Medieval's Rome: Total War mod input thread

[caravel]

It occured to me that having the Romans have a family tree may be a little...odd.

There will be no real 'family tree' as such, it will work as it does in MTW. The faction will be based on a faction leader, heirs and princesses. I think that you'll need to remove the princesses altogether as it won't be historically accurate to have them running around as they were in MTW/VI. The Muslim factions in MTW are always married when they come of age, I'm not sure if this is hardcoded or not, but this would be ideal if all of your factions were like this. The king will marry the "daughter of a leading aristocrat" anyway after a turn if he's still not married. You could change this text to something else more suitable.

I have no issues with the other factions having Kings, Emperors, etc with heirs. But I'd rather the Romans work a bit like the Papal States - that is, they have a leader, but no heirs or daughters, and when their leader dies a new one is elected (or in MTW terms, appears in place of the guy who kicked the bucket). However, I'd want it to be possible to destroy the Romans, too, after taking all of their lands, and not have the issue of them reappearing like the Pope (you can tell I have no idea of the limits of MTW for the most part at the moment).

The answer to that would be to use the MTW Holy Roman Empire or VI Viking faction as the Romans perhaps, as I'm sure that the factions that recruit a new faction leader from among their generals (Vikings, Pope, HRE) are also hardcoded. Using VI would be the best idea for this mod I think, so the Vikings would be the Romans if that were the case. The Vikings are also a faction that can be converted from paganism to Christianity once, I think 60%?, of their population converts. This could be useful perhaps? Though I'm not sure how that works exactly.