1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[Constantius III]

Baktria 1.2, H/M

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Casse: Unimpressive so far. They've been besieging Caern-Brigantae on and off for about the past decade with a miniscule stack, while a halfstack and a fullstack sit around Ratae and twiddle their thumbs.

Sweboz: Apparently it's quite idyllic out in the forests. They haven't moved at all. Probably drinking themselves into a stupor and choking on pretzels. Seriously, I've never seen them do absolutely nothing before.

Lusotannan: Respectable performance. They're a little weak but last time I checked up closely they were contending with both the Qarthadastim and some sick Eleutheroi fullstacks.

Aedui: Not terrible. At least they're doing better than the Arverni, and they haven't lost any ground. Constantly failing at besieging Bratosporios, and some pretty large engagements in the Padus Eridanos Po Valley against the Romani.

Arverni: I hate this shade of green. Ankyra revolted to them early because AS took it ridiculously early, and they've been spending most of their mnai on that ever since. Galatia is home to more Arverni troops than their two other remaining possessions combined. It's a wonder they haven't rolled over Pontos yet.

Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs: 'Path of Least Resistance', hmm? They suck at holding onto southern Italy, and even their Gallic possessions revolt periodically. The Aedui are mauling them in the perennial Mediolanum battles too. Even now that their Iberian peninsula possessions abut Qarthadast (so you'd think they'd go to war more often and maybe contest Sicily), zip. Disappointing.

Safot Softim biQarthadast: Slow, but not as slow as Casse at least. Color me underwhelmed.

Getai: Periodic clashes against the Maks around the Haemus mountains are leading nowhere, despite the presence of large stacks on both sides. Feh.

Epeiros: Choked, hard. They had Pella and at one point Byzantion and were driving on Demetrias with three stacks, two of them fullstacks, led by some dude named Hymenos, which in retrospect was a bad omen. Somehow, the Maks pulled off a huge upset and got Pella back, probably having to do with the simultaneous revolt of Byzantion over to the eviscerated KH. Now they're just sitting with only one fullstack in Ambrakia, fighting a short war with the Romani whenever Taras revolts and then returning to oblivion just as fast.

Makedonia: Lost Pella early and looked to be taking the first bus home, but then decided they would give better clutch performances than Ray Allen. Grabbed the Fetters, then kicked the KH out of Sparte, and so were good and ready to beat Hymenos when he marched into Thessalia. Then they went on to delay the scary-as-crap Ptolemaioi from expanding in Asia Mikra for about five years.

Koinon Hellenon: Has been surviving off of revolting poleis for the past twenty years. Apparently they haven't even moved their Kretan army, and they have a fullstack sitting on Rhodos going nowhere - the wonders of rtw.exe, bringing you naval AI that's almost as good as ETW's! Anyway, they had Byzantion, lost it, had Emporion, lost that too, had Sinope, and - surprise surprise - lost it. At least they kept Pantikapaion, which is now home to a terrifying assortment of soldiers that have not made so much as a move towards Chersonesos, just across the peninsula. Yeah, great job, ephebophiliac failures. Take a page out of the Mak book or something.

Pontos: Also unimpressive. Took Sinope, got their starting stacks mauled by the Galatian Arverni and by Trapezous, then did absolutely nothing for the rest of the game.

Arche Seleukeia: Was doing a decent job of holding it together for a long time. Held it together against the Ptolemaioi for about a decade and a half while simultaneously fighting a retarded war with Hayasdan for Phraaspa (they won, but both of them lost), grabbing about half of Asia Mikra and promptly losing it again, and fighting repetitive wars with Saba over Palmyra. Then they decided that it'd be a grand idea to send two fullstacks over to kill me, their loyal ally, who had saved Alexandreia-Eschate from the evil Saka and who was even sending them periodic monies. [/whine] That was what screwed them over, because once they lost a substantial portion of their army against me, the door was open wide for the Ptolemaioi to charge in. Finally decided it'd be grand to get peace with me while they could in 249 or so, surprisingly, because usually they fight like hell once they do something dumb. Are now in the process of expanding into dumb places like Trapezous and Bithynia, recently lost a decently armed fullstack charging into the teeth of the Ptolemaioi at Edessa.

Ptolemaioi: Ohmygodwhatisthisidonteven.

Saurometai: Boring. Got Pantikapaion, lost it to KH. Got Olbia, kept it, but didn't go any further and aren't even fighting the Getai apart from four-unit stack raids. Recently got done fighting Hayasdan over Kabalaka, lost, haven't shown any inclination to do anything else.

Saba: Spent most of the first three decades wasting resources on territories that revolted from the Ptolies and AS that they couldn't hold. Now that they don't have to worry about that janx anymore, they've been expanding respectably in Arabia.

Hayasdan: Has wasted its energy on a series of practically useless wars: against the AS over Phraaspa (they lost) and against the Saurometai over Kabalaka (they "won"). Managed to get Mtskheta, but AS beat them to the punch over Ani-Kamah and it looks like they aren't shuffling off to Kotais anytime soon either.

Pahlava: Not a particularly good performance. Took Marakanda off the rebels at the same time I was bleeding out against the Saka in Dayuan. Failed to assault Asaak at all, instead concentrating on building sick early cataphracts for me to impale myself on when I finally got enough money to kill something that didn't have an anchor on it. Then they finally grabbed Hyrkania while I was busy in their homeland. Currently on my hitlist for being so annoying.

Baktria: Ohaiguiz. I don't attack India before about 185 BC because I'm an RPer idiot. After about 260 BC, the real reason was that I didn't have enough money because the AS were going to kill me. Currently am fighting a losing battle against CTDs.

Saka Rauka: Not enough of and too much of and . Am sick and tired of losing large quantities of semiexpendable peons that still cost way too much money against ysaninu aysiramja. At least I can console myself with their lack of Indo-Saka units.

[Maion Maroneios]

Nice overview Maion. I slaughtered a dove just now and from its innards, I can tell you that your Basileus Alkyoneus will die in 230 BC.

Hehehe, I'm thinking he's going to kick the bucket soon as well. The thing is, there are 2 individuals who have great power and might even settle this out with a fight for the throne. And I'm talking about none others than Perseus and Demetrios, of course.

In my experience the Germanoi don't even want to harm a fly that isn't Eleutheroi... but perhaps you can pay them to attack the smelly, filthy, incompetent you-know-who? It is painful to see their smelly arses in my homeland.

Yeah, the Romaioi Barbaroi seem to be focusing to the north. I might send some embassies in the vicinity to keep things in check.

I guess it has something to do with yourself and the boobish blonde in the video? Anyway, why did she say "democracia" (that's how it sounded) like five times?

Indeed. She has become famous here in Greece, for saying her name followed by the phrase "Molis teleiosa", which can be translated as "I just came" though really meaning "I just finished". So everyone kind of says "My name is X and I just came/finished" imitating Petroula's voice

And that would be Thermokrasia (θερμοκρασια), which means "temperature". She is saying the weather, after all.

Maion

[Reality=Chaos]

@ Constantius III: Some nice expansion there... You noted you were a RPer.... Does that mean that you have some decent sources on Baktria? I really like the facyion and it's roster (though tough starting position) but I know virtually nothing of it's background..... If you have some decent sources could you PM me with the titles (or better yet links) ? Thank you

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Hehehe, I'm thinking he's going to kick the bucket soon as well. The thing is, there are 2 individuals who have great power and might even settle this out with a fight for the throne. And I'm talking about none others than Perseus and Demetrios, of course.

In that stage, when you do have real enemies left, a civil war could brake your neck. Perseus must be around 44 years old if I'm not mistaken, and Demetrios? A bit older, right? Whom of the two has a son?

Yeah, the Romaioi Barbaroi seem to be focusing to the north. I might send some embassies in the vicinity to keep things in check.

Please.

Indeed. She has become famous here in Greece, for saying her name followed by the phrase "Molis teleiosa", which can be translated as "I just came" though really meaning "I just finished". So everyone kind of says "My name is X and I just came/finished" imitating Petroula's voice

And that would be Thermokrasia (θερμοκρασια), which means "temperature". She is saying the weather, after all.

Maion

I guess "I just came" in the sense of coming home, no? :p:

[Constantius III]

Baktria 1.2, H/M

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Casse: Almost done with the British Isles so far, underwent a bit of an explosion in the 220s. Not absolutely terrible, but they coulda at least used that fullstack they've got sitting at Ratae.

Swêbōz: Still did absolutely nothing - didn't move an inch - until Gáwjám-Hêruskōz revolted to them from Roman control and kicked off their war. It just started, no major developments there yet. Still kinda unhappy about them freezing for six decades of game time.

Lusotannan: Control basically all of Iberia now, as usual. Briefly wrested Burdigala from the Aedui, but lost it in a revolt. Lost Mastia to a revolt too. Currently they're besieging Tolosa, probably going to take it.

Aedui: Clear hegemons of Gaul France. The Arverni are irrelevant now, they've been staying put around their two cities for decades while the Aedui adeptly beat the Romani off from repeated sieges of Viennos. They also managed to halt the Lusotannan, which is respectable all on its own, because from what I see the Lusos tend to be scary in mid- to late-game, assuming they survive. Plus, Dalminion revolted to them, which is pretty neat. I thought they only got Scorcouw and Thraikia Hypertera in that part of the world, guess I was wrong.

Arverni: They still suck. Turtling up, big time. Have fought off Roman armies a few times, nothing major outside of that.

Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs: Hit a brick wall in Iberia after capturing Numantia and the Hellenic northeastern coast, now are pushed out. Got Messana and are keeping it against Qarthadastim onslaughts. Territories are repeatedly revolting from their control, Dalminion and Massilia being the ones that have managed to get it to stick so far. Went in a retarded northerly direction as usual, revolting cities forced them to enter a war with the Swêbōz and Aedui. All in all, fail, but slightly qualified fail.

Safot Softim biQarthadast: It's actually been exciting for these guys, at least as exciting as it ever tends to get. Outside of their long, bloody war with the Lusos for south Iberia - a war that was renewed when Mastia revolted in about 221 - they decided to capture Syrakousai and, for good measure, to declare war on the Ptolemaioi during the Ptolies' "Time of Troubles" in the 220s. Had Paraitonion, Kyrene, and Augila for awhile before they failed to reinforce and were pushed out.

Getai: Slight expansion beyond what they've already done. Currently a Mak protectorate, like Epeiros below. Are currently hemorrhaging against the Boii and Lugii. Underwhelming. They looked like they'd take Dalminion for awhile in the 230s, too...

Epeiros: Boring. Protectorate of the Maks, and the only time they've so much as moved since they lost the war was when Taras revolted in 213. Otherwise, nothin'.

Makedonia: Fighting a looooong war with the Ptolies for Asia Minor over the last few decades. Looked to be winning for awhile during the Ptolies' "Time of Troubles", they got Pergamon, Sardis, and Halikarnassos, but tyche screwed them over and they've been totally driven out, though two fullstacks are in the vicinity still and will probably cause more havoc.

Koinon Hellenon: Created a Bosporan kingdom when they finally stirred from Pantikapaion. Massilia also revolted to them, but it was less exciting than their only successful offensive in this game, which captured Chersonesos.

Pontos: Just died actually, after holding onto Trapezous for awhile. During the 230s and 220s they grabbed about half of Asia Minor all of a sudden and started that "Time of Troubles" for the Ptolemaioi that I mentioned - they lost territory on all fronts, and for awhile looked screwed. The Ptolies fought their way back from the brink, though, and Pontos steadily lost ground during the late 220s.

Arche Seleukeia: Has been slowly ground down by yours truly, until they practically cease to exist. During the 220s they had a brief resurgence, got back Mesopotamia, but I kept pushing from the east and by 219 they'd lost it again and were in full retreat. Now they've only got Bithynia and Adurbadagan, which I'm roleplaying as the allied Seleukid eparchies of Bithynia and Atropatene.

Ptolemaioi: Their brief back-footed time has already been explained, and I'm not entirely sure of the cause - though if I had to lay money to it, it probably was losing Meroe and Aksum to a revolt at the same time, right after two fullstacks evaporated fighting the Maks and Pontos in Asia Minor. Saba have been a nuisance, Qarthadast has been a major threat, Maks have been semidangerous, and Pontos looked pretty bad for awhile. Now they're back to expanding, and are in a cold war with me that looks about ready to end.

Saurometai: After getting mauled by KH and Hayasdan when those two went north, they've slowly started to take back all the stuff they lost, though the Hai still are "allied" to the Roxolani (and have two fullstacks and a multitude of crummier units floating around the steppes, rather annoyingly). Also were quick to take Gava-Alanna after I made it spy-rebel from the dying Saka.

Saba: Series of loooong indecisive wars around Meroe, Aksum, and Bostra with the Ptolies, which they've been managing to fight pretty well. Other than that, nothing too special.

Hayasdan: Got powerful after uniting most of the Caucasus and then became that annoying steppe-Hayasdan empire that's always so weird. At least they're losing now. I'm trying to keep Seleukid "Atropatene" between the two of us so I can actually ally with the Hai against the Ptolies.

Pahlava: Killed them in 238 BC. One faction of scary cataphract warriors down, one to go...

Baktria:

Saka Rauka: Starting with the conquest of Chach in 224 I've been slowly, over the course of a decade, grinding these extremely annoying dudes into dust. Slightly hampered at the end by the MoT, which hit around 216 and gave both of us late bodyguards. Still, Atlanta Chighu is ours, and fairly won. Now I can justify an invasion of India.

[Zim]

VH/M 248

A Sauromatae migration campaign I've been working on. Ransacked my way to western Africa, then started after a few more settlements after my generals started getting the "restless warmonger" trait.

It's been pretty interesting. I've been replacing my starting horse archers with Numidian cavalry (only other cav I can recruit right now) to form the base of my army, with a couple elites from my pastoral settlements added in. I'm getting used to the Numidian Cavalry, but man are they expensive compared to nomad standard horse archers.

Not quite sure where I'll take this campaign. I was expecting a hard war with Carthage but after the settlements I took from them rebelled back (my having abandoned them) they haven't built any government buildings, and so haven't been able to rebuild their barracks.

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[Tartaros]

very interesting!

[Tyrfingr]

You have left the steppes in a complete mess there, very interesting!

[option]

Epeiros, VH/M, 232 BC, ALEX.exe



Epeiros: After taking Hellas and developing my infrastructure for a while, I built two massive fullstacks to invade Egypt to counter the growing power of the Ptolemies. After taking most of the area, one of them is on its way back to Ambrakia, Kydonia and Pella for retraining and the other is garrisoning various settlements while one of my generals pushes for the last two Ptolemaic Egyptian holdings with mercs.

Macedon: Unwittingly eliminated by me during the siege of Corinth in 270 - I killed three FMs in the battle and saw their other two settlements (Chalkis and Mytilene) turn Eleutheroi immediately afterwards. Oh well.

KH: Wouldn't stop landing stacks of 3-4 men in the Peloponnesus and attacking me, so I got fed up and took Rhodes, their last settlement some time ago.

AS: Were starting to get out of control early on, so I gave some money to the Parthians, Baktrians and Pontics to help fight them. Now they're little more than a number of disjointed states, although I have a feeling they'll hold on in Anatolia.

Baktria: Declared war on the AS about twenty-five years ago and proceeded to steamroll them. Pressed right ahead and took Babylon and Seleukia from the north before taking Karmana, Persepolis, and Charax. Currently eliminating Seleucid holdouts in Susa and starting a war with the Hayasdan.

Parthia: Were invading AS but were cut off by the fast expansion of Baktria, so they decided to go for the steps instead. Have several fullstacks marching around Chighu and Gava-Haomavarga, so it looks like the Saka's days are numbered.

Saka: Getting owned by the Parthians.

Ptolemaioi: Fought a number of back-and-forth wars with the Seleucids in the Levant, and despite my financial aid to the ailing AS were just starting to make progress when I invaded them. They're about to be kicked out of Egypt entirely.

Hayasdan: Somehow got a ceasefire with the Sauromatae and invaded the AS, signing the Seleucid death warrant. Were just attacked by Baktria, though.

Saba: Completely boring, have sat in idleness for many years now.

Arverni: Destroyed by the Aedui as always, sitting pretty with one settlement.

Aedui: Were doing fine until inexplicably they became a Roman protectorate (why does this always happen?), and now they're fighting standstill wars with the Sweboz.

Romaioi: Have made Aedui a protectorate and decided to expand along the coast. Currently engaging in a number of on-off wars with the Lusotanna and Carthaginians.

Carthage: Almost done subjugating Africa, occasionally fighting Rome along the way.

Lusotanna: Can't even conquer Iberia.

Sweboz: Fighting the Aedui and the central European superheros with no real results.

Casse: Idle as always.

Sauromatae: Fighting the Getai and occasionally taking Kallatis and attacking me.

Getai: Thankfully expanding north and west instead of south and attacking me.

Pontos: Fighting Seleucids and seemed to be carving a decent kingdom for themselves in Anatolia until Amaseia was taken, now trying to retake it for the past ten years.

[johnhughthom]

That's some interesting stuff going on in the east, I guess getting involved in neutralising the Ptolies early can lead to an unusual campaign.

[Maion Maroneios]

Interesting indeed. I might decide launching a campaign in Aigyptos as well, seeing that the Arche Ptolemaion has grown too powerful for my (and their neighbours') liking.

Maion

[athanaric]

Sab'yn, H/M, RTW.exe

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Been busy with the Ptolies, and now the AS, who has learned to conduct naval invasions! Fortunately only against the Eleutheroi.


Arche Seleukeia - at the beginning, it looked as if they were going to lose against the Ptolies, but then, the Yellowbellies ran into some serious trouble (me), and the AS concentrated on their Iranian holdings, almost killing off the Pahlavân. Second most powerful faction, fields reformed tank units.

Ptolemaioi - still aggressive and troublesome, although down to only a few provinces.

Baktria - fighting with mixed success against the Saka.

Pontos - oh dear. Barely alive due to the fact that both they and Makedonia are allied to me, and thus at peace now.

Makedonia - doing reasonably well, having Epeiros as protectorate. Even managed to conquer Kotais (lost it to Hayasdan afterwards). Has six fullstacks standing idly around Korinthos.

Bosphoran Kingdom (formerly KH) - their strong position in Skythia is partly my fault, because, fearing that the inevitable Makedonian conquest of Sparte would destroy the faction, I made their last field general (Eugenios Rhodios) take a magical trip to Chersonesos (which was held by loyalists).

Qart Hadast - strongest faction on the map. Quite scary. Even took Latium at some point during their historically almost correct war with SPQR.

Romani - second Punic War!!! They are mostly on the defensive, fighting for their possessions in Italia and Iberia. Luckily they managed to trigger the March of Time. Managed to get both Gallic factions as protectorates. An invasion force is now heading for Karali.

Lusotannan - dead . Got crushed by two enemies at once, a bit like the Bushmen in South Africa .

Aedui - nothing happenig over here. Astonishingly, they are at peace with all their neighbours.

Arverni - same as Aedui, only weaker.

Swêboz - one of my most steadfast allies; standard expansion. Managed to take Noricum and now their single focus is Mrogbonna. Very powerful as usual.

Getai - strong, but not overly aggressive. Currently they are cooperating with the Swêboz in harrassing Eburonum.

Sauromatae - nothing unusual. Threatened by Saka, Swêboz, Getai, Hayasdan and KH, but still alive.

Saka - fighting Baktria.

Pahlava - trying to not get killed by the vicious AS monster.

Casse - yawn.

Epeiros - strong. Intelligence reports that their Illyrian forces are preparing an attack on the Aedui.

[Moosemanmoo]

pretty crazy campaign you got yourself there, makes me wish I had the patience for the Saba

[Skullheadhq]

Makedonia, 241 BC


Arche Seleukeia: They lost Persepolis in a revolt, took it back, and then backstabbed me while I was campaigning in Megale Hellas. Had to get the first ship back home. Nikaia rebelled to Getai, I bought it for them for a small $30000. they took Mytilene en Rhodos. Oh, and they took Alexandria

Getai:My loyal allies, luckely they didn't get too mighty.They are in some kind of a cold war with the Sauromatae, briefly held the Ukrains, lost it and now there are 2 stacks of Getai and Sauros facing eachother and do nothing.

[COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"]Sauromatae:[/COLOR]Captured the Crimea, Lost it to my mighty Makedonian armies. And since then there is a status quo.

Romaioi dogs:Lost southern Italy to Epeiros (except Rhegion). Barbaropolis itself was beseiged by the Epeirotes. Bononia was lost to the Aedui. But the Barbaroi took a huge chunk out of Gallia.

Saba: Filthy rich, Have an army near Memphis. Allies to the AS.

Casse:

Koinon Hellenon:Died in 270 B.C

Those guys that ƒ*€K their own sister:Surrounded by enemies but doesn't know where to quit. Holding out pretty well against Kart-Hadast, Arche Seleukeia and Saba.

Arveni:almost dead in Gaul but a mighty force in Galatia

Pahlava:Split into 2 halfs.

Baktria:Seized Taksahilla early on. Now beating the crap out of Saka.

Saka: Beaten to death by the Baktrioi. Very few armies left of them. Well armies...raid party like armies

Aedui: Getting their vengeance in Italy, Seized Bononia and marching toward Arretium.

Carthage: A bit lazy

SwebozIdem

Hayasdan:Happy to be alive. Expanding a little.

[Maion Maroneios]

Good overview, philos. Ever thought of interventing in Megale Hellas?

Maion

[Skullheadhq]

Yeah, I did. I had an army besieging Taras. Then the Seleucid bastards backstabbed me. And now I'm on a full time war in the east.

Really, could you PM me some hints and such.

The AS holds Memphis and Alexandria now /sigh

and an update:

[Olimpian]

Old Romani campaign I revived, M/M RomeTW.exe Minimod pack + some tweaks here and there, 227 BC



Romani: Conquered Italy, went fot Carthaginian possesions in Iberia, invaded Illyria after Epeiros attacked through there, continued on to Greece, now consolidating my position there. Invaded Ptoleis (they were growing too powerful). Border armies on the Alps and in Illyria in case Aedui or Getai attack (both are my allies, but that hardly means anything)

Pahlava, Baktria, Pergamon (former Maks), Hayasdan, Getai: nice Kingdoms there

Sels: split in half - Anatolia and Persia - hanging on in the east, somewhat better in the west

Cimmerian Bosporus: just moved Pontos there after they were pwned in Anatolia by Seles

Saba: idle

Sauros: losing to Hayasdan

Luso: brain dead since I invaded Iberia, probably waiting for me to take Arse (not gonna happen just yet)

Saka: damn good

Casse: almost there

Sweboz: blitzed Belgae lands, almost took Aedui capital, now fighting super-stacks to their south

Aedui and Arverni: the former doing better than the latter

Epeiros: relics (me to blaim). Think I'll put them in Atropatene to spice things up there

KH: starting provinces + Olbia

Carthies: grabbed Cyrene and fought for it with the Ptoleis. I hoped they would help keep 'the fever' busy, but as soon as I set foot in Egypt, made peace. They will be ed for that soon enough

Ptoleis: made me put the campaign on hold after blitzing AS in a couple of years and becoming 'the fever'. But now they're getting their arses kicked by me. Just a couple more elite stacks to go..

[athanaric]

Yeah, I did. I had an army besieging Taras. Then the Seleucid bastards backstabbed me. And now I'm on a full time war in the east.

Really, could you PM me some hints and such.

The AS holds Memphis and Alexandria now /sigh

and an update:

Did you get the Pikemen reforms? I'm asking because the Romaioi look a bit weak in your campaign.

[option]

Epeiros, VH/M, 232 BC, ALEX.exe

Updated, 222 BC:



Epeiros: Have been consolidating my hold on Egypt while fighting off Rome and raiding Carthage. I just finished a raid by sea of Adrumeto, Atiqa and Carthage itself, burning them to the ground. That's what they get for starting a war with me.

Pontos: Pushing AS out of Anatolia, currently sieging Sardis.

Hayasdan: doing a surprisingly good job of stymieing Baktrian aggression, despite losing Armavir to them briefly

Ptolemaioi: still fighting an endless Syrian war with the AS, but starting to lose badly.

Saba: have since grabbed up all the land around them and seem to be heading for Gerrha.

Baktria: sent me an offer of alliance (which I took) and are currently fighting the Parthians and Hayasdan.

Parthia: went to war when Arachosia rebelled to them ten years ago, but are holding off the Baktrians well so far, only losing Hyrkania.

Saka: would be dead by now if the Parthians hadn't gotten distracted, currently clinging to life.

Sauromatae: I guess a ceasefire with the Hayasdan does wonders for these guys. Have pushed the Getai out of their homeland and are currently blooding them while subjugating the north.

Romani: aside from losing Segestica to me, have been doing well in their war with Carthage and the Lusotannan.

Carthage: were doing well until their three chief settlements were razed and their faction leader and heir killed in the process.

Arverni/Aedui: both Roman protectorates and doing nothing.

Sweboz: making little progress against the central European guys.

Getai: slowly losing ground to the Sauromatae.

Lusotanna: fighting the Romans to a standstill.

Casse: have kicked into gear in the last ten years, taking four other settlements in the Isles and currently sieging the last one with two fullstacks.

[Maion Maroneios]

Sorry for the OT remark, but I just love the fact that the everyone uses the word Romaioi instead Romans. Keep it up people

Maion

[Spotted Pig]

Imperivm Romanvm M/M
87 BC
The invasion of Dacia.



I altered the script to let me have the unconditional Augustan reforms in 169BC.

The Emperors and their campaigns:
Ivnivs I Avgvstvs, 169-161
Ivnivs II Avgvstvs, 161-144, Greece and Germania (Arctaunon renamed Ivnivm in His honour)
Ivnivs III Avgvstvs, 144-129, Germania and Kyrene
Ivnivs IV Avgvstvs, 129-109, Egypt and Ethiopia (Ptolemais-Theron renamed Bvbvlcia in His honour)
Papirivs I Avgvstvs, 104-95, Germania (Gáwjám Silengoz renamed Papirivm in His honour)
Papirivs II Avgvstvs, 95-, Dacia

The Ptollies was crushed by the gray death (that became the green death, don't ask) and only had Rhodos and Salamis for many years, but finally managed to take Halicarnassos from the KH by naval invasion. Since then they've set their eyes on Kydonia, one invasion there so far.

The Baktrians crushed the sakae a long time ago, but lost Chigu (or what it's name...) to the Yuezhi, who have stayed there since. They held the whole Caspian Seas eastern shore for a while (Phalava had a settlement in Sauromatae country) but has been losing those provinces since. Never have they gone to war with the green death, which makes me rather disappointed really, another distraction away from me would've been nice.

The Saba have had their up and downs, now being in the middle. I believed them to be lost when the AS had a few successfull campaigns against them, they even took the Saba capital, but they've returned since. My allies since the dawn of time.

The Getai became a large faction early on but stayed there. After a few skirmishes in Illyria they amazingly accepted peace which held for more than a hundred years, but the Empire never forgets...
Only recently have they taken the two most northern settlements.

I can't even recall a time when Pontus were still alive, but apparantly they were quite "large". There's a historic battle mark just outside of Serdike that marks a battle between Epeiros and Pontus.

The Green Death... They're truly crazy. Before my invasion of eastern Africa they almost managed to create a green corridor across the map. A long time they have been fighting rebels and the Sauromatae up there. They also lost a few cities to revolts in the east, resulting in a Baktrian "peaceful" expansion.

The KH held their ground but was defeated by Emperor Ivnivs II Avgvstvs and have been dormant since.

The Augustan reforms is such a relief compared to the Marians meager supply of different units, and it makes for better RP.

[penguinking]

Imperivm Romanvm M/M
I altered the script to let me have the unconditional Augustan reforms in 169BC.

How do you do this?

Also, that's an awesome empire.

[Spotted Pig]

How do you do this?

Also, that's an awesome empire.

Thank you!

I copied the unconditional from the marians, put them in the right place in the imperial trigger section and edited them to my liking.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Imperial trigger

declare_counter Romani
declare_counter AugustanReformatorCounter

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart BuildingExists = gov2
and FactionType seleucid
and I_CompareCounter Romanii_Reform = 2

inc_counter Romani 1

end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType seleucid
and I_CompareCounter Romani > 54
and I_TurnNumber > 499
and I_NumberOfSettlements seleucid > 89
;and BattlesFought > 399
and I_CompareCounter Romanii_Reform = 2
and I_CompareCounter AugustanReformatorCounter = 1

set_counter Romanii_Reform 3

end_monitor

;Unconditional Reforms
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType seleucid
and I_CompareCounter Romanii_Reform = 2
and I_TurnNumber > 399

set_counter Romanii_Reform 3
terminate_monitor

end_monitor


monitor_event CharacterTurnStart Trait Augustus > 1

set_counter AugustanReformatorCounter 1

end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType seleucid
set_counter Romani 0
end_monitor

But, be aware that I don't know what actual year that turnnumber is, a miscalculation... I loaded the game, realized I really had the reforms and lived with it

[penguinking]

Thanks!
Now that I can get the Imperial forms when I want, I can start a Romani campaign.

[Maion Maroneios]

Bah, filthy cheaters...

Maion

[Skullheadhq]

You guys don't deserve reforms if you don't work for it!

[Rilder]

Indeed, the imperial reforms are an reward for hard work. :P

Proud to say I have never cheated the reforms.

[A Very Super Market]

And a good deal of luck, for there are annoying traits to get.

Luckily, I don't play as the Romans. Hayasdan and Baktria all the way!

[Maion Maroneios]

Plus, if you want to have Imperials so bad, just go download another mod that focuses on the Imperial period. Same goes for the LS-lovers. Or simply apply the changes for yourself, but that doesn't count as fair in my book. On the contrary, I call that grand cheating. Especially when there is no RP-based rationale behind it.

Maion

[penguinking]

Plus, if you want to have Imperials so bad, just go download another mod that focuses on the Imperial period. Same goes for the LS-lovers. Or simply apply the changes for yourself, but that doesn't count as fair in my book. On the contrary, I call that grand cheating. Especially when there is no RP-based rationale behind it.

Maion

Um, no, there is a RP rationale. I have a character who should be Imperator, but he'll die before 125 BC. I got bored of my Romani campaign a while ago (no challenge, and my Imperator would have died too early) but with Imperial units I think I'll be able to muster enough interest to finish it. I'll dock myself around 2 million mnai for it (in addition to the ~1.5 million mnai I have given from my own pocket to help Pahlava, Pontos, and Hayasdan).

Also, are there any mods that focus on the imperial period? I can't think of any that start earlier than IB.