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Celt Centurion
From Celt Centurion
I have never betrayed anybody. When I make an alliance, I honor it. Period. Still, when I offer to attack another faction (having my own army in place, ready to attack), asking an ally to attack a third, or the same enemy, offer them a region, and offer them cash, I still get some snide comment such as "you cannot be trusted." Although I am tempted to break the alliance and attack them, I restrain myself.
They usually betray and attack me soon afterward anyway, and then I don't have a problem with wiping them out with a vengeance.
While playing as the Selucids, the Egyptians betrayed me, and then just last night, for the first time ever, they sent a diplomat to beg for peace. It might be on account of I have destroyed 3 large Egyptian Armies, and have nearly full stacks at Sidon, Damascus, and Palmyra, and their cities have minimum manning. Keeping in mind that one of my objectives is to eliminate the "Necrophiliac Monsters", I refused them. In another few turns, I intend to simultaneously attack Jerusalem, Bostra, and Petra.
I have also learned that often, they just ask for peace to build up, and attack you again.
To betray, does not pay!
One thing that really bothers me is when a faction gets "free" armies. That is; we hold a city, such as Jerusalem, and it revolts. Instead of turning gray, as in rebels, it will turn yellow if Egypt still exists, or Carthage will turn white if they have not been taken down. Only twice have I benefitted from this, (and that's debateable as I seldom use incindiary pigs or ballistas), but I have had to take and retake cities hundreds of times when a revolt took place, and there was a full stack of yellow, green, or whatever color originally had that city.
Maybe it's because I have not lost many cities except to revolts.
When I RE-TAKE a city, only twice have I not exterminated them. Those two times, the population was enough to upgrade the governor's mansion or whatever, and if I had exterminated them, it would have really set me back. One of them immediately revolted, and I had to take it a third time, but by then the mansion was built so when I took it back, I could build. The other time, they wisely chose to be good subjects and let the city grow.
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