1.0x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Folgore]

Nice AAR Soggius

Here's my Arche Seleukeia campaign. I'm a bit tired of it, so I think I'll start a new campaign today. This is in part due to the death of my faction leader. My old faction leader was a great man, but his son is a complete idiot.

Here's my empire in 222 BCE:


I have been at war with the Ptolemaioi since the start of the game. They have never accepted any of my peace proposals even though I have been kicking their arse since 272 BCE. I am also currently at war with the Karthadastim. After I had captured Paraitonion from the Ptolemaioi they declared war on me and besieged the city. This in turn forced me to abandon my conquest of Egypt entirely, as I hadn't enough soldiers at the time. So I burned down Paraitonion and Ammonion and set up a blocking force in the Nile Delta under the command of King Antiochos II's two youngest sons. Which has held out for some 30 years now.

After wasting 10 years in Egypt I moved my faction leader and heir north to Pontos and completely destroyed their army and captured their cities in a one-year campaign. I then proceded east and did more or less the same to Hayastan. However this time Saba allied themselves to Hayastan and actually send an army to their assistance. This army was heroically beaten back by the Garrision forces of Syria, but now I had to secure my southern front. So after annexing Hayastan I sent the former commander of the Egyptian Army to Charax (which had been conquered by Saba some time earlier that year). To my surprise a 3500 men all-mercenary army suddenly jumped out of the bush and attacked my army, utterly defeating it. (This has been my only lost battle in my campaign so far (not including the cities I lost to sieges).) Anyway, I moved my Kings army into Arabia and he defeated some 3 full stack armies before dieing peacefully at the age of 65.

Outside my borders Baktria and Pahlava started out very good, they were tied down in a war with Saka, using all of their resources to defeat them and in 240 BCE they finally did. Unfortunately this caused the balance of the area to be lost and only a few years later Baktria declared war on Pahlava. This has been going on for a while now and they are very close to whiping them out.
In Greece Koinon Hellenon gained the upper hand rather quickly and by 235 BCE they made both Makedonia and Epeiros their protectorates. Only a few years ago the Makedonians revolted and they have been kicking their arses back to only one province with a half-stack army protecting it.

This is my faction leader ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΣ II (ingame called Theodros Syriakos) 2 years before he died. In those 2 years he managed to get the 'strategist' trait, bringing his number of command stars from 7 to 8. The year is 229 BCE.

Personally I call him 'Antiochos II the Great, conquerer of Egypt, Pontos, Hayastan and Arabia'.

And this is his son ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΣ II (ingame called Kallinikos Syriakos), now king in 226 BCE.

Note the ugly whore ancilliary...

[tapanojum]

"Note the ugly whore ancilliary..."

Hahaha nice

[The General]

My brother's Easy/Easy (he's a beginner, both in RTW/EB and in strategy games in general) Koinon Hellenion campaign
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Nice Aedui, Hayasdan and Lusotanan advance, and also nice to see Rome destroyed by ze Qarthadastim in a huge, no doubt, Punic War (I've never gotten to witness one in my campaigns).

The Ptolemaic "Empire" was just gargantuan, owning pretty much the southern half of Anatolia also, before going into war against my bro's insanely rich KH state.

[Nikaïa's tyrannos]

Hi, here is my KH campaign VH/M. It is 238 BC and I don t focus on conquest but on bringing back hellenic cities in the Koinon (well even if they don t want ) and role-play.

The first years were tough with Athens under constant siege until I managed to liberate Korinth. Then I attacked Chalkis and enslave all the macedonian settlers (bringing pop to Sparta who need it a lot). With this linear front I managed to push back all the macedonian offensives (which grew stronger and stronger) while Pyrrhos never put a foot in Makedon and go wandering in Illyria . Once my economy strong enough my faction heir invaded Mytilene. At mid-siege (I was starving since there was a full stack in it) a huge stack attacked Athens where fortunately I left a good garrison. Nevertheless the fight was tough and one of my most promising (if not the only one besides the faction's heir) young general died heroically on the wall under Pheraspides' spears. Receiving this information my heir headed to Pella after taking Mytilene and after a quick siege exterminate the population and destroy all that was possible (yes including the Royal Tombs $$ ), his fellow spartan avenged he went back to Athens. It was around 260BC more or less.

I strenghtened my economy and upgraded the MIC and "attacked" Thermon to convince them to become a member of the Koinon, they accepted after a quick battle where I lose my faction's heir on their walls . Meanwhile in the east Pontos took Byzantion and turn its armies toward Pergamon. So I send one of my not-so-good general to the west to seek for allies because a lot of greeks were calling for our help from Sicily where roman and carthaginian armies were walking here and there. He managed to convince the tyran of Syracuse to join the Koinon.
And surprise!! a young boy succeed in the agoge and the kryptea (sp?) and have the quality to become a great strategos. While the army was coming back from Sicily spies were sent in great number (with training along the way) to spread rebellion in the cities under the king of Pontos but they have set some kind of KGB-like organization, nearly all my spies were killed or didn t manage to do anything... and Olbia where I didn t send anybody rebelled to me! With Sauromatae on its doorstep I send money the time to assemble an army under the command of the future strategos of the Koinon. Here he is on the screenshot with his great army dreaming of glorious victory but he doesn t seem to know the word hippotoxotai...

[Conqueror]

Update to my Makedonia campaign, now @ 220 BC:



Ptolemaioi have become the Big Giant Piss Monster

Poor Seleukids are being crushed, but I will try to keep them alive. I gave them Galatia, after taking it from the Pontics and exterminating the population.

Koinon Hellenon were doing well but succumbed to a sudden death: although they were expanding in Asia Minor, capturing cities from Ptolemaioi, all of their "family" members were stuck in Rhodos without transport. Then the Ptolemaioi attacked the island and killed them off, thus destroying the faction

Baktria looks like it's growing into a superpower. This could be good if they start squabbling with the Big Giant Piss Monster, but knowing the AI on VH the two will probably just become the most loyal of allies

The Aedui are in major trouble now, they keep begging me for an alliance. The Sweboz invade Cisalpine Gaul regularly now, and though the Aedui have resisted them so far, they are losing slowly by attrition. It seems that a confrontation between my empire and the savage barbaroi from the north will be inevitable.

Kart-Hadast has become a bit passive after I kicked them out of Sicilia at the end of the great Helleno-Punic war. They have not launched anymore naval invasions for a while, save for a single unit of skirmishers which is camping next to Lilibeo not daring to attack

Hayasdan is kicking some Sauromatae ass and Casse are close to unifying the islands. Arverni have forged a nice kingdom but will they have the strength to deter the Sweboz for long? Time ought to tell

[The General]

Just for the fun of it, have a guess which faction I'm playing? There's quite a few successful ones there, and I've been conquering quite slowly myself (it's 231 BC) compared to some of my other games where I've expanded awfully fast (but then again, with those factions, it's been only natural, really).

[Conradus]

SPQR? I don't think the AI would ever expand like that.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Either Rome or Pontus?

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Here's my Carthage campaign, 250BC:



The Saka have been wiped out in 255BC by Parthia and Baktria.
Pontos developed quite good, but have big problems now with AS.
AS and Ptolemaioi are fighting as always with slight advantages for the AS.
Saba conquered their part of the world.
Koinon Hellenon is doing fantastic, as always.
SPQR conquered fairly well so far.
Casse and Lusotannan, Sweboz and Getai do not very good.