AI faction expansion in your campaigns?

**Dayve** · 04-01-2006, 00:32

214BC... Not long after my last post but some interesting things happening... Makedonia expanding east a lot more and north too all the way up into eastern Germanic lands.. Egypt has laid siege to ALL of Carthage's remaining cities and the best thing of all... The Casse have landed an army with a general on mainland Europe and are laying siege to a city along the coast! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

**Dooz** · 04-01-2006, 01:38

That's so awesome. Makedonia running wild! I can't believe the Casse have conquered the island and are actually breaking out. They're still only with their original province in my campaign. The Ptolemies? Fuhgetaboutit.

Getai 203 B.C.

This has been going pretty good. The war between the Romans and Sweboz still raging on, wonderful stuff. I have an extensive network of spies all over the damn place so I see just about everything that goes on. Great battles, back and forth. The Sweboz really owe it all to their incredible leader, Swahaut or somesuch. The recent Roman reforms have given them an edge though, and Swahaut is getting older, just turned 50. I gave the Seleukids all their Turkish holdings back, albeit completely destroyed. Trying to give their allies, the Armenians, a reason to attack undefended cities.

**QwertyMIDX** · 04-01-2006, 01:46

I love how there's no telling how a game will go when you start a campagin. I think I've seen a report of every faction doing at least pretty well.

**Dooz** · 04-01-2006, 03:14

Originally Posted by QwertyMIDX

I love how there's no telling how a game will go when you start a campagin. I think I've seen a report of every faction doing at least pretty well.

One thing you can count on; there will be Persians where there ought not be Persians.

**paullus** · 04-01-2006, 03:14

Anyone seen the Arverni win the civil war? That's the one faction I havent seen do all that well (ie, expand much), perhaps they have somewhere in these eight pages, but if so, I don't recall it.

**Dayve** · 04-01-2006, 03:46

My last one of the night. Just got the reforums as the Romani... Looking forward to using my new troops tomorrow. The Ptolemies are worrying... They have some seriously scary armies... I have a spy in Africa and i've looked at one of their full stacks... It had over 10 units of these pikemen in a chainmail suit with a relatively small shield - i forget their name but it says they are somewhat elite and their defense stat is scary... They had 5 units of galatian swordsmen who were wearing chainmail too and had a big shield... I forget their name also but again their stats were scary... Every unit they had in the army had 2 silver chevrons or more and some even had gold... No wonder the Carthies only have 2 cities left.

The Germans are just annoying me now... They will not leave my eastern provinces alone at all... They send a few armies, get defeated, accept a ceasefire and then come back 4 turns later with more men for me to kill... I've raided their cities that border me, exterminated and destroyed then left them, they re-take and come back for more... They just won't stop... They've actually taken Sagestica from me which was worrying at first as they had another huge army nearby and all mine were retraining in Arretium and Ariminum...

The Casse failed to take the city in my last screenshot but they're back for more... Sieging an Aediu city with 2 full stack armies... I'm proud of them. I've been giving the Seleucids money and demanding they attack the Ptolemies but i think they're just using the money i give them to go on vacation sitting on a nice warm beach somewhere laughing at the stupid Romans who think they're actually going to use the money to launch an attack on the most powerful faction in the game...

**Dooz** · 04-01-2006, 09:08

Have you been helping the Casse at all or is everything that's happened been of their own design? Also, you could give your Sweboz border town you raid to the Getai or some other faction as a buffer zone. Ought to be pretty effective for a while. Maybe an ally of theirs so they don't come back for more, and if they do, they'll have other things to worry about. And the Ptolies shouldn't be much of a problem 'cause they most likely won't be crossing the sea to raid you or anything... although I guess you never, what with the Casse doing what their doing. I can't believe their back with two more stacks.

**O'ETAIPOS** · 04-01-2006, 17:59

Makedonian campain

Year 268BC

Year 257BC winter

Year 248BC winter

Cartaginians and Ptolemaioi are alies for looong time, Ptolemaioi and Seleukids are in war from the beginning, but only effect is Sel capturing one city north of Anticheia.
Sarmatians are under atack from Hayasdan and Phalava, were left with one province, but another rebeled back to them.
Romani have peace with everybody and and for years they were doing nothing.