Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
The AI factions always go for rebels before they attack other factions. Since Taras is in Epieros' hands, they will try to take as many rebels they can before they attack it, causing them to go north.
So why not having Taras as Rebel, and give it a garrison of Epirote Like units. Then if the Human player is playing as Rome, via scripting there could be added a stack of Epiros units outside Taras. So Epiros could be in war with Rome.