The Will of the Senate - out of character thread II

**econ21** · 06-19-2006, 11:48

On the issue of spies dying - what causes it? I guess it is mainly entering enemy settlements (and enemy armies? can they do that?). I'm just wondering what is the point of entering an enemy settlement. I know there's a chance you can open the gates and so take the town in one turn, but I typically avoid that. One turn is not a big deal and with stone walls, the boiling oil etc means its often suicide to enter that way.

I tend to use spies as scouts and to detect assassins - am I missing other tricks?

(I'm just asking out of general curiosity, not specifically about this campaign.)

**TinCow** · 06-19-2006, 11:59

Originally Posted by econ21

On the issue of spies dying - what causes it? I guess it is mainly entering enemy settlements (and enemy armies? can they do that?). I'm just wondering what is the point of entering an enemy settlement. I know there's a chance you can open the gates and so take the town in one turn, but I typically avoid that. One turn is not a big deal and with stone walls, the boiling oil etc means its often suicide to enter that way.

I tend to use spies as scouts and to detect assassins - am I missing other tricks?

(I'm just asking out of general curiosity, not specifically about this campaign.)

Well, any time the spy has less than a 100% chance of success on his mission, he can fail. Unlike for an assassin, failure always means death for a spy. As you may have noticed, I used spies to open gates twice so far in my campaign and I considered them to be particularly important. I admit, it's not often that someone is trying to storm through enemy territories quite as fast as I am (I wanted to rush through and get my army back out safely) however in this case it proved very useful, since Gauls do not have stone walls.

In addition, I always like know the exact composition of enemy armies. Sometimes even having the spy close by won't give you all the info and it will never give you the general's traits/ancillaries. I like knowing before I fight if the guy has a +5 or a -3 morale, it will sometimes effect how I fight.

**Silver Rusher** · 06-19-2006, 16:58

Decius Laevinius (Tiberius) has also seconded proposal 6.10. econ21, please edit this into the original post of Senate Deliberations II.

**econ21** · 06-19-2006, 17:10

Originally Posted by Silver Rusher

Decius Laevinius (Tiberius) has also seconded proposal 6.10. econ21, please edit this into the original post of Senate Deliberations II.

thanks - I'm grateful if people point out where I've missed stuff like that. It does not really matter as long as motions already have two seconders but this one was important. The deadline for motions is 6pm tomorrow (Tuesday).

**Silver Rusher** · 06-19-2006, 17:11

No problem. I think you may have missed out 6.6 as well which was also proposed by Tiberius.

EDIT: Wait, it's alright. That is in, I must be seeing things.

**Mount Suribachi** · 06-19-2006, 17:12

Just a quick note to say "I'm back". I'll catch up on everything when I've got a spare 6 hours

**Silver Rusher** · 06-19-2006, 18:05

I have just made a discovery. This may have been discovered a long time ago, but I have just found out that it is possible to change preferences.txt so that you can edit settlement names in-game on RTW patch 1.5. The advantages of this are:

-If Motion 6.10 gets passed, Bononia can be renamed Verginia in-game
-It works on savegames that were saved before the preferences file was changed
-The savegame will still work if the recipient of it has not changed the preferences file AND the settlement will still be renamed.

TinCow, all you need to do is:
1. Go to Activision/Rome - Total War/Preferences/Preferences.txt
2. Use Ctrl+F to find this line: EDIT_SETTLEMENT_NAMES
3. Change it from FALSE to TRUE
4. Save
5. Open up the campaign, double click on Bononia and then double click on the settlement name. You will now be able to edit the name, click the tick when done

econ21, sorry to keep bothering you, but please remove the note from motion 6.10. Plus, I seconded motions 6.6 and 6.7 in my first in-character post, it seems to be important as both these motions have 1 seconder each.