Ideas and suggestions

[The Celtic Viking]

Idea 1: We could RP the Makedonian King who visits the Council and behaves not very friendly. We assassinate him and a war is started.

I don't think that works out. I have been roleplaying Sarpedon as being friendly towards the Makedonians, aiding them personally against the KH and Epeirotes even before we ourselves went to war against the latter. I don't think their king would come to us now when I have come to the throne, and we're actively fighting their enemies as well, and behave in an unfriendly way that would warrant an assassination.

Idea 2: Found a Client Kingdom in the Norh or in the South or more than one, no borderline with our Arche (for now). RP those Kings in a special way. They manage their cities as Kings **, pay taxes to us (and they always want to have low taxes, and we want them to have high taxes....). They can have own Armies (max. X Units we allow).

So, with the exception of the "no borderline" part, they would be just like satraps so far, right?

When the Arche Seleukeia aproaches their Territory, they could fear to lose their Status (which could be the case, if the Basileus descides so) and even could declare themselves independent, what would cause a "Civil War", in which the AS installes another form of Governemet OR they defeat us *GGG*.

Still pretty much like satraps.

The point is, that they could raise an army themselves, they can create units with the money their cities earn from Taxes each turn (f. example they earn 1000 mnai in their city / all their cities, then they could recruit units woth 1000 mnai per turn).

But they also need to pay taxes to us, meaning they can't use their whole income. Since we would be the ones setting the taxes, it would effectively still be like satraps.

** This is also the way the can build Buildings... only with their own money. Or they can take a credit from the basileus, but then have to do sth. for him, whatever he wishes...

There's a few problems with this. The first thing is the whole hassle of keeping score of how much they have in their settlements. We would have to keep score every turn how much they make, then subtract the tribute and then their army. Then we will have to add the result from what we have calculated are currently in their coffers. There is only so many units a couple of settlements can support without having to pay a tribute - with it it would be even less, and a regular satrap would stand a better chance in a civil war.