1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[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

[anubis88]

Here's my Pontos campaign (with BI.exe)when i stopped playing it at 157BC. I stopped playing it becouse although i gave rome a lot of land they still played retarted. They had all of their armies at the north doing nothing while macedonia slowly attacked them, and they've even left some home provinces rebel to rebels like Mediolanum. They also got the augustan reform a long time ago, making my Mithridatic wars just a dream. Lusotanna and the Ptolemies became monsters, while macedon was a medium power. The game just wasn't fun anymore.

[anubis88]

And here's my new campaign with my old love the Seleucids. I love the fact that rome is doing so awesome without any of my help. The KH really annoys me since it attacks my cities in micra asia all the time, while in the East Parthia besieges my frontier cities every turn. I keep holding them off, but i don't know for how long i will manage to do that

I was absolutly delighted when saba took from me jerusalem. Now i have a buffer between me and the ptolies, however, they still don't want peace.

Fine by me