As an aside, but following on from the notion of different experiences for different factions: playing as Makedonia, my capital, Pella, seems to be treated as some sort of administered, colonial settlement. I've sort of role played that the colony buildings represent the rural communities coming to re-establish the urban population/aristocracy. Will there be any changes to this in 2.2 or is this intentional for Makedonia?

Also, just as feedback on AI activity; I'm 30 years into my campaign. The Aedui have taken over most of Northern Europe, the Lusitani have blitzed Hispania (though the Areuaki are holding on), Hayasdan have cut a swathe through Seleucid lands but Rome have literally done nothing. They are in exactly the same position as at the beginning of the game. I've not interfered with Italy at all, I weakened the Epirotes and Rome finished them off at Taras, but then Taras rebelled to the Eleutheroi and Rome have done nothing since to regain it.

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Reogranization of Roman armies has fixed this now it seems. In the testing i did Rome conquered Taras and Rhegium in the first 5-10 turns every time and started looking at sicily, so we managed to make them not attacking the north while going for historical expansion. At least at the game start.

For Makedonia i'll let others comment

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That is actually intentional; Antigonos had only just moved back into Pella in 272BC having reclaimed the Makedonian throne and driven out the Celtic invaders. It was very much a place under reconstruction at the start of the game.

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hey all, sorry about hijacking the thread but i have a question about baktria as well:

is there something i can do about my generals becoming traitors at a crazy rate?

i assume this represents baktrian politics which was all about backstabbing and i didn't mind it at first when i was fighting rebels and india. however, now i'm in a war with the seleucid empire and i just lost two full stacks in less than 5 rounds due to (relatively) loyal generals becoming traitors.

i always check the traits of the generals and make sure that i use the most reliable ones to lead my armies and i still lose way more troops to this than to battles and it is ruining my campaign.

other than this and the already mentioned bugs, i love the baktrian campaign, i can't remember the last time i had this much fun with a total war game.

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Re: loyalty, I started a separate thread "Any tips on nurturing loyalty?", though it's not specific to Baktria

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Hey, yeah, I saw your thread but I'm also playing a campaign with Epeiros and I didn't have a single traitor, not even after Pyrrhos died and I began using lower influence/loyalty leaders and generals (at this point I'm playing with my third faction leader). Therefore, I assumed my problem must be something specific to Baktria.

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aljaskuszobab thats pretty wild. I think I only had one army desert during my whole baktrian campaign. I fought the seleukids, pahlavas, india, sakas, everyone. Anything you could describe about your situation when they were deserting? For me I've noticed it when I had an uneducated FM with a really big stack and low loyalty.

Did they go to rebels or actually bribed by AI? cant remember seeing the latter option

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The only common things were the size of the army (it was always more or less a full stack) and that it happened in enemy territory during war. Education and loyalty varied, but loyalty was always the highest available. Three full stacks is not the end of the world at the current stage of my campaign, it just makes fighting wars very frustrating. Distances between cities are massive in that part of the map and regions are poorly developed so it takes very long to train a new army and get them to the city where my previous army deserted.

To put it in perspective, I won the long campaign with Epeiros on the same difficulty (medium) doing everything the same way and I had only one traitor full stack throughout the campaign, even though I fought on pretty much every coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

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