Browning
03-16-2005, 14:12
The first (and so far, the only) campaign I have been playing is the Bruti on hard/medium, 1.21 community patch.
It is ca. 245 B.C. now and the original fraction leader, Tiberius Brutus is still alive at the age of 71. Don't ask me how many traits, stars and retinue members this good old chap has!
His family was doing fine, conquering Balkans as their passtime. They married, got children, snapped drinks, acquired idiot savants and a dislike for farming and such. Only this guy Vibius concerned me. He passed his 40s and while beeing quite a good commander he didn't have a single admin merit (no scrolls whatsoever) and besides he was a single. I started thinking there was something not very much hallo with him. I was quite worried because I had lost two young generals on the battlefield (a stupid final charge a notch too early) and my diplomats were unable to bribe anyone into the family...
But finally I sent this Vibius chap to the newly conquered Athens with its Academia (yeah, were else you send your kids to study, Harvard or what?). Next time I look there is a philosopher and some other nice guys around Vibius, and possibly a matchmaker... Since next time I look my dear Vibius gets married. Good!
The nice lady is 40. Bad. Come on, this guy must have been drunk or there is Camorra in Athens... By Jupiter, I would rather think old guys get attracted by young chicks!
But be patient, my young padawan, two years or so after these events the noble Lady of Vibius Brutus gives birth to her first child.
Hm. Nasty-dynasty Hapsburg planners liked to give old-aged princesses to middle-European stupid kings with a deal "if Hapsburg line gets extinct, your noble Hungarian line will rule all of Archduchy, but if your line expires, your land will be a Hapsburg one". In this way - bella gerant alli, tu felix Austria nube - they created the empire.
Now, a single lady like the Matrona mentioned earlier would destroy all the cunning designs like that. And I have plenty of 40 ys. old mothers in the Bruti family, now when I checked! These Roman women.
Anyway, it gave me much roleplaying delight to watch Vibius, a purely military-minded adventurer, to become a good governor and a father.
It is ca. 245 B.C. now and the original fraction leader, Tiberius Brutus is still alive at the age of 71. Don't ask me how many traits, stars and retinue members this good old chap has!
His family was doing fine, conquering Balkans as their passtime. They married, got children, snapped drinks, acquired idiot savants and a dislike for farming and such. Only this guy Vibius concerned me. He passed his 40s and while beeing quite a good commander he didn't have a single admin merit (no scrolls whatsoever) and besides he was a single. I started thinking there was something not very much hallo with him. I was quite worried because I had lost two young generals on the battlefield (a stupid final charge a notch too early) and my diplomats were unable to bribe anyone into the family...
But finally I sent this Vibius chap to the newly conquered Athens with its Academia (yeah, were else you send your kids to study, Harvard or what?). Next time I look there is a philosopher and some other nice guys around Vibius, and possibly a matchmaker... Since next time I look my dear Vibius gets married. Good!
The nice lady is 40. Bad. Come on, this guy must have been drunk or there is Camorra in Athens... By Jupiter, I would rather think old guys get attracted by young chicks!
But be patient, my young padawan, two years or so after these events the noble Lady of Vibius Brutus gives birth to her first child.
Hm. Nasty-dynasty Hapsburg planners liked to give old-aged princesses to middle-European stupid kings with a deal "if Hapsburg line gets extinct, your noble Hungarian line will rule all of Archduchy, but if your line expires, your land will be a Hapsburg one". In this way - bella gerant alli, tu felix Austria nube - they created the empire.
Now, a single lady like the Matrona mentioned earlier would destroy all the cunning designs like that. And I have plenty of 40 ys. old mothers in the Bruti family, now when I checked! These Roman women.
Anyway, it gave me much roleplaying delight to watch Vibius, a purely military-minded adventurer, to become a good governor and a father.