Quote Originally Posted by Zaknafien
well EB tries to as closely portray the starting position in 272 BCE. Nothing says that Regulus would be consul in 267 in your game. If the starting date was 267, then he'd probably be included.
Okay well dude, Blasio wasn't consul until 270 either. I'm assuming Blasio was praetor in 272, since he has that office at the start of the game. I don't know what office Regulus had in 272, but I'd imagine he was something if he was consul just 5 years later. In fact, the consuls in 272 were Lucius Papirius Cursor and Spurius Carvilius Maximus. Where are they? I'm not truly asking that, my point is that EB didn't pick people who were consuls in 272, they just picked people who either had power at the time or would have power shortly after, so that you could build on that. Which is totally fine. Pick anyone as long as it's accurate, which it is. I'm not saying they are wrong to pick Blasio, I'm simply suggesting another option because of a personal preference.

Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
Maybe they were consuls very near our start date or something like that. I don't remember the exact internal discussions we had, but we set up short histories of most of the men who could be considered as generals in 272 for the Romani, and had an informal poll on it I believe.
It's cool, just throwing it out there. I've already played my Romani campaign long enough to where Blasio is long dead and his adopted son has risen to become my princeps, so obviously I don't care THAT much. Like I said, if it starts to, I can just do some "quick" modding.