Quote Originally Posted by Quietus
How often do you get bribed? How big are your armies? How many provinces do you have? Just wondering since I never get bribed.

Hypothesis: frequency of bribery is proportional to total army size.
Well my latest game I have all the starting Gallic provinces (as the Gauls...obviously), plus Lugdunum, Massilia, Samarobriva and Iuvavum. I constantly got the 'congratulations, you are the baddest mofo in the world! Yaaaay!' notice.

And now I've reached the point, having brutally massacred two Julii full stacks of mainly Hastati in a row, they've pulled another full stack out their voluminous behind and decided they should also bribe one of my cities away from me.

First, they bribed Iuvavum. There were six warbands and barbarian cavalry in there, but the city only has a thousand people, so I wasn't too badly annoyed. Yes, they were pretty much laughing in my face because they still only had their starting provinces and Segesta with which to fund their enormous military buildup and bribing endeavor but what the hey. I reloaded. I had a general nearby, I rustled up another four warbands and unit of cavalry as mercenaries and rammed the lot in Iuvavum. Bribe that you Italian pricks. So they didn't. Next time they decided to just skank Narbo Martius instead. Four thousand people, four warband units and a general. Great. Thanks. Reload. Shove the 'roving barbarian killer' stack in Narbo Martius along with the Iuvavum measures. Bribe that you Italian pricks. So they didn't. They skanked Massilia instead. Two thousand people and four warbands.

I've been trying to replicate this incredible money making feat for an entire GOD DAMN day now and you know what? I can't do it. It's just not happening when I only have the two starting cities and Segesta. They don't even have bloody Caralis! The Carthaginians have kept it somehow!