Quote Originally Posted by SMZ
I just learned about this myself - apparently Epona is the only god which can be adopted. Some dieties can be replaced by similar versions however. ie: If you conquer a Selucid settlement with a temple to Hephaestus as the Scipii, you can then upgrade said temple into one for Vulcan without having to go thru the destroy and rebuild phase.
that's really too bad, becasue this was a nice "hidden" feature that actually made sense in a historical way as well (the romans did tend to absorb forigen gods into their culture, part of the reason why that empire was so great.)

it also made temple building slightly less boring as as scipio I was basically building neptune temples on all costal settlements and then vulcan/saturn with the rest.

it was really nice for my faction to gain access to that temple of the horse since I am now able to train units with +5 exp in it and then move it into a neighbor provice that gives the +3 weapons +3 armour bonus. I am now a lot more willing to accept losses in battles, simply because I know it won't be a pain in the ass to rebuild my army (including experience) back up.

Oh as a side note, as I accept more losses now, I'm beginning to notice that if your faction leader or heir dies in glorious combant (ie heavily outnumbered, you manage to kill far more of them than they did you, and you also have to LOOSE the battle), your popularity with the people and sometimes with the sentate increases.