1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[bobbin]

Pontos 195bc

SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.

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They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea

[IrishHitman]

Pontos 195bc

SPQR 245bc check out the Saba!

For anyone not using BI.exe heres what your missing.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

They've been doing this repeatedly for the last 10 years now. Always large armies too, I've destroyed two and intercepted a third before it got to sicilly, sent those nasty Chainon Agema to the bottom of the sea

.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

[bobbin]

.........How did Saba grab Alexandria?

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.


Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

[Lovejoy]

Centrius: Dont go east! I went east and I went crazy fighting the Sauromatae. Cata + HA is not fun to fight with poorly armoured germans

[Rilder]

Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)

[A Very Super Market]

What an interesting campaign...

Even Saba has got a piece of the AS?

[IrishHitman]

Aedui 208 BC

Rome: I conquered it because I got tired of them always attacking me, but I didn't actually want Italia so I let it rebel and buggered off.

Epeiros: looks like its fighting viciously with Makedon, they just got the 2 southern Italia provinces because of me.

Getai: Sexy lil empire it looks like

Asia minor in general: Seleukia looks to have fallen, with every dick with an army taking some of it, Pahavla didn't do so well though. Looks like the KH have a few City states going for them. (Including Sinope if you didn't notice)

Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Typically the way the Grey Death/Yellow Fever thing work out is into three possible solutions.
1.AS keeps Antioch for the whole game=Grey Death
2.AS loses but then regain Antioch=stalemate
3.AS loses Antioch for good=Yellow Fever

[Rilder]

Why didn't you keep Italy!
You could have recruited Roman units...

Really I felt if I kept it my empire would be too big, I try only to expand when I have to, Italia is a highly profitable zone and I already have to much cash, besides I did so much damage to those cities, Roma had like 30k Population before my attack and now has like 2k.

[The Persian Cataphract]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I initially thought they used troops from Petra when it went over to them but on further inspection their faction leader was hanging around with a small army and must have been able to catch the Ptolemaoi off guard, they nearly took Paratonion as well but at Ptolemaoi stack turned up and ruined their day.


Romanoi campaign 225bc
The Epirots are starting to become a real pain now, considering taking them out, getting worried about carthage as well.

Now this is a really promising screenshot: Pahlava actually goes on to conquer Caucasian Albania and the Gerrha strip. This is, as far as Pahlavân progressions go quite a rarity. Especially the latter.

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Roman Empire, 198 BC.



The long war in Asia against Ptolomean Empire is finally going in roman favour with their territories divided in two pieces.

...And this is of course so messed up I can barely find the words for it. I have never seen Pahlava go this batshit crazy (Now, of course, we'll have to consider limiting them down to EB2, but it's still quite a sight to see them divide the world quite like this!)

[bobbin]

Now this is a really promising screenshot: Pahlava actually goes on to conquer Caucasian Albania and the Gerrha strip. This is, as far as Pahlavân progressions go quite a rarity. Especially the latter.

Thanks I've been especially happy with the faction progression in that game, heres a little update.

Romanoi 219bc

Pahlava have now full conquered the persian gulf and are heading toward india, they are allied with the Ptolemaioi and have Baktria as a protectorate.

Baktria has lost Baktra to the Saka and have now become a indo-greek kingdom, which is nice.

Also notice the Pontic expansion in the crimea, with the pounding their reciving from the Ptolemaioi I'm hoping they'll form their own version of the bosphorian kingdom once they lose anatolia.

Apart from that not much else to report, captured Ak-Ink and gave it to the getai (the first time i've done that in this game as i like to leave the factions to do their own thing).

[Berg-i-dum]

...And this is of course so messed up I can barely find the words for it. I have never seen Pahlava go this batshit crazy (Now, of course, we'll have to consider limiting them down to EB2, but it's still quite a sight to see them divide the world quite like this!)

I think It was the Seleucid fault hehe, they were destroyed really too fast by Ptolemei in the first decades. And well the Ptolomei became weak since they are fighting me in a long war, so Pahalava had "free field".

Dificult settings are H/M. May be i should have set VH/M.

[A Very Super Market]

A powerful Getai will put severe hurt on you romans. Bloody romps..

[Ravenfeeder]

Hai H/N bi.exe (just exe, no formations) with gold and silver modded to 4 and 2 respectively.

240bc


230bc


Early on Pontos took Mazaka and Ptolemaioi too Antioch, but AS took them back plus Tarsus and Side. AS and Ptolemaioi then declared peace and have remained that way since about 250bc.

From 240 to 230 AS and Pahlava have had a sort of armed truce, at war but not attacking each other.

Saka beat up Baktria early on, but didn't follow up their victories, although Baktria's recover by their insistance on repeatedly attacking the Saka rather than going for India.

Arverni and KH expansion quite interesting, although now that the Romani have taken Sicilia I'm not sure I fancy their chances.

Sauromatae took Kabalaka and Phraapsa early on, but the latter rebelled to me almost immediately.

[Centrius]

My first post on this forum!

Okay, so I'm playing the Sweboz, H/M. It's just 245BC and I recently got around to capturing Iuvavoaeta and Eburonum. (God, I hate those scripted defenders.)



Any suggestions on where to expand next?

I'd like to keep my peace with the Averni and Aedui. They stay away from my turf, I stay away from theirs.

So either; destroy the Romani before they can grow powerful, or just expand east towards the Sauromatae?

- Centrius





P.S.

lol @ Makedonia and Koinon Hellenon surviving against Epeiros and eachother.




P.P.S.

River defending can save your life against those stupid scripted defenders.