AI faction expansion in your campaigns?

[Dooz]

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]

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.

[Dayve]

Everything the Casse is doing is without financial aid from me. I've given money to the Greeks, (who are all but dead) the Aediu, the Carthies, the Seleukids and the Baktrians. The Casse have several armies actually just standing around on Britain... Hopefully they will bring them across soon to join the fight. I'll get a screenshot for ya.



I just noticed something interesting - Massalia has rebelled to the Greeks and they have a full stack there... I wondered why small Greek armies had been wandering into northern Italy. I'll let you know how that one works out. I might give them some money to see if i can get them to expand more into Gaul perhaps... What a difference in history that would be.

[Dooz]

Wow, Parthia has a large, coherent empire in O's campaign. Interesting how long that'll last until they start sprouting up all over the place. And I'm loving that Casse expansion. I guess I have a soft spot, I played my first EB campaign for over a 150 years as the Casse *tear*. Two general lead armies on the mainland, wow. I wonder what kind of troops their wielding.

Getai 200 B.C.


War has broken out with mighty Rome. All alliances have shifted, madness, madness! An unsteady alliance has been forged with Sweboz, having had a common enemy in Rome. They have however ceased hostilities for the time being. The Seleukids are also an ally of mine as I practically handed over almost all of Turkey to them. They're at war with Ptolemaoi, few battles here and there. A bit of hard luck. A superb prospect of mine, one Zalmoxis, was assasinated at the ripe age of 23 by a Roman, who was then made short work of by an assasin of mine. It was a tough loss though... very tough. He was to be the next great general. However, I do have at least two others who are leading the campaign against the Romans, one of which is already making strides towards greatness.

[Dayve]

Two general lead armies on the mainland, wow. I wonder what kind of troops their wielding.

Not the best lineup ever unfortunately but at least they've got them on the mainland now and if they can do it once, they can do it again... I decided not to give them money and gave it to the Greeks in Massalia instead to see if i can get them to do something.

As for your Getai campaign - Looks great. Rarely ever see any Getai campaign screenshots around here.

-Those crazy purple pyjama people of the east... They always end up with a city inside other factions empires... I might ally myself with them and give them Alalia just for something to do...

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Wow! That Makedonian expansion in Dayve's campaign is something I've never seen here before. They and the Epeirotes have managed to coexist, while they subdued the other greeks in Hellas (except the Epeirotes took Delphi), and then all of Ionian Greece, both sides of the Bosphoros, then greek cities at Kallatis, Olbia, and the Crimea. And all the factions look to still be alive in 209 too, with the Greeks making their only real stand at Massilia. A wonderful campaign there Dayve - great screenshots!

[Dayve]

201BC. After my faction leader and also best general (3 stars) was assasinated by dirty German assassins, (left me annoyed for a while i can tell you) i sent my 2 best other generals with a legion each into the Germanian land just north of Sagestica and put an end to this skirmishing/raiding BS by exterminating all 3 of the cities there and gifting them to the Greeks, who still haven't built a unit in them for 4 years despite having almost 200k Minai in gifts from me... Oh well at least it stopped the Germans annoying me.

The Iberians are pushing right up the west coast of Gaul and they have some pretty big armies about the place. Casse have gone back to Britannia without taking any Gallic cities, unfortunately... Ptolemies keep taking Carthy cities but they eventually just rebel back to the Cartheginians... Macedon hasn't expanded much but isn't showing signs of giving way to that empire of hers anytime soon.

Lastly i have declared war on the Epirotes and taken Epidamnos... The next city of theirs i capture will put me border to border with Macedon, who are allied with the Epirotes.. That should be interesting.