Titus Marcellus Scato
10-09-2008, 15:20
I'm playing a H/M Aedui campaign. Have taken 2 towns from the Arveni, by 266 BC, but was too weak to take their capital, plus I didn't want to kill them off completely so early in the game. So I tried to make peace, but they wouldn't accept a ceasefire.
Next, the Romans make an alliance with the Arveni. I was not happy about this! If the Romans piled in against me so early in the game, I'd be in deep sheet.
But then, a Roman diplomat turns up outside Viennos, and demands that I accept becoming a Roman protectorate, or they will attack me!
So, I accept. This makes my Aedui a Roman protectorate and a Roman ally - and because the Romans are allies with the Arveni too, that means an automatic ceasefire between me and my sworn enemies!
This was fantastic because it was as if the Roman AI brokered a peace agreement between the warring Gallic factions! And it fitted perfectly with my plans at the time.
Only six months later, the Romans declared war on the Carthaginians, and asked me for help - but I refused. This broke the alliance between my Aedui and Rome, and meant that I was no longer their protectorate, and free of Roman influence!
Unfortunately the Arveni are now beseiging Massila - already weakened from two failed Roman assaults - and I don't like the thought of the Arveni having so large and profitable a city, they will soon recover from the drubbing I gave them earlier! I may have to intervene.....
Next, the Romans make an alliance with the Arveni. I was not happy about this! If the Romans piled in against me so early in the game, I'd be in deep sheet.
But then, a Roman diplomat turns up outside Viennos, and demands that I accept becoming a Roman protectorate, or they will attack me!
So, I accept. This makes my Aedui a Roman protectorate and a Roman ally - and because the Romans are allies with the Arveni too, that means an automatic ceasefire between me and my sworn enemies!
This was fantastic because it was as if the Roman AI brokered a peace agreement between the warring Gallic factions! And it fitted perfectly with my plans at the time.
Only six months later, the Romans declared war on the Carthaginians, and asked me for help - but I refused. This broke the alliance between my Aedui and Rome, and meant that I was no longer their protectorate, and free of Roman influence!
Unfortunately the Arveni are now beseiging Massila - already weakened from two failed Roman assaults - and I don't like the thought of the Arveni having so large and profitable a city, they will soon recover from the drubbing I gave them earlier! I may have to intervene.....