Will Roman consuls and co-consuls have one-year terms as it happened in real life?
Imperator - Development Diary - 13th of May 2019
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Will Roman consuls and co-consuls have one-year terms as it happened in real life?
No, because realism isn't a straightjacket to force Paradox into making awful design decisions. You might as well make consul selection 100% random because there's no way that you could have a meaningful amount of influence on who gets chosen with annual elections.
Will disloyal consorts and co consuls be counted as power base for rebellion? Will they try to gather enough power base and convince other characters to join their side?
There were a few "SPAAARTA" style armoured hoplites but remember that true Spartans always formed a minority of Spartan forces. Most were made up of Lacedaenomian allies. Most Greek hoplite forces switched to quilted or leather armour on cost and mobility grounds. Only with pikes did armour make a resurgence due mostly to the vulnerability of pikemen to missile fire as they did not have an effective shield.
If that's the case, I wouldn't think it would be anachronistic to have a "SPAARTA" unit model, could represent a commander, and would provide a visual cue which is your army. But I see your point about general (no pun intended) representation of the typical hoplite.
Disappointing to see mana being even more heavily integrated. Everything else looks great!
remember when people say we didnt need 2 consuls that paradox was right and it was to difficult to implement? paradox then goes and adds them.
Didn't Johan say this would all become moddable after 1.1, so we can remove it?
This is all a good step in the direction of better character focus. More interactions should have personal costs to characters like the bribes are doing here, and less "spirit of the nation" spending impersonal state mana on everything.
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Stratocracy means a military government, not just any stratification.
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I would define 'mana' as an abstract resource generated off-map and used for MULTIPLE, UNRELATED things. So EU4 and I:R are the prime examples of extensive mana use- ex:In EU4, you use military power (sword mana) for researching military tech, new military ideas, hiring generals, suppressing natives, raising war taxes, 'strengthening government' (wtf?) and stuff like forced march or scorched earth. These things are so abstract, that it is rather unclear what they are supposed to represent (the military/administrative/diplomatic potential of the nation?) All the other stuff are indeed abstractions, but not 'mana' per say- although the prestige & piety in CK2 and Influence in Stellaris may come close, though you get a rather clear idea what they are supposed to represent.
It's looking good; one step at a time. Now we can rule the Roman republic with the proper co-consul government. Triumvirate next?
I thought Pompey and Crassus were the consuls, and they were going to have a civil war, but then decided to make Caesar a quasi-dictator consul (his idea of course). I may need to brush up on my Roman history.
Looks great, but I can't justify spending any more time with the game until there is improvement to pop movement and colonization. You mentioned slave distribution will be in the next dev diary, but I assume this means where captured slaves get sent? That's great too, but I'd really like to see better tools to move pops around before I come back. Just moving one pop across my empire takes a ridiculous amount of time and clicks, and most importantly, it's just boring.
