NEW EB Campaign testing AI !!!

[Vermin]

The new AI is much better - it is more aggressive without being suicidal and you can't just ignore the AI and the Rebels.

[Tuuvi]

I'm 62 turns in playing as Massylia on H/M so I figured it was time to give a report. At the very start of the game I got an alliance with Carthage. I've been gifting them 1000-2000 mnai everytime I notice my relations with them drop below "good", I'm hoping this will prevent them from breaking their alliance with me. It seems like marching your troops through another faction's territory negatively impacts your relations with that faction, everytime I've done so my relations with Carthage dropped to "amiable".

For a very long time Carthage has been been at war with Rome, Epeiros, and the Areuakoi, and this seems to be the most active area of the map. Makedonia was wiped out on turn 52 and Asia Minor is starting to heat up, with Sauromatae declaring war on Pontos on turn 54 and Bosporos declaring war on Pontos on turn 62.

One thing I noticed while fog of war was turned off is that lots of factions have 1-2 unit or medium sized stacks in each others' territory but they aren't attacking. Hayasdan has several stacks in Pontos' territory and it looks like they're marching through Pontos to get somewhere else.

Here is my faction progression on turn 62, just before I quit playing:

[Thoras]

[ It seems like marching your troops through another faction's territory negatively impacts your relations with that faction, everytime I've done so my relations with Carthage dropped to "amiable".

Try to get military acces from them,which is nearly impossible ,but maybe possible if you gift them enough money.

[Ozonius Tomicus]

I started a new Eperiote VH/H campaign and by turn 20 all of the factions I had started at war with had agreed to ceasefire, trade rights and exchange of map information while paying me for the privilege. As of turn 23 only Makedon and KH are at war in this area.

Makedon asked for a ceasefire in the first few turns. I was planning on taking their town to the East of my capitol and had moved a spy into it in preparation. Pyrrhus had just destroyed a decent rebel stack in that region and a Mak diplomat came asking for the ceasefire. I counter-offered the trade-rights and map information exchange and when I noticed that I was being very generous tacked-on a one-time payment to me of 10,000 dinars. They countered with the same terms but just tribute of 3,200 for two seasons. I accepted this.

By turn 10 I had moved Pyrrhus to Italy and attacked Arpi. A spy let him in and he made short work of the faction leader and unit of spear-men defending it. One turn later a Roman diplomat came and asked for a ceasefire. We dickered and settled on a similar deal as with Makedon -- just fewer dinars (1200 x 3 seasons).

When my diplomat met a Carthaginian counterpart I decided to propose the ceasefire, and they even accepted paying the 10,000s. Maybe I should have asked for more!

That's where the campaign stands now and it actually seems more peaceful than I expected, but I am taking advantage to the chance to develop decent economies in the 8 cites I currently hold.

Edit: This is using the CAI patch downloaded on 8/30.

[QuintusSertorius]

I'm still using v2 (more peaceful variation) and while there's been a fair amount of aggression eventually arriving as I near 200, factions which border each other are still too quiet. The Aedui and Aruernoi have never been at war, despite wanting the same territories. The Aruernoi keep sending big armies to look at the lands held by the Areuakoi, then wandering off without doing anything. No one wants to fight the Lugians, who are taking everything in the middle of the map, apart from the Getai. While the Seleukids and Ptolemaioi are nominally at war, they're largely ignoring each other, the latter focusing on trying to wipe out Pergamon and the former on expanding eastwards.