Im pretty sure it means your Decadence-culture ratio is bad and hence the AI "predicts" that your country may explode in the future and due to this you are slightly unreliable partner in an alliance or cooperation.

I've just recently found out that the Pictones (Scotland province) have HI that is non-clumsy AND have additional mountaineer trait (+1 ATCK/+1 DEF when fighting on hills and mountains), which can be deadly if combined with good generals. British Isles overall have really good roster, however Britis...

As far as colonies are concerned I think you should be allowed to exchange soldiers for population and leave them behind to form a military colony. This was done by Alexander and the Romans. The restrictions would be: 1. only veteran or wounded soldiers can be left behind - so troops with 3 stars o...

It might be also the problem of when reaching north Italy Rome get declared war by some tribes and the only way to deal with them now is conquer them. We may need to add extra diplomacy option for wars like monetary reparations , subjugation ( client state ) or just raze the tribe territory. Or eve...

I'm with devoncop here. Making the expansion routes more historic would railroad the gameplay - like it is in so many other games. It's nice to see a game try something else. I guess its' a question of temperament, but I definitely like the (sort of) new take on the expansion that Pocus has tried h...

yes, even take new slaves. Unsuccessful raid can lower your army effectiveness though.

I'm with devoncop here. Making the expansion routes more historic would railroad the gameplay - like it is in so many other games. It's nice to see a game try something else. I guess its' a question of temperament, but I definitely like the (sort of) new take on the expansion that Pocus has tried h...

Rome seems to expand in Germany in my games too. This is weird since they don't have objectives there and their regions are generally poor and underdeveloped (and German ethnicity cause highest level of unrest as far as I know) and of course, historically they never wished to conquer those regions. ...