, including my well-sized and decently defended polis of Emporoion. It will be a long time before i can take revenge, since i am busy fighting Macedon (side by side with my allies, the Epirotes), Pontos, Hayasdan and Ptolemaic Egypt.



Playing the last eight years took longer than the whole game before and every battle takes careful planning to minimize losses of remote armies.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

KH is quite popular faction I see...

This is my old(I think I started it in January!) KH campaign I recently picked up.


I have to add that Epeiros was my ally from the start until they backstabbed me couple turns ago. I have fought many wars against Makedonia and just recently sided with them only because I wanted them to keep Epeiros busy. So much for that idea... I should have burned Demetrias when I had the chance! Now Makedonia recruits it's Peltastai Makedonikoi and Pezhetairoi and it's a bit difficult to fight against them with ... Hoplitai Haploi!
AS is a pain in the ***. They just keep on sending their small armies against me but then again what armies they are. Argyraspidai, Pezhetairoi and the like!! NB! Never trust AS and sack Antiocheia as soon as possible!
And to make thing even more interesting I have to fight against Pontus too!
And you people say that RTW AI is stupid!

[Tyrfingr]

- Semi-observant Indo-Baktrian campaign.
- EB1.1 on Alex.exe (VH/M)
- No cheating (except toggle_fow) or FD

244BC


217BC (changed Baktria's color)


203BC


The years between 220-200 were really fun. Epeiros first chased the Romans out of Italy, only to chased out (and exterminated!) by Carthage. Other tendencies, the smelly Brown Death is at it again, with little signs of slowing down. I have had a living hell against the AS, who has been sending full stacks after stack towards my indian provinces, despite my efforts to maintain a peace. I have been trying to break AS alliances to the Ptolies, Makedones and Pontos, but with little or no effect.

When the coffers are running low, I usually send out a fleet with an army to plunder coastal cities. All of Arabia has been visited, along with the Ptolemaioi coast and AS settlements.

[JRG]

Makedonian Campaign 200 BC :
(H/M) RTW.exe



Makedonia (Me): Since my last update in 255 BC, I kicked Epeiros out of Italy, began a long and bloody war with the AS over Asia Minor and Syria, and pushed the Northern border up to the Danube. I think I might soon invade Italy now that Rome is so weakened.

Lusotannan: They seemed to be going into the brown-death mode until they started a war with Carthage and lost some of their Iberian holdings.

Aedui/Arverni: Aedui seemed to have the upper hand in Gaul, but then the Arverni came back. Now it seems like Gaul is about equally divided between Rome, Carthage, Luso's and them.

Casse: Standard expansion

Sweboz: Standard expansion, though I was surprised they managed to take those two heavily gaurded Alpine towns.

Carthage: This is the strongest AI Carthage I have ever seen. Despite being kicked out of Sicily, the conquered all of their side of Africa, half of Spain, the French coastline and are now in the process of conquering Italy.

Rome: At one point they controlled all of Italy plus most of Gaul, but have since declined due to a combination of Luso's, Aedui, Arverni, Carthage, and Epeiros. They seem to be doomed now.

Getai: I just recently concluded a war with them, taking their territories south of the Danube. They must have tried to take that Sauromatae coastal town at least 20 times by now, but they keep constantly failing.

KH: I have been really impressed by the KH. After Trapezous rebelled to them, they launched an invasion on the Crimea and took it! They did not take it with rebellions at all.

Epeiros: After being kicked out of Greece, they set up a new kingdom in Sicily (with no help from me) and have been involved in an on-again, off-again war with Rome, at one point holding all of Magna Graecia plus Capua and Arpi.

Ptolemaioi: First time I have seen them NOT go into yellow death mode.

AS: First time I have seen them go into gray-death mode, until I took Asia Minor and Syria from them. Then they launched a semi-successful campaign against Hayasdan. They are still doing quite well in the East though.

Saba: Standard expansion.

Hayasdan: They seem to be interested in nothing more than conquering the Steppes, even leaving that Seleukid settlement right in the middle of their territory undisturbed.

Sauromatae: I was surprised to see them expand all the way down the Black Sea coast. Other than that, standard expansion

Pahlava: After being kicked out of their homeland, they went north and became a Steppe faction, switching places to some degree with the Saka. But now that India has rebelled to them and they lost one of their steppe territories, they are divided into 3 mini-kingdoms.

Saka: They went south and conquered Pahlava and Baktria, lost their northern territories to Pahlava and recently lost their southeastern territories to a resurgent Baktria.

Baktria: Once on the verge of annihilation, they have come back to become the most powerful kingdom in the east.

[bobbin]

Due to a recurring CTD I've had to start my SPQR campaign again, so here it is
222bc


Currently at war with the Lusotana and holding the line of the river Erbo in defence, not sure if I'm going to invade them now or wait to see if Carthage will move against them as well.

In gaul it seems my allies the Arverni are losing but they are not out of the fight yet and still have a lot of full stacks milling around.

The Sweboz and Casse don't seem to be up to much.

The Getai have carved out a nice kingdom for themselves and are currently fighting the Sauromatae for the northern Black sea coast whilst maintaining peace with Epiros who have been busy fighting Makedon and Pontos (another of my allies).

The KH were kicked out of hellas pretty early on but have now managed to grab a foothold in asia minor at the expense for the Ptolemaioi who have nearly the whole eastern med basin as their own.

The AS has collapsed fairly spectaculary and now only hold their core cities and a couple of distant outposts, it remains to be seen if they can survive.

The Pahlava and Baktrains after forming their formidable empires are now feeling the heat from the Saka expansion and have formed an alliance against them, but are still losing ground.

Saba has been quietly taking over the arabian peninsula and apart from the occasional spat with the Ptolemaioi have been peacable.

[Elcmar]

Pontos 240bc