I have to admit I’m rather partial to extermination at the moment, but that is because I need the dinarii. If I didn’t need the money then enslavement is the preferred option. The ancients were always afraid of conquered enemies rebelling.

I remember having rather idealistic views about the ancient Greeks - foundations of Western culture and democracy and all that – until I read Thucydides. The actions of both sides upon capturing an enemy city are nothing short of barbaric by today’s standards. The conditions within a besieged city must have been truly awful for them even to contemplate surrender, knowing what the likely outcome would be.

I haven’t done this yet, but I wonder if you take another Roman city and occupy it, the potential for unrest is reduced. I suppose it must as the game tracks cultural difference as a source of unrest, and there shouldn’t be any of those icons in the Public Order index when one Roman faction capture the (Roman) city of another. Perhaps the same should be true between the Britons and the Gauls - the Belgai (sp?) did live on both sides of the Channel.