Having expanded the Eygptian Empire to the limits of what I planned I am currently engaged in a protracted war with Rome along with my Thacian Allies.
Apart from bolstering Thracian armies to resist the onslaught of Rome by feeding them 10,000 dinai a turn and fielding permanent garrison armies near their major cities, I am also launching occassional punitive expeditions to reduce the Roman ability to wage war.
These normally involve the targetting of specific Roman cities identified by my spies as major training centres for the Roman Army or Navy. At a time when their garrisons are depleted I send a large punitive force to seize the city, exterminate its population and raise it to the ground by selling off every building I can within its walls.
This usually net's a lot of gold some of which I can then distribute to Thrace.
The problem then is what to do with the ravaged city.
At first I thought I would give it to one of the non-Roman factions like Pathia who are still in the game. My assumption was that Pathia would try to hold on to the city and that Rome would have to declare war on Pathia in order to get it back. Thus, I thought I could cause a war between Rome and Pathia. However, I soon discovered that this didn't work because somehow Rome managed to regain the lost city without actually causing a war with Pathia at all.
Next, I thought I might cause dissent amongst the Romans themselves by giving the city to a different Roman faction than the one I took it from. So, I gave a Scipii City to the Julii thinking that at worst it would fragment the Roman factions and at best might even cause a civil war. But that didn't work either, instead the city rebelled against the Julii and gained a huge free army of Scipii.
BTW: Why is it that when a foriegn city previously occupied by Rome rebels, it rebels Roman?
Shouldn't Cathage rebel as Carthaginian or at least Rebel?
Never understood that.![]()
In the end the best option seems to be to give the city back to the Roman faction you took it from. This seems a bit daft but at least that way the Romans don't get a free army out of the deal.
Does anyone know what determines the nature of a rebellion?
Is there any way to cause a Rebel rebellion in a Roman city?
I have reduce loyalty in Roman held cities to 0% in the past but they still don't turn rebel, let alone back to their original faction.
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