Hey guys...

I've been playing a 1.5/1.6 Julii campaign...I'm at 244 BC, and am progressing well (i think...for some reason I can't convert the TGA screenshots to JPG...they just stay all black) however several turns ago, and I noticed it immediately, the macedonians and Brutii seemed to be at war but then a message popped up at the beginning of a turn saying that the brutii and macedonians have become client kingdoms...abandoning all of their sovereignty. What the heck is this? The only logical thing I could think of was that the Brutii made the Macedonians become their protectorate.

IF this helps: I've been at war with the Gaul's since the 3rd turn...been at war with the dacians for about 15 turns...(never wanted to expand east, they attacked me when I started really turning the tides in my favor against the Gauls...looks like the dacians, gauls, and britons all have a pact going, and my allies up north are the germans who are down to what looks to be only 2 provinces (have had a long war with the britons...almost as long as my gallic war). The other Roman factions including the SPQR have gone back and forth at war with dacia during my war with them (never seen them do anything though) and have remained at war with gaul the entire time (same thing, never seen them do anything to gaul...but I play with FOW on). They've ALL been at war with carthage (except me) basically the entire game, and all roman factions including myself are really starting to blow up on the graphs...economically, militarily, production wise etc. The carthaginians as well as egyptians and Seleucid's are getting massively powerful as well (egyptians losing a slight bit of ground the past few turns). The britons up north are also getting more and more powerful, holding a large population of land and pretty close to finishing off the germans...my only true northern ally.

Just thought I'd give some brief detail as to where the diplomatic angles of things lie at this point. If someone needs me to go further in detail as to what's going on, I would be more than happy to do that...I just wish I could get my pictures up here, would tell the story much better.