Why can't Pontus construct roads!?

[nikolai1962]

Most of history generals were generals because of influence not command talent.

My favourite roman house rule is to make my consuls the guys with the most influence despite how crap they are as generals. I can't wait to try this out when EB is all down and i finally play my fave faction instead of the ones as far way from rome as possible :)

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Actually that makes me think. Roman Command stars should probably add influence at higher levels. Infact since the Romans lived such public lives and were so judgemental almost every Roman trait should have an effect on influence.

[We all need someone]

Guys, guys, guys I know all about what you're holding my hand through. However, I know the common conception if that the Centurions were "promoted upwards", and there were no barriers (technically) to that happening. There's just such a lack of any solid evidence of such things happening(and Centurions were fairly well documented, since their commanders treasured them so well) and on closer inspection the overwhelming majority of Centurions were middle to upper middle class people, for the reasons I've already mentioned, and for the reasons you boys have mentioned(aka any post in Roman Republic required relatively vast sums of money to acquire).

[GodEmperorLeto]

Actually, it was possible for "general infantry" legionnaires to get promoted to generalships. But those generalships were political appointments. But to get political appointments, one often needed a military record.

For example, Plutarch records numerous men from our time period as having served as young men in the ranks, like Cato the Elder, and Coriolanus (alright, he predates our time period, but still). When running for office, Romans wore a plain white (no stripe) toga and no tunic, for multiple reasons, among them to display scars earned in battle.

[Dayve]

But why can't Pontus build paved roads? Game accident, they should be in? Or did the Pontic people never build anything more than dirt tracks?

[QwertyMIDX]

If I remember correctly, Plutarch never says Cato actually fought as a common soldier. in fact I think the mentions that Cato was remarkable for only bring one servant with him. Also Plutarch says his great-grandfather lost 5 horses out from under him, so at that time at least Cato's family was of the equestrian class. He was certainly humble for a Roman aristocrat, but he does seem to have been at least a backcountry elite of some sort, having the renowned Manius Curius as patron. Poor and common relative to the great aristocratic families of Rome, but not a yeoman.

[EdwardL]

ROFL Dayve... all he wanted to know was why Pontus cant build roads. Perhaps thats why their generals are depressed and dejected; they all have brought up the topic once or twice before about the roads to the pontus hierarchy, with the result being of them changing the subject to something else. politics politics.. tisk tisk

[Zenith Darksea]

Yes, you kind of get the idea that the EB team is too interested in spamming to actually answer the guy's original question.

[We all need someone]

Guys, guys, guys I know all about what you're holding my hand through. However, I know the common conception is that the Centurions were "promoted upwards", and there were no barriers (technically) to that happening. There's just such a lack of any solid evidence of such things happening(and Centurions were fairly well documented, since their commanders treasured them so well) and on closer inspection the overwhelming majority of Centurions were middle to upper middle class people, for the reasons I've already mentioned, and for the reasons you boys have mentioned(aka any post in Roman Republic required relatively vast sums of money to acquire).