Instant Saba CTD

[Tellos Athenaios]

Question: If I make them a protectorate, does that prevent them from attacking me? Cos I could try bribing them with vast quantities of gold (although they wouldnt accept a million, so I will have to cheat to get enough...). Its very frustrating, as I am now their only neighbour, so they have no one else to attack but me.

Well, I have solved the issue by battering them into submission, they're now a protectorate of the mighty Seleukid empire! They are now a quiet, peacefull protectorate adding each turn the exact amount of 0 Mnai to my treasury... (The same counts for the Saka, they too are a protectorate of mine, and they too add nothing to my treasury.)

Too bad that you can't even have them attack you, or attack them at least once: weird that that didn't happen to me. Well, if you can't beat them with swords, you've got to try words instead I suppose. Good luck!

PS, if you siege all their towns and place decent forces as obstacles in the way of any 'relief' force; that will build up enough pression to make them sue for peace, and then you could propose them to become your protectorate quite succesfully.