AI parthia

[The_Blacksmith]

How do i make the parthian AI advance? ive bribed, negotiated and given cities to them and they are still just not cutting to the meat of seleukia :(

[Cute Wolf]

if you want they took actions, play as AS yourself and they'll cut your eastern meat pretty quick.

or play as Either Saka or Baktria, and.... try to FD an alliance with AS, Pahlava will gladly cut their meat

[The_Blacksmith]

Im playing as the Wuomans.. (yes, im a monty nerd)

and ive played as AS and it was bactria who went all rex n the territories i left (ariana, pomptasia, assak)

[Maeran]

It's the under-performance of horse archers against spear infantry in auto-calc battles that prevents an AI Parthia from doing what you want it to do.

In my current (and near complete- 35BC) Roman campaign, I wanted to force the Seleukids to fight on two fronts. So I did it myself. Sent a diplomat east, bribed a small stack and took Margiana myself (at this point the Parthians were reduced to Marakanda and nothing else. I created a client king there to raise mercs and conquered Persia on Parthia's behalf from there. As I went I handed over territories to the Parthians.

Now in the mid 1st century BC, the fully grown Parthian empire has shown its gratitude by attacking my province of Syria. Some stacks are dangerous too (lots of cataphracts and armoured HAs).

[athanaric]

Funny. I always have the same issue with the Romans when playing as Parthia. Or Pontos. I believe it's a combination of two factors:
firstly, the RTW AI's inherent desire to expand northward (which is utterly absurd for all factions except Egypt and Carthage and maybe Pontos. I'd really like to know why CA programmed a Roman-centric game that way). This makes AI Parthia stay in the steppes and AI Rome try to conquer the Alps. Also, it boosts their southern competitors (AS or, in Rome's case, Carthage),
and secondly, those goddamned pikemen who'll win every autoresolve battle. Carthage has them, too, and the Carthaginian AI loves to spam them. Note: If you hate fighting battles by hand, just recruit a fullstack of Chaonion Agema and autoresolve everthing. Not even Satres will manage to overcome this.

[TheLastDays]

I'v stated it before, but I'll say it again: I hate Satres ;)

But on topic:
Actually in my recent Baktria and Romani games the parthian AI has done pretty well... in both games they cut their way through the AS down to Persepolis and then saw what they could do... in my Baktria game I'm not much further now so we'll see but sooner or later I'll have to kill them anyway... In my Romani game they took all the eastern AS belongings (Bactria was obliterated, surprisingly enough, by the AS and the Saka) - but now the Saka keep advancing and have taken most Pahlava territories... I'v never seen such a Saka AI expansion before...