Aedui or Arverni

[Grade_A_Beef]

The Sweboz are very easy to deal with as a Celtic faction. If you don't want to do bridge battles all the time (the Rhine is a very useful border, albeit with a lot of crossings), just built stone walls (barb style) at your border cities and garrison 6-8 bataroas there.

9 times out of ten their men will get slaughtered on the walls by Celtic longswords, with the other 10% being the rare gate breach.

After like 20 years of this I have multiple silver chevroned Batacorii, Milnaht, and Bataroas. Some even have gold chevrons. As a drawback however those border cities aren't getting infastructure anytime soon....

[the man with no name]

The Sweboz are very easy to deal with as a Celtic faction. If you don't want to do bridge battles all the time (the Rhine is a very useful border, albeit with a lot of crossings), just built stone walls (barb style) at your border cities and garrison 6-8 bataroas there.

9 times out of ten their men will get slaughtered on the walls by Celtic longswords, with the other 10% being the rare gate breach.

After like 20 years of this I have multiple silver chevroned Batacorii, Milnaht, and Bataroas. Some even have gold chevrons. As a drawback however those border cities aren't getting infastructure anytime soon....

Use forts.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Heh, it was one of my favourite campaigns. I did miracles without the use of Force Diplomacy. A protectorate with the romas (by the Arverni) made the at ceasfire with me, and after that we agreed to an alliance once the romans backstabbed them. The Arverni had the most borders with the romans, and once they were in trouble, i helped them out. And the NEVER betrayed me! I was just waiting for this to happen every other turn for the first ten years, but after that i stopped worrying. It was kinda like they were under my protectorate, because i helped them survive, but they did give the Romans a few painfull defeats. My greatest enemys became thus the Sweboz, and once it becam stack after stack i just stopped playing.

Ok that sounds quite fun!

How come my campaigns never have hilarious AI expansion....

Honestly, the only interesting thing that's happened to me in three to four campaigns is that in the latest one, a city in Asia Minor rebelled to the Arverni (or they have sent a couple of stacks somehow).

Watch this beauty, insane AI expansion in my ongoing Baktria campaign!



My faithful allies Pahlava and Ptolemaioi all took a bite of the decaying Seleucids. At this point my royal army under the eastern Megas Alexandros finally killed Antiochos II Theos in Zadrakata.Also see Pontos conquering Hellas like a madman. Pahlava and Ptolemaioi kept loyal till I conquered Seleukeia and Babylon, then they betrayed me both, Pahlava attacked me everywhere, what resulted in a very quick removal of the pink problem.

Currently Lusotana kicked the Qarthies out of Iberia, a Punic war going on and KH's + Maks slaughtering Pontos. Protectorates: Aedui protects passive Arverni, KH protects Epirus. Also Seleucids suddenly blitzed Hayasdan. See the AI expansion for yourself, at the pic where I ran in Ptolemaios III Euergetes!



~Fluvius