Faction migrations

[Julius_Nepos]

Way back in the days of RTW 1.0 I used to use Macedon as a migratory faction, mainly to avoid dealing with the Romans before I was ready. I'd abandon Greece and if things went to plan I'd end up with Byzantium, Nicomedia, Sardis, Rhodes, Hallicarnassus, and Pergamum, a good base of operations. Sadly this option was removed in later versions of the game as it became far harder to trade provinces (even at a loss) without a large cash bribe as well.

My Alternative, in the late game, became to forcibly migrate other factions by bribing enemy cities outside of my zone of control and then handing them over to other weak and or distant factions like Britain or Dacia. Seeing Egypt overrun by massive and powerful Celtic armies from England was fun. Anyway just pointing out here one need not migrate personally to see its effects, it can be a passive game of population redistribution as well. Cheers!