No Tengo Denari...Oh No!

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At the risk of repeating what's already been posted but here goes...

... I'm on my second campaign as the greeks. I found it quite difficult as the Julii to make a load of cash too. The greeks make (along with my extra experience) it easy.

Get about 4/5 diplomats wandering around the map. Get them to offer maps but quite often I find the other faction will demand money and offer their own map info.

Try this..

...offer the map info along with trade rights and an alliance. Demand 10,000 denarii for this. They'll probably come back with a counter offer. Work them for about 6 tries before accepting the highest bid. Works a treat, even if they break the alliance. I'm still being paid by the Pontic's for another 3 turns despite them breaking the alliance, dumb I know.

I've now got about 90,000 denarii and all my upgrade queues are full. I've a big standing army and little militia policing my towns/cities.

I don't deny that trade is by far the biggest contributor to my treasury but this happening 3,4 or 5 times in a few turns fairly helps.