IJ Office Ancillaries

**CIaagent11** · August 03, 2008, 11:53 AM

It annoyed me that in BI - and IJ - you never get any office ancillaries as the romans,
because the triggers demand that you to have high command generals staying in important cities.
And I never do that, I have my high Generals fighting and not sitting around in Rome and Constantinople.
So I made some adjustments to the IJ ancillaries, so the offices will be given after battles with certain factions.
I did not really change any other ancillaries.
Some might be not enteirly historical in their naming, but it's not that far out.

All offices are now unique, which means they only get appointed once.
And offices from the same areas exclude each others, but because you only can exclude up to three
ancillaries from each other, this demands that you don't move family members around too much. Which is historical anyways.

Tell me what you think.
I also like to hear your opinion, julianus heraclius.

The files are attached to this post.

**julianus heraclius** · August 03, 2008, 04:40 PM

Ah Claagent11, you read my mind. I have done a major overhaul of the traits/ancillary files for IJV3.0 so titles will become more easily available. I've also included additional titles such as "parthicus", "germanicus", "gothicus" for those generals that have great success against Rome's enemies.

We will also be including additional traits such as neopaganism, mithraism, hinduism, manichism and ethnic traits such as gallo-roman, hispano-roman, gothic etc. This work is being done by beatoangelico.

Have also added some traits that inhibit and increase movement speeds, based on seasons of the year.

**CIaagent11** · August 03, 2008, 05:58 PM

That all sound so great. I can't wait for IJV3.0.
Any word on when it's going to be done?

And I love those ancillary ideas.
I agree that many ancillaries should be given after battles and less of them in cities.
If in your campaign you have a general who defends the danube, and he is the official "in charge of defending the danube limes" it's really great.

**julianus heraclius** · August 03, 2008, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by CIaagent11

That all sound so great. I can't wait for IJV3.0.
Any word on when it's going to be done?

And I love those ancillary ideas.
I agree that many ancillaries should be given after battles and less of them in cities.
If in your campaign you have a general who defends the danube, and he is the official "in charge of defending the danube limes" it's really great.

The reskinning of the romans has taken alot longer than I had originally envisaged, though it will be well worth the wait. Coupled with this Gaiten and I have been reskinning the Sassanids for use both in IJ and IB:RR.

I'm currently revising the Lahkmids and going to redo the Aux Hillmen who will renamed Ghassanids Foederati.

Having said all of that I'm hoping for a BETA version in about a month but I've been saying that for the past 3 months

, but I am getting there.

Cheers

**CIaagent11** · August 03, 2008, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by julianus heraclius

but I've been saying that for the past 3 months

Yeah, you have.

But that sounds great.
IJ really suits me, I wish I had found it out sooner.

I didn't like those old aux hillmen, I even modded them out of my game.
Ghassanids Foederati is much better.

I bet though I be deep in my studies by the time it comes out.

**julianus heraclius** · August 03, 2008, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by CIaagent11

I bet though I be deep in my studies by the time it comes out.

Ah, but you'll have IJV3.0 to look forward to when you have finished your studies.

**AMBASZ** · August 04, 2008, 05:28 AM

Great news Julianus Heraclianus! I'm glad you are still enhancing your mod, it is one of the best mods ever!
Claagent11 thanks for your effort, it looks great!
(I have tried to edit the text files myself but it doesn't work for me!)

**ThePianist** · August 05, 2008, 05:18 AM

So how did you get Appius Quirinius as general? If you got him by bribing from Constantius, then I probably wouldn't be able to do that till 100 turns later. So far Julian in my campaign is only adopting non-Christian generals, I want to get a Christian one so he could be faction heir. Or, what are the odds that a faction leader adopts a general of different religion? I had to do this with the Franks, and it took quite a while before I got a Christian general.

**CIaagent11** · August 05, 2008, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by ThePianist

So how did you get Appius Quirinius as general? If you got him by bribing from Constantius, then I probably wouldn't be able to do that till 100 turns later. So far Julian in my campaign is only adopting non-Christian generals, I want to get a Christian one so he could be faction heir. Or, what are the odds that a faction leader adopts a general of different religion? I had to do this with the Franks, and it took quite a while before I got a Christian general.

The game has the follow-my-leader triggers.
I think the chance is nothing.
You have to edit triggers or descr_strat.