Strangest development of other faction in your campaign?

[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.

[Thaatu]

In my previous game, Macs controlled Greece for a few dozen years, but it was reduced to Miletos by Epirus, who was pushed to Illyria by KH, which was driven back to Corinth and Sparta by Pontos who took Byzantion, Pella, Ambrakia and Demetrias, who in turn was divided and squished by Macedon, who made its comeback by expanding from Miletos to Ionian Greece to Macedonia and Thessalia. This in some 70 years.

Try figure that out.

[pezhetairoi]

Mindboggling, that one. The winds of fate come and go. o.O

In other news, Makedonia is intent on recreating Alex's empire. It's heading east, and is already besieging Edessa and Arbela. Cool. And the AS, though, they're expanding north into the steppes via the Pahlava territories. I've never seen it so far north before. I've had to give the Saka, Sauromatae and Pahlava quite a few hoplitai units to hold them off, otherwise with the stupid autocalc system, the horsearchers would lose everytime.