Your favorite general to bribe

If you've played RTW long enough, you've probably "recruited" generals of different factions multiple times. Care to share your favorites and the stories you have with them?

I'll start it off: My personal fave is Ziles, a Thracian (at the start of the game anyway :evil:). He's young, so you get a lot of mileage out of him, and if you're located just about anywhere in Europe/Northern Asia he will significantly hurt the Thracian family tree when the time comes to take Byzantium. I remember one time playing as Germania I had him kill his brother (at that point the faction leader).

Well I bribed half the Seleucid and Pontic family tree with Egypt... don't have a favorite there.

Although, once, as the Scipii, I let Carthage live until 150 BC, when they'd conquered half of Spain and were pushing Egypt out of the Nile Valley (!!!), and I bribed a general with 8 stars. I had him exterminate Carthage.

*evil laughter* it's good being evil! mwahahaha.... in a game :shame:

In Rome: Total Realism you usually can't bribe generals. You can bribe armies though and many of the units become your own.:2thumbsup:

I never bribe anyone. The sheer principe is simple: if they can turn on their former masters they can turn on you and I do despise a traitor - off with his head! I have, once, bribed a young general named.... Hannibal Barca that was looming outside Carthago Nova. I just couldn´t resist it. I took him back to Rome for schooling and bestowed every possible commandtrait I had around and launched a fullscale invasion of.... Carthage, muuuahahaha vengence is mine. I could almost picture him sticking his head through the rammed gates of Carthage screaming: "I´m baaaack":laugh4:

:laugh4: That´s good.

I can´t recall having ever bribed a general belonging to another faction. Rebel generals, yes, if they had good traits, and to keep below the magic 50K. But otherwise, I like fighting - it´s the whole point of playing the game. Assassinations are fun as well, in my Egypt campaign I´ve made extensive use of it for the first time, but training them to an effective level is also a pain in the back and, apart from the fact that they remove a stack of heavy cavalry from the enemy´s army they´re damn uneffective - for each throat-cut family member a new one pops up immediately.

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Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

In Rome: Total Realism you usually can't bribe generals. You can bribe armies though and many of the units become your own.:2thumbsup:

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Oh, but you can. I bribed the closest general to my diplomat when I hit 50k in RTR as the Romans, and just used him as a heavy cav. He was in the way of my trade as well, and Northern Italia was not equipped to face him.

in MTW my fav general to bribe is El Cid. but in RTW i dont really hav a fav one

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Oh, but you can. I bribed the closest general to my diplomat when I hit 50k in RTR as the Romans, and just used him as a heavy cav. He was in the way of my trade as well, and Northern Italia was not equipped to face him.

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Hmm, with enough money, I guess you're right. I'll see...:book: