Strangest development of other faction in your campaign?

[Skandaz.Imperator]

Question: What is the strangest development of another faction in your campaign?

For 4-5 campaigns, about 20 years in, Koinon Hellenon have always been wiped out by Makedonia, except in my most recent Pontos-campaign. Now, the Makedonians have been reduced to an puny island kingdom of Lesbos where they just camp. Koinon Hellenon has successfully conquered all mainland Makedonian holdings and are now fighting the Getai over the control of Serdike.

The Getai is constantly fighting against the Swêbóz, the main concern seems to be Ak-Ink which has been taken and retaken by both sides numerous times.

[tapanojum]

Rome actually captured Sicily in one of my campaigns!!!!!!

[marodeur]

Question: What is the strangest development of another faction in your campaign?

For 4-5 campaigns, about 20 years in, Koinon Hellenon have always been wiped out by Makedonia, except in my most recent Pontos-campaign. Now, the Makedonians have been reduced to an puny island kingdom of Lesbos where they just camp.

Curious. In my campaigns the makedonians always get beaten. Normally, they conquer quite lot of territories in the north and east - while losing their homelands at the same time . In the end, they most often ended up with a single territory, either Lesbos or Bithynia, once even Kyrenaia (came to them by revolt). Never seen them being successful. Quite amusingly, they ended up with a thoroughly mad king twice - I had to free his people from his slavery (and send them into mine )

[Morte66]

Now, the Makedonians have been reduced to an puny island kingdom of Lesbos where they just camp.

They're just camping for now. If they're anything like the Maks who did that in my Pontos game, they'll wait until you pull your field army out of western Anatolia and replace them with cheapo garrison troops. Then they'll backstab you. With 43 units, in my game.

That was an "interesting" few turns...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well the latter won't happen to me (AS): the KH has tried to land on Lesbos twice and take it from the Maks only to get beaten horribly. Now their army is refitting on the shores of my Ionia - yeah right: they've recruited the entire Merc population available into their service. So I decided to send that one army with Argyraspides and Kataphraktoi back to Sardis to stare them away again.

(The army was previously sent to deal with the last bits of Epeiros, but if I'm economical on my garrisons I can (easily) manage to hold the territories I have and conquer the rest of Epeiros at the same time.

[Bill Westwater]

One of the oddest things that happened in a campaign was when i was plying as the Getai, it was about 260 BC and suddenly it was annoinced the arverni were at war with the Seleucids. I thought it was just one of those strange cases of the AI declaring war for no apparent reason, until a few years later one of my diplomats came across a full Arverni stack in Ancyra! I suppose an Arverni diplomat must have bribed the garrison. Certainly was bizarre though.

[Strategos Alexandros]

Ankyra rebels to the arverni as it is a celtic town.

[Centurion Crastinus]

Their is an Averni controlled province in North Western Turkey.

[Os-Q]

Not really the weirdest things but interesting: In my campaign as Armenia, the Parthians swept north and drove the Saka west, who then drove the Sarmations into Olbia and the northern Black Sea coast.

In another campaign as the Sweboz, Carthage was expelled from Iberia, but destroyed my Roman allies and conquered Italy. The cities in the newly Punic Italy were underdefended however...
("Letz stomp some Karthiez!")

[Severian Huizi]

(Transplanted from another thread)

This game has one of the most unusual map divisions I've seen since .80. The Romans have pushed a thick dagger through the middle of Gaul together with their allies the Sweboz, who hold the Normandy coast and are laying siege to the last outpost of the Aedui. The Lusotans have crossed the Pyrenees into Toulouse, the Carthaginians hold all of Magna Graecia except for Syracuse (held by the Romans), the Getai have holdings in Anatolia, Pontos holds Tylis (Byzantion remains independent), the Hai have pushed north into the fringes of the steppe only to be intercepted by the Saka, whose highly successful early blitz migration faltered with the comeback of the Sarmatians to the west and Parthians (whom they almost wiped out at one point, capturing territories as south as Khiva) and Baktrians (me) to the east snatching their earlier gains. Now they are a nomadic duchy located exclusively above the Hai .

[Qwas13]

I was playing sweboz campaing, taking my time dealing with gauls. GOT suprised by carts marching in far in enemy lands. Hannibal huh?? CTD killed it so ill never know where they were heading.

[Apgad]

I'm at around 160BC, and was surprised to find KH firstly reduced to a single settlement on the north shore of the Black Sea, then expand to hold the Crimean and around 8-10 provinces in that area. They were pushed north by Epeiros who held all of Greece/Makedonia/Thrace/Balkans. Now Pontos hold the Thracian area, and is pushing Epeiros back west. Pontos also hold 3 quarters of current Turkey, and is beating the Ptolemies back further. I haven't seen the Maks since early on. Rome have a single settlement north of the Alps, and neither the toe nor heel of the boot.

It's very interesting to see all of the different ways that history "could" have played out...

[marodeur]

I was playing sweboz campaing, taking my time dealing with gauls. GOT suprised by carts marching in far in enemy lands. Hannibal huh??

Whow. I have never seen the ai doing something so Hannibalesque! It is sad that you don't seem to have a savegame cause of the ctd?

[pezhetairoi]

The Makedonians have been reduced to Mytilene, then came back with a fury after husbanding their strength for decades and blasted their way clear to Mazaka. They are besieging Karkathiokerta now, control all southern Asia Minor, and are allied with Pontos who control the north. Darned good stuff.

The Koinon Hellenon, due to a quirk of fate, now occupy exactly the provinces that would correspond to their modern day boundaries. The Epeirotes actually made it to Singidunum before being pounded in the south by KH and in the north by me. The Balkans are now in a threeway fight between the KH, Epeiros and the Getai. I'm not getting involved outside of Illyria and Singidunum (for the Cordinau Orca) just yet.

Casse has not even taken Ynys Mon yet, which I have never seen before, since by the 220s they would already have taken all the British Isles. Oh, and most amazing thing of all, gasp! Despite the money script, AS is expanding in the east. They have an army at Patala, and are encroaching into what has always strictly been Pahlavan territory... Though they are losing ground in the west to Makedonia and Ptolemaioi both.

[The General]

In one of my games, AS hasn't (yet) lost the Syrian/Assyrian region.






Edit: Several decades into the game, that is.

[Skandaz.Imperator]

Pontos campaign, around 220BC: The macedons remained at Lesbos, ever camping and building armies. Koinon Hellenon landed twice with two fully stacked armies, gained a heroic victory against 2 fully stacked Makedonian armies and half a stack city garrison. Thus, Makedonia was the first faction to be destroyed. For the moment, I'm heading towards Mytilene as the KH is still pissed for my conquest of Sinope in 272BC.