the other factor is the rank of the emissary doing the bribing. mostly, the bribing seems to be something like loyalty of the general in charge, times the number or cost of men in the unit, divided by rank of the emissary doing the bribing. that is NOT an exact formula, by any means, just a sort of general feel of how it works based on observations. you could even simplify it to something like 'worth of the army' divided by 'rank of the emissary'. and no, i dont know where the formula for this is kept in the files, but it's prolly hard-coded in the .exe.

K.