Faction roleplaying....

**Bob the Insane** · 10-21-2004, 09:53

Here one of all you faction roleplayers out there...

Anyone tried playing a game where you follow some rules for heirs, not based on ability... The MTW style heirs...

Oldest brother is automaticly the Heir unless the leader has a son of his own and then he becomes the heir,adoptions and husbands of your daughters do not count unless there is no one else left to choose.. In which case it is the oldest daughter's husband or any of the adopted men, faction leader's choice...

Also do people get really carried away and fight battles in the manner they would expect the relevent General to do so... (i.e. Plebious the Mad has his cavalry form the main line and tries to flank the enemy with his archers???

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**Mr. taxi** · 10-21-2004, 10:50

That sounds kinda fun but hard also.

If only for the fact that you'd only end up with faction leadres over the age of 50. Which I don't like.

**The Scourge** · 10-21-2004, 14:57

Originally Posted by Mr. taxi

That sounds kinda fun but hard also.

If only for the fact that you'd only end up with faction leadres over the age of 50. Which I don't like.

Well he is a faction leader(Politician.).Not a King.
So I would have thought that experience should play a big part in who gets to lead the faction.

**Bob the Insane** · 10-21-2004, 15:21

Originally Posted by The Scourge

Well he is a faction leader(Politician.).Not a King.
So I would have thought that experience should play a big part in who gets to lead the faction.

Game is not just about the Romans....

But I agree, it is not Medieval/Feudal either..

but it is fun...

**Akka** · 10-21-2004, 15:30

To be honest, I don't have seen the point of having a good faction leader. While the king was paramount in MTW, and could hold the whole future of the country on his vice, vertues and abilities, in RTW the faction leader doesn't seem to affect the faction in any serious way. Moreover, the micromanagement of big families, and the need to constantly ship them from the capital to cities, is incredibly tedious. And anyway, despite being big, the family doesn't hold, by far, enough people to administrate the whole empire.

As such, I finished by completely neglecting my family, letting the computer chose whatever heir and leader it wants, and only using faction member as generals.

**Bhruic** · 10-22-2004, 02:44

I have to agree, I don't find it terribly useful to have a "good" faction leader. Every family member regenerates units now, so the "King" effect of MTW isn't as useful. And it is incredibly easy to train up a military commander, so there seems to be no reason to pick a good general as faction leader.

At this point, I just set the youngest member of my family as "heir", just so I don't have the leader dying often. I generally don't care about his stats.

Bh

**Tamur** · 10-22-2004, 04:08

I don't spend much time picking the next faction leader -- I generally just let the game stipulate who that will be.

Rather, I spend a lot of time "role-playing" a faction strategy based on the current leader's traits and retinue. For example, if a new faction leader has had high influence and a couple of "Foreign Tastes" sorts of vices, I roleplay the entire faction as diplomacy-only marshmallow who try to expand via negotiation against rebels and factions every other faction hates, and who will sell a city rather than defend it. etc etc. With maybe a rebel family member who's got high command and just wants to smash the other faction.

Makes for some amusing moments!