Rome´s diplomacy at its best :dizzy2:
Playing a H/M campaign with the Julii, I constantly came up with that answer, even when all I offererd was a ceasefire :inquisitive:
Well this Julii campaign is pretty much fun, though the Senate is slow with outlawing me - again. I´ve got forty-some provinces, wiped out Gaul, Britannia, Spain and Carthage (after I made them my protectorate first, but then I had to go to war with Egypt, who at that time was Carthage´s ally. Oh well, they had only two provinces left anyways), Germania is still my protectorate (their only surviving ally, Scythia, was being wiped out by the Bruti). I wonder what could make the Senate first love and then fear me more. The Scipii, though having a much smaller empire region-wise (they went east, taking southern Greece and Asia Minor), have risen to highest appreciation and then took the deep plunge with the Senate (but they never got anywhere with the plebs and were therefore unable to start the Civil War themselves - if the AI can do that in the first place), so I think it may also have something to do with army strength as well, as their army, according to the overview graphs, is about twice as strong as mine. Then again, I went fairly slow about my expansion and let a few Senate missions fail, when I didn´t want to go to war with too many factions at once.
Well, the Plebs just love me, and I could start the Civil War myself, but once, just once, I´d like to have the Senate ask my leader to commit suicide. That´s never happened to me and there´s not much fun in a Civil War when I have already fulfilled my fifty-province quote and just have to grab Rome. It´s supposed to be more trouble.
