Well this was a good session, with only a few rehosts.
The war was really exciting, we were a bit unlucky at the beggining of the war with bad dice rolls, I lost like 30-40K soldiers in the first months because of this. In the end we lost the war, I came out from it with quite good terms. 2 poor provinces in the Balkans, 1 not so rich in western Egypt, plus I paid 120Gold to Carthage. First they wanted like 6-7 provinces from me... I'm a whizz at negotiations
The war was really bloody, all nations came out from it with zero manpower.
As for the peace time, nothing important happened. During this campaign, I only had half assed kings... the one I have now is no expection. 5 in martial, 2-3 diplomacy and 0 finesse. Yeah, he is a real killer. I guess the gods still like Egypt, because with 52% chance we managed to use the omens quite good. For about every 5 tries, 3 succeded. As a result from this, the coffers are filled with gold, the population is growing, and there are few rebellions. I already built all province improvements, so the next ruler of Egypt will not have any problems with money. We have replaced a national idea, so we have +10% tax income now. Stability was quickly raised back to +3. We still have like 800 gold left after all of this.
AS for the diplomacy, there was some succes there too, it seems like The long struggles agains The Selecuid Empire are over. They acknowleged our claims in Syria, and we signed a non intervention and non agression pact. We also got some trade deals from them.
Other than that, they were quiet during the session, but I think the Emperor dreams of conquests. Lets hope he will leave Egyipt's lands alone, as we don't want to give Syria back, but we also don't want to wage wars against them.
I was a bit suprised seeing Rome and Carthage allied, but the Roman player surely knows what he does... at least until Carthagian soldiers are not under the walls of Rome. I think it was a mistake allying with Carthage, as they eat babies
The roman player said at the end of the session, that he is on the edge of a civil war, all of his generals are disloyal.
Macedonia has lost 2 provinces in Asia Minor, it is not a huge blow, since they managed to hold the straits to themselves, thus their income is still large. We have very good relations with them, with a full alliance, and lots of trade(at least 60% of Egypt's trade income comes from Macedonian routes)
Bosphoran kingdom grew during the years, she has become a major power. Her income is still lagging behind the leading powers, but it is bigger then Rome's. Their Research is quite slow though.
And last, but not least, Carthage. Well what can I say? She is the World's leading power for now... but who knows what will happen in the future.
