Ceres the best god??

**Intranetusa** · 11-28-2007, 20:15

Wow, since Mars gives no actual morale bonuses to the troops, that means i need to tear down all my huge 12,000 Mars buildings in my millitary cities :(

**delablake** · 12-10-2007, 17:24

I wonder if there is any Roman temple which gives away experience bonus to my freshly recruited troops... I think there was a Mars temple, but I can't remember if this was in vanilla RTW or in any other mod...would anybody be so kind as to enlighten me?
tyvm!

**Chris1959** · 12-10-2007, 21:46

It was in RTW in EB temples of Mars should give a morale bonus, this is a hidden bonus as morale does not show on unit cards. However, it appears this feature is "broken" so I'm not sure if you get the bonus.

**delablake** · 12-11-2007, 03:17

Originally Posted by Chris1959

It was in RTW in EB temples of Mars should give a morale bonus, this is a hidden bonus as morale does not show on unit cards. However, it appears this feature is "broken" so I'm not sure if you get the bonus.

ok ty sm

**Perturabo** · 12-11-2007, 08:27

I suspect the morale bonuses do work to one level or another. From experience (no scientific testing i'm afraid, didn't realise it was in doubt) when troops are recruited in cities with multiple morale bonuses (temples/special buildings) they seem more enthusiastic on the field. i.e. I often have 'impetuous' troops as compared with 'eager' for troops from other regions. Seem harder to discourage also.
Could just be my imagination and terrain of the battle however

**delablake** · 12-12-2007, 18:24

So if the Romans don't get an experience bonus from temples, who does? And could I use that temple if I conquered a city with such a temple in it?
Thanks in advance!

**jhhowell** · 12-12-2007, 23:12

Originally Posted by delablake

So if the Romans don't get an experience bonus from temples, who does? And could I use that temple if I conquered a city with such a temple in it?
Thanks in advance!

Hayasdan, Awesome Temple of Anahit. Pretty lousy temple overall if morale bonuses don't work, but the experience bonus is nice. They can only get their top factional troops from a couple of cities anyway, and IIRC both start with Anahit.

Can anyone else use it? No. You'll notice that when you capture a city, the temple bonus immediately becomes whatever it is for your faction (Anahit probably maps to Mars, for Rome). I think governments work the same way, so you also wouldn't be able to cheat and repair a Seleucid I, III, or IV to get the experience bonus. You can however take Hellenic or Hai cities which have upgraded game fields (Gymnasion and House of Strength, respectively) to get an experience bonus to units trained there.

Otherwise, Romans have to earn their experience levels, just as they did historically.