Can't seem to remove the Senate

[Bwian]

I want rid of them for my Robot mod, since they don't fit with the way I am heading with the mod, so I hunted down the tutorial ( by Bouis ) that showed how to get this to work.

Here's what I have done so far:

Using DJ's campaign template, I started off with just the Senate and the Britons. I have added in the Julii...and of course...the Senate missions immediately come into play

Option 1 was to just NOT use any of the Roman factions...I might still do it this way actually, since I don;t need all that many factions.

Option 2 was to eliminate the senate.

So...I have given Rome to the Julii, and left the Senate with just one family member aged 65 with minimal bodyguards. I also set the Senate and Julii to be at war ( I thought )

Here's my Senate descr_strat entry:

faction romans_senate, comfortable henry
denari 5000
character 	Marcus Maxentius, named character, leader, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 65, , x 95, y 72
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

Then I added, right at the end:

 
;     Start of diplomacy section 

faction_relationships romans_julii, at_war_with romans_senate

; End of file

As I understand it, the Senate should then fizzle out right at the start. But it doesn't. The Senate leader lives a long time, and the Senate still show as allied to the Julii. No error messages, and everything else works fine.

If, however, I swap Julii for, say Seleucid...the Senate dies right at the outset.

Can anyone step me through whatever I am missing and set me on the right course? Otherwise...The Julii are history


p.s. Also...while I am at it...does anyone know where the picture displayed when the Senate is eliminated comes from? I can't seem to track it down in the pile of stuff I hauled out of the pack files.