Quote Originally Posted by Arcanum
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
Bribing? I never face this problem, probably because I finish Carthage too fast! (in 10 turns) Anyway, using assassins is really a good way. I have mention before the Spanish, and I finally finish them by using assassin to kill all the family members! And I did the same thing for Gaul (and they should thanks me because I save their territory from Julii-keep them for myself.), Julii and Brutii (from other Rome factions, I simply use them as my assassin's training tool.) It's quite effective as the faction without any family members would simply go rebel, and it's much easier to take them. And one advantage for assassins is the faction won't declare war to you, so just simply kill anyone you don'y like!