Religion wasn't mutex in the Roman's view. The Carthinagins could still worship Baal, so long as they worshiped the Roman gods as well. That was the key. Any religion that had claims to exclusivity in idol worship was then a problem. Temples were build all over, and lots of them, so maybe no happiness, but culture and gold? Temples did accumulate wealth and would be looted in desperate times.
I'm replicating the civIII units. So there is a ballista, but looks just like a catapult for now :/ Velites look just like skirmishers. Bellators don't benefit much from defense bonuses. From what I've read these were "wild men", looking to prove themselves, and so only had a small shield if any becasue attacking was what you were supposed to be doing.
The discrete siege engines will be essential. Consider Antonii's attack on Parthia. Had he actually protected his rear area (baggage train + siege engines) he may have been sucessful. But he didn't, and the Parthians destroyed them, so then stalemate since he couldn't storm the city, and finally peace.
The early legions will also be built with food. So raising legions will stifle local growth, but it maximizes thier build speed. I don't plan on making legions hard to raise, but there will be a cost
As for reserves, that will be up to the player! Road movement *will* increase along with the expansion of the empire.
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The phase1 region of the map has all cities in place. Units are being added (eg tribus magnus/bellator/etc...) so that they can be added to the map. For whatever reason starting technologies are tied to the map (instead of in the civilizationinfos..), so now starting technologies are actually working (only the Romans will get etruscan_heritage). No more legions for Illyria!
Hispania is pretty sparse for now. I would like to see if Carthage will expand to here in thier free time.
For the 18 civ limit problem in civIV, 1 option is to just group all of the small ones into MINOR_CIV, and give it the minorciv=1 status (free to attack at any time, no state of war). This will make it far easier to take the rest of Italia and Magna Graecia :/
MINOR_CIV_GREEK = Magna Graecia, Thracia, Epirus, Pirates, Nabatae, Athanae, Armenia...
MINOR_CIV_BARB = Cispalinus Galia, Iberia, Cimbii, etc...
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graphics requests submitted:
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