Bribes

[SIcilian]

How do you bribe an army so you can have the army not just the general? its kind of annoying only getting the general. thanks.




Sicilian fencer
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[Doug-Thompson]

How do you bribe an army so you can have the army not just the general? its kind of annoying only getting the general.

You can't unless it's a type of unit that you can produce. For instance, only Roman factions can bribe and adopt Roman legions. Eastern infantry and other, well, lousy units are shared by a lot of civilizations. Hardly any good units are.

Notice that even peasants have to be the same kind of peasant: Roman, eastern, whatever.

[solypsist]

that was useful info - was wondering the same thing!

[TheDuck]

that was useful info - was wondering the same thing!

Think 'same tech tree'.

Bribing a non-same tech tree gets you a general only... bribing a same tech tree gets you the entire stack. I didn't realize this at first on my Julii long campaign and got 4 stacks through bribery and found myself very low on cash flow. Carthage/Spanish are another example of same tech tree... There are others, I just can't rattle them off right now.

Nice feature!

:)

[Slaists]

on the bribing screen, one can actually read which units of the bribable army will disband, which ones will join your forces.

[SIcilian]

wait but can u bribe mercs? I tried but they left.

[Bob the Insane]

I not sure on mercs... Normally then disappear, but I have had a few occasions where they have joined my faction.... Don't know what the difference was...

[Obex]

In my opinion, bribes are too easy and too cheap. im pretty sure that i could have bought my way thorough both roman campaigns ive played. the temptation to simply bribe inbound armies (and cities) is hard to control, but i feel it is need to keep the game rome:total war and not rome:total econ.

[chemchok]

Cataphracts are a great unit to bribe from the local factions if you're playing as the Seleucids, Parthians, etc...