1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Skullheadhq]

@ Subotan Rebelled from... the AS! They where celtic so they went arveni

[Skullheadhq]

braindead?

[Karo]

here's Carthage 230 bc
Phalava and Saka are at war and Saka is losing bad they got three cities under siege and most of their cities are weakly defended.
Hayasdan has almost defeated the Sarmatians, they have more soldiers and it seems that Sarmatian don't have any more soldiers walking around.
Romani will be crushed by me.
Makedon is back and has conquerd Byzantium and Pella
Saba hasn't done much.
The Yellow death has stopped conquering and the grey death has stopped shrinking

[SwissBarbar]

i like the averni and aedui, 50:50

[Aemilius Paulus]

i like the averni and aedui, 50:50

Yeah, but the Qarthadastim and Romani are soon to upset the balance, taking chunks out of the Arverni. How is Pontos doing? Is it at war with Ptolemaics? I have rarely seen it expand like this, most likely a result of the downfall of AS, who usually squashes them.

Why isn't this thread stickied yet?

[SwissBarbar]

Yeah, but the Qarthadastim and Romani are soon to upset the balance, taking chunks out of the Arverni.

he's the Qarthadastim himself, he could spare the gauls and kill rome instead ;) maybe interfer sometimes to keep the intergaulish balance

Why isn't this thread stickied yet?

a just question

[Subotan]

Current KH Campaign 217 BC

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That's good Sauro expansion. I suppose that's because the Baktrians+Pahlavans+Selukids were hammering the Saka. It's interesting the way you can have Domino effects like that, with the strength of the Seleukids indirectly affecting the Getai/Sauro Wars.

But why haven't you taken Galatia/Thrace/Illyria? They look like ripe targets from this perspective.

Current romani campaign 214 BC H/M

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Nice Pahlava. Like Old school Parthia. Although that Getai is quite tasty.

Getai+Epeiros+KH is nice, sticking to their cultural boundaries, but I've never seen the Antigonids fight their way back into Makedon. Also, it looks as if Hayasdan are getting badly pwned by the Sauro, not the other way around.

The Casse seem paralytic for all of them, as usual

[SwissBarbar]

That's good Sauro expansion. I suppose that's because the Baktrians+Pahlavans+Selukids were hammering the Saka. It's interesting the way you can have Domino effects like that, with the strength of the Seleukids indirectly affecting the Getai/Sauro Wars.

But why haven't you taken Galatia/Thrace/Illyria? They look like ripe targets from this perspective.

Yes, I think too that this is the reason. Why haven't I take

Galatia?: I actually have now, the reason why I did "encircle" it, is that I had sent 2 Armies to push the Arche Seleukeia out of Mikra Asia. This was the "Second Asian Campaign". Pontos was not a part of the plan. Shortly after I captured Mazaka and Amaseia i got attacked by Pontus and now have taken Ankyra too by defeating their main Armies in 2 heroic victories (these were very cool battles!). Now only Sinope is left to Pontos. Furthermore the Hay invaded Kappadokia Pontika with 2 fullstack Armies and conquered Amaseia. The layed siege on Mazaka, but I could drive them back. 3 Months later the Seleukids layed siege on Mazaka, but one of my 2 new Armies of the "Third Asian Campaign" could defeat the 2 Seleukid armies in a great battle. The Second Army of the Third Campaign is heading to Tarsos, which had been recaptured by the Seleukids in a cruel and dearly bought war. These Seleukid and the former Hay attacks were also a reason, why I could not take Galatia earlier.


Trace?: Trace is conquered by either the Sauromatae (Thraikia Hypertera) or by me (Chersonesos Thraikia). Since the Sauromatae do not attack my homeland again and only try to take my two client kingdoms in Taurike Chersonesos and Bosporion Tyrranesis from time to time, i leave them allone to see, if they can eradicate the Getai and if they even would attack the Romanii or the Sweboz.


Illyria?: Illyria Hellenike is mine now. They were my allies (in Roleplay) but the new King of those Eleutheroi was not a friend anymore and attacked Ambrakia several times to build up a new Epeirote Dynasty. I could not let that happen. Dalmatia still is an ally. The Romaioi dare not to go there, because they don't manage to conquer Pannonia Illyrica from the Aedui, who have a fullstack Illyrian Army there.

[Karo]

Getai+Epeiros+KH is nice, sticking to their cultural boundaries, but I've never seen the Antigonids fight their way back into Makedon. Also, it looks as if Hayasdan are getting badly pwned by the Sauro, not the other way around.

The Casse seem paralytic for all of them, as usual

It looks lie that but it's the opposite right now, Hayasdan has a lot of armies and a couple of full stacks ready, and sauro has very weak defended cities ready to be taken. But it's the AI so you never know what's going to happen.

[Subotan]

Aweomse. It's starting to look like the Byzantine Empire



Except Orange.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Honestly i think the EB team needs to revaluate the Casse starting position. I mean as a player u start out with a large town at almost a minor city, with next to no buildings in it, youve only got like 5 bands besides your generals and u r -2000 in the hole every turn???? U also start out at PEACE with the Eulethroi (spelling?). It would take the AI a LONG time to sort out a nation that has no infrustructure and no troops but is magically losing mnai every turn.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

The two AI expansion threads have been merged. Since the point of these threads were originally to see what the AI does and alter the game balance to correct anything weird, there really isn't a giant need for monitoring the changes for the final version of EB. With that and the fact there was actually little change from v1.1 to v1.2, we'll just combine the threads.

Don't stop posting, though.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

WOOOT!!!! Finally, was wonderng bout that.

[Tyrfingr]

The two AI expansion threads have been merged. Since the point of these threads were originally to see what the AI does and alter the game balance to correct anything weird, there really isn't a giant need for monitoring the changes for the final version of EB. With that and the fact there was actually little change from v1.1 to v1.2, we'll just combine the threads.

Don't stop posting, though.

My suggestion was victorius! YOU WILL BOW TO ME!

[Yyrkoon]

Guess which faction I am

[Chris_]

Here's my new Luso campaign. Its 225BC ish. Carthage and I were all chummy until I dared to ask them (my allies) for an exchange of map information.



KH got pushed back to Sparta, then held the Maks off. They've been getting other provinces by rebellion mainly, although they have been moving armies around the Crimea, and attacking some Sauro towns.

Getai, Pontos and Hai are looking promising. Maybe this time they'll be able to stop the Ptolies, who managed to eat the AS while I wasn't looking.

[Ignopotens]

Guess which faction I am

If you aren't Getai it's the best AI expansion I ever saw

[Olaf Blackeyes]

If you aren't Getai it's the best AI expansion I ever saw

TRUTH!!!!!!

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

A beautiful map Chris.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Romani
238 BC
EB v1.1


This is my 'Autoresolve all battles' campaign.

[SwissBarbar]

Greece and Mikra Asia are cool ^^ very colourful

[johnhughthom]

Romani
238 BC
EB v1.1


This is my 'Autoresolve all battles' campaign.

Do you ever do anything other than play EB I-K? With WotB, LotR, your Carthie campaign and this one you must have little time for anything else

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Do you ever do anything other than play EB I-K? With WotB, LotR, your Carthie campaign and this one you must have little time for anything else

Actually I picked this battle up after a month or so(played it in November last time) and played some years.
And to your question - Yes, I do other stuff as well!!!

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Greece and Mikra Asia are cool ^^ very colourful

It will be more colorful because in 235BC Macedon is kicked out from Greece and I'm fighting with KH.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Romani
238 BC
EB v1.1


This is my 'Autoresolve all battles' campaign.

Utterly beautiful Sweboz expansion.

[desert]

Utterly generic Sweboz expansion.

Fixed that for you.

[Olaf The Great]

232 BC
I have force diplomacy, but didn't use it.

I Like the expansion of all factions(except maybe Makedonia and Hayasdan)
Romani expansion into Germania is really out of the complicated alliances in Gaul, they recently encroached upon my German Province, sending a full stack full of Extraordinarii and Ligurians, basically the best stuff they had in the area. I somehow managed to scrap up a bunch of mercenaries, low end levies, and some Belgae spearmen.
I pretty much eviscerated the entire roman war machine, scoring multiple heroic victories with sad crappytastic troops.
At the same time a small army of about 4 Gaelich and Slingers took Masilia, and 2 huge armies are going around Iberia to invade them from the sea.

Best Expansion I've seen so far with Pontos, taking all of the coastal rebel cities and building up a great economy
Iberia is in great shape, with 3 Large cities and about 3 full-stack armies, I'm allied with them(when they invaded Gaul and declared war on Aedui it gave me a reason to take the entire northern coast. Not really sure why they haven't taken Baikor...

225 BC
The 3 armies invaded Italy at the same time, overwhelming the romans in about 2 years, would've been much faster if it weren't for their powerful and cheap armies that number in the tens of stacks...

The Lusotana managed to take even more of Gaul, declaring war on the Arverni and..giving me an excuse to eliminate them.
The Aedui managed to hold out a bit longer against The Arverni, Lusotana, roving Roman straglers, and of course me, through a rebellion and a lucky 16 year old sucessor in Tolosa, then of course the 2 main armies of the Luso's destroyed them.

[Subotan]

Romani
238 BC
EB v1.1

This is my 'Autoresolve all battles' campaign.

Woah. Don't be offended, but the Ai expansion is ugly

Getai, Epeiros and Pontos are beautiful. That KH expansion is nice and and irregular too (Just what you'd expect)

225 BC

Baktria's expansion is pretty sweet, if unorthodox.

[Olaf The Great]

Woah. Don't be offended, but the Ai expansion is ugly

Getai, Epeiros and Pontos are beautiful. That KH expansion is nice and and irregular too (Just what you'd expect)


Baktria's expansion is pretty sweet, if unorthodox.

I wish I could have kept the peace for a bit longer in Europe, but the Romans tend to steamroll everything once they declare war, so I was forced to blitz them.
But yes, perfect Epeiros, Pontos, and Getai, and the Getai are very powerful, full Komatai Epilektoi armies too.

I'm going to sack the hell out of Roma, then give it back to the Romans(I still have the #1 gov for them there) and make them a permanant one-province protectorate until the March of Time.

Min-Update Carthage declared War on me and are sending stack after stack of those badass Loricata and Mail-phracts at Emporion and Lusotana, and in some sheer move of idiocy Lusotana besieged Massalia.

Europes going to change colors again, I'm actually worried about my southern border, I don't have much time to retaliate, Iberia may or may not become white.

[Mediolanicus]

SPQR 226BC with BI

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