Which cities produce the best leaders?

[Dayve]

I fell sad after seeingthis, because on my roman campaign, rome only produces lame, useless, cash draining generals T____________________T and rome is a biiiiiig city.






damn.

Well, at least it's historically accurate!

[Havok.]

Well, at least it's historically accurate!

Stupid romans !

[Dayve]

Stupid romans !

Nah, it's just like it was back then. You get a basket full of family members, most of them will have more bad qualities than good but just occasionally you'll get one that comes along who is a real good Samaritan, good in all fields. Decent commander, good management and happy people and good influence. I usually get 1 per generation when i play as the Romans, unfortunately you can't do everything with him at once so you have to make that decision.

It makes it interesting though, they're an incredibly fun faction to play as.

One other thing though, when you send your generals for training or schooling in Rome, whatever you want to call it, make sure there is already someone there who is governor. You get more and better traits and retinues for that person if he is in the city but NOT the governor.

Not sure why, but that's the way the cookies crumble in this game.

[Beefy187]

Stupid romans !

One reason why Rome got big was because there were a lot of cannon fodders.

At least thats what I heard.

[SwissBarbar]

One reason why Rome got big was because there were a lot of cannon fodders.

At least thats what I heard.

weren't they so well equiped and trained, so they did not have to "waste" soldiers and cannon fodder??

[Dayve]

In the early days Rome never had a standing army, they would hurredly recruit one when an occasion arose. When they did that, as you know from unit descriptions they had a frontline of young men, the hastati, whose armour conssted of a helmet, a greave and a shield, and later on a pectoral, a breastplate covering the important parts.

That front line were the cannon fodder. They were the youngest and most expendable soldiers and pretty much always fought first. Their job was to tire the enemy for the real soldiers in the second line who had experience and knew how to fight properly.

The hastati regularly got massacred in every battle they fought in. Their only real strength against the enemy was that they were trained well enough to march in line and form a shield wall, but they were still massacred in pretty much every battle they fought in.