House Rules and Historical Campaign - Romani

**froogle_king** · 07-20-2010, 09:10

By going native, I meant one of my generals that was governing a city attained a character trait that reduced his movement on the map and made him a better manager as long as he remained in that province. What do you mean by I can't "field" armies outside of Italy? By full stack armies, you mean armies that take up all the slots at the bottom of the screen?

Thanks for the help! Especially so quickly!

**anubis88** · 07-20-2010, 09:34

Originally Posted by froogle_king

By going native, I meant one of my generals that was governing a city attained a character trait that reduced his movement on the map and made him a better manager as long as he remained in that province. What do you mean by I can't "field" armies outside of Italy? By full stack armies, you mean armies that take up all the slots at the bottom of the screen?

Thanks for the help! Especially so quickly!

No probem... About the armies - you can't train Roman Units outside Italy - The Triarii, Principes, Hastati, Equites, Pedites... You can only train local troops at your disposal.

About the generals - yes, if a general is in a city a long time, he will became more at home at the city. Also if a general fights many battles, he will get the Warmonger trait, which will make him less able in a city, but better when fighting battles - more stars, more morale etc...

I suggest you start playing. If anything goes wrong, or you have more questions, ask them while they came. EB is such a deep game, that it's very difficult to give you broad advices, without forgeting many important things.

And one last thing, you must never forget to start the script

**MisterFred** · 07-20-2010, 15:47

A Romani campaign is a good way to ease into the EB experience - not much disastrous can go wrong, and you have time to experiment with your options. On the other hand, my first two campaigns were Baktria and Koinon Hellenon, where sixteen billion things can go wrong - playing a hard faction is another good way to jump recklessly into the EB experience :).

**froogle_king** · 07-21-2010, 06:01

Maybe this deserves a new thread? (not sure of the proper protocol for the forum) But I've run into something I really do not understand. What is all this talk about client rulers?

This is my situation:
I captured the city Taras. I destroyed the foreign government building there and starting building a Roman level 4 government. I left my army, along with the general, in Taras because unrest was high. When the new government building was finished, I removed my general since he was an interloper. Then I recruited a merc general. There were two kinds available to me so I went with the more foreign kind. As soon as he was built though, he was given the interloper trait.....am I setting up a client ruler properly?

Here's what Quintus Sertorius wrote:
"Move your family members out of conquered settlements as soon as a client ruler is installed. Not only is there the Interloper trait issue, but it demonstrates poor faith on the part of the Republic not to trust provincials to run their own affairs as long as they pay their taxes."

I realize now that I removed the fm before the client ruler came about, but why does that mean that the client ruler gets an interloper trait? Does it make a difference which one of the generals I create?

He also writes that "The greatest amount of culture penalty comes from the governor's residence in a province, so aim to upgrade this as soon as you can." How do I upgrade this?

**anubis88** · 07-21-2010, 10:02

You upgrade the goverment once your city grows... And the Client Ruler shouldn't have the Interloper trait, if you have a level 4 goverment in place. Try waiting a turn, since it seems you did everything right.

**froogle_king** · 07-21-2010, 10:43

Nope. The merc general in Taras is very much an interloper still. In Bononia I put a Celtic lesser king there as well and he immediately got the interloper trait. Level IV governments in both regions.