Quote Originally Posted by shifty157
Your starting province could be absolutely any province on the map? Including one in the middle of another faction? Including another factions capital? Including Rome itself?
Actually, I didn't include Rome. The game doesn't like it. The Senate get ousted, but they don't get destroyed, it gets messy. I also excluded the other 4 Roman starting provinces, simply because if you're landed in one of those the Senate demands that you give it back, which is pretty tough when you have no diplomats and no other cities. Apart from those 5, it's all the provinces.

Hell go all the way and give every faction a random starting province. Itd be a bit of work but itd be pretty great. No two games could ever be the same.
True, but it would end up as a bit of a Rebel Total War don't you think? If there were only 20 faction occupied provinces at the start...