The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

**Death the destroyer of worlds** · 05-26-2006, 22:16

Econ21, I am for short discussing and voting periods. I'm in favour of 2 days discussion and 1 day voting. This will keep pace with the 2-day required post of the first consul. Good luck, by the way :)

I like your way of thinking Tiberius, but it think that would be undoable in practice and I feel the generals had a bit more control over their mercenaries than that.

**econ21** · 05-26-2006, 23:00

OK, I have not started yet, so I will download the lastest EDU. I'm not sure to what extent we can keep updating EDUs as we play, but I suspect we can. I guess that means I have to change the library table with the Romans' stats.

I agree think non-siege reinforcements should be AI controlled if led by captains - I'll add that to the rules. But let's leave the mercs under our control. Mercs seem hideously expensive in this mod, so I'm not sure they will be a major part of our forces and making them uncontrollable might just rule out them being bought entirely.

**Death the destroyer of worlds** · 05-26-2006, 23:07

Drat drat drat, I get a CTD when I attack Pyrrhus his army. I will investigate in more detail tomorrow. My attack on Corfinium went without a glitch. Not sure what the problem could be.

**Avicenna** · 05-27-2006, 08:29

It's doable, DDW. Select the mercenaries in the battle map,m and click 'put under AI assistance' button on the right.

**Death the destroyer of worlds** · 05-27-2006, 11:42

Silly me for not thinking of that. I would leave that up to the player's decision. I can imagine some scenarios where that might work, and some where it might cause disaster. For example, where I to recruit a large group a srmatian horse archers, I would be tempted to led them be lead by the AI in battle.

**Death the destroyer of worlds** · 05-27-2006, 12:18

Hi,
The CTD is definitely caused by having a battle on the battlefield when attacking Pyrrhus when he is stationed in Rhegium. Everything else works fine. No clue where the problem lies. I will try out some different configs today and try to figure out what the problem is.

**econ21** · 05-27-2006, 12:48

Good luck tracking down the bug, DDW. You cost me half a night's sleep last night - I had just saved the game where I was about to give battle to Pyrrhus and was going to bed, when I read how attacking him had led your game to crash.

So I just had to go back to it and see if it was playable. It was, fortunately, but I'll be anxious approaching Rhegium.

It's good if some people play parallel games to this PBM, especially if there are tech problems like this we may stumble over. Fore-warned is fore-armed, as they say.