I love the diplomacy too!! i remember being in a war withthe thracians and the britons, i was pretty annoyed the britons had attacked one of my frontier towns as they had been long term allies, and both our factions were doing well, so i sent off a diplomat to smooth things over... the reply i got was why should we stop fighting while any of you still live!!! hehe was so insulted i created a wall of steel to hold off the thracians and switched my war effort to the britons. I hit them so hard theyre now paying me tribute over many years ;) I sacked their first 2 towns also enslaving the population for their insults!