Sweboz monster

[Redmeth]

I've been playing a great Casse campaign and I have to say I'm enjoying it a lot. But in my game, while i was building up my economy and unifying Britain the Romanii and Sweboz were ganging up on the Arv. and Aeduii when I stepped into the mix the Arvernii were wiped out and the Aeduii left with Mediolanum, now i made an alliance with Sweboz and proceeded to push the Romanii out of Gaul, but I couldn't keep the Sweboz from attacking tried fortifying everything they still attacked. The problem is that every faction has a close to broke or between 50 to 100.000 mhai , Sweboz is also fighting the Greeks so they have 2 fronts and still their financial curve is exponential nearly at 1 million and they also expanded all the way to the east one more province and they're Saka's neighbours, isn't there a way to stop their eastern expansion? Like very strong rebel provinces in Neurije-something or around that area? Or maybe more powerful and expansive Sarmatians? I'm pretty frustrated with the Sweboz cause in all the games I played so far they were the faction who managed to bore me with their endless stacks of troops and endless sack of mhai. And from what i've seen in the AI progression thread they are a pain for anyone playing a faction in Europe.
If you read this to the end thank you for reading my rant...

[Tiberius Nero]

The Sweboz are the biggest hippies of them all in my campaigns, they never do anything :o

[Veris]

I like the Sweboz how they are actually, because they are one of the few reliable factions that can really pose a threat later on if they go unchecked in the beginning. They have the problem of a really slow start and if they get into an early even war they are usually screwed for the game. So their performance is kinda random in that aspect. Because it's hard to get a faction to pose a really big threat to me in my Roman campaign next, I plan to divert a large part of my funds to the Sweboz early on so they can get momentum going. And afaik the steppe nomad eleutheroi towns are generally pretty strong. I know I had a fair difficulty conquering the Russian area in my Armenian campaign. They are also extremely unprofitable in general, which hopefully will be fixed in the future.

Also, mind posting an SS of the strategical map?

[Kugutsu]

Im finding the same. In my game my border with the Sweboz stretches from belgium to the ukraine. I am now eliminating the getai as they had the audacity to attack me, but the germans are really pissing me off with their endless stacks. I just invaded 3 border provinces and took them in one turn, but it hasnt even made them pause.
They have succeeded where Napoleon and Hitler failed, and have carved out a vaste empire in russia, crushing the sauromatae, and are raking in tonnes of cash (from the script I guess) which is financing their limitless armies.

[Vigontas The Dimdholion]

[QUOTE=Veris]I like the Sweboz how they are actually, because they are one of the few reliable factions that can really pose a threat later on if they go unchecked in the beginning...

I agree, Sweboz are real and big power( x weak Arverni and Aedui ) and during my Romani campaigns i had launched big offensives against them. If you want to avoid their strong armies do what i did in my latest Romani campaign: i trained full stack army of my best units and send it north. I captured regions only to reach Sweboz and eliminated them before they became real threat!

[Rilder]

In my Casse campaign they seemed to have a rather balanced empire size, enought to cause me trouble but not enough to really cause any hurting, they did betray me though but there mostly tied up with the Romans and left half there empire with miniscule garrisons...

[Cataphract_Of_The_City]

Well, the create_unit command certainly is handy for this short of thing. I am playing a Romani campaign atm and by adding units to factions I can help maintain the status quo and change it as the timeline progresses.