0.8x AI Faction Progression

[Ludens]

Casse, 229 BC.



EB 0.81a on the BI.exe, no modifications apart from the formation files and some minor changes.

With the exception of Armenia, all factions have moved. The Gallic tug-of-war initially seemed to be going the Averni's way: they consistently managed to beat of the Aedui attacks. However, the Aedui took more neutral towns and eventually managed to overwhelm their opponents. Although the Averni still have four towns, they are pretty much spent and it's just a question of who gets their towns first. A turn or two after I took this screenshot, the Romans took Gergovia. The Sweboz have been conquering like mad. They are now at war with the Getai, who are expanding slowly but surely.

At one point I allied myself to the Sweboz and took Bagacos in northern Belgia, but the Sweboz betrayed our alliance and besieged it. I drove them of, but the Aedui (who were allied to both of us) decided to cancel their alliance with me as well. They even sent a small stack consisting of one Lugoae and two Gaesatae (the Averni and Aedui both have been spamming these units as soon as they got access to them) in my direction when my army was away, but I quickly returned my army and the Aedui turned back. Even so, I don't think our alliance will last long. My only ally at this point are the Getai (I turned down an offer from the Romans), whom I am giving financial support. They seem to be holding their own, as the front hasn't changed in the last twenty turns, and they are now besieging Kallatis.

The Romans are expanding into Germania and Gaul, but they don't seem interested in taking on the Aedui. They did offer me an alliance a few turns back. They also landed a stack near Byzantium, although what they are doing there is anyone gues. Sicily was taken in a lightning campaign a few years back. Carthage did manage to take one or two Iberian towns, but they seem to be a paper tiger at the moment. On the other hand, they lost one town to the Iberians a decade ago, yet have been containing their aggression ever since. Makedon took a beating from Epeiros and the KH, but their alliances with the Getai and Rome may save them yet.

Pontos conquered Nikomedia, but seems otherwise inactive. Armenia is still stuck in their starting province, and it looks like they will be staying there for a while as they are at war with the Sauromatea, who took the cities east of the Black Sea. The Saka also have been expanding, but are currently driven back by the Parthians. Bactria hasn't been moving much. The Seleucid empire has managed to keep all of its allies line, and seems unstoppable. They took the Ptolemics apart and currently are flooding India and Arabia with stacks.

At this point, my direct enemy is the Sweboz, but it looks like Aedui would like a piece of me as well. I almost finished teching-up, and I have a good cash-flow. Also, apart from a few large stacks, the Sweboz cities near are lightly guarded. Unfortunatly, my only army is tied down garrisoning Bagacos, and keeping the Aedui at bay. Also, I am afraid that the Sweboz are going to send stack after stack at me, as there were plenty of troops in the east when my spy last scouted there.

I am recruiting more soldiers and expanding the fleet to clear those bloody pirates from the channel. Once my troops are ready, I intend to start an amphibious assault on the northern part of the Sweboz empire, and march on to Swebotraustamnoz. Once their capital has fallen, the remaining Sweboz provinces near Belgia should fall easily, and I will have severely reduced their economic and recruitment bases. My current field army will hopefully keep the Aedui of my back. If not, well, then it looks like my continental ambitions are going to be thwarted.

[Cataclysm]

Hi,

This is my Mak campaign, year 204 BC. (RTW 1.5)


What has been cool about this game is the rising and falling of nations. Epeiros for example, after being booted from greece conqured the SPQR and advanced into the Alps. They came into contention with Carthage in Sicily, and captured 2/3 of the island.

Carthage having expanded along the coast of Iberia (maintaining a staunch alliance with the Lusotannan until this year), advanced through the Alps south into Italy and pummeled them into oblivion - gone in a matter of years.

Seleukia, dominated Syria and conqured Egypt leaving Ptolomey (my allies) with only their few southern provinces.

Not long after I made my advance into Asia Minor, and drew AS resources north, Ptolomey came back, reconqured Egypt and are now battling for Arabia.

The Sweboz for the most part moved east taking the independent tribes there, until the Avernii came to war and captured Sweboztraustastamnoz. The eastern provinces came into contention and war with the Sarmatians while in the south war with Carthage. They have been losing ground ever since.

The East has been completely stagnant. Saka and Phlav are protectorates of Bakria. Phlav is "at war" with AS but neither does anything other than stand around each other's border.

I continue to fend off the AS in Syria and Babylon. My alliance with Ptolomey is holding, but I'm not holding my breath. I am at war with Carthage. They blockaded Ambrakia for some reason...perhaps a bad trade?

As a result, I'm about to liberate Syracuse from Punic oppression.

[Roy1991]

Romani campaign, 229BC




https://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8268/ebhc1.jpg

[Rogge]

The first 50 years of my Romani campaign follows. Don't start reading unless you got a few minutes to spare ;)


262 BC

During the first 10 years nothing interesting really happens. As you can see there's some action from Ptolemaioi but not much apart from that.


252 BC

Two decades into the game and the heat is picking up. One of the more interesting things here is Epeiros who is taking off really well despite being kicked out of Italy early on. Epeiros and Koinon Hellenon is of course gang banging Makedonia who is on their own.
In Iberia Lusotannan is actually active but Carthage on the other hand is not. Apart from Sweboz slowly expanding things are quite in northern europe and the rest of the west.
In the east however things are stirring up. Pahlava are doing short work of Saka and unless something happen soon they will be destroyed within the next decade. And in the middle of that conflict we find Baktria with massive armies... that does nothing... They are allies with everyone and are obviously having trouble to find the nearby rebel provinces.
Hayasdan have been doing better than what you see from the minimap. They got a fair number of huge stacks moving so I predict the screen of the next decade will have more light blue in it.
Their neighbor, Pontos, have quite impressive armies as well but lack the initiative.
The usual clash between the titans of the east, Arche Seleukeia and Ptolemaioi, is in full action. Ptolemaioi have been winning up 'til now but after scouting the territory I find there's alot more white than yellow armies about. I predict the tide is about to turn.
Also Saba is in a bit of trouble. I believe it's fate hangs on the war in the north.


242 BC

Another decade later we can see some really interesting development. Sweboz is on a killing spree, grabbing rebel state after rebel state. Their territory is full of activity. But other than that western Europe is rather sleepy, besides my obvious expansion that is. Casse does seem to be ready to go off soon though.
Greece is active, but the wars doesn't seem to go in anyones favor. Epeiros and Koinon Hellenon are still smashing their armies against Makedonia, but not much have happened for the 30 years or so this war has been raging. Epeiros seems rather drained as well, no real armies are present. Disaster might be around the corner. North of that conflict Getai finally is waking up and expanding. And in Anatolia both KH and Makedonia have grabbed themselves a province. But considering how divided and friendless Makedonia is I doubt they'll keep their new addition for long.

Further east Hayasdan have been expanding, although not quite as much as I thought they would. They are still at peace with the great empire in the south but I doubt that'll last for very long. Pontos aren't quite as lucky though, they are getting eaten by Arche Seleukeia at this very moment.
As I predicted the war between the titans did turn in Arche Seleukeias favor and they've been retaking what they lost previously.
However, Pahlava obviously took a shot and aimed for the empires back and it is left for the future to tell whether it can fight a two front war. Due to this Saba is safe for now.
Pahlava did have the chance to finish Saka off but made it a client kingdom instead. Big mistake I say because they have now rebelled and is thus making it hard for Pahlava to focus on Arche.


232 BC

It took 40 years for Casse to start moving but for the last decade they really have been moving. Sweboz continue to expand and will soon reach the black sea at this pace.
Carthage finally woke up from it's sleep. They declared war against me and have been expanding a bit in mainland Africa.
The stalemate in Greece has reached 30 years now but to be honest I don't think Makedonia will be able to last much longer since they lost their province in Anatolia. Also Pontos is on the verge of being swept away by Arche Seleukeia. I doubt they will make it to the next screenshot.
Their Hayasdan neighbors are doing much better though. Exploding into the steppes and commanding massive armies. There is still peace between them and AS but the whole area is about to blow, this can't last much longer.

The greatest heap of kudos I give to AS though. They are winning in the east, west, north and south. I've no idea how they manage considering they are at war with 6 factions at the same time. They've been completely wiping the floor with the Ptolemies and there doesn't seem to be any stop in them. Things do not look well at all for the yellow empire in the south. I suspect they will soon lose their key cities and after that they are finished.


222 BC

Now I'm starting to get worried. Sweboz are beginning to get a bit more powerful than I'm comfortable with. Also as the good caring neighbors they are they decided to backstab me. We'll see how that will affect their expansion to the east because at this pace they'll soon enter the Greece slaughter grounds swinging.
Makedonia finally got kicked out of their homeland and they are hanging by the grass at the moment. You have to give them creds for their talent of survival though. I've been trying to help them out a bit but my treasuries are being drained and I'm fighting hard just to keep what I've gained.
KH and Epeiros got bored after kicking out Makedonia so they went looking for a new opponent. Me... They've been sending full stack after full stack to Krete and it's costing me, alot. They've actually drained almost the entire population of the island and unless something change soon they will actually win that war due to the fact there is no men to re-enforce the garrison. A war lost from population attrition, that'd be a first...

But I fear there is more to it than me losing a province. The war must have affected mainland greece in a similar way as it goes roughly 3 greeks for every fallen kretan in their sieges. And the beast in the east is moving... I fear that when they reach Greece there wont be much to oppose them and that could really hurt the balance in the world. I do NOT wish to become neighbor with that empire for atleast another 50 years.

I give Ptolemaioi another decade, two tops. And after that I don't think there will be anything that can stand in the beasts way until they reach me. Considering the fact they are already fighting all their neighbors on all fronts... and winning.
I had hoped for Hayasdan to put up a fight but they are clearly losing.

As a side note it can be mentioned that Baktria have taken it's first province in 50 years!

Oh and yeah, Pontos couldn't make it for the last screenshot. They send their regards anyways.

[Ower]

The reason why we once again see the Gray death in action, is due to script help, they receave 1200 for each city they have, and thay begin whit more than 20. this is what the money script thread in the unofical modiff. projects tries to solve.

[Mordecai]

THis is from my Seleuceia Campaign 220 BC on BI.exe



I took this just after I wiped out Ptolemy. Problem is I concentrated on destroying them for the last eight years and neglected the upkeep of my cities. Now I'm overrun with rebels, and my armies are spread all over the desert. Rome finally invaded sicily, but Epiros is huge, and in alliance with Makedon. The Hai and I are in a Ceasefire while the Pahlava are still in alliance, but I'm going to attack them soon. I say the next 60 years of my campaign will be good fighting.

[Warmaster Horus]

My advice to you is: secure the southern part of Armenia (before the steppes), defeat the eastern nomads (Pahlav, Saka) and then concentrate on Makedon and Epeiros, both all at once (treat them more or less like one faction, since they're allied).

This time the Grey Death is justified.

And if anyone's interested, Epeiros behaves in the exact same manner in my Romani campaign at 248 BC. Going north to expand, and encountering the Sweboz. They don't go against Makedon, though.

[Shifty_GMH]

Continuation of post # 461

Romani Campaign @ 240 BC with EB v0.81a using RTW.exe. Playing on H/M.



Currently at war with: Karthadastim, Lusotannan, and Sweboz.

Have recently sacked Kart-Hadast & Adrumeto. Had no intention of holding on to them yet.

Currently have 5 legions. Have a legion heading to take Arse (must deal with the traitorous Lusotannans), one to take Mastia (has 1.75 stacks defending it plus the garrison...should prove interesting), and one legion heading to take Iuvavoaeta. As far as my other two legions... One is in Volcallra defending against possible Arverni incursions and the other is in Pannonia Illyrica fighting wave after wave of Germans.

I am currently paying the following factions to fight other factions: Aedui to fight the Arverni, the Arverni to fight the Sweboz, the Maks to fight the Epeiros, and KH to fight Epeiros.

Future plans: kick Carthage off the Iberian Peninsula (then probably see if they will finally agree to a ceasefire), take Vindobona, possibly take Veldideno, possibly take Ak-Ink, raid/sack Lusotannan towns, and raid/sack Sweboz towns. Will have to raise another legion or two for the raiding missions though.

[Dan_Grr]

Seeing this thread reminds me how grateful I am for playing EB with the money script. Fighting half a dozen stacks per turn is nothing sort of burnout.

[Redmeth]

The Eleutheroi clearly need to be stronger like in the money script it really helps in stopping the Sweboz expanding all the way to the steppes so quickly and making the Getai stronger also helps stopping this freakish-mass-stack-producing-making-your-Romani-campaign-boring faction.

[Redmeth]

Sauromate 200 BC

My western invasion against the Maks is beginning in the meantime I'm planning to take out Baktria and provoke rebellions in India with my team of spies.
The Lusitans after kicking Carthage out are going hard against the Aedui, who are also at war with the Sweboz and Romanii. The Getai were blitzed by the Maks in a great invasion in a couple of turns they were left only with Gawjam Bastarnoz but they rebuilt by going north and west into Sweboz lands, the AS are quite crippled by now and the Ptolies are holding on for their dear life.(Epeiros too)
The KH after many years of moving into Sicliy and southern Italy (they took Taras from Epeiros very early) have been wiped out by the Romans.
Saba has grown bold and sent 2 stacks and declared war.
Saka and Pahlava and soon Baktria will be crushed by me.
And Carthage is behaving very weirdly check out this thread:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...68#post1533868

[ereunao]

Has anyone seen those Lusotanns go quite like this? (Apologies for bad cropping - I really don't know how to work this thing)



This is 0.81a in 230 BC, no help given to AI. The Romani appear done for. They fled the "Storm from the West", but the Sweboz & Epirotes refused to make room.

[eta: I'm Hayasdan btw]

[LordCurlyton]

My Mak campaign, 198 BC. Take a guess as to what part of the craziness is directly my doing, and what part is AI related...

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Has anyone seen those Lusotanns go quite like this? (Apologies for bad cropping - I really don't know how to work this thing)



This is 0.81a in 230 BC, no help given to AI. The Romani appear done for. They fled the "Storm from the West", but the Sweboz & Epirotes refused to make room.

[eta: I'm Hayasdan btw]

wow, that's awesome. I like what Pontos and the Aedui have done too. Very nice.

[Redmeth]

Sauromatae campaign now in 195 BC, check a couple of posts back for the 200 BC pic:


Look what the Lusitans and Romans did to the Aedui in just 5 years.
Carthage finally moved and started a war with the Romans who seem to be responding although I've seen that they make peace for a few turns and then fight again, most be the trade-oriented groups of interest who are pushing for peace.
Baktria is out and I'm using spies and raiding cities and letting them rebel in order to take out AS's presence in the east.
I took Sidon, Palmyra and Damascos and gave them to the Ptolies and right now I'm helping them push back the forces sent to take them back.
I'm thinking about giving them Bostra and Hyerosolyma but I'm not sure if they get strong enough in that area they might make peace with the Seleucids and attack me.
The Maks are putting up a fight but right now a great army is mustering in the steppes this army will raid Pella and Demetrias and maybe Athens in order to cripple them.
And the KH who are edging out a living on Crete surrounded by a couple of peace-keeping Mak armies just had Messana rebel to them.
And the Casse are really pissing me off they're standing around with about 800K in their treasury and 2 stacks in Ireland and they still haven't even crossed the border to see where the road to southern Ireland leads. They are the only faction that is able to support themselves without any AI bonus money BTW, as in my script I have an 100.000 cutoff point for the bonus, they got their money before using the Script but Carthage came down from 1.6 million to about 800.000 in 23 years of using my script.
Playing on VH/M with my own money script.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=83349

[Shifty_GMH]

Continuation of post # 518

Romani Campaign - Winter 237 BC with EB v0.81a using RTW.exe. Playing on H/M.



Check out the German Empire I am facing. They really want Segestica and are throwing wave after wave at me.

Epeiros is pushing the Getai hard. They will probably lose their southern provinces soon.

The Maks will soon only exist in Asia Minor.

KH is holding it's own against Epeiros and gaining ground against AS.

The Gauls seem to be only focused on each other.

Carthage is finally making some moves against rebels in Western Africa.

The Sab'yn seem to have totally vanished in the last 3 years. Kind of strange.

All eastern factions seem to be doing fairly well against AS. They are either holding their own or expanding.

[Matic]

Qarthadastim Campaign, 252 BC, VH/M, BI.exe

Sweboz, Getai, Aedui, Sauromatae, and Hayasdan are all pretty much loafing around. (they've been like this in all the campaigns i've played up until now, too )

What's interesting is that Bactria and Pahlava seem to be more interested in picking apart Arche Seleukia rather than expanding into rebel lands, and doing quite well too.

[Ravenfeeder]

Kart-Hadast 253bc, BI.exe VH/M v0.81a.2

Interesting for the Epirote expansion and the new Ptolemaic kingdom in Asia minor

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Bizarre Greek/Mac expansion raven. You can tell it's BI for sure by looking at Rhodes, Crete, and Cyprus.

[Redmeth]

Sauromatae now in 189 BC:

I'm trying to give back the Getai their homeland back as it's not in my VC's , also using the Ptolies as a buffer against what's left of the Seleucids, the last eastern Seleucid province will fall within the year.
In Greece I took Pella for myself gave Demetrias to Epeiros and now I'm trying to track the KH who are holed up in Messana to give them Athens and maybe Sparta after I raid them very soon but I can't get there:

The Romans blocked the Sicily crossing as the Carthies landed there too.
The Lusitans and Romans seem equally matched on the western front and the Aedui are thinking how the hell did they lose their great empire so quickly (look some posts behind for more of my posts)
The Romans have landed!!!

A roman army landed on Lesbos and laid siege to my city so my first battle vs the romans is about to begin hope i can get a ceasefire after the victory as I'm not bordering them anywhere (I was but gave Sarmiszegethusa to the Getai)
I started recruiting Drapanai, Komatai and Iaosatae in my armies and are great complements to my HAs and very few Galatian Wild-men. I really enjoy getting new troops to build in my allied states and thinking of new army compositions. I tried not to use phalanxes as it would be too easy and conventional (hammer&anvil) but rather my cheap spearmen or "freed people" as I call them Galatians, Thracians, Getai, Hindus and the rest of the people that love my regime of low taxes and all I ask for is green pastures for my herds. Well of course I exterminated them when I conquered but they forget quickly enough
Saba is stationing some troops along my border but have kept out my territories after the beating I gave them about a decade ago.
My caravans are crossing my entire empire from India to Pella which is just sweet.
That's all for now.

[Griever14206]

My Romani Campaign as of 241 BC, just RTW 1.5 and Force Diplomacy mod. Very interesting in this campaign is the all-around expansion by the factions into rebel provinces. The Arverni, Lusotannan, and Casse are all expanding early. Carthage, in spite of the absolute thrashing they recieved in Sicily and Southern Italy, have actually expanded their holdings in southern Iberia.

But perhaps the greatest surprise of all is Greece. After conquering much of Makedonia's holdings in the Hellas, they have actually invaded Asia Minor and are warring with the Seleucid Empire, who has already conquered Memphis and Alexandria, making the demise of the Ptolemaic Empire a formality. The Hayasdan and Pontus also seem to be doing well, both getting started early on the nearby rebel cities, which although is not a breakthrough, is to my understanding somewhat rare. I believe the only faction that has yet to expand are the Sauromatae, but they have a couple half-stacks roaming around.

[Matic]

224 BC, Casse Campaign, BI.exe

Saba has Seleukia . Carthage recently went to war with the Koinon and Ptolemaioi after losing its war with Rome. Lusotannan is all but defeated after a monstrous full stack of rebels assaulted their expansion forces. I've been in a stalemate with the Aedui and Sweboz, hoping the reforms in 4 years will help me out some . Sweboz obtained most of its eastern territory from the Sauromatae after a few rebellions. Hayasdan is falling after a sudden blitz on the Seleukids, and Pahlav is all but defeated by the Baktrians.

Sorry for the bad explanations .

[Ludens]

Casse, 229 BC.



EB 0.81a on the BI.exe, no modifications apart from the formation files and some minor changes.

Casse, 217 BC



My plan unfolded as expected, although the Sweboz managed to sneak up an army up to Swebotraustastamnoz and retake it while I was distracted in the south. My army came just to late to prevent the city from being stormed, but I am now laying siege to the former besiegers. Unfortunatly, small forces of Sweboz troops are threatening the northern and southern outpost of Gwamjam-Kimbroz and Gwamjam-Hattoz. I've got another army at Belgic Bagacos, but the Audui keep them occupied. They arte continually sending armies composed mostly of Lugoae, supplemented by around two units of Gaesatae and a smattering of other units. My Belgic force eats these stacks for breakfast, but they do prevent me from leaving Bagacos to protect my German acquisitions.

I am now planning to replace the Germanic Gaeroas garissons with lugoae to safe money and free these troops for offensive operations. My priorities are to retake Sweboztraustamnoz, relieve Gwamjam-Hattoz and take Gwamjam-Skandroz (and possibly Gwamjam-Gotanoz). Beyond that, I do not intend to expand further against the Sweboz. Their cities are not very profitable, they don't offer anything to recruit beyond Framejeharjoz, and I think I succeeded in severely weakening them: this is their first major attack since I've captured their capital and they have stopped offensive operations towards the Getai and Eleutheroi. However, this is going to take some running back and forth, because the Aedui and Sweboz won't leave me alone. If I succeed in this, I am going to blitz the Aedui. That won't be easy, though, as they have plenty of troops idling in their cities.

The Averni have lost two of their remaining territories. One of their stacks appears poised to invade northern Iberian town, but sofar they haven't worked up the nerve to do it. The Aedui are mainly busy with spamming lugoae and gaesatae to throw at me, although they did attempt to siege Averni-held Vesontio a few times. However, they got bored each time and decided to retreat. Apart from me and the Averni, they are not at war with anyone.

The Lusotanians have all but kicked the Carthegians out of Iberia. Carthage only hold Arse, and their garison is pitiful. They do have two full stacks on the Baleares, but these show no interest in attacking the tiny Roman garisson. They also lost Kyrene to the rebels. In theory, the Carthaginian economy so allow them to be a formidable power, but they aren't doing anything with that money. Rome, on the other hand, has been focused on taking Illyria. They've lost interest in Gaul after taking Averni-held Gergovia and Medilanum. Suprisingly, they aren't at war with the Aedui of Sweboz, although they are still with the Averni.

The Getai are holding their own and have actually managed to expand a bit, although they still appear afraid of the Sweboz with whom they are at war (they are allied with me, the Averni, the Romans, the KH and the Sarmartians. The KH has been doing pretty well, and have kicked the Makedons from mainland Greece while reducing the Epirotes to a single town (Epidamnos) and a stack at Rhodos (which is acting in the usual way of AI controlled stacks by doing nothing). Makedon, however, have taken Pergamon from the KH and are now sieging Pontic-held Nikaia.

The Grey death has lost the alliances of it's previous subjects (Pontus, Armenia, Pahlava and Bactria) and is actually at war with Pontus, but this does not appear to have bothered them that much. They pretty much taken apart the Saba: althoug the latter still have four towns, half of them are besieged by the Seleucids. In Libya the Seleucids have lost two towns to the rebels and one to the Ptolemies, but the latter barely have any troops left. However, the Seleucids have either lost or moved most of their stacks from the area; they've only a single stack that appears intent on offensive action (against the Ptolemic town south of Kyrene). The Seleucids did expand into India (although again they don't have any mobile stacks in the are) and a stack is moving towards the Pontic capital. The Armenians have captured two towns and thrown out the Sarmatians. They are not at war however, and neither are the Parthians and the Sarmatians, even though the latter took a town of the former. The Parthians are still sieging the eastern of the two Sake towns, but are otherwise not engaged in warfare. Neither are the Bactrians, who managed to take Sulek and are moving towards Kophen.

[Redmeth]

Sauromatae 179BC:

I'm steadily progressing towards meeting my very ambitious VC's:

The Carthaginians are challenging the Romans and have taken Sicily, the region was destabilized by the people of Messana joining the newly strengthened Koinon Hellenon who I put in place to stop the Macedonian control over Greece. The Carthies so this as an opportunity and landed 2 stacks, took Messana then Syrakousai and Lilibeo and beat back some impressive Roman armies they have a good general and mostly elite troops, judging by the little my diplomat could make of their army.

And now the Carthies have done something I have not seen them do before they're crossing the Gibraltar straits into Iberia and trying to reclaim their long lost possessions with two full stacks!:

The AS has now wiped out the Ptolies from Africa, the Saba keep trying every 5 years or so to take Seleukeia but I keep pushing them back.
The Ptolies have a stack on Rhodos but can't bring themselves to attack the city which is garrisoned only by the governor. 15 years or so ago they were down to Meroe and the province to the east of it, when I decided to help them and myself by giving them the cities which they now inhabit and to keep the AS off my back, it worked but now they lost their African possessions and I hope they won't turn on me. Just in case, I keep a 3/4 stack in their territory to ward off any big AS invasion they can't handle or raid the crap out of their cities it hey get any ideas and try to attack me.
Rebellions are a problem in the the far east but I manage to quell them even if it might take awhile. Gava-Saka is especially rebellious. The three other rebel provinces in the south- ast are of no interest to me and I like them the way they are.
The Sweboz, Aedui, Romanii and Lusitans are allying, warring making peace and repeating the process in different setups quite often. The Aedui have become recently a Lusitan protectorate.
And I pulled off a nice diplomatic maneuver I took Gawjam-Bastarnoz and Buridava from the Getai then gave them 50000 mhai & Buridava in exchange for peace & trade rights and they accepted, it might take a lot of gold but even on VH the AI is not absurd.
The Casse are not willing to take Ivernis, I even moved one of their generals to the city gates and he just stood there for a few years and then wandered off.
I'm very happy about what Carthage is doing, BI is great with naval invasions!
Check the posts behind in order to see how this evolved. I'll make a separate thread when I complete my campaign to show off the progress through time.
Thanks for this great mod!!
P.S.: Playing with BI and my money-script, JMRC's victory conditions and mlp0701 mercenary file (I don't know if the last two have any effect as I inserted them in an ongoing campaign)

[Conqueror]

Seleukid campaign, 208 BC:



It's been an uphill struggle for me, as it seems that everyone views me as some big bloated monster bent on world domination (wonder why...) and thus I'm under attack on several fronts. By forcing protectorate status on Baktria, Saba and Pontos, I've taken some heat off my borders and I can finally spare the resources for an offensive against the Sauromatae. I'm turtling against Pahlava, Koinon and Karthadast while systematically exterminating Sauromatae settlements in the Caucasus. Anything I conquer in that region is given to Pontos, to build up a buffer zone that'll keep the nomad hordes off my back.

As to the AI factions, Karthadastim are doing nicely against the Romani in south, who are too focused on expading north. They have driven the Aedui to the Atlantic coast and are giving the Sweboz a good beating. Casse are comfortably sitting on their islands. Greece is dominated by the KH and Eastern Europe is being fought over by Getai, Sweboz and Sauromatae. Lusotanans have hogged up most of Iberia but seem to have stopped expanding further.

[NeoSpartan]

HEY how did you get them to be a protectorate?????

[Conqueror]

By using the force diplomacy mod (after I gave them a good thrashing and parked an army next to their capital city, of corse).

[NeoSpartan]

By using the force diplomacy mod (after I gave them a good thrashing and parked an army next to their capital city, of corse).

hum... can I use that mod in an ALREADY existing game?????

[Conqueror]

IIRC, yes you can.

[Sakkura]

Romani, 230 BC in 0.81a v2


Lusotannan were expanding into eleutheroi settlements early and at a good pace, while Carthage were stalling after losing Sicily to me early on. Later, Lusotannan took the opportunity to grab a Carthaginian city in Spain while I was beating them in a premature 2nd Punic war. After that, Lusotannan took most of the rest of Spain and started advancing into Gaul fast.
Carthage then started slowly taking eleutheroi cities in Africa.

Aedui lost Mediolanum to me around 260, and then they were slugging it out with Arverni for supremacy in Gaul. I eventually allied with them, but did not assist them in slowly beating the Arverni and making them a protectorate. I did assist them once Lusotannan began conquering Gaul with multiple stacks containing huge amounts of elite troops, especially Dosidataskeli. I went to war with Lusotannan, gave some Gaul cities back to Aedui, raided others and kept a few for myself.

Sweboz have been gobbling up eleutheroi like there's no tomorrow. I decided to take some of their cities in the northern Balkans to make sure they didn't invade Greece. Ever since, they have been sending a steady stream (well, torrent) of stacks at me.

Getai are not moving at all. I have tried to ally with them and give them a city to get started, but they won't accept and I'm not using forced diplomacy (yet).

Epeiros were sending all their forces into Italy early on, but still lost against my legions. Since then they have been quite static, but eventually took Thermon.

KH defeated Makedonia very early on and made them a protectorate. They then expanded into Thrace and crossed into Asia Minor where they made Pontos a protectorate and recently took a city from AS.

Pontos were expanding early on, but were easily crushed by KH.

Hayasdan have taken a few eleutheroi settlements, not been in any major wars.

Sauromatae only expanded very, very slowly.

Pahlava and Saka Rauka both took some eleutheroi cities early, and since then they have been battling back and forth for control of the northeastern corner of the map.

Baktria expanded very well early on, but around 240 the AS started gobbling them up, and their days are certainly numbered now.

Saba expanded at a nice rate, and have been battling back and forth against the Ptolemies.

Ptolemies expanded in Syria, Asia Minor and into the AS heartland early on. But recently, AS have been pushing them back on every front, while they havent been able to subjugate Saba.

AS took some eleutheroi cities early on, and then began a decline, losing many cities to the Ptolemies and others, both in Asia Minor, Syria and towards Babylonia. But recently, they have rebounded strongly and are advancing on almost every front, especially against Baktria and the Ptolemies.