Life of a Roman: An AAR

**gamegeek2** · 01-11-2009, 15:19

is intelligent life evolving?

**johnhughthom** · 01-11-2009, 16:05

Life of a Roman: An AAR Chapter 10

Retirement

I'm finally back home in Mediolanium, my service to the Republic has been completed. I won't serve again, a broken leg sustained in stormy seas coming back from Crete didn't heal properly and now I have a limp when I walk. My final few months in Crete were uneventful, a minor war with Athens over Rhodes was ended in our favour. We are the undoubted masters of the western Mediterranean and now we have a foothold in the east.

The war with Makedonia goes well, a large enemy force was comprehensively defeated early last year, though the Senate seems unwilling to try to take any more territory in the region at present. The Gauls and the Germans are fighting each other as usual and the presence of Legio V nearby keeps them from contemplating an attack. Iberia seems to be the most likely area of conflict and war with Carthage seems an inevitability, it's a matter of when, not if. My old colleagues in Legio IV are on their way there now, one Legion is enough for peacekeeping, sending a second can only mean war is on the cards.

I am not as bored as I had imagined with civilian life, I have plenty to occupy myself with. The farm, the rented property in the city and in Crete, I have also bought my old home near Arpi and a small place in Rome. Those six hundred Nuraghi have really made my life comfortable. So a business man, farmer and family man is my life now. I have a son and a daughter with another child on the way, my son is thirteen and a talented horseman. Not very Roman I know, but he enjoys it. I have bought my way into the ranks of the equites, my son wants to be part of the cavalry when he does his service. I thought I had been excited about joining the Legions as a child but my boy is something else, all he ever talks about is killing Gauls, Germans, Carthaginians, Greeks anybody who isn't Roman. I'm almost as excited about his service as he is, I have no doubt he will make me proud.

Coming soon: Life of a Roman: An AAR Part Two

**gamegeek2** · 01-11-2009, 18:16

**johnhughthom** · 01-12-2009, 02:31

I'm trying to get a character to use for the next bit of the AAR through marriage, I want a plebeian aged 16-18 and I keep getting patricians in their 50s.

I just noticed I have 12 females of marriage age including 5 in their 30s. Is there an an age where they can't be married off anymore? I know it happens in Medieval, never noticed it in RTW though.

**desert** · 01-12-2009, 02:45

I remember that someone once posted a screenshot of the message he got regarding the death of a female FM. It was a very special message though; he had never married her off...

**johnhughthom** · 01-12-2009, 06:11

There must be a link between the age of your daughters and the age of suitors, I haven't had one under 50 in 6 game years-one was 64.

Obviously it's ok for women to marry much older men, but young men aren't allowed to marry older women.

**I of the Storm** · 01-12-2009, 10:45

I suppose that your faction is already quite rich. It seems to me that the more money you have, the more useless suitors become.
Apart from that, it can happen that unmarried females retire. I've had messages about it in the later stages of a game (not EB though). I don't know at wich age this will happen. Probably 40+