Please consider making artifacts or retinue for the characters - something like in Rome 2 total war. I mean not exactly the same, of course, but something similar.
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We need to know more about those Dolphin armies. Alternate History/Species development path? No one can beat the Dolphin´s Mare Nostrum
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We need to know more about those Dolphin armies. Alternate History/Species development path? No one can beat the Dolphin´s Mare Nostrum
I would add in "dynastic alliances" to that too. And in fact I would wager that dynastic alliances were the primary reason for marriage, above breeding, considering that adoption was also very prevalent.Keep in mind, folks, Marriage used to be about nothing more than breeding pairs. The idea that love would have anything to do with it is a relatively recent idea (about 18th century).
It is not a Dolphin.
Do only tribal nations have the option to practice human sacrifice? The canaanite religious people will feel left out.
This depends a lot on what you are referring to. If by human sacrifice you are referring explicitly to the practice of child human sacrifice than it has been fairly well settled that the accusation that the Carthaginians practiced human child sacrifice was a Roman propaganda invention. (Romans liked this accusation, used on early Christians as justification for persecutions as an example).
This is not to say that the Carthaginians did not practice any form of human sacrifice, they may very well have, but Child sacrifice wasn't a part of it. And by the by, the Romans also practiced human sacrifice. The Devotio was a form of human sacrifice (albeit a self proscribed and, supposedly, voluntary form of self-sacrifice) and of course the Gladiatorial games were not just meant to appease the populas but also to appease the gods by the shedding of slave blood in ritual combat.
While human sacrifice did exist throughout the ancient world, just how large a part it played in the roles and lives of assorted peoples is open to much debate. Especially as much of the sources on the practice come not from the practitioners themselves, but rather from "foreign" witness', like the Romans with Carthage, or the Hebrew claims against the Canaanites. How much was propaganda, a way for the Hebrews to distinguish themselves from the nearly identical Canaanites.
Execute - Permanently move a prisoner to another plane of existence.
This may have been brought up already, but what is the bloody point of appointing a dictator when the dev's haven't bothered to add the other consul? Kinda makes the mechanic hollow without it.
Kinda makes the entire Roman expierence hollow without it. I can see the point of having a dictator to circumvent the senate for a while, but from an historical perspective there's very little point to going back to one consul after you've migrated to a dictator. The system was put into place following the overthrow of Tarquinius Superbus in order to keep power out of the hands of one person except in the most dire emergencies. It was up to the Senate to choose someone they believed would give that power back to the diarchy without a fight once the crisis was over. Once you've conceded in principle that the role of head of state is to be bestowed indefinitely on one man the precedent is established, and how much power he has is now just a matter of degree and inevitability.This may have been brought up already, but what is the bloody point of appointing a dictator when the dev's haven't bothered to add the other consul? Kinda makes the mechanic hollow without it.
In Imperator health is a value between 0 and 100, and when it reaches 0, that character dies. Health related traits affects this each month, but don’t expect that a brain-damaged frail leper to have a long life-expectancy.