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I am doing pretty well on my campaign, except that I never have enough generals and governors. I have been trying to find out how to bribe others, but I still don't know how to do it. Any advice? Do I bribe other Roman factions? Enemies? How do I do that?

Superman wrote:I am doing pretty well on my campaign, except that I never have enough generals and governors. I have been trying to find out how to bribe others, but I still don't know how to do it. Any advice? Do I bribe other Roman factions? Enemies? How do I do that?

You use a diplomat walk him right up to a general and in the diplomacy menu there should be an option to bribe. The guy will reply with either an amount it will take to bribe him or simply tell you fat chance.

Stravo wrote:

Superman wrote:I am doing pretty well on my campaign, except that I never have enough generals and governors. I have been trying to find out how to bribe others, but I still don't know how to do it. Any advice? Do I bribe other Roman factions? Enemies? How do I do that?

You use a diplomat walk him right up to a general and in the diplomacy menu there should be an option to bribe. The guy will reply with either an amount it will take to bribe him or simply tell you fat chance.

Can it be any general?

Superman wrote:

Stravo wrote:

Superman wrote:I am doing pretty well on my campaign, except that I never have enough generals and governors. I have been trying to find out how to bribe others, but I still don't know how to do it. Any advice? Do I bribe other Roman factions? Enemies? How do I do that?

You use a diplomat walk him right up to a general and in the diplomacy menu there should be an option to bribe. The guy will reply with either an amount it will take to bribe him or simply tell you fat chance.

Can it be any general?

Yep, even rebel generals that randomly walk across the map. I used this strategy with great glee as the Selucids where I essentially bought out all the pharohs armies as they marched into my terriorty. And began my counterattacks watching the Egyptians trying to scramble everything they could to try and stop me.

Stravo wrote:Yep, even rebel generals that randomly walk across the map. I used this strategy with great glee as the Selucids where I essentially bought out all the pharohs armies as they marched into my terriorty. And began my counterattacks watching the Egyptians trying to scramble everything they could to try and stop me.

The 1.2 patch makes this method quite difficult unless you are very wealthy, because bribe costs have skyrocketed. I used to bribe a lot, but the last time I played a VH Seleucid game I didn't bother bribing anyone. I used assassins to kill off enemy generals prior to engaging their now-leaderless armies in the field, and then I tried to build up large armies (heavy on levy pikemen) as quickly as I could in order to aggressively expand southwards into his territory.

Darth Wong wrote:

Stravo wrote:Yep, even rebel generals that randomly walk across the map. I used this strategy with great glee as the Selucids where I essentially bought out all the pharohs armies as they marched into my terriorty. And began my counterattacks watching the Egyptians trying to scramble everything they could to try and stop me.

The 1.2 patch makes this method quite difficult unless you are very wealthy, because bribe costs have skyrocketed. I used to bribe a lot, but the last time I played a VH Seleucid game I didn't bother bribing anyone. I used assassins to kill off enemy generals prior to engaging their now-leaderless armies in the field, and then I tried to build up large armies (heavy on levy pikemen) as quickly as I could in order to aggressively expand southwards into his territory.

Good point I forgot about that. My addiction began to wane when 1.2 came out and now I am in recovery out of detox.

I did that to the Gauls, once they declared war on me. They sent three generals with huge armies into Northern Italy, and I was able to bribe all three of them before they kicked my ass. One of them wound up kicking the hell out of every Gaulish army I sent him against, and became my faction heir.

Be careful who you bribe, though. I bribed one of the other roman families, and my stature in the senate plunged. I also started a war with Spain because I bribed one of their generals when we had neutral relations. It's best to bribe generals of factions you've just gone to war with, and haven't been liberally executing their people in captured provinces.

irishmick79 wrote:I did that to the Gauls, once they declared war on me. They sent three generals with huge armies into Northern Italy, and I was able to bribe all three of them before they kicked my ass. One of them wound up kicking the hell out of every Gaulish army I sent him against, and became my faction heir.

Be careful who you bribe, though. I bribed one of the other roman families, and my stature in the senate plunged. I also started a war with Spain because I bribed one of their generals when we had neutral relations. It's best to bribe generals of factions you've just gone to war with, and haven't been liberally executing their people in captured provinces.

There's something that feels really "cheap" about bribing enemy armies. 'Tis far better to crush them with honour on the field of battle

Darth Wong wrote:

irishmick79 wrote:I did that to the Gauls, once they declared war on me. They sent three generals with huge armies into Northern Italy, and I was able to bribe all three of them before they kicked my ass. One of them wound up kicking the hell out of every Gaulish army I sent him against, and became my faction heir.

Be careful who you bribe, though. I bribed one of the other roman families, and my stature in the senate plunged. I also started a war with Spain because I bribed one of their generals when we had neutral relations. It's best to bribe generals of factions you've just gone to war with, and haven't been liberally executing their people in captured provinces.

There's something that feels really "cheap" about bribing enemy armies. 'Tis far better to crush them with honour on the field of battle

Bah, we make war with our coin and not our swords, all the better to flood Europe with our McRome's franchises.

Darth Wong wrote:There's something that feels really "cheap" about bribing enemy armies. 'Tis far better to crush them with honour on the field of battle

Quite true, but I was already heavily engaged with the majority of my forces against Carthage. Northern Italy was relatively undefended when the Gauls came calling. Between their three armies, they had something like 2500 troops to my, maybe 200. I absolutely had to do it, otherwise I would have lost two or three fairly big provinces in a heartbeat. Damn cherry-picking motherfuckers.