Greatest campaign successes of the AI?

[HalfThere]

Name an instance you've seen of the AI, in vanilla, BI, or any mod, expand and prosper and even give you an unexpected run for you money. Give details too, I'd like to know if there were particular circumstances which may have brought about this strategic brilliance.
In other words, post stories of the AI acting smart!

I'm in an H/H scipii campaign in vanilla, quite early, and Carthage has just moved a full stack of men out of nowhere to beseige a city I've just taken. After BI, it's so freaky seeing a full stack as opposed to a bunch of tiny ones. Maybe Carthage won't stay brilliant, but I'm still hoping against hope.

[Maximus I]

Name an instance you've seen of the AI, in vanilla, BI, or any mod, expand and prosper and even give you an unexpected run for you money. Give details too, I'd like to know if there were particular circumstances which may have brought about this strategic brilliance.
In other words, post stories of the AI acting smart!

I'm in an H/H scipii campaign in vanilla, quite early, and Carthage has just moved a full stack of men out of nowhere to beseige a city I've just taken. After BI, it's so freaky seeing a full stack as opposed to a bunch of tiny ones. Maybe Carthage won't stay brilliant, but I'm still hoping against hope.

well i was playing EB and as julii house. almost conquered the whole italian peninsula. My economy flurished. everything was going great. But without even realizing it the frontier to the north(5 forts) was very vulnerable. As i was busy building my economy and towns, i missed the massive conscription of Gaul warriors, whom government was planning a massive attack. It was about 20 turns in the game, when all of the sudden hell broke loose. One after another my forts fell to the iron fist of the enemy. My generals almost completely died in battles to defend their motherland.But the Gaul AI was still pushing. Not knowing what to do. I quickly exited the game, uninstalled it from my PC, turned off my computer, got in the darkest corner of my room and was terrified,seeing visions of the whole italia faling under the onslaught of the barbarians

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well i was playing EB and as julii house. almost conquered the whole italian peninsula. My economy flurished. everything was going great. But without even realizing it the frontier to the north(5 forts) was very vulnerable. As i was busy building my economy and towns, i missed the massive conscription of Gaul warriors, whom government was planning a massive attack. It was about 20 turns in the game, when all of the sudden hell broke loose. One after another my forts fell to the iron fist of the enemy. My generals almost completely died in battles to defend their motherland.But the Gaul AI was still pushing. Not knowing what to do. I quickly exited the game, uninstalled it from my PC, turned off my computer, got in the darkest corner of my room and was terrified,seeing visions of the whole italia faling under the onslaught of the barbarians

Haha, now you know how the AI feels

[Sétanta]

i think i am going to ruin your fun

but the AI in my games never does anything smart except for dying
the AI seems to be purdy good at that
and it makes me giggle

[Suleiman I]

Well... I once had an AI charge his general that was leading a unit of cavalry auxilia straight into my Phalanx Pikemen.. wait... that's not smart. Sorry.

[MasterAdnin]

Haha, now you know how the AI feels

That would actually be cool. I would like to be on the defensive for once, instead of having to always move my armies and attack.

Adnan

[Dragosani]

In an older version of RTR, i was playing as the Germans (VH/VH) and i had my entire army knocking on rome's doors after i crushed the gauls... it was a hard battle, but i eventually got to rome. i was constantly fighting here for ages, BUT eventually macedon became a juggernaut and suddenly started picking my eastern settlements, but with all my armies to the south, i didn't have enough cash / time to launch much at them... and whatever i did got eaten by their stacks and stacks of spearmen! they took like 6 settlements in 10 years.. ouch! :sweatingb. they whipped me because i didnt have enough units to fight effectively against so many spearmen.... they sent probably about 6 or 7 full armies of spearmen, but i never got to finish that game. a new version of RTR came out. that was the best challenge the AI gave me - too bad i gave them the opportunity to thrash me!

[Slaxx Hatmen]

I'd have to say during BI when the Sassanids were beating me(ERE) all the way to Constantinople itself! And they were acting very tacticly smart by using big forces to take out my armys, and little war partys to take my smaller towns. And on top of that they were asking me to surrender as a protectorate! And I was the one refusing!(its wierd how ironic that is!)

In the end I was saved by retreating to Egypt when the Huns and Goths came down form the north, and me and the Persians signed a peace treaty and trade rights and I quite the game.(best to leave it where it was, besides i was dirt poor and my troops were crap)

Best campiagn of BI I ever played. Only thing I didint like was that the WRE was owning everybody.

[Angarah]

Once I was playing as the Britons, and was about halfway through a massive war with Gaul. They came to me begging for ceasefire, and I agreed under the terms that they give me all their towns except their capital. I always do this, just in case I get lucky. Well, the Gauls agreed, as long as I gave them 50,000, about a third of my treasury. i thought, what the hell, and agreed.

About 5 turns later, while I was busy fighting in Spain, the Julii stabbed me in the back. Our alliance was instantly turned upside down. Next thing I know, Gaul had declared war as well, and now I was fighting a war with no allies and about 5 enemies. Gaul quickly took two towns from me and threatened to start into my lands.

The next part was a lot of fun for me. I quickly massed a full stack in three turns and drove back the advancing Gaul army. This pretty much is the end of their victories. I sailed my army in Spain over to southern Gaul and started into Italy with two full stacks. So far I've taken Segesta and Arretium.

Anyway, I just thought the whole turn-my-allies against me bit was a fairly smart move by the Julii. Too bad they weren't smart enough to realize who they were messing with.....

[GeneralLee]

I was playing as the ERE in BI and I came up with what I thought was a brilliant tactic. Every time I took a Sassinid settlement I actively encouraged a rebellion. Letting the eastern rebels deal with the hassle and cost of converting, repopulating, and repairing the settlement. Once they were done I planned to retake the settlement and it's now "roman" populace. Unfortunately the rebels did a much better job of this than I had expected, attacking and taking Antioch and threatening the rest of my med. cities while my armies delt with the sassinid remains in eastern Armenia, I recalled my armies in time and retook the lost territories. This was either on the hardest or second hardest setting, Imperator I think.

[Seleucus I Nicator]

I'm playing a Scipii campaign, and the Brutii has expanded into Greece, where they got cash to field huge armies, which they in turn used to expand all the way up to Scythia. But their expansion stopped there, due to numerous rebellions. They have 12+ full stack armies of quality soldiers to field against my two full stacks.

I will might post an pic' of how the campaign map looks like later.

[Slimshoom]

on H/H, Egypt taking all of Africa and Asia Minor, and almost defeating the Brutii until the Julii (me), left my conquering in Iberia, and defeated Egypt easily with 10 legions (i have a standard post-marian reform army that i make)

[guyyug]

you wont beleive this one but i was playin on VH/H and the numedians took carthage hold back the sicpii and marched into egypt and has taken all of africa and egypt sadly my save wouldnt load so i couldnt see that they did next

[Fuji]

Ptolemies in every campaign, take entire seleucid empire, attack carthage, go north, pontus, armenia, parthia,.., nobody's safe, then i came (Germania) after Italia i attacked Carthago (ptolemies) the result= to many falanx armies aka to many easy victories, i mean germania (RTR) has got untis who all have spear, add some merc elephant and an excellent (spear throwing of course..) german cavalry and your man in cloats will conquer the deserts...

[PyrrhusIV]

I was playing as the Brutii in Vanilla 1.2, actually, i'll have to go find the link to that campaign story, I wrote it more than a year ago.

Anyhow, i'll tell you of one instance in that one campaign. The first was "Bisaltes the Cruel" of Carthage. A decent general, he was the faction heir (After most of the "royal family" was killed) to Carthago. As the Brutii, I managed to Capture Carthage and Thapsus, though taking heavy casulties (long campaign story hehe) and carved out a decent kingdom. Bisaltes had survived with some 2,200 men however, and positioned a fort between Carthage and Thapsus.

Now, You have to understand what situation I was in. My Roman-African holdings, were not extremely secure. I assume I had some 750 Romans, and probably 1,200 Mercenaries employed in the defense of the Whole North African Kingdom. Of the 1,900 men, only 300 were cavalry. So, logically, I could only field an army of around 1,000 men.

I thought, "Hey, I have tough experienced Romans", so, I went after Bisaltes. He managed not to only destroy my army, but kill the general. I think I fought Bisaltes over a period of 32 YEARS in the game, before he died. And, to be ironic, when he died, he died not fighting me. I had been kicked out of Northern Africa 2 Years earlier by a Numidian "horde" of men. He had survived and managed to hold on for two more years before dieing of old age. Oh, and if you are wondering how he didnt turn into a rebel, Carthage still owned a little land fighting the Julii in Spain. Of course, I did send Reinforcements to North Africa to fight Bisaltes, but he was one good AI general .

While i lost in Africa though, I managed to Conquer Gaul, 90% of Britannia, 70% of Germania, Greece and Macedon, Thrace, and even a little of The Far East.

For a Tale of a Remarkable AI, one that gave me the greatest challenge ever in RTW, click on the Below Link:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...19&postcount=4

[Libertine]

RTR, i just turtle campaign with my Illyrians and i got invaded by a full stack of macedonian pezhetairoi :O But luckily I had lots of overpowerd Illyrian Hoplitai so i was ok

[Siddyus]

RTW, when I was playing the Roman Julii for about 40 yrs I was under the complete harassment of the Gaul army and until now I am still unable to counterattack them(since they have about 40K-50K soldiers guarding their borders from northern Italy up to the deep barbarian homelands. but atleast they had stop invading Rome. Also, the Macedonians have managed to conquer most the Dacian and Greek homelands and managed to destroy every Roman armies who entered eastern EU. And Carthage eventhough they only have like 2 settlements they managed to resist all sieges by the Roman Scipii. Atleast now in my current Roman campaign the Romans arent really that Godlike. lol

[shadowarmy75]

In my Roman campaign in RTR, when I attacked Phyyrus I decimated his troops that I saw and left him with his lone general left. (Or so it would seem) I charged my only calvalry,(my Preatoria) after him. He hid a unit of Thressolonian calvalry in the woods. They killed my general and all of his bodyguards. I then marched all my proper Roman soldiers into the forest to deal with this threat and found 3-4 units of hoplites. My infantry was decimated and I was able to escape with a few unitrs totalling 100 people. I then marched them up with my italian spearmen and swordsmen. Long story short, I was defeated but his whole army was left with only a few hundred people. It was a real Phyyric victory. I guess, I would have won if I wasn't so careless but you dont think the AI would do something like this.

[Fabolous]

Name an instance you've seen of the AI, in vanilla, BI, or any mod, expand and prosper and even give you an unexpected run for you money. Give details too, I'd like to know if there were particular circumstances which may have brought about this strategic brilliance.
In other words, post stories of the AI acting smart!

In EB, I did some work to try and make the Romans more aggresive and succeded, and now they are quite the force to be reckoned with. They have taken all Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Illyria, and are working into Greece, Macedon, and on the other side, spain. I am playing as Bactria, and while things are going quite well for me, they will be quite the faction when we meet up, probably in asia minor. Never seen the AI do so well, guess I might have to mod the romans down, but that is okay, they are too easy a faction in EB anyways...

[HalfThere]

In EB, I did some work to try and make the Romans more aggresive and succeded, and now they are quite the force to be reckoned with. They have taken all Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Illyria, and are working into Greece, Macedon, and on the other side, spain. I am playing as Bactria, and while things are going quite well for me, they will be quite the faction when we meet up, probably in asia minor. Never seen the AI do so well, guess I might have to mod the romans down, but that is okay, they are too easy a faction in EB anyways...

Could you say how you modded them?