adding known generals and kings

[abou]

The movie is Primer, although Back to the Future could work as well

And look, someone needs to put an end to this whole "playing Rome with historic expansion" thing. There is a big difference between playing Rome historically and artificially mimicking Roman expansion.

[kalkwerk]

Excluding historical events and leaders is legitim, but not the only solution. It worked great in paradox games like EU2, HOI or Vicky.

[Veris]

I like the current system and it seems quite sufficient in following through on the ideals of EB. Being able to start with the faction leaders is quite cool though, especially with Pyrrhus.

The problem is that if you put in these forced circumstances things become a lot more problematic. I,e if in 218 there was an automatic war forced between Rome and Carthage and Hannibal appeared in Spain, what would happen if Rome was near destruction by the hands of the Gauls and Epirotes?

Just adding historic figures at certain times wouldn't be too hard to put in I'd imagine, so making a minimod as was suggested would certainly get some support.

Overall though, the game is good how it is in regards to this. I find it more fun being able to make a name for my own generals than fulfilling what someone else did in history.

[Danest]

The possibility for those characters to exist if the same or closely related events take place seems to be an important part of history. Carthage would have probably had a very, very hard time threatening Rome without a great, talented general like Hannibal... and super-traited generals in EB seem to be rarer than in real life, but then, maybe I just suck. ;)

[QwertyMIDX]

They're pretty rare in history too, remember you only control one faction out of 21. How many great generals can you think of between 272 BC and 14 AD? Divide that number by 21 and that should be roughly your odds of getting one.

[Pharnakes]

Yes, but It would still be just a little bit of harmless fun, wouldn't it?

[Spoofa]

like you said, if you want it make it a mini-mod, I find the current system 110% acceptable (meaning its better then acceptable ) I might find it interesting if not already in EB to have the possibility to have the names of these generals, but they shouldnt be scripted in to appear with 10 command stars or whatever deemed fit for the general.