Strangest development of other faction in your campaign?

[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.

[Flibjib]

Still on my first campaign (I'm a RTR vet) in EB, as the Romani. And I really have to say that it's kinda weird in this version of Mediterranean history.

Carthage was quickly expelled from Iberia, and my first movements were to crush the Epirote territories. Within fifty or so turns, all of AS was absorbed by the Ptolemies and Baktria. The Balkans were under Getic control in the north, and almost all of the south was Makedon. Damned if I know how a band of Hellenes escaped the slaughter, slipped past the Thracians and fought off the Sauro Matae long enough to establish a new empire for themselves on the north coast of the Black Sea.

The Casse have stayed in the UK, Aedui rule almost all of Gaul, with a tiny (and hugely defended) settlement in the Swiss Alps remaining in Arverni control.

The Sweboz, for some reason beyond me, had a full stack stuck on an uninhabited island between Denmark and Scandanavia for close to 125 years.

Later, Ptolemies crushed the Hai, and Pontus, Baktria dealt with the Saka, and ended up forcing the Pahlav into India.

Makedon decides it wants turkey for itself, and now own most of it.

Oh, and I bribed the settlement at Charax.

[Skandaz.Imperator]

Roman campaign, around 252BC: New campaign tonight, new "strange" things. Saka is pushing Baktria deep into AS territory, like a blue wedge stretching all the way to Persepolis. Ptolemaioi rules Asia Minor and the AS is one settlement away (Seulukia) from being geographically split into a nothern and southern kingdom. Pahlva has one settlement left, Gava-Mazskata, with only 1 army of 5 units and a 3 unit city garrison, Saka Rauka is coming for them too.

The Aedui has, for the first time in all my campaigns, been viciously attacked by the Arverni. Although they don't have lost any territories, they have no armies left and each of their city has a garrison of no more than 3-4 soldiers. It's their whole armies decided to disband. The Arverni on the other hand, roams Gaul with 9-10 fully stacked armies...