Quote Originally Posted by bigmilt16 View Post
1. I stick to a modified version of QS' houserules using the mini-mod pack; however, I use the 10 year tribune period as a chance for young FM's to gain some basic command skills and get that all important first star and "blooded trait". I'll allow "green" tribunes to lead an army of 5 or less units (half a legion), and after that they qualify to travel with a praetorian or consular army.
It would be more accurate the other way round: Tribunes formed the "generals staff" of Roman armies. Because they were elected and not appointed they somehow formed an additional element of "constitutional control" over the Consul's leadership. Of these the Junior Tribunes should always travel either with the Consul or with an army that is actually led by a Senior Tribune. The latter might be entrusted with independent minor commands as part of the Consul's or Praetor's campaign - never as a campaign on their own.

Older FMs with military abilities might as well join the army either as Quaestors to the Consul (for example like Sulla for Marius) or as Legats, usually of (Pro-)Praetorian rank (for example like Marius for Metellus Numidicus). But you should always justify it by roleplaying why this two-commandstars-legat is helping out that consul in a campaign - not just because he is so good in leadership.


2. recuitable generals/governors: Since Romans can no longer recruit generals from the Roman lvl. 5 MIC, I thought about temporarily making Roma into a type IV govt, and building up a lvl. 5 regional MIC. What do you guys think? I am really tempted to do this because I think that Rome should be able to recruit client rulers and mercenary generals.
You might also make Roman Generals recruitable in Rome:

Quote Originally Posted by konny
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I am sorry konny but I am not familiar with it at all, I´ve only ever messed around with a few of the descr files and I have never taken the time to even learn the basics of how the EB scripts are written ( but it seems more and more inevitable that I do one of these days ), so please bear with me - which file is the EDB anyway ?
export_descr_buildings.txt in the data folder. It has all the lines for the recruitement in the entry of the respective barracks. So, if you want to change anything in recruitement you need to go there.

Modding it is comparable easy once you know how to do so...

When I´ve found it and the line with "roman infantry triarii early" I should go the \EB\Data\World\maps\base\DESCR_REGIONS.TXT and find the hidden ressources for Latium2, but are the hidden ressources also those which are listed under the normal ressources, for example the line from Latium2: bigport, tradeport, italy, rome, variantro, SW, B, y1, y2, y4, n8 ? And should I copy the whole line ?
"SW, B, y1, y2, y4, n8" are the ressoruces you'll have to look for:

Code:
recruit "roman infantry triarii early" 0 requires factions { seleucid, } and hidden_resource SW and hidden_resource B and hidden_resource y1 and hidden_resource y2 and hidden_resource y4 and hidden_resource n8
It says the faction with the internal name "seleucid", what are our Romans, can recruite the named unit with ecperince 0 in a province with the sayed hidden resources, what is Latium2 (Roma).

When you duplicate this line and replace in the copied line "roman infantry triarii early" with "roman cavalry eqvites consvlares", it will enable recruiting Equites Consulares in the same town. But this only applies to this barracks (level 3 Camillan). So, you have copy the result to the other two levels of Camillan barracks (the next following buildings). Otherwise you'll lose the ability to recruite the Consulares when upgrading the barracks.

You also need to copy this line to the barracks for the Polybian, and if you like, Marian and Augustan barracks. These are the next buildings. Always make sure you have your new line above the line that has the "}" at the end of the list and everything should be fine (you should backup your files before of course).

greetings,

konny

3. How important is it that you follow historical expansion? I grapple with this all the time because it is so much work trying to keep the AI in line. If you do, do you try to focus on dates or just conqouring in a particular order.
You shouldn't follow the expansion province by province but follow the historical reasons for the Romans to enter in this or that war.