Rome: Total War help on a Senate mission

[ITPaladin]

I failed this mission to leave this region / settlement that they only gave me 2 turns to complete. I was told to remove myself from the area (they lilsted a name of a city I have no spies or armies, cities, etc nearby).
I was told to make an alliance with them if I was just passing through and a military access treaty. I managed to later get to the city (stupid game gives impossible missions sometimes - I had no diplomats in the area within 2 turns) later an make an alliance.

I received the mission again telling me the same thing.

Damn game screwing up my faction with my first failure and gong to be my second since I went to the named city, offered military access to my lands and demanded access to theirs. They refused me....some allies...

I looked up the faction / diplomacy lists and Dacia (the so called friends of Rome) are not even allied with ANY of the Roman factions except me!.

Is this a bug or what?

 

[ITPaladin]

ah figured it out...I read the entire manual and never saw any mention that the triple lines on the map meant a region...I have had a fort guarding the northern passes of Gaul territory long before the Dacians apparently took over a city to the NE.
I removed the garrison and succeeded in the mission. It sure would have helped to have clearer messages about this.

 

[Bateluer]

I only listened to the Senate as long as it suited me. Usually didn't take very long for me to start disregarding their orders.

 

[ITPaladin]

Yah really is stupid when they give you a mission to blockade a port or take a settlement you have no way of getting to. I am just barely reaching in to France and Spain and they expect me to go blockade a port on the southern British isle coast when I have none up there.
I can't even sail through the straits because some stupid Spanish ship NEVER leaves the area where I have a blockade of a Gaul port so my other ships can't sail through the brown area.