

I missed the drop, being preoccupied with glorious battle after battle with the invading Milanese empire. Somewhere in the subsequent war with Milan, around turn 200, it dropped to Dubious. In the Turkish campaign example above Turkey was Reliable for about 150 turns, then dropped to Mixed at the incident I mentioned. I don't know about the normalizing to Mixed - please explain. I do this with those who are important to me, mainly allies, and the Pope if catholic, mainly by giving money or map information. Painter - how do you mean that the reputation is normalized to Mixed each turn? I understood that relations with other factions dropped each turn on vhd, so you have to actively maintain them. The pope as ally (what i do every game) isn't any help, cause he just ask to stops fighting, only threatening me with excommunication. I know the game is called total war, but this i more "total war.everybody against the player".īy recruiting assassin's and spies my rulers have a lot of dread, but even then my faction's reputation still stays thrustworthy.

In the course of the 10 next turn both HRE and Spain betrayed me, and England also joined the fighting. Last game as france: alliance with HRE, royal marriage with spain. I admit that i always make a fair amount of alliances in the beginning, but for the rest i never do things that are bad for my reputation: i don't loot conquered rebel settlements, i never declare war.

The AI annoys me as hell, that's why i think that even Empire is sometimes better than medievall (at least you don't have everybody backstabbing you)
