Originally Posted by nokhor:
i've always wondered how far up the chain did that go? did that include patricians? i could see them killing grunts, and maybe centurions but i find it hard to believe that they would kill legates or other higher up officers.
Centurions and Opto's {junior to centurions} could certainly be included in a decimation. Patricians could not be executed this way, at least under the First Republic (which is where this games' time period is set}. Patricians had to be prosecuted in a senatorial court and even then the death penalty was very rarely awarded. (I think only for crimes such as Treason Against Rome).
The usual punishment for Patricians was exile but not for this sort of misdemeanor. They would usually get a hefty fine. The worst thing for a patrician in this scenario would be loss of face and status (they could sometimes lose their Patrician and First Hundred Family status.
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