Aggressive/Expansionist AIs

[Bramborough]

It doesn't say it anywhere but it's always been about Rome's way to becoming an empire, right? It became an empire after Cesar died, officially anyways, or he was the one who started it.

In my campaign, Rome is an empire by 190BC but that is because I have no idea how to internal politics. I do know how to war though apparently =X I don't like how the internet politics just 'turn off' after a civil war though.

Well, I guess we have another "unknown". I'm going to continue this campaign without finishing off victory conditions and see if I reach a time expiration of some sort around AD 0. I'll take it to a point where I'm just a few clicks away from either mil or eco-victory and consider that the "win".

I agree about the discontinuance of politics after the CW. It might have to transform a bit under Empire, but should definitely remain a factor. I think I'd be okay with a CW not being possible any more, but at very least marriages/promotions/etc should continue. There should also be the possibility of an individual general rebelling (an occurrence to which the Empire was no stranger). Someone reported in another thread here that this can happen, but it's hard for me to see how, since influence & gravitas levels are frozen.

Technically it was Octavian (Augustus) who established the Empire, but that was the political culmination of a several-decades-long period of turmoil and civil wars. I'd agree that Caesar was the one who set these events in motion. Although if it hadn't been Caesar, it would've been someone else...the real cause was instability inherent in Rome's political & social systems. Going off on a bit of a tangent...the more I read about the Roman Republic, the more I think that ending it in favor of Empire was not necessarily a bad thing. Rome seems to have been at its most unstable during the mid and late Republic. My general impression is that it would have been far safer and more comfortable to have been a Roman citizen in 100 AD than in 100 BC. I'm no expert...I could be wrong.