roman factions.
as you may or may not know untill 88 bc most of the italian peninsula was under the control of italian allied nations (allied to rome that is) with roman "colony" cityies dotted abotu within their lands, but the italians apart from payign rome tax and giving roem troops in tiems of war, had a large degree of autonomy, in 91 BC most of the italians lead primarily by the Samnites and Marsi broek of their alliances, sacked the roamn collonies in their lands and tried to take rome itself, with the roman victory in 88 BC all italians south of the river Po were given the citizenship so as to avert such a war happening again (it was the most devestating war italy woudl go through untill Belisarius's bitter campaign against the ostrogoths in the 6th century)
but my point is this: so far as i know the italian allies so important a faction in most of the games time period (the defection of many of them during the second punic war was a pivtoal point in Hannibals success for example) have no part in the game.
please tell me i am mistaken.
further more i am absolutely disgusted at the way the roman factions are organised. for one to give an entire faction to the julii who for the majority of the game length were a minor patrician family only just holding on to their seats in the senate by the skin of their teeth, untill they recieved copius monetary assistance from one Gaius Marius (who i am sure will not credit a mention in the game, despite being hailled during his life as the third founder of rome). CA has simply divided italy up among three famous men (Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, and Brutus) without actually bothering to look at actual roman control in the areas at the times. roman control was fluid, and to have one mans family control an area throughtout the game (provided noone conquers him) is utterly stupid.
