germanicus12
First Citizen of Rome
Orders due by Saturday May 25th.
If a section of ruleset is a different color this Key will tell you what they mean:
Blue: New rules.
Red: Important rules.
Alea iacta est (The Die has been Cast) will be a Role-playing NES in which a player will rule a family or character through the events of Roman expansion. These families or characters will flesh out the future of Rome, will they expand aggressively or will they remain content with Italy and branch out and establish trading outposts?
This NES will be run differently from Grandkhan's NES, in that NPC's will play vital roles, especially in the Senate Chambers where PC senators will have another 200+ senators to appease or defeat. This will I hope provide a realm of realism and creativity, how will you as a Senator gain command of a legion for your son when the Populares would fight this appointment on the basis that your family is hated within Rome? Or perhaps you are trying to help the plebes by instituting grain doles or land plots but are stopped by the noble Senators? It is up to you to figure out how to win the opposition to your side and gain enough votes to see your bill pass.
Also different is that I am allowing characters to be created that do not have to be Senators, but remember that only Senators will administrate regions, cities or negotiate deals, and Senators can only command Legions. But I will allow non senator characters to be merchants, lowly centurions or even gladiators. In this way I hope to include a more wide variety of tastes into this NES and who knows perhaps your Merchant family will grow wealthy enough and back the right person and gain your very own seat in Senate. Or a lowly Centurion rising in rank and after supporting a victorious Legatus could be rewarded with a seat in Senate.
History:
Rome was founded as a city-state in a chaotic Italy, to their North stood the powerful Etrurian alliance and to their south stood the Samnites. Over the next 200 years Rome fought several bloody battles and managed to carve out a secure location straddling the Central Range, the Samnites were still powerful in the south but the Etrurians were all but beaten. It was during this period of inactivity that a Gallic tribe traveled down Italy and sacked Rome. Never again would Rome suffer such a humiliating defeat, they immediately marched north and crushed the tribes around the Po Valley, this victory secured their northern border at the formidable Alps. So they again entered a time of peace, but the Samnites, who also managed to incite a large Latin revolt in Northern Italy nearly threatened to destroy Rome. But a brilliant Senator was appointed dictator and with 4 Legions roughly put down the rebellion and crushed the Samnites for good. This war also brought in the Greeks who at the time held Brundisium and Tarantem who joined the Samnites due to their alliance. King Phyrric of the Greeks defeated Roman Army after Roman Army, but took such heavy losses that he was forced to surrender, having never lost a battle to Rome. Rome then secured alliances with the Sicilian city-states who feared Carthaginian expansion. Now Rome and Carthage gaze at one another knowing a conflict would be inevitable.
Breakdown of Stats:
Family This is where you will find the family name. Pretty simple.
Head of Family This is where your family patriarch will be named, this will be your main character and will be the only member allowed to hold the highest offices in Rome, your sons will not attain higher offices until this character dies to turns over the family to the son.
List of Spouse and Children Here you will list your wife and children. Eventually should you desire to, you can include spouses and children down to grandchildren provided your patriarch stays alive. Other than your sons, these characters will have little effects in the game, you can marry off daughters to form alliances, and work to give sons positions in Roman government or as Tribunes in the Legions. All sons of Senators will be allowed to Administrate regions and cities as they are of Senatorial Class.
List of Retinues Here you will list your loyal followers, if you were a Legatus, you may have a loyal ex-Centurion as your bodyguard or for battle wisdom. If you managed Gladiator schools you may have an ex-Gladiator. Really there is no end to what kind or how many retinues you can have, provided you can take care of them all. But be warned they can turn on you if you do not take care of them.
Offices This is where all offices your family holds will be listed, including the member who holds it in italics next to it. Examples would be;
Administrator of the Po Valley region (Lucius Albino Varus)
Legatus of Legio I and II, currently stationed in Capua (Julius Albino Varus)
Profession Here you will list what your family specializes in. Yes, being a Senator is considered a privilege and honor rather than a profession I have decided to ask you guys to include Senator in this section to make it easier to distinguish between who are Senators are who are not. But even if you are a Senator I still want a working profession that allows you to earn wealth and maintain your seat in Senate. For those who do not desire to start as a Senator will list only their profession.
Wealth and Income This will list your wealth and income. This NES will go by the Roman Sesterces as a currency and the amount of Sesterces you have stored is an indication of your wealth. The amount you earn through your holdings and profession will be listed under income and will go directly to your wealth if not spent.
Troops Here we will enter the fun part. Building and maintaining an army. Whether it is for personal security or for protection of the realm, your troops will be yours to command until they are ordered away from you or you leave them behind. We will enter into detail in the next few paragraphs:
Personal Forces These will be your own personal security force, these troops will follow only your command, or your family's should you assign them to a member. Legions will be included here in times of civil war or loyalty is so high they would rebel if assigned to another commander. Look to recruit chart to see who you can recruit and their price tags.
Assigned Legion(s) This will show the Legions assigned to your command and their numbers, as well as resupply and reinforcement prices. These will be a monthly charge against the Republic and it will be up to the character commanding these Legions to remind the Senate of the bill. Failure to pay the bill will see a decline in the performance of the Legion and manpower shortages. Of course the character himself could cover the cost of maintaining the Legion if he desires, this will bring its own benefits at a cost.
Assigned Fleet(s) Similar to above for Legions, but this is for warships of the Republic.
Character Traits This is where your Character traits will be listed, 2 positive traits and a negative to begin with. As is obvious, positive traits benefit your character and helps him navigate the politics and battlefields of Rome far easier. Negative traits does just the opposite. After your choosing of the 2 positive and 1 negative traits, each trait afterwards will be assigned arbitrarily based on what your character does over the course of the NES, some traits may disappear and others may return. Do not expect your traits to stay with you permanently.
Backstory By providing a good backstory it would allow me as mod to give you a beginning wealth and income stat as well as a private force stat. For especially good backstories I might give you one of Rome's 4 Legions or a region to Administrate beginning the game and the title of Consul.
Population: This stat simply tells you how many people currently resides in your region. If you want to know how many of this number is available for active duty simply take that number, example 1M (1 Million), and take 1/4 off, example 250,000, this gives you your available men ready for duty to Rome. The population stat is there to give you an idea of how large your region is and what you expect you would need to do to keep your people happy and content. Not to mention give you an idea of how strong a riot or a rebellion could be and station enough troops to keep the peace if needed.
Also, another thing I should add, when a Legion is stationed in a region for protection or preparation for invasion the Region must shoulder half the cost of the upkeep of the Legion supply lines. Since the food and resources that keep the Legions battle ready come from the nearest source. Even when said Legion(s) is in enemy territory and your region is the closest supply point to them, you will still have to bear half the cost of supplying the Legion. The Region will never shoulder the cost of manpower reinforcements, only food and equipment resupply.
Combat will include discipline, tactics and strategy of one side against the other. The more detailed your tactics and strategy the better chance you have at winning. Poorly thought out tactics will be given a lower number than a higher thought out tactic. Enemies of Rome from Carthage to Germania will have their own numbers and have already been included into the battle calculator.
Sea combat will be done similarly.
As usual, stories will be rewarded. Any story will get a reward but be warned, I am a picky mod and I will reward a good story with a good reward or bonus and give mediocre stories lesser rewards or bonuses.
Traits can be anything but to start here is a list:
Brave
Courageous
Good Administrator
Good Infantry Commander
Wise
Bold
Industrious
Negatives:
Stupid
Evil
Terrible Administrator
Terrible Commander
etc... If you have any questions you can post here or PM me.
Also the beginning year is 263 B.C, and remember the years goes down not up from this point on, so when you are accounting for age, remember to count the years up rather than down. Example: I am 20 years old, therefore I was born in 283, not 243.
The stats are still a work in progress and continue to refer here for updates until I post on the thread. As usual I welcome critique and suggestions.
EDIT:
New Stats:
Rome's Expenses are now automatically counted for, therefore all income you see in the income slot is what Rome makes a month that does not go towards Expenses. The Expense slot shows the entirety of Rome's expenses that would otherwise have been income. For a breakdown on expenses, you simply need to look at the Legions and Fleets section of Rome's stats.
If a section of ruleset is a different color this Key will tell you what they mean:
Blue: New rules.
Red: Important rules.
Alea iacta est (The Die has been Cast) will be a Role-playing NES in which a player will rule a family or character through the events of Roman expansion. These families or characters will flesh out the future of Rome, will they expand aggressively or will they remain content with Italy and branch out and establish trading outposts?
This NES will be run differently from Grandkhan's NES, in that NPC's will play vital roles, especially in the Senate Chambers where PC senators will have another 200+ senators to appease or defeat. This will I hope provide a realm of realism and creativity, how will you as a Senator gain command of a legion for your son when the Populares would fight this appointment on the basis that your family is hated within Rome? Or perhaps you are trying to help the plebes by instituting grain doles or land plots but are stopped by the noble Senators? It is up to you to figure out how to win the opposition to your side and gain enough votes to see your bill pass.
Also different is that I am allowing characters to be created that do not have to be Senators, but remember that only Senators will administrate regions, cities or negotiate deals, and Senators can only command Legions. But I will allow non senator characters to be merchants, lowly centurions or even gladiators. In this way I hope to include a more wide variety of tastes into this NES and who knows perhaps your Merchant family will grow wealthy enough and back the right person and gain your very own seat in Senate. Or a lowly Centurion rising in rank and after supporting a victorious Legatus could be rewarded with a seat in Senate.
History:
Rome was founded as a city-state in a chaotic Italy, to their North stood the powerful Etrurian alliance and to their south stood the Samnites. Over the next 200 years Rome fought several bloody battles and managed to carve out a secure location straddling the Central Range, the Samnites were still powerful in the south but the Etrurians were all but beaten. It was during this period of inactivity that a Gallic tribe traveled down Italy and sacked Rome. Never again would Rome suffer such a humiliating defeat, they immediately marched north and crushed the tribes around the Po Valley, this victory secured their northern border at the formidable Alps. So they again entered a time of peace, but the Samnites, who also managed to incite a large Latin revolt in Northern Italy nearly threatened to destroy Rome. But a brilliant Senator was appointed dictator and with 4 Legions roughly put down the rebellion and crushed the Samnites for good. This war also brought in the Greeks who at the time held Brundisium and Tarantem who joined the Samnites due to their alliance. King Phyrric of the Greeks defeated Roman Army after Roman Army, but took such heavy losses that he was forced to surrender, having never lost a battle to Rome. Rome then secured alliances with the Sicilian city-states who feared Carthaginian expansion. Now Rome and Carthage gaze at one another knowing a conflict would be inevitable.
Breakdown of Stats:
Family This is where you will find the family name. Pretty simple.
Head of Family This is where your family patriarch will be named, this will be your main character and will be the only member allowed to hold the highest offices in Rome, your sons will not attain higher offices until this character dies to turns over the family to the son.
List of Spouse and Children Here you will list your wife and children. Eventually should you desire to, you can include spouses and children down to grandchildren provided your patriarch stays alive. Other than your sons, these characters will have little effects in the game, you can marry off daughters to form alliances, and work to give sons positions in Roman government or as Tribunes in the Legions. All sons of Senators will be allowed to Administrate regions and cities as they are of Senatorial Class.
List of Retinues Here you will list your loyal followers, if you were a Legatus, you may have a loyal ex-Centurion as your bodyguard or for battle wisdom. If you managed Gladiator schools you may have an ex-Gladiator. Really there is no end to what kind or how many retinues you can have, provided you can take care of them all. But be warned they can turn on you if you do not take care of them.
Offices This is where all offices your family holds will be listed, including the member who holds it in italics next to it. Examples would be;
Administrator of the Po Valley region (Lucius Albino Varus)
Legatus of Legio I and II, currently stationed in Capua (Julius Albino Varus)
Profession Here you will list what your family specializes in. Yes, being a Senator is considered a privilege and honor rather than a profession I have decided to ask you guys to include Senator in this section to make it easier to distinguish between who are Senators are who are not. But even if you are a Senator I still want a working profession that allows you to earn wealth and maintain your seat in Senate. For those who do not desire to start as a Senator will list only their profession.
Wealth and Income This will list your wealth and income. This NES will go by the Roman Sesterces as a currency and the amount of Sesterces you have stored is an indication of your wealth. The amount you earn through your holdings and profession will be listed under income and will go directly to your wealth if not spent.
Troops Here we will enter the fun part. Building and maintaining an army. Whether it is for personal security or for protection of the realm, your troops will be yours to command until they are ordered away from you or you leave them behind. We will enter into detail in the next few paragraphs:
Personal Forces These will be your own personal security force, these troops will follow only your command, or your family's should you assign them to a member. Legions will be included here in times of civil war or loyalty is so high they would rebel if assigned to another commander. Look to recruit chart to see who you can recruit and their price tags.
Assigned Legion(s) This will show the Legions assigned to your command and their numbers, as well as resupply and reinforcement prices. These will be a monthly charge against the Republic and it will be up to the character commanding these Legions to remind the Senate of the bill. Failure to pay the bill will see a decline in the performance of the Legion and manpower shortages. Of course the character himself could cover the cost of maintaining the Legion if he desires, this will bring its own benefits at a cost.
Assigned Fleet(s) Similar to above for Legions, but this is for warships of the Republic.
Character Traits This is where your Character traits will be listed, 2 positive traits and a negative to begin with. As is obvious, positive traits benefit your character and helps him navigate the politics and battlefields of Rome far easier. Negative traits does just the opposite. After your choosing of the 2 positive and 1 negative traits, each trait afterwards will be assigned arbitrarily based on what your character does over the course of the NES, some traits may disappear and others may return. Do not expect your traits to stay with you permanently.
Backstory By providing a good backstory it would allow me as mod to give you a beginning wealth and income stat as well as a private force stat. For especially good backstories I might give you one of Rome's 4 Legions or a region to Administrate beginning the game and the title of Consul.
Population: This stat simply tells you how many people currently resides in your region. If you want to know how many of this number is available for active duty simply take that number, example 1M (1 Million), and take 1/4 off, example 250,000, this gives you your available men ready for duty to Rome. The population stat is there to give you an idea of how large your region is and what you expect you would need to do to keep your people happy and content. Not to mention give you an idea of how strong a riot or a rebellion could be and station enough troops to keep the peace if needed.
Also, another thing I should add, when a Legion is stationed in a region for protection or preparation for invasion the Region must shoulder half the cost of the upkeep of the Legion supply lines. Since the food and resources that keep the Legions battle ready come from the nearest source. Even when said Legion(s) is in enemy territory and your region is the closest supply point to them, you will still have to bear half the cost of supplying the Legion. The Region will never shoulder the cost of manpower reinforcements, only food and equipment resupply.
Combat will include discipline, tactics and strategy of one side against the other. The more detailed your tactics and strategy the better chance you have at winning. Poorly thought out tactics will be given a lower number than a higher thought out tactic. Enemies of Rome from Carthage to Germania will have their own numbers and have already been included into the battle calculator.
Sea combat will be done similarly.
As usual, stories will be rewarded. Any story will get a reward but be warned, I am a picky mod and I will reward a good story with a good reward or bonus and give mediocre stories lesser rewards or bonuses.
Traits can be anything but to start here is a list:
Brave
Courageous
Good Administrator
Good Infantry Commander
Wise
Bold
Industrious
Negatives:
Stupid
Evil
Terrible Administrator
Terrible Commander
etc... If you have any questions you can post here or PM me.
Also the beginning year is 263 B.C, and remember the years goes down not up from this point on, so when you are accounting for age, remember to count the years up rather than down. Example: I am 20 years old, therefore I was born in 283, not 243.
The stats are still a work in progress and continue to refer here for updates until I post on the thread. As usual I welcome critique and suggestions.
EDIT:
New Stats:
Rome's Expenses are now automatically counted for, therefore all income you see in the income slot is what Rome makes a month that does not go towards Expenses. The Expense slot shows the entirety of Rome's expenses that would otherwise have been income. For a breakdown on expenses, you simply need to look at the Legions and Fleets section of Rome's stats.