0.8x AI Faction Progression

[americancaesar]

The World in 216 B.C.E

I am playing the Casse and have spent most of the years between 272 and uniting Britain (completed in the 230s with the conquest of Hibernia) and build a profitable economy. I had a diplomat on the continent, but he eventually died. Thus went I sent new diplomats in the 20s traded some map, I realized some weird was going. I soon discovered the great power the Germans had become. Heres the situation:

Gaul - The civil war (beginning in the 50s) resulted in a decisive Arverni victory, the Aedui only keeping their swiss and italian provinces. However, the Romans intervened, declaring war on both. While they agreed to ceasefire with the Aedui, they steadily took southern and central Gaul for the Arverni until the blessed and honorable Casse intervened, declaring war on Rome in 218 (just by coincidence the date of the start of the 2nd punic war).

Rome - Rome is in horrible shape, the worst I've ever seen. Things began well, as they conquered southern Italy, but after that the Senate ordered the legions north to fight the Germans and Celts. This also served to keep the Rome-Cathage alliance going until quite recently. On the downside, because of Rome's northern focus, her military has had no reform, which i believe in part accounts for her defeats.

Sweboz - It appears the Germans started a little early on the drive to conquer the East. Somehow Sweboz rapidly became the second greatest power in game and the virtual arbiter of Europe. In the 50s I saw a diplo message that said Epeiros had become a protectorate of the Sweboz. At that time Epeiros had not taken Macedonia and Thessaly yet, but I still could not believe. Years later, a diplomat of mine wandered into the Po valley only to find it was owned by the Germans as was central italy including Rome. Interestingly when i looked in these cities, there were Roman unit and, worse yet, Roman generals there. It appears that the Sweboz reacted Romes expansion not only by invading, but also by bribing corrupt or disloyal general and unlead units. They continue the war with Rome but also allied with the Aedui to fight the Arverni.

The Casse intervention in Gaul will setup a strong continent base to deal with this dangerous nation, hopefully.

other notes
Carthage has fought three wars with Lusitania and made it a protectorate twice. They only recently broke the treaty with Rome to take south italy

The Selucids have rebuilt Alexs empire... may the gods save me if they cross into Europe.

Bactria was made a Palavi protectorate after a short war

This game is being played on vh/h setting

[Warmaster Horus]

That's one neat campaign you've got there, americancaesar.

[Swordmaster]

The world in 200 BC:



AI-balancing minimod & First cohort mod.

That plot of land in northern Gaul I conquered from the Sweboz to save the Gallic factions from utter destruction. Now that they have Carnutes I might as well go out and fight them, though. Note that Epeiros was doing fairly well, dominating everything from Makedonia to the Baltic, but when they lost their homelands to me their realm completely collapsed (hence the Aedui, Sweboz, and KH territories in eastern Europe). Also note the Saba in Babylonia.

*EDIT* Update:

190 BC:


180BC:


170BC:

[The Errant]

The world in 200 BC:



AI-balancing minimod & First cohort mod.

That plot of land in northern Gaul I conquered from the Sweboz to save the Gallic factions from utter destruction. Now that they have Carnutes I might as well go out and fight them, though. Note that Epeiros was doing fairly well, dominating everything from Makedonia to the Baltic, but when they lost their homelands to me their realm completely collapsed (hence the Aedui, Sweboz, and KH territories in eastern Europe). Also note the Saba in Babylonia.

I love the Sabaean expansion. They aren't usually that agressive though. Are they allied to the Ptolies?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Awesome map and explanation americancaesar.

[Casaladow]

This is was my first campaign on eb 0.8x. I did played this one with normal difficult more understand better the mod before start a new one on high difficult settings. So was a quite short, but very fun and with great immersion.

Faction: Sweboz.

Early on, I did a small strategy to help my expansion, first I build economy and a gold reserve until on the right time, where I summon a army, conquer a province and then, disband the army leaving only the most experienced units and repeated the process. The fact that I was left quite alone by the other faction made that possible.

I know that constant recruitment might not be a good idea, but since I removed the weight of the army upkeep of my income this help to build cash until I got a strong economy(building farms and mines) to field a permanent army.

It's only near the end of the campaign that I start to face other factions, mainly Epiros (which had became a major power), I got a few great and difficult battles with them that started when they conquered a province that I was planning to conquer.

Fight against them proved quite hard, my armies had almost no cavalry, but I still manage to not only destroy one of their large armies, but plundered one province (I send a army there to just take it, raze all building and slave the population, I did that more to weak their economy and also because I know that province could not be kept since there was other epirote armies near) but also conquer other two.

Here is the faction progress and some curious facts:


249 BC

- Edit: Galatia went to Arverni.
- Greeks also have a city where once was Pontos.


239 BC

- Lusotannan start to expand and to expel Karthadastim out of Iberia.
- Galatia now had became a rebel province.

231 BC

- Now Lusotanna hold major part of Iberia.
- Sab'Yn expanded taking some Seleukeia provinces, while one province
appear to have rebeled.
- This year was just after the battles against Epiros that I mentioned before.

p.s: please, pardon my poor english.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Surprised Baktria got pwnd. THat one province was Galatia and it went to Arverni by rebellion, not Ptolemaioi. Pontos got eaten up too it seems. The Roman expansion isn't ideal but it isn't too bad either. Nice Lusotannan expansion. Epeiros sure has done well, and not in Italy. Very nice for them - some folks say they always get destroyed, or cause too much problems in Italy.

[Ignopotens]

Interesting strategy, I'm not sure if it would work if you were bordering another faciton from the start, though

[Swordmaster]

I love the Sabaean expansion. They aren't usually that agressive though. Are they allied to the Ptolies?

Nope, they've beaten the Ptolies out of Seleukeia but have already lost it again by now.

[Conqueror]

Seleukid campaign, 199BC:


Some good fortunes for me on the Caucasus: I've finally driven the Sauromatae hordes back beyond the mountains and eliminated the Hayasdan faction. I'm now building the great "Pontic Wall" to block the border between my empire and the steppe. In the east it's business as usual; Pahlavas lay siege every turn and are repulsed every turn, in a never-ending cyckle. In the west I've gone to offensive against the KH and sacked some of their cities, gifting them to the Getai in hopes that it'd spark a war between the two factions (they're allies for the time being).

But let's have a look at the AI outside my borders. The Romani have gone berserk and are rampaging through central Europe. They are at war with Sweboz, Getai, Aedui, Lusotana and Karthadastim - and it looks like they're doing well on all fronts except southern Italy! The Sweboz have been the ones getting the most attention, their once-great empire now being torn to shreds by the legions. The Lusotana-Karthadastim alliance has been able to keep the Romani out of Iberia so far. Casse are predictably passive after securing the islands. Sauromatae aren't showing any signs of weakening despite the massive losses they suffered against me; they are attacking the Sweboz with vigour.

[Hooahguy]

my campaign: 232 BC:


as the romani, i am faced with many enemies. luckily, the strongest are my allies (the AS). the sweboz, who used to be my allies but betrayed me, are a superpower and just sent 3 stacks against me, and i fought really hard to defeat them. the lusotannan just declared war on my and thankfully i have a cease-fire with both of the gallic nations. Epiros is getting stronger, and to slow them down i took 2 of their cities, breaking the cease-fire i had with them. the Maks are severely crippled, and the KH arent doing so well either. im currently fielding 2 legions under my faction leader and my faction heir, both very able commanders. i plan to strike a cripling blow to the sweboz, get a peace treaty w/ them, then turn my attention to spain, greece, and gaul. hopefully i will have the Augustan reforms by then (i altered the reform triggers- already have the marian).

[Thaatu]

My Aedui campaign in 222 BCE



I'm kind of proud of this AI progression. The only faction eliminated at this point have been the Arverni, and even that happened because their last FM died of old age. Seleucids are fighting back as they have regained Babylonia and Media from the respective invaders. The KH lost Athens to Macedonia only a few years back and are trying frantically to get it back. At the moment, I'm raiding Roman territory and fending off Germanic raiders in Belgia, while fighting some minor inner struggles with other celts (eleutheroi). My trusting alliance with Epirus has held on for a few decades.

With v.0.81a, H/M, BI, mercenary mod, money script, and some of my own accidental modifications.