ERE Campaign sudden bankrupt/income drop

[von Lützow]

Well, as the headline says I was bankrupt from autumn to winter turn 406 A.D., my income dropped in one single turn to -5500. Couldn't find any reason, did anyone else experience this?

Luckily I subjugated the Sassanids after this turn and I could disband some troops (actually it was a pretty high amount of soldiers which were necessary to hold back the puppet states and wrestle down the last Sassanid Armies on their stronghold Stakhr) to save money and made a few trades with the former Sassanid puppet states who were willing to (not everyone accepted it but I guess the relations will cool down and they will do trade also).

Yea. So far so good but this financial desaster took away my breath at the first moment. I'd appreciate some hints, if anybody has a clue.

[abrensons]

It happened to me while on ERE campaign and all my puppet states suddenly declared war on me with no apparent reason. so i lost all the agreements and money - something like -20k. few years before 425. That made my campaiogn very long as i had to regroup, cut my army bill and take more lands by force.

[Mephiston87]

trade to WRE was cut, or theyr capital is under siege.
Or if you spent alot of cash the turn before your left over gold interest has dropped 5k.


Subjigating anything is a bad move as either Rome.

[Fatal_]

Ok, this is stupid. BUT how do you subjugate enemies? Create puppet state, low chance...take last of their settlement? all i get is sack, sack&occupy, occupy and desolate. This has happend to 2 factions already..is it because they were sassanid satrapies?

[von Lützow]

Originally posted by abrensons:

It happened to me while on ERE campaign and all my puppet states suddenly declared war on me with no apparent reason. so i lost all the agreements and money - something like -20k. few years before 425. That made my campaiogn very long as i had to regroup, cut my army bill and take more lands by force.

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Did you maybe accept an offer from a faction that wanted to become your puppet state? As I subjugated the Sassanids and all their puppet states became mine, all of a sudden the Armenian wanted to become my puppet state too (but they were befriended with the Sassanids, so no conflict potential here) BUT the Afrigidhs or how you call them - the faction above Parthia on the Aral Sea - made me an offer to become my puppet state too. If I had accepted Sassanids and their former puppets would break loose after some time because the Afrigidhs were at war with them. So I refused their offer. You did probably something like this and your relations went to hell in a handbasket.

[von Lützow]

Originally posted by Mephiston87:

trade to WRE was cut, or theyr capital is under siege.
Or if you spent alot of cash the turn before your left over gold interest has dropped 5k.


Subjigating anything is a bad move as either Rome.

This could be a solution. I'll maybe take a closer look to the savefile when my financials went down south, because WRE was bothered pretty heavily by Illyria on north Italy with Mediolanum etc at this particular time