House Rules

Once they come to age, all family members are sent to Roma. They work up the Cursus Honorum on their own. Once a family member attains the Ex-praetor trait he is either shipped to govern a province or if he has good command traits then he goes to lead an army.

If Rome gets crowded (and it does) then I send family members that are 30+ years to Athens to continue their education.

There are two governs in Spain, two in Gaul, one in Italian Gaul, one in Sardinia, one in Sicily, one in Pella, one in Italy and sometimes governors are sent to troubled provinces to keep them intact.

I use two units of Vigiles as garrison for all settlements. If public order drops then I hold either games or races or sometimes both.

I am currently at the Marian Reforms so my legions are composed of 9 cohors reformata 4 antesignani, 1 cohors prima and 1 cohors evocate. I use regional cavalry Germans in Germania, Gallic in Gaul etc.

At the end of autumn all legions are but into camp either within a city or within a fort unless they are besieging a settlement.

After pacifying a number of provinces I usually sit back and build a military base in one of the settlements to retrain my troops. Once the cohors pirma gets below 100 men the legion is shipped back to Italy to retrain in Rome. I hate merging units so I won’t merge unless I am forced too by the game.

Generals retire at the age of 60. Usually, I ship them to Rome for a year or two then send them out to govern a province. Note: 60 year old governors rarely come back from their retirement provinces.

I role play certain aspects of the game like who is commander-in-chief and who is second in command etc.

I rarely play battles on the map I usually use the auto-resolve. I take both defeat and victory.

I don’t keep a navy fleet in place I hire navies whenever I need too and disband them as soon as they serve their purpose.

I think that’s about it. But if I remember anymore of my rules then I’ll definitely add them here.