Alliances

[asearchforreason]

Or you could potentially be at war with one of their allies.

[AquaLurker]

I have the same problem too. I tried to form an alliance with Spain but I couldn't, currently they have no allies but they are at war with Carthage.

Is it possible that if you wipe out a faction that was previously their allies you will never be able to form and alliance with it's former ally ever? You see I destroyed Gaul who were allied to the Spanish a long time ago. I think this could be a bug or something.

[chemchok]

Yeah, it's happened to me before. And no, I wasn't at war with any of the faction's allies or vice versa. Interesting thought Aqualurker, it happened to long ago for me to remember.

[Epistolary Richard]

My experience has been the same as the rest: that I can't ally with both sides of a war. But playing as the Julii I managed to ally with both Spain and Carthage (who were at war) and the act of my alliance caused a ceasefire to be declared between both parties.

It started up again shortly after, of course, but has anyone else experienced the same phenomenon?

[Herakleitos]

I've seen that happening quite often, but I always thought the ceasefire was already signed but you just weren't informed.

[Oaty]

My experience has been the same as the rest: that I can't ally with both sides of a war. But playing as the Julii I managed to ally with both Spain and Carthage (who were at war) and the act of my alliance caused a ceasefire to be declared between both parties.

It started up again shortly after, of course, but has anyone else experienced the same phenomenon?

Overlooked feature.

To get a ceasefire with the Romans theres only 2 ways, have a diplomat get a ceasefire with all 4 Roman factions or go up to one of the Roman factions and request a ceasefire along with an alliance. An alliance with the Romans is hard but when you do get 1 it forces all other Romans to ceasefire...... just a little warning,it won't last long unless you don't share a border or no longer share a border.

As far as it causing Carthage and Spain to ceasefire I'm thinking that was overlooked but since a Roman faction was involved in the middle of this it allowed this to be (mistakenly) exploited.