My arche seleukeia campaign

[lionhard]

Ok so iv finally got EB running nice again so i can continue with My arche seleukeia campaign, im running EB with BI and i started an AAR just over a year ago .... the reason being because so many fun things were happening .... for example ... when i invaded southern greece to assist my macedonian allies and took sparta from the greeks .... the romans sent 2 fleets with full stacks over to push me back out of greece.... their after we became allies and now both romans and seleukeia are trying to calm down the agression in greece from the epeirotes.....

My aim is to try and portray a possible alternative history in which the arche seleukeia can save enough time and use enough diplomacy to avoid a roman onslaught and buy enough time to take on the roman might.... quite fun :D

I have encountered 1 small problem and that is whilst allied with macedonia they randomly attacked me as they were hanging onto chalkis as their final settlement being harassed by epeiros... I have now got myself back to neutral with mac... but i cannot ask for an alliance with them even though... i have the same allies as them (rome and koinon hellion) and the same enemy (epeiros) so whys this? I am trying to get an alliance rolling so we can fight off common enemies and bring a lasting peace to greece whilst i deal with the east..... and i cant ally with macedonia .... :S

[eo9o]

To mantain your allies close you, you need to give some gifts to them. Your old allies attacked you because you are in their home lands, so if you can't get them close with gifts, they will try to recover their home lands by force.

[lionhard]

Thx for the reply but that wasn't the question, I know how to keep an alliance ;). I simply donnot get the option to ally with macedonia, I need a more experienced EB member to answer the question. You obv don't understand ;)

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Maybe they (Makedonia) were allied to a faction that were at war with you and were destroyed. Sometimes dead faction's diplomatic relations continue to affect the game. This used to happen to me, back when I joined the force played EB.

Probably not that very helpful, though I hope it was.





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[lionhard]

That explains it..... Pontus.... It could be them. This shudnt happen :s hmmmm, yet again another problem! Grrr kinda annoying ;(

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

That IS very annoying! Diplomacy engine not understanding that a faction's been killed.

I guess what that means is, to maintain good diplomacy, the Human player should never completely wipe out an AI faction unless absolutely necessary (e.g. to achieve a victory condition.) Make sure every AI faction has at least one city left. At that point, make peace with them (using Force Diplomacy if necessary) and let another AI faction finish them off.

Maybe the human player should take action to help AI factions that are facing total extermination, and prevent it wherever possible by attacking the aggressor. Protect the weak, attack the strong kind of strategy.