Can you get hannibal?

[Craterus]

Yep, my Hannibal in my carthage campaign is currently seiging rome having won 3 heroic victories along the way :)

I had 4 victories lining a paved road on the way down to Rome. I called it "The Road to Victory". I cannot take all the credit for this, littlegannon was my co-commander.

[Simetrical]

It's perfectly possible to get a character named Hannibal Barca, but the odds are rather low. For a Gaius/Caius Julius, your odds are much better as the Julii, since a) all your characters are named Julius, b) Romans have relatively few first names, and c) Gaius is registered twice under two different spellings (which should not reasonably coexist the way they do in RTW, and which are both pronounced with a G sound). You can't get a Gaius Caesar, because Caesar isn't a valid name in RTW.

RTR has not changed the frequency of appearance of historical characters (nor could we if we wanted to, beyond the starting characters). However, in 6.0 we do plan to reform the Roman naming system—it's pretty stupid at the moment, with praenomina, nomina, cognomina, and some nonexistent names stuck in for both first and last names. In RTR 6.0, we'll have a strict praenomen-nomen naming system, although of course the nomen will be replaced by titles as in vanilla (we can't change that, unfortunately, unless we want to remove all titles, which we don't).

-Simetrical

[tibilicus]

Hi i am new to these forums so plz excuse my noobishness. It is posible to get both Hanibal and a Gaius julius. i however had a strange campain and managed to get a gaius julis twice. is this a bug, very rare or have other people had this before?

[Craterus]

I think it's quite common.. I'm sure I had a Gaius Julius in my Julii campaign