Bribes

[Love]

Pain

In

The

Ass

They vanquish reinforcement units.

All i have to say

 

[lutzj]

Yeah... the enemy's.

 

[Love]

oh yeah ofcourse its nice to bribe them

 

[LightSpectra]

I never get bribes to work. Even if I have 30,000 florins in the treasury, they always decline. Does your diplomat have to be a certain level or something?

 

[Love]

depends on diplomats and generals traits and influence i guess

 

[Stuck in Pi]

Ah, bribes. You have no idea how much I use them in my current Seleucid games. Assassins + diplomats = no enemy armies. Absolutely awesome when you have nearly 1 million denari in the treasury.

 

[Love]

Yes but getting a message that your 5 wounded elephants turncoated on you just outside your capital sucks

 

[Stuck in Pi]

Well, I had an entire settlement flip today. Stupid Julii. Another exterminated settlement...

 

[aronnax]

I find it much more fun to kill off an invading army then to bribe them. More blood

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I don't think I've successfully bribed an army since Viking Invasion.

 

[Maniacal]

I have rarely had an AI bribe any of my towns little alone troops. Turncoats is possible without bribes I think.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

They work very well for me. If they bribe one of my family members, I either send hordes of assassins to try and kill the traitor or take the nearest decent sized army and continue to attack them until they're completely destroyed.

If it's a city that turns traitor, I treat it the same way I treat a city that rebels: kill all the defenders and exterminate the populace to teach them the price of treason.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It also solves the problem inherent in large populations in the game, which is to revolt. Small populations will generally not. It also yields extra money.

 

[Dachs]

Bribes in vanilla RTW are brokenly easy to get. Kind of like how money is brokenly easy to get.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

It also solves the problem inherent in large populations in the game, which is to revolt. Small populations will generally not. It also yields extra money.

I've had some Numidian and Spanish cities with a very small populations that have caused me nothing but trouble. Sometimes I even pull my garrison out of the city so that it's more likely to rebel. Then I slaughter the rebels.

For some reason I always have trouble keeping order in West Africa, regardless of my faction.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Its no coincidence that every empire in history has suffered from similar problems in those areas.

 

[Dachs]

Its no coincidence that every empire in history has suffered from similar problems in those areas.

...which is why I dislike playing as Carthage/Safot Softim biQarthadast immensely. (The reliance on naval power also isn't a point in its favor.)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Upon invasion of those areas, I more often than not crush the factional organizations, and then turn the fringe areas back to the Rebels. They usually leave you alone.

 

[Longus]

Are the enemy diplomats stationed just outside my cities, the ones I see taking scrolls out, just fidgeting... or are they really trying to bribe my fully defended capital every turn? Always wondered...

 

[Vertinari118]

They are trying to bribe your capital.