Re: Cash and Corruption
I'm perilously close to the edge, indeed. Or not.Originally Posted by Pharnakes
Besides, you think I can recruit Romphaiophoroi yet? I didn't make all that money building MICs.
I actually am starting to bulk up the military. At the moment I really only have garrison forces and a couple of stacks. About a 2/3 stack in Pergamon getting ready for a campaign against the Ptolemies, a stack and a half in Sicily/Brettia, and I'm building up another stack back home for deployment as I see fit--it will probably first move against Segestica, and then I may use it and my Sicilian force for a two-pronged sweep into Italy.
One of the reasons I have so much money, aside from the obnoxious amount of money you make on mines in the Balkans (Pella alone is pulling down 4,950 mnai per turn just from mining income), is because I obviously haven't been expanding quickly. I've really concentrated on getting a stable population in my main cities, and now that I'm reaching that point, I'm getting ready to start moving out a little more than I have. It's 235 BC, and I'm only just moving into Asia Minor (capturing Pergamon about four turns ago), and moved into Sicily only a few years before that.
The main cause is that I'm trying to stick to casus belli conflicts only. All of my expansions, aside from taking Sparta, Athens, Epidamnus, and Ambrakia, have been into rebel settlements, and now I'm at the point where rebel settlements just aren't available anymore (except, of course, Segestica, but that will be out of the way shortly). After that, I have to rely on the AI to give me cause for conflict, and the Ptolemaioi have done just that. So, despite the fact that it may involve me punching into Asia Minor right between holdings of the Koinon Hellenon and Pontos, that's the war I've got, so I'm going to have to go with it. And maybe I can provoke Rome into a war, as well. An alliance with the Aedui might do the trick.
Cheers.
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