State of the Game

[al Roumi]

Ok, well, I'll try and just be patient about this, but so far in the campaign this is the pattern I see.

Is this a Rome campaign? I think i've experienced the same, at least especially to start with - particularly from the barbarians to the north, east, west and south, er, everyone bar Syracuse... Things are at their worst at the beginning because everyone is (mostly) neutral. Start a war with someone Do some Clausewitzian diplomacy and their enemies should be friendly to you.

[easytarget]

Is this a Rome campaign? I think i've experienced the same, at least especially to start with - particularly from the barbarians to the north, east, west and south, er, everyone bar Syracuse... Things are at their worst at the beginning because everyone is (mostly) neutral. Start a war with someone Do some Clausewitzian diplomacy and their enemies should be friendly to you.

Yes, this is our dear friends the Romans, or to my neighbors, the guy everyone loves to hate. Ok, duly noted, start some wars, make some enemies, enemy of my enemy is my friend. I'm busy down south working to kick Carthage off the map, that will of course instantly put me at war w/ their two proxies. And for good measure the Greeks decided to throw down the gauntlet, first Sparta for no reason, then Athens just because Sparta did.

So if the key to friends is making enemies I'm well on my way to collecting a raft load of Christmas cards come the holidays.