Baktria 1.2, H/M
272 BC
262 BC
252 BC
242 BC
Casse: Unimpressive so far. They've been besieging Caern-Brigantae on and off for about the past decade with a miniscule stack, while a halfstack and a fullstack sit around Ratae and twiddle their thumbs.
Sweboz: Apparently it's quite idyllic out in the forests. They haven't moved at all. Probably drinking themselves into a stupor and choking on pretzels. Seriously, I've never seen them do absolutely nothing before.
Lusotannan: Respectable performance. They're a little weak but last time I checked up closely they were contending with both the Qarthadastim and some sick Eleutheroi fullstacks.
Aedui: Not terrible. At least they're doing better than the Arverni, and they haven't lost any ground. Constantly failing at besieging Bratosporios, and some pretty large engagements in thePadusEridanosPo Valley against the Romani.
Arverni: I hate this shade of green. Ankyra revolted to them early because AS took it ridiculously early, and they've been spending most of their mnai on that ever since. Galatia is home to more Arverni troops than their two other remaining possessions combined. It's a wonder they haven't rolled over Pontos yet.
Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs: 'Path of Least Resistance', hmm? They suck at holding onto southern Italy, and even their Gallic possessions revolt periodically. The Aedui are mauling them in the perennial Mediolanum battles too. Even now that their Iberian peninsula possessions abut Qarthadast (so you'd think they'd go to war more often and maybe contest Sicily), zip. Disappointing.
Safot Softim biQarthadast: Slow, but not as slow as Casse at least. Color me underwhelmed.
Getai: Periodic clashes against the Maks around the Haemus mountains are leading nowhere, despite the presence of large stacks on both sides. Feh.
Epeiros: Choked, hard. They had Pella and at one point Byzantion and were driving on Demetrias with three stacks, two of them fullstacks, led by some dude named Hymenos, which in retrospect was a bad omen. Somehow, the Maks pulled off a huge upset and got Pella back, probably having to do with the simultaneous revolt of Byzantion over to the eviscerated KH. Now they're just sitting with only one fullstack in Ambrakia, fighting a short war with the Romani whenever Taras revolts and then returning to oblivion just as fast.
Makedonia: Lost Pella early and looked to be taking the first bus home, but then decided they would give better clutch performances than Ray Allen. Grabbed the Fetters, then kicked the KH out of Sparte, and so were good and ready to beat Hymenos when he marched into Thessalia. Then they went on to delay the scary-as-crap Ptolemaioi from expanding in Asia Mikra for about five years.
Koinon Hellenon: Has been surviving off of revolting poleis for the past twenty years. Apparently they haven't even moved their Kretan army, and they have a fullstack sitting on Rhodos going nowhere - the wonders of rtw.exe, bringing you naval AI that's almost as good as ETW's! Anyway, they had Byzantion, lost it, had Emporion, lost that too, had Sinope, and - surprise surprise - lost it. At least they kept Pantikapaion, which is now home to a terrifying assortment of soldiers that have not made so much as a move towards Chersonesos, just across the peninsula. Yeah, great job, ephebophiliac failures. Take a page out of the Mak book or something.
Pontos: Also unimpressive. Took Sinope, got their starting stacks mauled by the Galatian Arverni and by Trapezous, then did absolutely nothing for the rest of the game.
Arche Seleukeia: Was doing a decent job of holding it together for a long time. Held it together against the Ptolemaioi for about a decade and a half while simultaneously fighting a retarded war with Hayasdan for Phraaspa (they won, but both of them lost), grabbing about half of Asia Mikra and promptly losing it again, and fighting repetitive wars with Saba over Palmyra. Then they decided that it'd be a grand idea to send two fullstacks over to kill me, their loyal ally, who had saved Alexandreia-Eschate from the evil Saka and who was even sending them periodic monies. [/whine] That was what screwed them over, because once they lost a substantial portion of their army against me, the door was open wide for the Ptolemaioi to charge in. Finally decided it'd be grand to get peace with me while they could in 249 or so, surprisingly, because usually they fight like hell once they do something dumb. Are now in the process of expanding into dumb places like Trapezous and Bithynia, recently lost a decently armed fullstack charging into the teeth of the Ptolemaioi at Edessa.
Ptolemaioi: Ohmygodwhatisthisidonteven.
Saurometai: Boring. Got Pantikapaion, lost it to KH. Got Olbia, kept it, but didn't go any further and aren't even fighting the Getai apart from four-unit stack raids. Recently got done fighting Hayasdan over Kabalaka, lost, haven't shown any inclination to do anything else.
Saba: Spent most of the first three decades wasting resources on territories that revolted from the Ptolies and AS that they couldn't hold. Now that they don't have to worry about that janx anymore, they've been expanding respectably in Arabia.
Hayasdan: Has wasted its energy on a series of practically useless wars: against the AS over Phraaspa (they lost) and against the Saurometai over Kabalaka (they "won"). Managed to get Mtskheta, but AS beat them to the punch over Ani-Kamah and it looks like they aren't shuffling off to Kotais anytime soon either.
Pahlava: Not a particularly good performance. Took Marakanda off the rebels at the same time I was bleeding out against the Saka in Dayuan. Failed to assault Asaak at all, instead concentrating on building sick early cataphracts for me to impale myself on when I finally got enough money to kill something that didn't have an anchor on it. Then they finally grabbed Hyrkania while I was busy in their homeland. Currently on my hitlist for being so annoying.
Baktria: Ohaiguiz. I don't attack India before about 185 BC because I'm anRPeridiot. After about 260 BC, the real reason was that I didn't have enough money because the AS were going to kill me. Currently am fighting a losing battle against CTDs.
Saka Rauka: Not enough ofand too much of
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. Am sick and tired of losing large quantities of semiexpendable peons that still cost way too much money against ysaninu aysiramja. At least I can console myself with their lack of Indo-Saka units.
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