King John II
10-20-2003, 12:43
In my first game or two foreign princesses began routinely to refuse my proposals once I had become the dominant power. But now they turn their noses up at my princes from the off.
I have tried training up a couple of three star ambassadors (by successfully bribing rebels) but with no more luck than before.
I managed a series of marriages in one game by reason of being allied to the french (who seem to be the faction the AI loves to hate) and each time the french had to choose between remaining allied to me or to a faction declaring war upon me they would choose the other faction and, in the same turn, after cancelling the alliance with me they would re-forge it by accepting a proposal of marriage.
In neither my current game nor the one just finished have I achieved a single marriage.
I play an aggressive style atacking from the off which, I suspect, contributes to this. But I wonder if there are diplomatic measures I am overlooking. Are co-religionists more amenable and should I therefor make seeking out co-religionist princesses my ambassador's first task? Or are there quicker ways to train up my ambassadors? I have made various attempts at that - the ground rule seems to be that proposing an alliance or cease fire has almost as little chance of success as proposing marriage - even turning down an offer of an alliance so as to make the proposal to the same faction myself does not seem to work.
I use assasins to kill off special units coming into my own territory but I usually manage to prevent them going into the territory of others. And I don't break alliances. So, as far as I know it is just rapid expansion which is getting up the AI factions' noses.
Unless its some personal hygene problem, of course. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Suggestions from anyone else playing on hard who also plays an expansionist game straight in would be welcome. My games so far have been begun in the early period but I'm guessing it will be much the same when I get around to trying high or late.
Oh, and my kings have not produced a daughter for three games either. But in the first game or two it was much the same story with my own princesses - they pursued foreign prines shamelessly but were destined to die spinsters (I don't marry them to my own nobles).
I have tried training up a couple of three star ambassadors (by successfully bribing rebels) but with no more luck than before.
I managed a series of marriages in one game by reason of being allied to the french (who seem to be the faction the AI loves to hate) and each time the french had to choose between remaining allied to me or to a faction declaring war upon me they would choose the other faction and, in the same turn, after cancelling the alliance with me they would re-forge it by accepting a proposal of marriage.
In neither my current game nor the one just finished have I achieved a single marriage.
I play an aggressive style atacking from the off which, I suspect, contributes to this. But I wonder if there are diplomatic measures I am overlooking. Are co-religionists more amenable and should I therefor make seeking out co-religionist princesses my ambassador's first task? Or are there quicker ways to train up my ambassadors? I have made various attempts at that - the ground rule seems to be that proposing an alliance or cease fire has almost as little chance of success as proposing marriage - even turning down an offer of an alliance so as to make the proposal to the same faction myself does not seem to work.
I use assasins to kill off special units coming into my own territory but I usually manage to prevent them going into the territory of others. And I don't break alliances. So, as far as I know it is just rapid expansion which is getting up the AI factions' noses.
Unless its some personal hygene problem, of course. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Suggestions from anyone else playing on hard who also plays an expansionist game straight in would be welcome. My games so far have been begun in the early period but I'm guessing it will be much the same when I get around to trying high or late.
Oh, and my kings have not produced a daughter for three games either. But in the first game or two it was much the same story with my own princesses - they pursued foreign prines shamelessly but were destined to die spinsters (I don't marry them to my own nobles).