Playable Senate?!

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Despite appearances the Senate is not a faction like any other, or intended to be playable. The Senate is as much a scoring mechanism and a mission generator as it is a faction, so don't be surprised if the game goes loopy when you play as the Senate.

The Senate is actually doing a bunch of stuff in monitoring Roman attitudes that the other factions don't do, and modding the game to make them playable renders the whole thing very unstable: basically, the game will crash sooner or later.

I see, I suppose that makes sense, they way they are setup with only one province and such suggests they are not a 'true faction'.

Edit: Interesting idea for a mod. Just like RTR did, dissolve the Senate first of all. Then create a new faction like EB did and name them the SPQR, starting provinces: Rome. Then give them the starting troops and stats that the 'true' Senate has, make them purple and bang. Theorettically your not playing as the games Senate but you are playing as a purple faction named the Senate.

Heh again probably wont work, but maybe...