Quote Originally Posted by Mediolanicus
The ones north of the alps are to prevent to the Sweboz and the Romans conquering central Europe too fast. They spawn when an army, any army, lays siege to a city there.
Satres doesn't need a seige to jump on you! As soon as I set foot on his side of the Alpine line he brings his silver and gold chevrons to smack me around. Good fun, though. I'm using his never-ending skirmishes (if you can call them that) to keep my armies in shape while I'm consolidating current gains. I won't go against him without a full stack though, and still usually suffer around 50% casualties. And 8 units of heavy cavalry to repeatedly charge and recharge for ages before they rout. If they rout.