During my first rebel campaign a while ago I was having some real trouble getting a good foothold anywhere; my barbarian territories could not create units and were falling like flies to the germans and romans, I had no family members and the only way i could get generals was for them to appear randomly, as for some reason i did not even have the option to bribe enemy generals. That didn't matter however as I didn't have the money for bribing anyways. Eventually i get some momentum in greece through a few lucky random spawns of guys and the first faction i defeated was Macedon. After i defeated them i noticed that they had some general units outside of their last city that switched to my side when i took the city. After this point I had to option to bribe generals. I also noticed that when i was training units in any greek/roman cities the units had Macedon colors in their unit construction browser.
While playing rebel campaign do you take the place of the first faction you defeat?