AI faction expansion in your campaigns?

[Oleo]

Roman Campaign, Medium/Medium v0.7.3a,

251BC


227BC, I sort of expanded much faster than I wanted to.


Also I dont play long stints, so there might be some less expansion due to load/save bug (f.i. Aedui have besieged Viennos of the Arverni many times with far superior army without taking it)

[Jarardo]

The Yuezi and the Baktrians seem to be doing better in your campaign than most I've seen. Heres one with just the AI playing.




Thats 233BC, I just left it running all night, woke up and had a message that the Romani had won. So there was zero save/loading going on here, the only faction with protectorates was the Romani, and they had...Iberia, and one of the gaulic factions I think as protectorates. Lots of alliances still though. I like that the makedons are doing fairly well too.

[King Thengel]

My new campaign as the Epirotes, VH/M, 0.74, 269bc. The world seems mostly calm right now, except for the Romans, angry at the loss of their capitol .

[Dayve]

Jarardo - That one with just the AI playing with no saving/loading is awesome... Just shows the mess that saving/loading actually makes of the AI...

I've abandoned my Romani campaign anyway due to every city on the map having huge stone walls and the Makedonians throwing constant full stacks of their best troops at me despite having every single one of their ports blocked and me taking most of the Greek peninsula.. Also i installed the trait fix so the save game became incompatible.

[Dooz]

Getai 193 B.C.


Man oh man, it's been a hell of a few years. After securing my borders after the initial war with Rome, I fell back and retrained my armies, as well as completed a full new army, bringing my grand total to 4 national, identical standing armies. One of them is stationed in the east under my faction leader, just in case the Seleukids get frisky. The other three you ask? Ah, well, you see all that Carthaginian land in Italy and Sicily? That my friends is the result of one hell of a Getic invasion.

Prior to military force, dozens of spies were ferried across the channel into the area, giving me a precise picture of what to expect. Luckily, the brunt of the Roman forces were away at war with Iberia, but there were still formidable defenses. When all preparations were complete, I sent in my three armies, two of which were lead by blossoming generals, the other by the faction heir, a great leader. Each of the armies was accompanied by a spy and an assasin, for reports had indicated high assasinatorial activity on the peninsula. And so it began. The great war for Italy itself.

Strategic alliances had been made to keep my focus on the war and keep my borders safe. One especially interesting alliance was with Carthage, who would reap all the benefits of my actions, as well as recieve generous financial aid to support a war with the Ptolemies. Over the course of 4-5 years, the peninsula was decimated. Wholesale slaughter of Romans abroad, destruction of buildings and whole cities. All that was left was passed on to the grateful Carthaginians.

When all was said and done, the Romans had been kicked out of Italy all together. I had three armies worth of seasoned troops and battle-hardened generals... unfortunately, one of the initial three would not make it off the island. Duras, a promising young general, was killed in an intense battle for Segesta, the last he would have had to fight. His replacement was brought in from Athens, another promising young lad, but there were no Romans left to kill. After the peninsula and island were secure, the glorious armies were shuttled back across the channel, back to the fatherland.

The balance of powers has shifted. We are in a new world order. The Getai are the most powerful nation on earth, masters behind every political move, every war, everybody. Welcome to hell.

[QwertyMIDX]

Looks like you may have made a monster out of Carthage though.

[Dooz]

Eh, I always wanted to see a monstrous Carthage. You want somethin' done right, you gotta' do it yourself! And so I have. I freakin' love seeing large Carthaginian stacks. Coolest freakin' troops and just everything. Plus, the invasion was unimaginably fun. Plus, they still haven't trained a single unit in any of the new provinces or brought in any troop from outside to garisson. Luckily, Rome hasn't striken against them yet because they're already at war with Iberia, Sweboz and myself. We'll see how things go from here.

[aleh]

Ok, so this has been my first ever campaign with EB, as the Romani. I'm currently involved in war with the Epeirotes, I win very battle, and I mean /every/ battle against them. Yet they just have more and more troops to throw against me, it's sick, right now, I'm recruiting garrison forces against them so I can take all of their cities within a couple of turns without having my eastern army(Legio VII, VIII, and IX) bogged down in garrison duty.

The Getai have suddenly exploded out of their holdings, and within a couple of years captured a lot of land. Thank the gods I'm allied with them. Right now, they've got me encircled in the north, but I'm trying to beat them to Patavium, which I no doubt will since I've plenty of time. The Macedonians have been relegated by the Epeirotes to Mydelone(or something) and Pella. The Greeks are putting up fierce resistance in Sparta, and they've Rhodes as well. But soon enough, the entire Epeirote/Macedonian/Greek holdings on the mainland will be mine. In the east. The Seleucids are getting /hammered/ by the Baktrians and Hayasdan, especially the Baktrians. They've also shot up in a mere decade, both of them that is. But in turn, the Seleucids are beating(to a minor degree) the Ptolemies in the east, and they've expanded into Arabia.

As for the Ptolemies, they're trying to expand into Asia Minor, and they're involved in a war against the Carthaginians. Somehow, they've captured most of available Africa, I only realized it after a while and was astonished. As for the Carthos, they've captured a Ptolemaic region a while back, but right now they're also involved in a war with Iberia. Speaking of whom, the Iberians have also shot up somehow, most of the northern and central Spanish peninsula is in their control. Right now, by what I can see of troop deployment, unless they mess up or something else happens, I give the upper hand to the Iberians in their current war with Carthage. The Arvenni have expanded somewhat into this region, and they're trying to expand into northern France and into Aedui territory. The Aedui are almost penned in from all sides(sea, Arvenni and Sweboz), but I think they're starting to gain the upper hand in their fight with the Arvenni, but if ever the Sweboz declare war, they're royally messed up. Oh, funny thing, Galatia rebelled! I was surprised to see a darkish greenish blob in Asia Minor.

The Sauromatae have done little since they started, and Pontos has only recently started to move.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Epeiros looks like they have a number of provinces that can really churn out the money though - with ports and markets in every province, and mines in some too. It looks like Thermon is going to give you grief! It always seems to be one of the toughest places in EB (to me) to take. I like seeing Epeiros occasionally take greece though - it doesn't happen that much, but it does sometimes. If Epeiros has Makedonia as a protectorate, they may be getting cash from Pella too (which has tons).

I like the distribution over almost all of that map actually - except maybe the Baktrians in the steppe and the Ptolemies insisting on going west.

[TekcoR]

As of 165BC, the Roman Republic (me) is slowly expanding its control into Iberia, who temporarily kicked out the Carthagians. Getai are huge, but have posed no threat to the Roman Republic. Whats interesting is the Konion Hellon expansion into the Crimea. I was wondering where they had departed to, after kicking them out of Greece and Rhodos...



Update: As of 160BC, I have expanded my control into Iberia and Gaul, along with taking Corisica and Sardina from Carthage. I did launch a failed expedition to take Carthage. Sweboz is destroying the Arveni and Aeudi and still being destroyed by the Getai. The Seleucid Empire is expanding again. Joy.

[King Thengel]

My new campaign as the Aedui, 248 B.C. My expansion in Iberia has been greatly slowed due to my old but great generals dying, and in the east my King has been slowly conquering the Getae with no real problems.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

So I assume the Epeirotes asked for your help, and you sent troops to the upper Danube to aid them. Is that correct? Neat to see that working sometimes.

[King Thengel]

Yeah, I was surprised to see that the army is still surviving though, after making it there morale was horrendously low and I almost lost everything.

[Oleo]

Old situation:

Roman Campaign, Medium/Medium v0.7.3a,
227BC,

214BC
v0.7.4


Armenia bribed switzerland, Aedui bribed Croatia and expanded, Ptolemaioi had bribed 3 of my african citites that have been recaptured.

Casse have invaded europe but for some reason they keep changing between war and cease fire every turn with the aedui city in belgium

[The_White_Knight]

Armenia bribed switzerland, Aedui bribed Croatia and expanded, ...

That's hilarious ... in a peculiar way...

[pezhetairoi]

Well, in my game Pontos, as part of their ongoing war against me, bribed Vindelicos, north of the Alps. Then they couldn't hold on to it, so it rebelled back to the Aedui (curses!). So right now I have BOTH a Pontic fullstack of Lugoae/Mala Gaeroas and a halfstack of two-gold-chevron Carnute Cingetos, Bataroas, and Brihentin on my northern border. The former is a walk in the park, but the latter, GAH!