Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
Playing with BI i regularly see SPQR invasions of Corsica and Sardinia as well as Carthage shipping troops to iberia. Playing as Pontos I've had both the Maks and Epieros attack my capital (Amaseia) via naval invasion. I've never seen the Casse do anything like that though.
Yeah, I regularly see rome taking at least Corsica, if not always Sardinia. I haven't had rome win a punic war in a long time. Haven't seen the Ptolmies win the Syrian wars either in many, many games lately. Carthage is often landing armies at Capua and then taking the entire italic peninsula from there. Although the best was the MASSIVE naval invasion of greece by the carthies. 2 almost full stacks and one stack of 2 units landed at Sparta. But they just sat there making the land go black for ages.

Interestingly even Arche Seleukeia is using navies alot. I have seen the town of Salamis taken almost every game quite early on. As the KH, I have been attacked at Kydonia and Rhodos by AS. And once saw an AS fleet land to the left of Alexandria and beseige it from there. Was unsuccessful but it broke the stalemate in the Gaza area and they just poured into Egypt.

I use BI.exe. Always play with fog of war off cause its more fun to not micromanage my spies and I like to check up on the AI whenever I see a city on the map change colour. Also I have given all AI factions a Massive (250%) law bonus on their main core building so that they don't rebel. It also cancels out all corruption which seems to be giving the AI factions more money. They use navies a bit more perhaps? Of course the Casse do nothing and just sit there, sometimes not even uniting their island by 200BC.

Does this answer the question of BI vs Alex...? Do I even want to ask?