is palmyra a pushover in empire divided?

[Virgin with rage]

i didnt even get to fight her, ive just barely taken parts of italy and she decided to go to war with the galatians as well as egypt and took neither province, then after that the persians and their puppets came in and cut up her land aswell

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221190885

kind of a bummer, i was hoping to fight her

[HyggeDane]

if you play as palmyra you start out being at war with egypt, and galatia declares war shortly after. 2 wars in oposite ends of the empire, besides that the sassanids is a bomb waiting to exlplode. all explained when the campaign is started.

so as a faction, i dont think palmyra a pushover, but the location and initial diplomatic status makes it hard for the ai.
playing as palmyra though is awesome :)

hope this is in any way usefull.

[Corvo Maltés]

I played as the Goths and she invaded all aurelian territory and half of Italy, when playing as Rome she got destroyed in 10/15 turns. Sometimes it does attack like crazy and sometimes it gets recked.

[Elliott]

Palmyra has been almost destroyed on my campaign too. The only main roman faction that seems to have any luck is Gallic Rome. In my own Palmyra campaign Gallic rome has seized almost all of the Roman Pretenders lands. Meanwhile I've seen Aurelian get destroyed twice by goths.

It's a shame I would have liked to see Aurelian do better even if it meant giving him some cheats so hes more likely to win against the other AI.

[Virgin with rage]

Originally posted by Elliott:

Palmyra has been almost destroyed on my campaign too. The only main roman faction that seems to have any luck is Gallic Rome. In my own Palmyra campaign Gallic rome has seized almost all of the Roman Pretenders lands. Meanwhile I've seen Aurelian get destroyed twice by goths.

It's a shame I would have liked to see Aurelian do better even if it meant giving him some cheats so hes more likely to win against the other AI.

funny enouph roman pretenders were taking land from gallic rome in my campaign

[Bruno Magno]

In my campaign Palmyra had the same end. They attacked the Gallatians and i mobilized an army to help my clients, but before my army arrived, both the Gallatin and The Sassanids had completely destroyed Palmyra.

[Sargeist]

I've been playing the Sassanids. AI palmyra left their provinces undefended. All their armies were away fighting Lydia, Galatia and Rome allowing me to easily steamroll their home provinces. I imagine something similiar could happen in other campaigns since the AI doesn't handle wars on multiple fronts well.

[Virgin with rage]

Originally posted by Ahriman:

I've been playing the Sassanids. AI palmyra left their provinces undefended. All their armies we're away fighting Lydia, Galatia and Rome allowing me to easily steamroll their home provinces. I imagine something similiar could happen in other campaigns since the AI doesn't handle wars on multiple fronts well.

i know how you feel, in my aurelian campaign egypt took all of judea from palmyra with 0 resistance then he randomly declared war on some of the red sea african factions and they took the entire province of egypt because he didnt have any armies besides one in judea

[Elliott]

Originally posted by Ahriman:

I've been playing the Sassanids. AI palmyra left their provinces undefended. All their armies we're away fighting Lydia, Galatia and Rome allowing me to easily steamroll their home provinces. I imagine something similiar could happen in other campaigns since the AI doesn't handle wars on multiple fronts well.

Yes which is why I always fear a big group of smaller factions united in hatred than one large AI faction. The big ones always leave gaps and dont field enough armies while a group of small factions will have 2 large armies each and try to overrun your settlements.

For this reason Sassanids in Attila were always strong if the player was not there to check them thanks to their legions of satrapys. And its the same thing now with Empire Divided excpet no White huns to raid them. Sassanids are pushing into egypt and asia minor in my Gallic Rome campaign!