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    Symbasileus ton Rhomaioktonon Member Maion Maroneios's Avatar
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    Default Re: Using Protectorate to gain lots of cash

    Quote Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk View Post
    So you've taken over all of the hellas then? Launching your own pseudo-crusades? Otherwise I'd be wary of Sparta and her allies, and you've probably dealt with Pyhros I assume. I used the same tactic of Raiding the east (in my case Turkey) to fund my unification of Greece.


    To fatsweets: I suggest you make peace with Ptolemy and join his war against the Selucids. If you can punch a hole through the Selucid empire and divide turkey from the rest of asia, then you can get in on some trade from Ptolemy, which will probably help. Also the AS will then have to deal with you more seriously, thereby dividing his thinly spread forces even more. then just spread west once you have a solid border with AS. Crush Pontus too and you'll have even more sea trade along the black sea. Also consider making an expedition to one of AS's prized cities, sack it, and retreat/disband your units. Not only will AS's forces have to move to counter your bold strike, but if you succeed in sacking their city, they will have to pump lots of money back into it and lose lots of future revenue, thereby disrupting their war effort against you.
    Thanks for the ideas, bu I got some in mind. I'm preparing my Anatolian assault now (Anabasis), being at war with both Deaths (yellow, silver). The BI AI is just too reckless:P

    Maion

    P.S.: I've got lots of experience with Makedonia, but thanks anyway :)
    ~Maion

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    Default Re: Using Protectorate to gain lots of cash

    Can't say I ever accepted protectorate status. Rather let all my cities burn but I will say one of the best campaigns I ever played was with Hayasdan. The silver death just kept coming and dying in the Causcuses. I never fought them where I didn't want to. No open ground etc, used spies and watchtowers and lightly defended forts to guide them just were I wanted. Didn't matter one bit the quality of my troops verses theirs (where did all those silver shields come from) they died by the thousand.......... oh the fond memories!
    We have fed our sea for a thousand years
    And she calls us, still unfed,
    Though there’s never a wave of all her waves
    But marks our English dead:
    We have strawed our best to the weed’s unrest,
    To the shark and the sheering gull.
    If blood be the price of admiralty,
    Lord God, we ha’ paid in full!

    Kipling - and he makes exceedingly good cakes

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