1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[WarpGhost]

Pontus, 236BC

This is probably the most successful I've ever seen Carthage (who had 2 Italian holdings until fairly recently), Greece (who annoyingly managed to swipe the last Seludic holding in Asia Minor to deny me Anatolian hegemony) and Rome.
The Selucids were also at their strongest I've seen, they did a good job of holding up the Ptolemy for a long time and even beginning to nibble away at them. Its taken me a long time to wear them down (they still keep surprising me with full stacks; they also have 2 poised to take India which would really help them but the AI just wont move them in to take those cities, leaving them dithering for many years instead), but through a war of attrition and multiple axes of attack I've finally wrested all the territory I've needed from them (I've forced peace out of sheer boredom of fighting Hellenic warfare styles!). The knock-on effect has been to give the Ptolemy the opening they needed and they've cashed in on the Selucid's preoccupation with me to move in; the map doesnt do Selucid resistance the justice it's required, they've really put up a hell of a fight.
Current plan is (with Ptolemy and Greece my long-term allies, those borders are pretty secure) to sweep round the Black Sea anti-clockwise through Armenia, to Sarmatians, to Getai, to Greece, and then carry on down onto the Ptolemy.

Saba, 244BC

This is probably the most interesting AI progression I've ever seen! Dont be fooled by the date; the AI moved swiftly early on and we're undergoing a more sedate period now. Firstly, this is the only time I've seen Macedon do more than barely survive, let alone actually prosper! They've just taken back their old capital and one of Epiros' Asia Minor acquisitions, though time will tell if they can handle Epiros and Pontus whilst finishing off the last Greeks. The Epiros were very rapid movers early, though as I've said Macedon have started to push them back.
Sweboz have moved in strongly, taking territory from both Gaullish tribes. Before I've never seen them expand this far west, if they've expanded its mainly been into Euletharoi lands. The Selucids have been at their weakest ever, with Ptolemy moving in with shocking speed and success. Parthia and Pontus have also made far more inroads than I've previously known (usually the latter dies or is bottled up for the entire game, similarly with Armenia).
Sadly Carthage and the Gauls have been a bit of a dissapointment, but I think there's been more back-and-forth between Saka and Bactria than the map shows. Im currently moving up into the underbelly of Ptolemy Africa and also making designs on India, rather than taking anyone on head-on.

@Lysandros: Where and how have you edited the government destruction script? That sounds like quite a useful move.