r/RomeTotalWar

In my Scipii campaign, once I defeated the Brutii, I knew it was all but over. Yes, the Julii were technically still around but they only had poor settlements in Germania, Dacia, and Scythia by the time I was heading after them, so by then victory was mine, I was just painting the map Scipii blue.

Earlier on, when I was fighting Egypt, I was worried that it may be over because they quickly advanced all the way to Thapsus, and were on their way to Carthage before I finally drove them back. If they had taken Carthage, it would have been much harder to defeat them that's for sure.

Recently I was playing Barbarian Invasion and saw the Mercenary Golden Band, so I wonder, are they actually based off of anything? a part of me thinks that they’re akin to Vanilla Gaul’s Forester Warband (in the way that they’re only there to make the game more unique), but it would be cool if they had a historical basis.

So, I've noticed that in this game the descriptions of enemy factions seen in the Senate tab talk about how the Res Publica should not only conquer their land, but also replace their "nauseating culture" with Roman tradition and customs, and this is effectively what we are encouraged to do during gameplay by destroying buildings from different cultures in conquered settlements and replacing them with those that are culturally Roman, especially when it comes to religious buildings, otherwise you get a public order penalty through culture disadvantage. While this makes sense gameplay-wise and allows the game to rapresent Roman integration of conquered settlements and give you something to do even in the campaign map, this doesn't strike me as totally historically accurate, as Romans seemed to be permissive towards cultures they conquered, allowing them to exist and letting the peoples they conquered venerate their own deities, while in the game it looks like they take a much harsher approach. It makes more sense with Barbarian factions since Romans ended up modernizing their lands with Roman style infrastructure and roads, but if I'm not wrong even those were allowed to venerate their own deities, and even in the case of other cultures, like the Greek one, it seems strange that we are encouraged to replace even the more modern infrastructure and even the Greek Gods' temples because otherwise we get a public order penalty. Am I the only one who thinks that, or am I missing something?

Why don't my great, impetuous, and glorious men, members of my faction, procreate with their wives?