Quote Originally Posted by Quilts
Regarding the morale penalty. In the system I'm envisioning, it would only occur when the army was outside Roman territory. Anybody could lead an army in Roman territory, to prevent undue advantage to the player when Consuls are far away, but I suspect your objection was far more general.....yes?
No it is entirely this restriction, outside Roman territory. I have no problem with people playing this way, but in turn I have no problem with people not playing this way. The morale penalty really puts roman players in a bind if they want to play by the latter.

Also, to simulate the occasional 'Scipio Africanus/Pompey etc' there should also be a rare trait that gives some characters the ability to lead armies outside Roman Territories without penalty.
And here is a second objection, if the roman player does want to play how you do, with only consuls leading foreign invasions, but then finds that he wants to break this role, for roleplaying reasons, for a particular general, then this system again confines him. Basically this system confines people to a certain way of playing, yet does not boast any improvement, except for people who already play that way anyway.

My next Question
Is there a limit to the number of characters (male, female and children) that can exist in a family tree at the start of the game?

Cheers,

Quilts
Only by the number of names avaliable to faction (cannot duplicate names in descr_strat) as far as I am aware. The slave faction, for example, as loads!

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