1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[bobbin]

Nope it was the Parthians who had the large empire, the Saka just nabbed a city from them and they've been unable to take it back due to pressure from the AS, can't remember but i think Baktria is also involved too.

The interesting expansion for me is the Sauromatae's drive into central europe, there's every chance of them clashing with rome or the celts if the rebel superstacks are defeated.

[athanaric]

Nope it was the Parthians who had the large empire, the Saka just nabbed a city from them and they've been unable to take it back due to pressure from the AS, can't remember but i think Baktria is also involved too.

The interesting expansion for me is the Sauromatae's drive into central europe, there's every chance of them clashing with rome or the celts if the rebel superstacks are defeated.

I wouldn't count on it. I've had this situation in several campaigns (in one campaign the Getai and Swêboz even cooperated (!!!) in harassing Eburonum, with the Sauromatae "watching" close by), and nothing has come of it so far.
I think it is more likely that Noricum will fall to the Romani in your campaign, who will then proceed to attack any faction north and east of it.

[Atraphoenix]

I have not see getai as aggressive as in that campaign. They are better blitzers than me.
They are sweeping Balkans and middle of Europe.
259 BC

[Companion Cavalry]

Baktria Campaign 183 B.C VH/M



This has been one continuous slugfest with me on one side, and every other faction within reach (at one point even including the Sauromatae) on the other. This particular campaign has been chock-full of surprises, where to begin?

First off in 239, the Pahlavas, after taking only four Seleukid cities, managed to make the AS their protectorate
Second off, despite taking Alexandreia-Eschate, the Saka Rauka managed to not only get a ceasefire from the Seleukids, but are now their allies.



These are my core cities, I've had all of them except Antiocheia-Margiane since 250. The Seleukids lost Prophthasia,
but were still holding out in Alexandreia-Ariana before I sent in a spy, accidently triggering the revolt



My northern border has seen as much bloodbath in ninety years as has Judaea in two millenia. Before I captured Marakanda and Alexandreia-Eschate, the Saka were sending stack after stack to beseige my capital. And not crappy armies like you'd except from bankrupt nomads, but plenty of Saka nobles and FMs with seven command stars or more. After something like the twentieth attempt to take Baktra, I decided to teach those nomad bastards a lesson.

First, I auto-resolved all Saka armies to death in the vicinity of the capital using the elite troops from previous campaigns in India. Then I built up a large army of my own horse-archers, using both Dahae riders and Baktrian hippotoxotai. Finally, after subjugating all nomad cities south of the Oxus, I sent my HA army to terrorise the Saka homeland. I eventually managed to capture, enslave, and dismantle every last city of theirs before turning back for home. With almost all of their buildings destroyed, and most of their troops dead, they quickly fell deep into dept and haven't bothered me since, except with occasional "armies" of Saka FMs wandering into Baktrian lands.



Mikra Asia is without a doubt the most chaotic region in EB. In this one screenshot alone, you can count 7 factions



Gaul has had an interesting history. From 272-240 the two native factions combined ruled most of Gaul. Then the Romans came flooding in with massive stacks, quickly conquering most of Gaul, almost driving the Arverni to extinction (they survived with Ankyra). Then the Aedui did the impossible, they slowly pushed the Romani first out of Gaul altogether, and then out of northern Italy, briefly reclaiming Mediolanum. Unfortunately the Romans were just wrapping up their conquest of Sicilia, and moved their freed up armies to the north, and soon they once more controlled most of Gaul, with the Aedui clinging onto Bratosporios in the north. At this point, the Romans made their fatal mistake: they attacked Numantia. This provoked a war with the Lusotann who, with their vast resources from conquering Spain, thrashed the Romani so thoroughly in the following battles that they would never recover. A decade after defeating the Roman expedition in Spain, they flooded into Gaul and conquered all of it by 208. They are now invading Italy and are about to sack Rome for the first time an AI faction has done so in any of my campaigns.



After being reduced to their African holdings, Kart-Hadast decided to expand east and attacked the Ptolemaioi frontier towns. Encountering no resistance, due to the Ptolemaioi being busy fighting the AS, they managed to conquer most of Egypt, excluding Alexandriea and Hibis. Unfortunately for them, the Ptolemaioi wisely signed a ceasefire with the Seleukids and sent all of their armies down to push the Karchedoi back. So far, they've only been half successful thanks to good Kart-Hadast generals.



The Balkans region has also been very lively in the past century. The Epeirotes (recoloured as yellow) completely ignored the Makedonians and headed north. By 230 they ruled much of the northern Balkans, and had subjugated all Getai cities except Lucarottea. At this point the Koinon Hellenon, fresh from conquering all of Hellas from Byzantion to Korinthos, attacked the Epeirote homeland, severly weakening the position of the former superpower, and prompting several pro-Getai revolts in frontier towns.

Meanwhile, the Makedonians surprised everyone by subjugating Pergamon, Nikaia, and Byzantion, all in under five years. In 193, the resurgent Antigonids started pushing deeper into Europe, taking Tylis and Serdike. Right now it is a three-way stalemate between the Epeirote empire-in-exile, the Antigonids, and KH.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Oh the beautiful!

[Horatius Flaccus]

Amazing expansion!

[Skullheadhq]

Amazing luso expansion.

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

Just got EB 1.2 and started up a Sweboz campaign. All good so far, but this picture isn't current (I'm at about 216BC now, the picture is 230BC) but the only big differences involve my own expansion.



The AI expansion in this version has improved excessively! The Lusotannan, Sab'yn, Getai and Casse grew a pair, and the BI.exe has provided some interesting foreign wars. The Ptolemies are effectively extinct; they've been driven into the desert and it won't be long before the Macedonians, Seleucids and Saba are fighting over the booty. The Arche Seleukeia has become formidable only because of the downfall of Ptolemaic Egypt; they're being tempered by Makedonia and Epeiros at the west and the various colors of the east. The Saba seem like more of a serious pest than a serious power; they just keep taking and losing various minor territories of the the Ptolemaioi and Seleukids.

The Romani have produced an interesting expansion as well; going west because Carthago won't let them have Sicily. These two factions are constantly at war, sissy-fighting and trading back and forth various Mediterranean islands. Carthage could do some damage of they landed their stacks in Italia rather than Sicilia. The Romani made an attempt at eastern expansion by landing a stack in the heart of Epeiros, but they failed to send support after them. They somehow let the Gauls get all the way to Serdike, choosing to attack the Lusotanna instead, making some headway there.

The Getai are making some awesome progress (since this picture I've "inherited" Gawjam-Bastarnoz from their clumsy governing). Also currently the Arverni are extinct at my hand, the Aedui have been significantly damaged by my invasion and my raids after they foolishly decided upon an attack into modern-day Belgium and by the Romans to the south (my allies), and the Romani should be preparing for a German invasion after betraying me (they decided to go for an unguarded but totally pillaged and raped Viennos before it got to rebel back to the Aedui).