I'm agree with this change.

Just one thing :

If a minor faction allied status end all the cities they captured from other factions became neutral cities. City diplomacy can be used against cities captured by minor powers.

The rules say already that non-majors factions cannot take control of a ...

#3 Time Crusade

SyroC vs Crusaders.png

It seemed like a good idea, this N-1 Crusade. Trying to take back Jerusalem, before the arrival of the Muslims and the birth of Christ the Saviour. Unfortunately, sand is timeless and bronze is deadly when you're bakin in your armor.

Canaanite_-_Scarab ...

Only two mirors matchs ongoing !

All eyes are on Chris Townsend, rockmanbob123 & VukTeble !

Year 2 - Operation 9 - Etruscans - Faction Diplomacy

Sabines, don’t be fooled by the Romans. We are true friends of the hills!

- roll 2+4=6 - no effect

Well, we’re going to sacrifice a few dozen goats, we’ll be back...

Division C

Maeglyr challenges Solemnace in a mass jousting !

Normans (923-1040) against Bretons (580-931)

Gentlemen's agreement wrote: Only non-light cavalry allowed (except the mandatory two Bretons light cav).
No infantry, no light, Lances and spear will clash in the plain !

pw : jousting
pm sent

#7 Fate of Iran

Against all odds, the Timurid cavalry was able to resist the first volleys of Persian arrows to establish some victories.
The Achaemenid dynasty, however, maintains its status as an Immortal.

Standard_of_Cyrus_the_Great.svg(1)(1).png (43.49 KiB) Viewed 381 times

#6 Ride on the Nile

The New Kingdom maintained absolute control over the Nile lands for at least another ten dynasties.
And take the first place in the League.

Nofretete_Neues_Museum(1).jpg (14.66 KiB) Viewed 384 times

I'm in !

I tried the Slave's army in HOML 10. Very difficult and it was on hilly ground.

Year 2 - Operation 7 - Etruscans - Faction Diplomacy

We invite our beloved hill tribes to join us to feast on the way to Rome.

- roll 1 - automatic failure.

Somehow, the Etruscan ambassador managed to die on the way, leaving a wife, children,
and a dodecapolis (minus one) prey to grief.

kronenblatt, the Ruler wrote:

Capture d'écran 2026-10-08 221641.png (90.94 KiB) Viewed 1005 times

12+ or a natural 10 make the "allegiance" of the City moves by +2.
If Hostile is -1, Neutral is 0 and Friendly is +1, so a natural ten is -1 + 2 = +1, so Friendly !

#5 Trading post's Illiade

The Trojans obtain temporal hegemony by very little, in points.
Genoa will have to find another territory to secure its Crimean colonies.

Helene_Paris_Louvre_K6(1).jpg (56.49 KiB) Viewed 893 times

Next operation for the Romans !

Year 2 - Operation 5 - Etruscan

City Diplomacy on Cosae

- roll 7
+ 4 momentum
+1 for a glorious army standing near the city
-1 for Tarquinium, hostile city connected,
+3 for Populonia, Vetulonia & Aurinia, friendly city connected
= 14

CITY DIPLOMACY TABLE
• 6 or lower (or 1 unmodified ...

Division B

Maeglyr challenges rockmanbob123

French (1480-1483) & Castilian (1476-1497) will fight in a north european plain.

password : homl
pm sent

Division C

Maeglyr challenges Hari72

Visigoths will try to take that holy vase before Clovis.

Password : vase
pm sent

Division B

Maeglyr
challenges
Solemnace

Byzantines in Italy (1038-1039) will fight against the Berbers (Murabit) 1039-1086 in a Mediterranean plain.

password : byzberber
pm sent

You're both right on the road rules, I misread it. Indeed, we are at -2 because of the orientation of the roads.
So Second Army is Weakened, but it doesn't change the question : Romans, do you want to fight ?

On the discussion on Luna

Luna is not a hostile city, it is a neutral city, as all non-major cities.
As a neutral city, Luna doesn't interrupt our path.
So Luna doesn't cut our supply lines.

Etruscans - Year 2 - Operation 4 : Army

First Etruscan army moving south-east
Supply status : 7 hexes from Pisae - 7 roads = 0
Supply value 4 (hills) -> 4-0 is not below 0 so the army is supplied.

- roll 8 +1 road = 9 > 2 x Threshold, allowing it to continue
- roll 3+1 road = 4 Allow move and ...