Aggressive/Expansionist AIs

[Myth]

Well i completed my first campaign as Macedon, in Very Hard by achieving military victory and to be honest the only time i felt some presure was when CW occured and only for the first turns, until i bring back my armies.
I dare say that after the midle of the campaign i started to get bored.
Then i started a new campaign as Parthia.
Parthia starts with a minor settlement, and a military aly the getae.
I started my expansion ftom the 2nd turn, by taking the settlement west of my starting position, which belonged to a faction that was a satrapy of the Seleucid empire, as were almost all the factions araunf my land, so when i declared war, all the satrapies of the seleucids and the seleucids themselves declared war on me from the begining of the campaign.
During the next turns other neighboring factions declared war on me so in 10 turns ive played im in war with all the factions i have contact so far and surounded from enemies in every direction, which sounds chalenging.
Now the reality.
In these first 10 turns, i have conquered the province of parthia, and settlements from the provinces of arachosia, chorasmiaand gedrosia, total of 8 settlements, by fighting siege battles, against enemy armies just waiting in and besides their settlements, and only defend against an invasion from media apopatene by a stack half eastern spearmen half slingers and javelinmen, which i easily destroyed with a 13 units army of parthian horse archers, media cav, spearmen and jav.
What i mean is, eventhough im in war with everyone, instead of defending against invasions from any direction they all stand passively and quietly by their settlements.
No AI at all.

Are you running patch 2 or patch 3?

In my current Avenri game I overextended once and I now have a constant stream of fullstacks coming from Iberia and another stream coming from up north (modern day Belgium). As soon as I move to intercept one, the other sieges my settlement (and I've lost a settlement to the north, and it took me a few turns to take it back)

[nearchos]

Are you running patch 2 or patch 3?

In my current Avenri game I overextended once and I now have a constant stream of fullstacks coming from Iberia and another stream coming from up north (modern day Belgium). As soon as I move to intercept one, the other sieges my settlement (and I've lost a settlement to the north, and it took me a few turns to take it back)

Im runing patch 2, thats v1.0.0 7018.455411.
I wait for the patch to go live, (im not very familiar with downloading a beta) and im thinking of stop playing until then, since from what you describe it looks like a challenging situation, in what difficulty are you playing?

[Sp4]

Patch three has been live for a few days.

[nearchos]

Patch three has been live for a few days.

So how can i get it, i mean, officialy it is not yet anounced.
Do i have to download the beta?

[Shaitan]

So how can i get it, i mean, officialy it is not yet anounced.
Do i have to download the beta?

Patch3 is still in beta.

Download is as easy as official ones.

"In your steam game library, right click Total War: Rome II. Then choose Properties and select the BETAS tab. Finally select “patch3beta” from the drop down list."

This is from the official forums link

[Sp4]

Patch3 is still in beta.

Download is as easy as official ones.

"In your steam game library, right click Total War: Rome II. Then choose Properties and select the BETAS tab. Finally select “patch3beta” from the drop down list."

This is from the official forums link

Oh yeah, my bad. It is still in beta apparently but the fixed the alt tab issue.

[nearchos]

Patch3 is still in beta.

Download is as easy as official ones.

"In your steam game library, right click Total War: Rome II. Then choose Properties and select the BETAS tab. Finally select “patch3beta” from the drop down list."

This is from the official forums link

Thanks, i will do it tonight.
When it will go live, i have to uninstall the beta and douload the original?

[Bramborough]

Thanks, i will do it tonight.
When it will go live, i have to uninstall the beta and douload the original?

Nope, it'll be transparent to you. Maybe a small automatically-started download when you log onto steam. I don't recall even that when Patch2 went live.

[Myth]

Im runing patch 2, thats v1.0.0 7018.455411.
I wait for the patch to go live, (im not very familiar with downloading a beta) and im thinking of stop playing until then, since from what you describe it looks like a challenging situation, in what difficulty are you playing?

I only play on Legendary.

[Slaists]

I read somewhere that CA has said the campaign has no official end date (like the previous titles) and that players can play as long as they want.

[knoddy]

I read somewhere that CA has said the campaign has no official end date (like the previous titles) and that players can play as long as they want.

Correct the campaign has no finish date but all events stop after 300 turns

I dont know if the ai would win if you left it be and turtled but it will kick your backside. Over at the .com site I made several posts about the passive ai. I did extensive testing to prove fhe ai is not passive it just doesnt take risks.

Basically I did 4 play throughs as rome on legendary. In the first 3 I did nothing trained no troops and built no buildings. After 15 turns I declared war on everyone I had contact with and in each play through I was swarmed.

In the last play through I built 1 army did the same thing and staved off defeat by roaming the army around scaring off the ai from attacking every time I moved to defend a settlement the ai backed off.