Traits

[Nyz]

A few guidelines about traits:

- If you have too much money, your Family members will get bad traits, they will spend a lot etc...
- If you build taverns, (augures for Romans), your FM will became drunkards and stuff :)
- Build schools. If you have FM's in schools, even the bad ones can get some pretty decent traits and can became good governors.
- Have them lead many battles. Good traits are sure to come

Well, playing as Pahlava, after I built school and academy, my FMs in those cities got ascetic trait, then ascetic ancillary... that’s -200% to bribe resistance…

[Drewski]

RE : Romani:

You will get some bad FMs, doesn't that add to the realism? Just make sure every adopted, married into the family, and coming of age FM goes to school for 3 years or so, in a city with a top level educational building. Early on, I send them all to Rome, later I have 3 or 4 bases of Education (e.g. Rome, Somewhere in Spain, Somewhere nearish Paris, Athens). The ancilliaries and benefits they get from being well educated, well outweigh the drawbacks of being slightly over or even uneducated. Some get a bit too pedantic, and atheistic, buit send them to govern somewhere, and they generally adopt the gods of that settlement quickly, and run the place better through their education background.

Don't worry about too much money either. In My last epic Rome campaign, I had around 14 million mnai in the bank, at the time I got the Marians (about 165 BC). I was still getting very good FMs, some eventually topping out with 10 man and 10 inf. The only building to really avoid, is the Augures building line, as Anubis pointed out earlier. This just causes mass drunkeness ;)

[SillySirius]

Gah! I have Augures in all my cities.

Where is Carrie Nation when you need her?

Oh wait i can just tear down the Augures.

Don't get me wrong i don't mind bad field marshals i was just suprised at the rotten crop that sprung up.

[Nyz]

Beside ascetic, Pahlava FMs that are in cities with academy also can get Ashemaogha_Heretic trait, then Ashemaogha_Heretic ancillary, then the effect: <TroopMorale> -1, <Unrest> 1