Re: Fall of Rome
A pagan senate with Christian emperors? we are talking about 450 AD?
Innocent I WAS the religious patriarch of Rome at the beginning of the fifth centrury and the power of the senate compared to the great power, land, wealth adn military holdings of the bishoprics in Italy alone merits the Papacy (or the religious organisational body that was to become the Papacy) to take the role that SPQR as a faction fulfilled in the original RTW game. This decade would be aperfect starting point for the mod, with Pelagius and other Chrsitian leaders at each others throats vying for control and accusing each other of heresy could make a very intersting background for cultural diversity among the Roman factions. Using the EB idea of modding 'buildings'. The usurper Contantine claimed rulership of Britain and Armorica after the Romans withdrew. This was the time of Stilicho, Radagaisius and Alaric. The Vandals, Alans and Swabians managed to migrate into Spain. Historical pop-ups, perhaps even bringing alterations usch as religious penalties or bonuses (just like the orignal game) could be made to spice the action up a little bit. But that's just what I was thinking.
By all means write up some suggestions of factions for this era. Remember that even refelcting a two hhundred year period of this era we are talking about huge geographical movements of tribes. The Vandals for example.
The whole point of the game is to re-write history from an historical starting point. Fall of Rome for MTW has the Bosphorans as a faction (as well as the papacy), but they Bosphoran Sarmatian kingdom died out well before the mod era starts, but it makes for a great mod nonetheless. Just an example.
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