1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Unintended BM]

Stupid Aedui is expanding too much. I was happily taking over Iberia at my own pace, when the Aedui became the most advanced faction. Then, I notice just how big they've gotten and a year or two later, they attacked. Annoying, but I can probably defend most of my Iberian holdings.

Other than that, it's surprising how intact the east is. It's 226, and both AS and Ptolemies are still powerful, although, Antioch has recently fallen to the Ptolemies, and that's usually the turning point. I'm not sure how that Indian city turned Parthian. Does it rebel to them?

Also, Ankyra went to the Aedui, which doesn't happen too often.

[gamegeek2]

I love it, Tiberius. Keep up the reports like that!

[Ludens]

Indian cities do rebel to Parthia, to make sure that they've got a non-Greek culture at the start. Not realistic, but the best compromise.

[Finn MacCumhail]

Sweboz VH/VH
on BI



Some cities changed their owners every few turns. For example on islands near Italy - Rome and Carthage. Pella - Epirr and Macedonia. Rhodos - KH and Makedonia. Kidonia was attacked by Carthage for several times but attack failed. KH by 240 BC started to conquer Asia minor. Saba besieged Antioch.

[gamegeek2]

Basileion tes Asias, 262 BC

With the annexation of Phoinike and Ioudaia, the foul Ptolemaioi have been driven back into Afrike. In Hellas, the Epeirotes have made a strong showing, seizing Pella and many Thraikian lands.

[jerjes78]

My campaign with Makedonia, 252 BC

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The situation on the field

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Besides Pella, Demetrias and Ambrakia, the rest of the cities are governed by Client Rulers

[gamegeek2]

Money, money, money...

[jerjes78]

Update, Makedonia 242 BC

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As you see nothing really changed besides that I wiped out KH and Ptolies declared war on me.
Recently territorial changes (so to speak ). Btw I love those mines .....

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On a side note check this out

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I called this guys "The Brat Pack". They're a group of young noble Makedonians in their 20s, often surnamed Argeades wich for one reason or another where not able to join the royal army. They're used mostly to fight Eleuthori in mainland Greece.

Let's go on. After capturing Side I decided to eradicate Egypt from Mikre Asia

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(in the meantime I "loaned" a lot of money to Hay, Parthia and Baktria)


Battle of Sardis, 240 BC

Order of battle

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and aftermath

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Now, I'm besieging Ipsos figuring it out how to defeat this guys:

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Hope you enjoy

[Molinaargh]

Cool Makedonia campaign, jerjes.

Pahlava, 226 BC.

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Now that I have a border with Saka they are eager to declare war. That army, though, is my "defensive" force in Mesopotamia that attacks the constant Seleukid invasions from Syria. Led by the 10-star Darman e Dahaen.



I don't know when this trait came up but I don't see it often. Very cool.



I'm guessing it has to do with these many heroic attacks, highlighted by me.

[STuNTz2023]

VH/M Romani Campaign

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The Aedui are only where they are today due to my actions, at one point had given them most of gaul, and made them my "allies". They also allied with Luso, and eventually both attacked what settlements I had kept in gaul. Leading to what you see now, where they are a border between the sweboz and myself.

By 250BC Makedonia had owned everything on the mainland other than Sparte, and being the Romans i had an abundance of money so I decided to try and send financial support to the Spartans. Well seems they made better use of the money than I had expected. Makedonia now fiddles in Asia Minor but tends to gain and lose territory constantly.

Carthage and the two other main cities were burned down by my armies, and somewhat paralyzed them against the Ptolemaioi. Who between them and Bactria, have eaten the old Arche Seleukeia who have one settlement remaining and won't last long. The Blue and Yellow Deaths are allied for now, see how that goes.

H/M Saka Ruaka Campaign 247BC

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[anubis88]

The world according to the Romani 218BC



Firstly, I misspelled a few things, since it's already late, but i noticed them only just now, so....

I deliberatly didn't get map info from anyone, since it kinda sucks when you see the entire map, and this way it looks more exotic, really what the Romans would know about the world at the time.

West: Carthage was ammasing land forces in Africa, even though they conquered everything west of Cyrene, so i teleported the armies in Iberia, to rapresent Hannibal, and will soon invade the Peninsula.

The Haedui almost wiped out the Arverni, and i'm barely keeping the alive trough military and financial aid.

The Sweboz went CRAZY. They didn't expande north-east at all, but smartly only West, South, and South East.
Except for 2 cities by the Getai, all of the east on the map belongs to the Sweboz.

The Epirotes were protectorates of a mighty macedon, but they were my allies and so i landed an army in Albania and attacked the Macedonians with the Epirots near, so that they had to declare war. I thought that Macedon would nearly wipe them out, at which point i could intervene and grab a few cities. But to my surprise the Epirots completly outclassed Macedon, whom are berly alive.

The Seleucids are acting very historically. They lose and regain lands all the time. However, Antioch has just fallen to the Ptolies, so i'll have to give the city back to them myself

[gamegeek2]

Once Antioch falls, it's all downhill from there.

[anubis88]

Once Antioch falls, it's all downhill from there.

I know, that's why i won't let it fall.... ( at least for more then a few turns, got a diplomat and FD ready in the area)

[jerjes78]

Makedonia campaign, 204BC

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After conquering Alexandreia, 196BC

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How do you spell "Mare Nostrum" in greek?

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While I was having fun in Syria and toward Mesopotamia, Lusos raped half of Europe, 175BC

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Job done! (at least in the East side), 164BC.

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Btw, I gave Arbela to Romani before Portugal exterminates them.

Finally some random battles pics

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Victory is mine (Stewie mode on)




I lost this battle



I have to rebuild my army after the last battle, here the result

Hope you enjoy

[Hax]

Hayasdan, how have you grown <3

[jerjes78]

Hayasdan, how have you grown <3

Yeah, they're becoming a pain in the ass (I mean my rearguard, is too expose I think)

[WinsingtonIII]

Wow jerjes78, you better hope that the Getai can hold back that Lusotanian storm! I would not want to go up against that.

[johnhughthom]

206 Casse (different campaign from my post previous page).

[athanaric]

Makedonia campaign

It's great to see someone playing on huge unit size.
IMO you should field more regular cavalry, and less FMs. The latter tend to get killed in hilarious ways against phalanxes, even if you attack correctly. More assault infantry (Thracians, some kind of axemen) wouldn't hurt either, especially if you're up against the Agema-happy Ptolies.

[IrishHitman]

Wow jerjes78, you better hope that the Getai can hold back that Lusotanian storm! I would not want to go up against that.

I would.

Lusos fall easily to Syrian, Persian and Kretan bows.

[Subotan]

While I was having fun in Syria and toward Mesopotamia, Lusos raped half of Europe, 175BC

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Job done! (at least in the East side), 164BC.

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Btw, I gave Arbela to Romani before Portugal exterminates them.

I have never ever seen anything quite like that. It's....monstrous.

EDIT: I'm also liking your expansion (Apart from the Roman thing). Very plausible

[WinsingtonIII]

I would.

Lusos fall easily to Syrian, Persian and Kretan bows.

That's true, plus they are very far away from where they can produce they're factional troops.

But I just find it so boring to fight huge empires like that. It just gets tedious fighting the same troops and faction over and over after the first 10 years.

[jerjes78]

Well. glad to see that you people enjoy my campaign. Before updating I must mention that for conquering cities and destructing enemy armies I'm using just one army.

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The FM leading this army are: FL, FH and future FH, basically the all royal family. Note that those golden chevron were earned because of what I wrote 2 lines before

The remaining stack you can see in the pictures are what I call "Festung Truppe", they only served to defend specifically that city and not taking part in any offensive operation. Also those troops "belong" to my clients rulers. It's a sort of role playing
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Finally "The clash of civilizations" (so to speak), 147BC

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After conquering Nikaia. Note in Ankyra and Ipsos the festung troops (mostly mercenaries and Hoplitai Haploi)

The Mother of All Battles began (Luso-Make war), 145BC

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I'll have to raise more troops in Pella and Ambrakia. Also before I finished Hayastan I wont be able to perform offensive operations, just holding on

Typically Roman way (=backstabbing), 138BC

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They have crappy unit so it's not a big deal. Btw those clients puppets in Middle East are superb, the defeated several Ptolies armies

Breaking Hay's neck, 128BC

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After the battle of Amaseia (that semi-full stack SW Amaseia is my main army). I fought 4 battles in my way from Mazaka to that bloody city

Now it's time to deal with those Lusos scum. Intelligence reports confirms that because they're so far away from they bases, the only troops they can recruits are untrained Lugoes and some other cheap unit. Not a big deal for my veteran phalangites

Hope you enjoy

[Subedei]

Well. glad to see that you people enjoy my campaign. Before updating I must mention that for conquering cities and destructing enemy armies I'm using just one army.

I would not wanna meet those fellows with my troops. Hell, they are "veteran". You know every single one of them by name, eh? Good luck with the campaign and thanks for the update!

[Horatius Flaccus]

Nice campaign jerjes!

My campaign with Makedonia:

H/M 241 BC



[yeah, I sort off overextended]

And: the battle for Rome (backstabbers)

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Yes, I use Cappadocian archers. It's a roleplay thing.




Perseus watching Barbaropolis in the distance...


This is how you deal with traitors.


You've got to humiliate them.

The Koinon (my protectorate) betrayed me after 20 years of peace.

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They are being dealt with.

[Jebivjetar]

Pontos, 201BC

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

@jerjes78:

I like your slow expansion very much. Isn't it tedious to fight the Ptolemaioi four times every turn?

P.S. Festungstruppe or Garnisonstruppe.

[jerjes78]

@jerjes78:

I like your slow expansion very much. Isn't it tedious to fight the Ptolemaioi four times every turn?

Thank you Centurio and yes sometimes I wanna nuke every city they hold just to stop them sending stack after stack. But since I have decided to stop expanding in that direction I'll have to deal with it.

[Centrius]

Hayasdan, 260BC, H/H.





My first Hayasdan campaign ever.

I got lucky with my spies right from the start, so I could capture about 1 province every 3 turns. But at about 265BC, the Seleucids decided to stop fighting the Ptolemies entirely and focus solely on me, so I'm fighting stack after stack of phalanxes now. Which kinda slows down my progression overal.

All-out war in Greece! Macedon is on steroids capturing provinces all over. They're currently sieging Ambrakia with a full stack, while Epeiros is chilling with 2 full stacks at Serdike. In the middle of all that are KH, who are fending off Mac-attacks where they can.

Currently sending spies, spies and more spies to about every Seleucid town there is. Hoping that their cities will rebel or at least make them less profitable.

Praying to the gods that the Seleucids will go to war with the Ptolemies very soon so I can start expanding myself again. =)




- Centrius.

[anubis88]

If they are in a ceasfire you'r screwed. In my Pontos campaign they decided to stop fighting and allied against me even though i had only 3 provinces at the time.

Really sick