Quote Originally Posted by pezhetairoi
However, that's not to say I don't have problems. Do you have any idea how annoying it is when you have two armies bribed out from under your nose, and a city with it? I don't know how much Carthage was spending, but I got a little pissed off and switched to Germania after Carthage bribed a) Thapsus in turn 10+ with 10 units still in there preparing to move on Leptis Magna, and b) Carthage 4 turns later with an almost-full stack in there waiting to embark for Sparta! *screams*

I thought the AI diplomats were supposed let themselves get bribed and just stand around doing nothing. Hmmmph.
Hello there,
Oh my first post here, how exciting.
Anyway, I read around 2 pages or so without that beeing mentioned, so I wanted to take action and tell you what I did against all this bribing:

I had totally the same problem in an earlier game, so I developed something that was easy, though effective. Using assassins, I killed every diplomat in cartage, and that was the begin of my empire. No more bribing, no more big unit losses.

Now I control half Spain, the Gauls, Carthage,Numidia, Sicily of course and I'm about to get the other half of the world aswell, in form of Egypt.
But somehow that game got a bit colourless so I stopped and began another game. :)

regards,
Arcanum