Quote Originally Posted by BadBreath
I'm sure thats not it, because in my macedonian campaign I had an alliance with the greeks. I helped them out against the Brutii in one siege. However they turned around and betrayed me some 10 turns later or so.

BB
Well, I lifted the siege of Lilybaeum 3 or 4 times in short succession (In large part in order to weaken the Scipii for my eventual assault. I always planned to honor my alliance with Carthage, and Rome makes a much more logical target considering the geographical location of most of my holdings). I eliminated Macedon within 10 turns or so, built up for a while bribing rebel cities and such and holding my ground, made several alliances and waited for the right moment to hit Rome, and during that time I had the chance to lift sieges for the Carthaginians several times. Then I finally laid siege to the Scipii city on Sicily while his main force was out sieging Lilybaeum again, and I brought two Ballistae with me so I could assault immediately. His main army pulled back immediately, but had to lay siege to Messana now, and I hit them from behind with the force I'd been keeping in the fort just south of Aetna. Poor bastards never knew what hit them.

Naturally I threw a multi-pronged assault at the Brutii settlements northwest of Greece at the same time. Now I have Rome between a rock and a hard place, and Carthage is busy with other things.

It was really cool to see an AI ally actually lift a siege on one of my cities though :)