Playing as the Senate

[The Stranger]

i really like THE SNEATE, what about you Ericosterman

[metatron]

well you're right about one thing at least...

You necroposted for that?

[Horatius]

There is a way to play as the senate?

Can you tell me how to do it?

I wanted to play as the senate from the start, it just seemed fun to me to defend the Respublica instead of destroying it.

When I take Rome I am usually Sulla and I sack the city.

However about the bug are there other bugs then not being able to go to the senate tab?

And about that bug is it just while playing as the senate or will it effect me when playing as the other factions?

Because if the bugs only effect playing as the senate then I would definately like to try it.

[Jason]

Actually that was a fact in ancient Thebes, a city near Athens. The best troops were selected to form a formidable legion called ‘ieros lohos’ (‘holy legion’ in free translation). They were divided in pares and each pare shared everything (food,bed…) and fought side by side till death. If one died then the other should die too. It was almost a rule that they were sexual partners as well.

One small note about ancient Greeks being gay: It was bisexuality that was common (and in a more platonic way actually…), not pure homosexuality. Also there was a small tendency towards youn boys...

This is my understanding as well. The Spartans actually had the lowest count of homosexuality/Bi in all of the ancient greek cities. It is suspected this had to do with the fact that the woman underwent much of the same training as did the men and in certian cases did so together, combined with the fact that Spartan women were actually allowed out of thier houses (unlike most of the other greek cities) and except for the meal times (in which all soldiers of Sparta took meals in 'meal houses' or for lack of a better analogy, an eating club) the family spent quite a bit of time together. This however is largely just conjecture about why they had a lower count as much of what we know about the Spartans comes to us from the Athenians (who had a rather strong dislike for the Spartans) as Spartiates were not allowed to do ANYTHING but practice for war (no trade skills, no being merchants, and no music, poetry or litrature except as it facilitated the effort of war). For all we really know they might have killed or severly punished anyone found acting that way. To the best of my knowledge there are no documents that go into great detail on this subject about the city of Sparta.

Jason the Newb

[Andreas]

Hmm, when reading this I just realized one thing... Someone wanted to attack the senate... Wouldn't that be possible, if you changed the "ai type" of it to something more aggressive, like the one egypt has. That would probably make them attack the roman houses at some point... Or?

[pezhetairoi]

wait, if the senate can't build temples....how the hell do you maintain public order?

[PyrrhusofEpirus]

wait, if the senate can't build temples....how the hell do you maintain public order?

I assume this is the challenging thing. You have to rely in your arenas and in others factions temples and happines/law buildings. Get ready for high culture penalties and endless revolts. It's is not advisable for irritable!!

[Horatius]

wait, if the senate can't build temples....how the hell do you maintain public order?

Senate maintains order through free bread, allowing the people of Rome to vote for who becomes Questor, Aedile, Preator, Consul, Tribune, and through giving people free games and races.

So because the senate is an elected body of people (Senators became senators after being elected to one of the above positions. Cicero became a senator after being a Questor at Lilybeum), they are trusted by the people enough for them to stay in order.

Or the senate could just summon Sulla to kill everyone against them. The summon Sulla option is probably the best:-)

On were Spartans gay Spartans were chaste. It was part of their training (For both men and women) they were taught things about sex that the catholic church would like, such as that sex was done merely for reproduction. They married at the order of the state, and would just have sex to make children, and then stop (Because unlike other greek women Spartan women had important things to do so there was not much sex after the first child. So they didn't have much sex with men or women, however usually sex without state aproval was between male lovers though. However most of the time sex was between male/female at the orders of the state. Also training with women respecting them as people, and being around them (Something that out of all the greeks only Spartan men did), got them to treat women better, not fall inlove with them, there are just too many greek historians claiming Spartan women had to rape the men on the wedding night to think the Spartan men fell inlove.

There is one historian who we know for a fact didn't use history to write Spartans as whatever he hated.

Plato was very pro-Spartan, and he confirms what most greeks said about Spartan life overall, although he does refute some charges such as Spartans were cannibals.