1.0x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Justiciar]

My current campaign in 233bc. Nothing particularly special here. The KH are going strong, having taken Greece for themselves. The Makes are on their last gasp, and the Saka are going nuts to the east.

That's some impressive Getai expansion, there!

[Bava]

Baktria Campaign, H/M, Gen cam only, BI.exe, Large unit size - 237 BCE -



Holy ****, what a game. The early years were though as nails, Saka and Palhava attacked me in 267 and the only stack i had consisted of 5 FM and 7 archers (built my first phallanx unit in 255).
But the revenge was soooooo sweet

Some cute little horsies.



Financial overview, might be of interest to the EB team




Some observations:

- the AS - Ptolemy war seems to last longer now, both are still of equal strength
- no stack spamming so far
- only the small factions are really rich (Rome being the exception)
- the new unit stats are pretty well balanced imo

Edit: Btw, what´s the console command for perfect spy?

[Bava]

Double post? Moi?

[Aranor]

That's some impressive Getai expansion, there!

The fact that I'm playing as the Getai might be a part of it!

[Justiciar]

The fact that I'm playing as the Getai might be a part of it!

Gah. Damn ye. Still, looks like a fun game.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Really terrific descriptions of campaigns guys, especially that massive one by wonderland!

[Dooz]

BB, you can't toggle perfect spy in-game, which really sucks. It would have been great as a a console command. The way to do it is in the EB/data/scripts/show_me/EBBS_SCRIPT take out the ; in front of ;console_command toggle_perfect_spy and save. When you want to turn it off, just put it back.

And thanks TK! Y'know that update took a long time to put together, I'm kind of thinking of transferring this over to an AAR type deal.... do you think it's a good idea or should I just keep updates smaller and maybe a big one like this every 50 years, the way this was?

[pseudocaesar]

Eep, im already noticing a trend that may go on to be called the Yellow death. Perhaps Yellow Fever lol?

[LordCurlyton]

242 BCE - Romani baybee! H/M, BI-exe
The Punic Wars have been raging for 12 years now between me and Carthage when the dirty Poeni decided to assault Messana, which was much too close for comfort, so I decided Messana had to come under Roma' mantle. I thought I'd have an easy go of dominating the seas, right up until I hit a roadblock called "Poeni Pentere" which made mincemeat of my pretty Trieres and left me fighting an uphill battle in the ocean for the next 7 or so years. They even landed some elite half stacks onto Sicily to try and take ot back after I seized control, but thankfully I had a full stack that had been en route to Karali to divert, which probably saved them from a watery grave. I finally managed to get Cnaeus Africanus named Imperator and Triumphator, I just need to park him back in Roma for a turn or two and hope he doesn't die (age 62 or so) to collect my very first Triumph ever.
Outside of that, I'm not too active as Carthage is keeping me plenty busy. Some other rules I'm going by: Always build Type IV govs outside of Italy and SLOWLY convert to higher govs. The only exceptions are Sicily, Sardina, Corsica, and the Balearic Isles which go straight to Type II. Try to get a Triumph out of every major campaign. Do not let any city build better stuff than Roma (ie if Roma does not have Hippodrome yet, avoid building Hippodrome elsewhere until Roma does). I mean, Roma is supposed to be the jewel of my fledgling empire, no? Finally, go for the coastlines first and only expand into the interior after securing the coasts of the Western Med, which means my future conflicts are basically set for a while. Intervene in Greece if necessary to stop an AS or Ptolie train wreck.

In other news, the Aedui and Arveni have sadly not expanded, though they are at least attempting. The Germans are slowly working on expanding. The Luso are going bonkers in Iberia and will probably get up the nerve to challenge Carthaginian settlements there soon. That's a place I am NOT looking forward to fighting. The Casse are being the unopposed Casse. The Greek wars seem to be going the way the usually have in my campaigns: KH and Epeiros tag team Maks and make them irrelevant. However, this time the KH and Epeiros are at war finally so its a 3-way brawl in which the Koinon Hellenon has a significant edge. Pontus and the Getai are pleasantly expanding, with Pontus having even taken Byzantion. The nomads are battering at each other with Pahlava apparently getting the short end of the stick so far. Baktria is starting to drill into the Eastern holding of the Seleukids while the Ptolies have the clear advantage in the Ptolie/AS war, plus they've assaulted the KH and seized Rhodes and have occasionally landed troops in Greege proper but so far they've been repelled. The Hai are also active, seizing some turf and advancing on the Sauromatae.
All in all, it looks like fun times ahead for everyone.
EDIT: While I don't know exactly WHAT I did to flatten my map, it did make the colors nice and crisp. I can only guess that deleting map.rwm after switching to BI after a few years did it. In any case, that's the only noticeable "flaw" that came from my muddlings, and frankly it doesn't bother me. Plus I like the team's new money script, as it seems to be working as intended since the Eleutheroi finally started to build up, right on schedule.

[johhny-turbo]

Eep, im already noticing a trend that may go on to be called the Yellow death. Perhaps Yellow Fever lol?

In .8 I noticed that the Ptolmies tended to win a bit more then the AS, though not as total as now.