bribing

[LennStar]

Not if you have to fight against your hard-trained silver principes defending a town with just recruit units as attackers. Trust me.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Not if you have to fight against your hard-trained silver principes defending a town with just recruit units as attackers. Trust me.

But it would be a neat twist. You have to cancel your plans in another part of your empire and send a legion home to defend against a traitor. The harder the fight the better, more glory to the victor.

Of course if this happened more than once, I would be really pissed.

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

In my Romani campaign I try to out-bribe the Carthaginians. They purchased Tolosa from me against my will, so I strolled over there with a diplomat. About 5 years later Hannibal was leading my brand new Polybian army over to take Iberia off their hands. It was a good feeling, that irony.

And Qarthadast usually eats, drinks, craps, sleeps on and bathes in gold, particularly with the script. Fortunately I never lost too much that was worthwhile to their endless pockets.

[LennStar]

Well, at the moment they have only 3 towns left. Not a very big opponent any more. Yust waiting to get the conquered towns quite enough to move the legions out. I'm currently fighting against Lusotanien - its a long way from Rome. And the ugly Barbarians that attack every turn in the North.

But its funny - I had to conquer Carthage 3 times. It were not the Punic Wars, but funny in a way.

[Mordecai]

Yes, it sucks when they bribe your settlements. In my current campaign as Seleuceia: Ptolemy bought 3 towns from me and three generals from Petra to that town south of Antioch. So now I am actively searching out their diplomats and killing them off whilst sending a large army of Thureophoroi, Thorakitai, Pheraspidai, and Hypaspistai to take my towns back.