Cheeky Senate!

[qmark]

Just wanted to share with you folks what happened to my first campaign last night. I've read others saying something similar but hadn't seen it, until now.

It seems that my faction (Julii) had grown too powerful, the senate got nervous and demanded that I force my faction leader to suicide! No chance of that. You are now outlawed! Brutii and Scipii then followed suite and declared war!!

Thankfully I had a sizeable force stationed near Patavium and immediately ordered them to seige Rome. My standing amoungst the plebs was such that a scroll urging me to take control was delivered... don't mind if I do.

The Sentate garrison had (has) me outnumbered, though my 4 onagers even up the forces. The Rome garrison sallied! They came storming from the gates of the great city in their hundreds, a great purple tsunami of steel. And died as they charged. Great flaming projectiles rained upon them, arrows plunged through armour so that by the time they reached my ranks of Legions they were decimated, but brave men as they are they fought with courage.

Since I didn't have enough men to take the city I knew I couldn't move forward, I was content to destroy their garrison as much as possible and move when reinforcements arrived. Some 700 Senate troops died that day, to less than 200 of my own. But the most memorable moment? The huge gates of Rome rumble open to release another wave of soldiers, behind them Rome is aflame. Pillars of smoke billow into the afternoon sky as the men march to their doom!

After the Draw was declared the Senate then sued for peace. I accepted but I don't think it''ll last.


PS

Also finding it pretty easy to bribe Brutii armies at the moment. Very cheap too.

[bighairyman]

You aceepted peace with the Senate? Why???????? They only have one city; ROME. take it and they will be destoryed!!!!

Oh yeah i think the reason the Brutii is easy to bribe is because they are commanded by captains, which is really cheap!

[Akka]

They sued for peace ?

I've NEVER seen any "loyalist" factions making peace with any "rebel" faction

[alpaca]

I think the Senate demands suicide of your faction leader if you conquer 50 provinces or get too low in the Senate Floor.
Can anybody confirm this?
And something else: Does the Senate keep its initial army of Hastati, Principes and Triarii for the whole game? Because when I attacked Rome in my Scipii game I could do it with a unit half the size of theirs and still win without problems (I used Urban Cohorts and Praetorian Cav though ;))

[Sin Qua Non]

I have NEVER seen a Roman peace after you have the "little falling out" episode. It's nice to know that it can happen. I've wanted Roman peace as several different factions, but for me they seem to be the most dead set on total victory (or defeat).

[bmolsson]

Haven't challanged the senate yet.... It's coming, it's coming...

[qmark]

Okay it's 6 months later and they've demanded the faction leader suicide again! So the peace didn't last!

Have sieged Rome (which isn't their only city BTW, they have 3 other provinces) and was in the middle of the assault (gotta say I was getting my erse kicked, they had some excellent troops and I didn't have enough) when it CTD !!! Maybe not a bad thing because I'd stupidly forgotten to order the other two forces I have surrounding Rome to build assault equipment and therefore help in the attack. The garrison would then have had to deal with an assault from 3 directions (though only one main force), I'm sure that'd make a huge diference. They just turned up as useless reinforcements.

Still if at first etc etc