Roman AI heads to Poland?

**HistoryProf** · August 06, 2007, 08:27 AM

It seems whatever I play, the Roman AI heads to Pannonia, then further out to Poland. Usually makes peace with Carthage ASAP and forms a lasting Alliance with them. Any particular reason for it? Has anyone else noticed that?

**Foot** · August 06, 2007, 09:00 AM

That area (and the path to it) is full of rebel settlements, and the AI seem to prefer taking out the eleutheroi before attacking the other factions. I think that the position of the player faction helps as well.

Foot

**Callicles** · August 06, 2007, 09:45 AM

Also, they don't have to cross the Mediterranean that way. Its a shame, though. The Mediterranean is where all the economically attractive settlements are.

**Hookah Smoking Caterpiller** · August 06, 2007, 02:35 PM

I found that the romans did just that, invaded poland... it was werid seeing the Romans and Sweboz fighting for control of the baltic sea.

**Callicles** · August 06, 2007, 02:40 PM

Does playing with the BI.exe change their behavior?

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · August 06, 2007, 03:21 PM

Not really, they just love those 'rebel' settlements and will try to capture every 'rebel' that borders them before attacking another faction. What you are playing with doesn't seem to change that behavior code.

**delra** · August 06, 2007, 03:39 PM

There are just not enough of factions for a map of this size. Maybe when you move on to EB2 on M2TW, you will be able to fill in the map with more countries. You can have 199 factions in there..

**Krusader** · August 06, 2007, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by delra

There are just not enough of factions for a map of this size. Maybe when you move on to EB2 on M2TW, you will be able to fill in the map with more countries. You can have 199 factions in there..

30

199 provinces though.

**HistoryProf** · August 06, 2007, 05:21 PM

So, this time I raced up to and sacked Pannonia (I'm Pyrrhus) after dealing with the other Greeks, then left it ungarrisoned so the Aedui took it over after it rebelled and now Rome, though still allied with Carthage, is heading into Hispania instead. Oh, and when Taras rebels from Rome, I get 4-5 crappy Hoplites, but the Aedui had a half-stack of pretty righteous troops.

I was thinking a better fix would be to make Rome and Carthage really hate each other. Just something about seeing Romans in Poland and Lithuania seems so outlandish...

**Krusader** · August 06, 2007, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by HistoryProf

So, this time I raced up to and sacked Pannonia (I'm Pyrrhus) after dealing with the other Greeks, then left it ungarrisoned so the Aedui took it over after it rebelled and now Rome, though still allied with Carthage, is heading into Hispania instead. Oh, and when Taras rebels from Rome, I get 4-5 crappy Hoplites, but the Aedui had a half-stack of pretty righteous troops.

I was thinking a better fix would be to make Rome and Carthage really hate each other. Just something about seeing Romans in Poland and Lithuania seems so outlandish...

We have tried doing something about it, but problem is that the AI is hardcoded to go after rebels first, then its neighbours.

I think though we might fix it a bit better in EB2