My Eygptian campaign is rolling slowy on and has taken a new form.

The war with Rome is ongoing but with my Empire now extending from Carthage in the South west around the eastern med to the Bosporus in the North West I have no plans for further expansion as the distance to capital penalites are getting too high.

Instead I am waging a diplomatic war against Rome, using Thrace and Scythia as buffer states to do the bulk of the fighting.

The weird thing is that I have discovered that by placing diplomats with both the Brutii and the Scipii I can actually get them to finance their own enemies.

Every turn my diplomats for these two factions a ceasefire in return for a one off tribute 5,000 for the Brutii and 2,000 for the Julii. Every turn they pay up and accept and I then give this money to my Thracian Allies to pay for their war effort against Rome.

Then every turn the Roman factions declare war on me again and I repeat the process. Gaining 7,000 tribute every turn.