Roman Civil Wars

**Atilius** · 02-16-2008, 02:52

As I said above, we have not given the matter any detailed thought. We will not attempt to conform to a historical timeline.

**antisocialmunky** · 02-16-2008, 17:59

You could tie this into the Augustian reforms and so something with traits and defecting generals.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 02-16-2008, 22:42

Actually, it would probably be tied to the Marian Reforms. Marius was the one to basically start the tradition, and the new form or soldiers, loyal to their general, would cause civil wars. The Augustan military reforms were reforms, in part, to put an end to the civil wars.

**antisocialmunky** · 02-17-2008, 04:59

That'd be good but there's an annoying roleplaying element that gets thrown out the window when your general who conquered all of Gaul and you were in love with decides to quit and die horribly due to stupid AI. Maybe if we could script crusades or something so they bee line for Rome.

I'm all for it being incorporated earlier in the game.

**MidevalLoRd** · 02-22-2008, 06:29

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

That'd be good but there's an annoying roleplaying element that gets thrown out the window when your general who conquered all of Gaul and you were in love with decides to quit and die horribly due to stupid AI. Maybe if we could script crusades or something so they bee line for Rome.

I'm all for it being incorporated earlier in the game.

Well, I'm not completly sure, but didn't julius ceaser do that?

**antisocialmunky** · 02-23-2008, 04:48

Kinda, and then he had to run all over Asia minor trying to kill Pompey.

**Parallel Pain** · 02-23-2008, 19:39

How about post-Marian after certain conditions are met (Like a character/family conquers a lot of land and controls a lot of provinces or something) the civil war starts, with the faction basically divided into two halves and you have ton conquer the other half back. It should be faster because the AI gets only 1/2 of the original faction's armed forces instead of it's overwhelming numbers it usually have, so if you can meet those in the field and destroy them, it won't be that hard to retake the empire, since you don't have culture penalty to worry about and the buildings are all built you can retrain and keep going.

And after you win it you get Augustian Reform (restructuring after a civil war)