adopt a god

[M.T.Cicero]

Playing as Scipii I've noticed some other nation's temples can simply be upgraded to next level and re-named to Roman gods in process, but I've never done this. How exactly do you adopt this temple?

[magnum]

When you can upgrade a foreign temple to a temple with one of your gods, its not quite the same as the 'adopting a god' that occurs with the Temple of Epona.

In the export_desc_buildings.txt file all the temples are listed. Each temple is classified as a temple of fun, leadership, governing, battle, battleforge, fertility (to name just a few.) If the captured temple is of the same type as one you can build, then you upgrade the temple and it simply changes to the name of your factions equivalent temple.

The temple of Epona (Temple of Horse) has no Roman equivalent, but if one is captured by a Roman faction they can then upgrade it all the way to Pantheon status. Thus, its been 'adopted' by the Romans.

[M.T.Cicero]

I understand that, but what I want to know is are there any special circumstances in which this can done and of which I should be aware of. Someone mensioned waiting for Gauls to upgrade their temple. And am I allowed to plunder and exterminate as I conquer the town or will this disable the adoptation (something like this was also mensioned previously). Finally, apart from Spain and Gauls, is there any other faction that can build temples of Epona?


Thanks.

[Kourutsu]

Just Epona.