Quote Originally Posted by Ciaran
The Senate gives you a beating at sea? I´ve never seen them having even one ship, much less enough for a naval victory.


And yes, that´s well known. If you bribe an army all units you can recruit yourself (I think this includes mercenaries, but I´m not sure there) will join you, and of course, if you´re Roman, then you can keep all units of a bribed Roman army.
That doesn't include Mercenaries, but I have bribed lots of Roman Armies after the Civil War has begun. In a recent campaign, they kept telling me that in effect, I didn't have enough money, and I had over 80,000 available. As an experiment, I saved the game, added money, about 300,000 more, and then they said they would for about 280,000. I then agreed to the bribe price to find that there were only about a dozen units in the stack, and many of those turned out to be as low as 40 % strength, with inferior armor, or none at all.) Before I could use them effectively, I would have to retrain all of them up to strength and upgrade their armor. So, then I knew that bribing in that campaign was not going to happen without cheating in the money dept. It would be faster to do that, but much less expensive to train up my own units. Besides, I don't like to "add money." I closed out, and went back to the saved game, and kicked their butts.

Strength and Honor,

Celt Centurion