0.8x AI Faction Progression

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Warning: I did alot of interfering with the other nations.

I am playing as Senatus Populusque Romanus.
Everyone knows how it looks at the beginning. By 264BC both Seleucia and Baktria decide to attack those north of them (saka took Bin Kath first turn but eventually lost it). When Palhav was attacked, i decided to intervene and bribe a couple Baktrian armies and attack Seleucia:
264:
I decide to take two settlements from the Seleucids, give them to Parthia and then restore peace with Seleucia. By 258AD the First Punic War starts. Romani (lead by the Scipios) wins, taking Corsica, Sardina, and Lilybaeum then turning to finish off the nearby greeks. But though the war is won the Barca family manages to flee back to Africa and plot revenge. Elsewhere the big three (eastern greeks) take off. HK and Sweboz do pretty well too:
258:
Seven years pass and the Second Punic War get an early start, the Gessius family leads a legion down the coast of Iberia, making both allies and enemies. Parthia takes there first and only territory and I take my eastern army to help the Saka. After what I can only assume was an epic war, Seleucia loses many valued territories and surrenders to the Ptolemaic dynasty and peace insues in Alexander's empire:
251:
With the Second Punic War over and Carthage in their place, Romani, lead by the appropriately named Victor family, turns to their old enemy Epirus (now lacking Pyrrhos to lead them), then on to Pella to help their HK allies defeat Makedon. Though once their enemy was gone, the greeks sought out new foes and quickly fell to the supperior Roman armies. Assistance for Saka against Baktria continues. Aedui becomes the major power in Gaul. Sweboz starts a war they can't win. And Ptolemai fails to conquer the Arabs:
240:
Within a decade all things start looking up for the Romans. The Third Punic War is over. Scipio Africanus rules over the devistated Carthage and Rome starts to make claims in Asia. Up north the Germanic-Celtic War continues. Also I help Getai and give them Sarmasugenthusa. And of course I continue to keep down Baktria:
231:
Soon the sandwars start and my long time friends (though not allies) attack Lepsis Magna. They are quickly chased off by the vast Scipio family and soon after Kyrene falls. Due to poor planning, the Ptolemais leave Asia poorly defended and my veterans from Greek(lead by Victor), Illyria(lead by Blasio), and Thrace(lead by Glycoricus) wash over them for a decade. In Iberia, the Lussatanii declare war on my for walking past an ally's town and soon both ally and Lussatani fall. Elsewhere I help my German allies fend off the Aedui and auto_win three full stacks of rebels on the Casse border. Though I begin to regret helping Saka and Getai:
221:
With time the Romans realize the threat of the Ptolemaic lapdog: Seleucia, with their five full stacks on the Roman border. And Rome starts her first "offensive" war, preempitively striking at the tiny village of Ipsos. Though with Ipsos fallen and Mazaka beseiged by the elderly Blasio, the Seleucids sue for peace, and reluctanly surrender town cities in Cappadocia. The war with Seleucia last only a couple years:
219:
"Along the Iberian-Gallic border there has long been peace, free trade, and in fact an alliance. But barbarian don't respect alliances, laws, or peace. And soon the hordes of bearded, soap using, trouser wearing animals come knocking at Roman gates. But all is not lost. Over the alps there is a man who has fought off the hordes of Gauls his whole life, in fact his family has fought them off for generations. And so this grizzled man and five legions march off to Gaul to teach them to be civilized. His name is Pavo..."
In sumation: Arveni betrayed me and they fell. Also another decade of warfare passes in Asia and Syria: The last of the Blasio family conquers Pontus. And the Victor family pushes the Ptolemais back to the Nile and sets up a Jewish client kingdom. Elsewhere Casse and Sweboz explode with power:
211:
And that is where I quit today. The battle in Gaul is epic though. One general is going all around winning fight after fight, leaving his brothers and cousins to govern. (One of his cousins had a silver bar of experience but still had the trait "Green" since he fought along side his cousin for years but never lead.) But the guy himself, the new Caesar, is great: Int/Char/Vig, was educated, Conquering Hero, Populus, member of the Senate, Conquerer of Gaul, actually has 4 command stars, though his is a Pleb (He can't be the one to trigger the "Marian" reforms in a couple decades).