Little observation

[Lonewarrior]

While playing sp campaing in expert, I found that if I attacked another faction, every other faction that was allies with me and the faction I attacked suddenly stops being my allie even tough I have more influence over the other factions. Why is this?Its there anyway of this not happening?

[solypsist]

it depends what kind of campaign you're playing. the AI doesn't like it if you're too powerful or if you have a very high GA goals score, and this is their way of trying to bring you down a few. chances are this is only happening later in the game, after you've gotten quite powerful, right? i've played plenty of expert campaigns and as long as i'm not too strong (enough to easily overpower my allies) then my allies remain with me.

[katank]

try to stay small, very small and you wouldn't have a problem.

it's also useful to use strategic agents to try and get advantage.

5* assasins and 2* grand inqs out of castile are usually enough to turn any faction into rebels fast and no faction ever complain about me attacking rebels.

similarly, your navy will be the only one and the AI won't want stupid little naval fights and strong borders are good deterrence too.

[Lonewarrior]

Yes I believe in a strong navy, and castile its the perfect place to raise agents, but in easy mode, everyone its alwasy your allie even if you're the biggest nation ever, but expert mode, I tried the byz. and stayed small until the mongols came and started harrasing my borders. By that time they had alinged with some factions that where my allies. The Mongols attacked me firts meaning they started the fight and I did not hit them back but still all my allies left me even though I had a small empire.

Wait can a big navy influence them too, cause I had a really big navy around for trading and all that stuff.

[katank]

there's a general we all hate the human trend.

they mostly get jealous about province count but the tech level and income they are jealous of also.

[Lonewarrior]

I see no wonder, I had the biggest anual income.