Diplomatic options expanded in AE?

[CelticHorde]

Take a look at the following image:



I have recently been engaged in a campaign with the Ebdanians whilst waitingfor the glorious Ancient Empires overhaul. I decided to install the 'AllOccupation & Diplomatic Options for All Factions' mod by Dresden. Notnecessarily knowing the full effects of the mod I decided to give it a shot. Iwas very surprised at the intended or unintended effects of the mod. I must putemphasis on intended or unintended as I'm not sure whether the author of themod knew the full effects.

Anyway the suggestion here is that I believe Ancient Empires would greatlybenefit from the extended diplomatic options to form confederations andassimilate other factions into your own with a 'Join Empire' option indiplomacy. The mod also added the 'Same blood' or 'Same people' effect asseen in RTW2 making diplomacy much more interesting. As evidenced in theimage above another leader of a faction is now a member of my family and fightsas a general under my banner.

Just a suggestion, let me know what you think. It's something that has been doneand would definitely fit in with Ancient Empires.

P.s. I'm also loving the Ancient Empires UI. Excellent job

[Alu10]

I would really like to diplomatically annex a faction (Europa Universalis style), when satrapy / client state for a long time + a very good diplomatic standing. I would think that it could be possible to add this with the "join faction" option. At the moment even when i have 300+ relations with a satrapy, they wont accept joining me. It would benefit Total War alot and encourage forming of client states / satrapies.