The Julii dont like children ???

[Cody900]

I don't really think it has too much to do with cash or letting generals sit in cities. In my Julii campain right now I'm on like 350,000 denarii, I always leave my generals in cities, for the extra bonuses and happiness it gives. I send out armies without generals, because when they win a heroic battle or two, you get the message saying they've proved themselves and are a suitable addition to the family. Which can also help with your problem, Dexter.

So yeah, in my current campain, I have over 350,000 denarii with 20 provinces, always leave my generals in cities, and yet I'm having marriages, coming of ages and births almost every single turn, two or more births usually.

I have 8 generals sitting in a city with a Scriptorium right now because they have no where better to go.

I guess some of it is just luck at the start, if you have some girls at the start, they grow to marry giving you more generals, and they also settle down to have kids. My family is just so big now that I don't have to worry.

[LuckyDog Trojan]

So yeah, in my current campain, I have over 350,000 denarii with 20 provinces, always leave my generals in cities, and yet I'm having marriages, coming of ages and births almost every single turn, two or more births usually.

I have 8 generals sitting in a city with a Scriptorium right now because they have no where better to go.

Cody900: So let me get this straight. You have a governor in each of your 20 provinces PLUS you have one city-province that has 8 generals in it? WOW! To me, that is unusual.

My experience in general has been what others have stated on this thread - the number of family members I have tends to balance roughly with the number of provinces I own. The exception being, of course, additional family members / generals gained from "Man of the Hour" events and bribery by my diplomats.

Must be good Roman blood. Nothing like good Julii stock!

[YENKO]

In my Julii campaign (most temples are Jupiter ones) i am very short on Governors and generals. Later on, had to actually bribe some enemy generals. Now, in my current Brutii campaign, i have a great excess of generals/governors (most temples are Juno). I believe my great birth-rate is affected by all those Juno Ancillaries that give the improved chance of having children, the Doctor or whatever its named and the female one who also gives +health to the city. When i check my family tree, i think the most number of children (many family members with 4 kids) are the ones with the most +fertility ancillaries. AS the Brutii, my least concern is money, with all those big ex-Greek port-cities, money is flowing in like a river. I am just keeping a couple governors in some cities to get some useful ancillaries to transfer to my Generals. The Priest of Mars is nice, also i always stock on Chirugeons and Doctors. I really love when most of my 3 golden Chevron Cretan Archers recover after a nasty battle. Same for the mercenary hoplites. Also, its nice to have a large general bodyguard unit. Easier for him to kill stuff, and get his own chevrons. If you consider that my Cretan archers have Attack 20, its not bad at all. Love them very much. Often have a dedicated unit or two of Hoplites standing near and protecting them form a possible enemy Horse or Chariot attack. As for the extra money, i had no idea what to do with it. So started to make alliances with factions that are at war with the Egyptians and other Roman familes. How un-Roman (lol).
Fed them with milions of denarii, and what i have now, is a beautifully balanced game-map with many strong nations, usually at war with eachother My buddies the Seleucid Empire are keeping the Egyptians at bay ( i have taken Alexandria (to monitor things between Egyptians and the Scipii) and Damascus (to monitor things between the Seleucids and Egyptians). The Britons are now super rich, and can keep at bay the Germans, and the Gauls. Only the Julii are now gaining terrirories. Slowly but still. I am quickly building my new Quinquireme fleet, which will substiture eventually my strong trireme-fleet. Once i am happy with my fleet, i might also attack the Julii, senate or not. With me ruling the seas, the other Romans can only attack me through Segestica, Illyria. Being Segestica heavily fortified with nearby 2 forts filled with archers, onagers and some Legionary cohorts, their effort will be a hugely costly one, i hope.

Will see, so far so good. Fun thing is, i own only about 25 provinces (220 BC) and most of my empire is not over land (as in the Julii campaign) but on the sea. The Eastern Mediterranean is surrounded by settlements owned by me, but i have zero settlements without a port! Funny situation.

Y.

[Cody900]

Cody900: So let me get this straight. You have a governor in each of your 20 provinces PLUS you have one city-province that has 8 generals in it? WOW! To me, that is unusual.

Exactly right. Infact, I have way more than that after looking, I have like, another 8 in Carthage, and a few more in other cities.

I took a screenshot, 21 provinces controlled, 65 family members.....

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I've seen that sort of thing in a Scipii campaign before, I still have the save somewhere, yet, due to an unfortuante lack of hard-drive space I don't have R:TW installed - only M:TW and S:TW. Yet, as I have mentioned, all of the generals that were appearing every turn were sons or generals whom had married into my family. As I have said, it seems a general rule that Man of the Hour events and adoptions only occur when there are fewer Generals than provinces. It can still happen, yet not very often.

[LuckyDog Trojan]

65 family members with 21 controlled provinces. Strange indeed. I guess that goes to show you that in R:TW - from one campaign game to the next - that some things remain the same and some things do change.

[bugrit]

Indeed.

And the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Dexter]

Some other funny thing is that now i have 2 Victors in the family .. some 20 regions ... or less ... and 80% of the offspring are boyos !!! huraaaaaaa .. the Julian dynasty is growing. Have only temples to Jupiter and Demeter, 3 generals wage war, rest city man, but sewers make them drinkers ... strange ... no matter if he is in the city, or comes back to it .. he will like to drink ....
and the 3 who are on the warpath they have children, yet they have children !!!
maybe there wifes missed them :P