Alternative titles for Roman generals

[Marcus Scaurus]

Succesful Roman generals often earned an agnomen, a title. Pompeius received the agnomen Magnus (the Great), Scipio earned Africanus. Is it possible to do the same thing in RTW?

All my generals who fight a few or more battles gain titles, like 'the Conqueror', 'the Cunning', 'the Mad', but these are quite boring titles that non-Roman generals receive too. More diverse titles like 'Hispanicus', 'Macedonicus' or 'Sarmaticus' would be cool. For example, a quite succesful general is the first to cross the Rhine, and marches into Germany with his army. He defeats more than 4 full German stacks and/or captures four settlements: enough to give him the title 'Germanicus'.

Is this possible or is it all too hardcoded or complicated?

[Trajan]

It is possible. I remember that Gaius Julius pulled it off when he was making Punic: Total War.

[The-Great-Dane]

This is in vanilla already. But you have to fight something like 50 (I don't know the excat number, but it is a lot) battles against the germans to get the 'Germanicus'.
I believe there was also Africanus, were you'd have to fight 50 (I am guessing again) battles against either the Carthaganians, numidians or the egyptians.

Here is a link to a site with Roman names, they should be implented as well. IE, instead of xxx the fat, it would be xxx Crassus - "Crassus Crassa Fat; used by Claudii, Licinii, Otacilii, Veturii, and others" (Note; Crassa is the female version of the name)

http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/names.html

[mike^_^]

This is in vanilla already. But you have to fight something like 50 (I don't know the excat number, but it is a lot) battles against the germans to get the 'Germanicus'.
I believe there was also Africanus, were you'd have to fight 50 (I am guessing again) battles against either the Carthaganians, numidians or the egyptians.

have you ever done it?

don't 'spose you got any screenshots?

that's interesting, I never knew about that

[The-Great-Dane]

I don't have any screenshots, no. But I have done both of them. I actually had a Scipio Africanus. He fouhgt countless battles against the Carthaginians and the Numidians, and that's why I am guessing 50 battles is the requirement. I don't know if there is any randomness in it or if there is other requirements thatn tons of battles. But I'm not :wub:ting you.

EDIT:
If you've ever played The First Triumvirate, you will notice they have a somewhat similar system, where you can conquer various parts of the world and then be proclaimed "Conquer of Asia" or something like that. So it's entirely possible.

[mike^_^]

that's great!

I hope they carried this over to BI

*starts up BI to take Belisarius to africa*