Good day to all.

I'm playing as the Romani and the year is 227BC! The last family member that i started the campaign with has just died in the city of Rome, i call him Caius Africanus, the last great Roman... Many lands he conquered for Rome... Taras and Rhegion before he was even 25 years of age, destroyed the Cartheginian threat in Sicily and then went on to conquer all of Sicily, Karali and Alalia... Bononia in the north and Sagestica and Dalmatia in the east... Then he returned to Rome to live out his last years as faction leader, but for some reason the people of the city he had done so much for were unhappy with him being governor of their city... He died at 58. ...Or was it 62?

I call him the last of the great Romans (the others being the other family members i started with) for the following reason: Every family member i have adopted/has been born after those first starting family members is an imbecile! All have turned out to be good governors but terrible battlefield commanders... I'm creeping towards the first set of reforms at the moment and when i get those i will be strong enough to begin conquering once more, as most of the other factions around me are fielding superior troops and also superior generals... Now my last good general is gone my armies are fit only for the defence of the lands he has conquered. My current young generals are all cowards or unsuited to battle and the like... A glimmer of hope when i adopted a sharp/charismatic/vigorous 16 year old with the characteristics of a possible future hero and faction leader... I promptly gave him an army and sent him into the barbarian lands to the north for some training, but he was killed by a javelin half way through his first battle... So much for the hero.

Another reason i'm having this trouble is because my empire, since i conquered Dalmatia (which has a ton of mines and is an awesome city for trading and income) i've become VERY rich... And all my generals become wealthy, conoseurs(SP badly wrong), lovers of beauty and generally bad battlefield commanders... Also i'm not at war with anybody at all right now apart from rebels due to my armed forces being pretty much obsolete compared to my surrounding neighbours (especially the Epirotes who are fielding really scary looking troops, thank the gods i haven't had to fight them yet) so i've just been hoarding my troops up along borders and letting all my family members be governors...

What can i do to rectify this problem in time for the polybian(is that right?) reforms? Once those hit i plan on expanding east along the rich costal cities of the Greek peninsula and west into Gaul.

By the way i'm still loving the mod, best mod for RTW hands down, RTR just doesn't even come close and its future builds will not either...