bigmilt16
02-14-2009, 15:39
Just wanted to get a take on your strategies for keeping the peace with neighbors who don't want to play nice.
I have found quite a bit of success engaging in proxy wars! They have kept Roma's borders with the Dacians and Gauls quiet for almost 10 years now (with no activity from the Dacians and very few skirmishes with the Gauls). I'll admit that it is an expensive tactic but works if employed effectively. To do it, you have to simply use diplomacy to pay one of your enemies to attack their neighboring enemy. Even if they are at war already (Adeui and Averni or Eperios and the Dacians/Macedonians for example) it still works because it keeps the AI will remain too preocupied to attack you, and will not engage in those one-turn ceasefires it likes to do with its neighbors.
Most importantly, think of it as paying somebody to go to war for you, so don't use token gestures! I've been paying tens of thousands of mnai/turn to the Adeui to fight the Averni and the Germans every turn (at one point: 40-60k/turn, but that's pocket change for the polybian-era Roman Republic). Also, I play on M/M to ensure that diplomacy actually has a chance to work (so long as I have to loot). Its a costly measure, but it creates sort of a game within itself, without having to resort to forced diplomacy either.
that's my tactic, what's yours?
I have found quite a bit of success engaging in proxy wars! They have kept Roma's borders with the Dacians and Gauls quiet for almost 10 years now (with no activity from the Dacians and very few skirmishes with the Gauls). I'll admit that it is an expensive tactic but works if employed effectively. To do it, you have to simply use diplomacy to pay one of your enemies to attack their neighboring enemy. Even if they are at war already (Adeui and Averni or Eperios and the Dacians/Macedonians for example) it still works because it keeps the AI will remain too preocupied to attack you, and will not engage in those one-turn ceasefires it likes to do with its neighbors.
Most importantly, think of it as paying somebody to go to war for you, so don't use token gestures! I've been paying tens of thousands of mnai/turn to the Adeui to fight the Averni and the Germans every turn (at one point: 40-60k/turn, but that's pocket change for the polybian-era Roman Republic). Also, I play on M/M to ensure that diplomacy actually has a chance to work (so long as I have to loot). Its a costly measure, but it creates sort of a game within itself, without having to resort to forced diplomacy either.
that's my tactic, what's yours?