Republican governance...

[bigmilt16]

How realistic is it to keep every FM in the capital city of a faction with a senate or republican government? I.E. as Rome, most FM's of influence are senators, and no one person rules the faction until the principate. On the other hand, when the game starts, FM's are in each city, and spreading FM's across cities helps to diversify FM's.

I'm about to start a new campaign and was wondering what I should do.

[Macilrille]

Res Publica Romana sent of patricians to govern their provinces (and enrich themselves enormously in the process), so it is realistic enough to send one off to each province for example (two to Iberian Peninsula, etc). However, the game mechanics makes it ahistoric, for governors were only elected for a short time- often only a year- and in the EB-way of things, they can hardly get there within that time.

It is just one of those things that cannot really be mirrored in RTW yet ;-) same with armies. Rome would by and large recruit a consular legion and send it off to fight, win and be back within the timespan of a consulate; a year, and if the fighting was to take longer the consul or proconsul commanding it could either choose to leave it to his replacement or bring it home. We cannot do this either.

Unless we teleport the armies using the console and that is cheating.

Sometime, somewhere I hope tech and programming gets advanced enough to exactly mirror what happened historically (including a better AI in all respects) and leave it to us to change history within those confines instead of forcing us to behave ahistorically because the game engine and AI limits us. If we think of it, RTW and EB is so far advanced compared to what was there before that it is no longer merely a dream. It will happen in my lifetime + more that I cannot even envision or fathom now.