"RTW Nostalgy" RPG game

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Ave,

I guess just like many others I picked my old copy of RTW once I heard R2TW was announced. It brought back many good memories of all the crazy battles I fought and all the interesting developments on campaign map. However, playing it alone is not exactly the same as playing it with other people in a RPG setting.

So, I thought perhaps there are people who are interested in a almost Vanilla RTW rpg game?

If you want to play and are interested in it then I ask these things from you:

1) What faction shall we use? I personally would like to pick a Roman faction just because the game is called Rome Total War.

2) Each player can propose 3 rule/objectives/modding suggestions. With modding suggestions I mean we can give units to factions(like archers for Carthage), change some units stats/abilities or something similar. Basically easy stuff. No new provinces or something like that.


Other than that basic rpg game rules from previous games will be used (each player have an in-game character; each player fights it's own battles: etc).

[Nightbringer]

I would say go with Julii for the classic red, even if it isn't technically historical.
Plus, I always found fighting phalanxes a little tiring.

As for rules, I think we could reasonably rule out pvp. It can get messy rules wise, and I think competing for senate offices should provide a fun way for players to compete against each-other as well as the computer.

With that in mind, I would definitely say ignore in game offices and use our own system for allocations offices. We could figure out a system to determine the senatorial influence of each character, and use that to determine who gets offices, following the cursus honorum of course.

It could be the influence stat (if I am correctly remembering that being a thing) * prestige. Prestige would come from winning battles, capturing provinces, holding games, etc... This score would then essentially be the number of senatorial votes a player is able to cast in determining who gets offices. It isn't exactly historical, but I think it could be fun if others do as well.

The main possible problem I can see with this is that we will only have control over one family of the faction, but perhaps we could simply ignore the others in terms of offices, or simply let the game's decision for offices to those factions stand, and vote on the rest.

What do you guys think?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I myself like the Julii as well.

And I agree that PvP should be left out.

As for the senatorial offices I like the idea. Perhaps we could give points for every battle fought + checking characters Influence + the factions standing in the Senate?

Also, one thing to consider is army sizes. Normal characters could recruit only lower tier troops and could command a small number of them. But a Consul(don't have to be FL) could a full stack army?

[Zim]

Always like the Julii myself.

As far as offices I could see a bonus in troops for the Consul. Maybe full stack versus a half stack for lower offices?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

And perhaps characters without offices can't have more than 1/4 stack and can't recruit mercenaries? It would make the offices really important and desirable.

[Nightbringer]

Sounds good to me
no office = quarter stack no mercs
random office = half stack
consul = full stack

How should we do finances for the game" I like the personal finances system I tried for LotD, but it definitely adds a lot of work on everyone's part.