The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

First off, it seems I have forgotten to welcome our newest senator, ShadesWolf, and let me do so now.

I fully agree with your points about the shifting of banners. A triumvirate is anyway not unheard of in rome history, it has happened on several occasions.

I would not like to infringe on your wish to fiddle around. Perhaps a good idea would be to allow the shifting around of anciliaries within families by the eldest member ? Then the ancilliaries would stay 'in the family' so to speak (shame on you for wanting to dump your aged retainer :) ) and this would give the first consul more leverage and flexibility. Also, it can stimulate the formation of 'family' groups and trades between 'families', so to speak, which might be desirable and provide more senator interaction. Perhaps we will see inter-family rivalry between sibling lobbying for that one available mentor or something like that. We could haggle during the senate deliberations and perhaps some trades can influence the ongoing election process. I would greatly desire to see an update on the current characters when the next election process starts so we can all properly envy the one whose character has become favoured by the gods (hope I'm not imposing on you, TinCow).

[econ21]

Ok, I've done my reign. Thanks, DDW and FLYdude for helping me get through it so quickly. The savegame is up (Senate275s.zip) for anyone who wants to look at the situation.

We have a two new generals:
- Amulius Coruncanius has grown up, so I am afraid I am going to have to re-assign him from Tiberius to Mount Suribachi, if that is ok with Mount.
- Tiberius Coruncanius has adopted a garrison commander, Publius Panga, who I am assigning to Glaucus.

We can also rejig the juniors:
- Manius Amelius is presumably about to mature, so he can go to our last Lower House member, Destroyer of Hope
- Decius Laevinius can be assigned to Tiberius and this time I promise I won't take him away from you (as long as no one else joins the Lower House)
- DoH no longer needs Marcus Laevinus, so I am assigning him to Dutch_guy.

I will revise the preface to the Senate deliberations accordingly. If the people I have assigned characters to don't want them, please let me know. But we won't be changing the rules for prioritising assignments (we need generals who can fight).

I think we should have a three day period of debate (Tu+Wed+Th) and one day of voting (Fri), so the next First Consul can start on Friday night and play over the weekend if they wish.

Anyone wishing to stand - post a manifesto in the Senate Deliberations. But you must be in the Lower House and have an adult general. (I'm inclined not to impose age restrictions on people standing, although the disadvantages of youth could be brought up in debate).

EDIT: I like the "keep it within the family" idea, DDW. I will update the rules on trading ancillaries shortly.

[Craterus]

Is this still open, and what version of RTR are you running?

It's a great idea, by the way. I love it.

[econ21]

Is this still open, and what version of RTR are you running?

It's a great idea, by the way. I love it.

Yes, it's still open. If you want to join, post here and say whether you want to be in the Upper or Lower House. All the gory details are given in post #2 of this thread.

We are using RTR Platinum Edition 1.5 with the latest Metropolis and Naval mod. The mod may look intimidating, but I must say I am very impressed with it so far. It is RTR, which is great. It uses 1.5 RTWs AI (=> modding out bandits, yay!). And the metropolis aspect does away with walls on many settlements, so it is not rome total siege. Plus it has some really neat scripting of Roman leadership traits.

[Craterus]

Let me get this straight. Upper house members don't do any of the campaign itself but decide the fate of things.

Lower house members play the campaign.

I'll play as upper house for now, as it sounds like you're a bit full with Lower House members?

[TinCow]

I have updated the Library to the best of my ability. I think I've gotten all of the pertinent info in there regarding the mature faction members, however I'm not sure if I've listed the right aliases (AKA) for all of them. If someone could check that for me, I would be grateful. I also removed the motions that have been accomplished or are obsolete and added maps of the current extent of Roman power, in the thumbnail format. Let me know if other stuff is needed.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Excellent work TinCow, much obliged.

[econ21]

Thanks TinCow - my second post up sets out how the rules imply the characters should be reallocated; I'ved edited your AKAs. If anything looks wrong or incomplete, let me know.

Hopefully we should have reached the point where we don't need to reassign generals and newly spawned ones can start going to Upper House members.

EDIT: I've updated the First Consul report to include some screenshots of battle etc.