Faction List for EB2?

**Anarzius** · 08-19-2007, 14:35

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**Foot** · 08-19-2007, 15:24

Um, we have never tried to imitate the way history went. If the Gauls finish their civil war early, then you as Rome will have to deal with their new found strength. Sometimes I see the Aedui and Arverni sit in a stalemate for decades. Give up on following history, and try to play historically.

Foot

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 08-19-2007, 18:35

The AI is hardcoded to go after the 'rebels' first and ignore other factions until they no longer border 'rebels'. This is why they always expand strangely. If they border a rebel province, they will put it as the priority target. The AI also seems incapible of fighting a war on multiple fronts, that is why you often see AS 'abandon' Antioch.

While I'm at it I will add that the AI is piroritized to attack you, so they will do things like conquer worthless provinces just so that they can get near you. And they will gang up on you. Peoples that should be enemies will be best friends if they are both at war with you. And the AI seems reluctant to attack your enemies, even if they share the enemy and are allied to you.

**Anarzius** · 08-19-2007, 20:35

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**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 08-19-2007, 23:14

Well, Dumatha is gone for the next version, and Gerrha doesn't seem to appeal to the Seleucids, so you won't have them wandering the desert as much (from what I've seen on the internal versions). Though, they are still incapable of fighting on two fronts. In the last game I played, they were doing well against the Ptolemai, then Pahlav attacked them and they shifted all their effort eastward, losing Antioch, Damascus, & Edessa (and I took Asia Minor from them).

From what I've seen the AI still can't fight too well on multiple fronts in M2TW either. Sometimes they even choose the stupidest front to dedicate themselves too, as well. One time I saw England put all of its effort into defending Oslo. France and HRE took their continental holdings and Scotland took nearly the whole British Isles, but Oslo was well defended.

I wish, for example, the AI couldn't change their capital and they would put all their effort into defending their capital to the death.

**Krusader** · 08-19-2007, 23:33

Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

I wish, for example, the AI couldn't change their capital and they would put all their effort into defending their capital to the death.

Actually I'd rather wish we could somehow designate "priority cities" for the different factions. If they have the city under control they will focus on defending it, but if the enemy has it they will focus on reclaiming it.

Seleukids would be Antioch, Seleukeia at least and probably Ekbatana & Susa as well.

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 08-20-2007, 00:18

Second!

In my Mak-campaign of which I'm sure I told everybody so far, the dirty Romans betrayed me, and I decided to punish them. For that purpose I had a full stack of mostly Celtic mercenaries with whom I rampaged through all of northern Italy, sacking Mediolanum, Segesta, Bononia, Ariminum and Arretium. Arretium was their capital at this time because Roma was once taken by the Epeirotes after I drove them out of Hellas and thus Arretium stayed place of the Senate although Roma was reconquered.

Well, after sacking Arretium, their new Capital was now... no, not Roma, Rhegion! In the meanwhile I landed a full professional Royal Army plus Reserve Division in Southern Italy, and I conquered Taras, and Arpi with the Celtic remnants, and then my Kleronomos Basileios conquered Rhegion. And guess where the honorable Senate decided to meet from then on? No, not Roma... Segesta! That means when I finally conquer Roma, it'll be just another Italian city...

In reality, Rome as a faction could barely survive if Rome would have been taken.