Who is Lentulus Caudinus?

[dunty12]

Hey, Getting back to playing RTW today so I started a Roman campaign tonight and saw that Lentulus Caudinus was my faction leader. I'm guessing it changed because didn't it used to be Julius Caesar, when did this change and why? I then did a google search on Lentulus Caudinus and found no solid information about this character. I also had trouble finding information about some of the other family members. Can you please tell me more about the history of faction leader Lentulus Caudinus,the family members, and about the time frame the campaign starts in. Thank you

[Zarax]

Err, the game starts on 275, about 200 years before Julius Caesar was born...

As for lentulus:

Year 275 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dentatus and Caudinus

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus belonged to that to the branch Lentuli the family that Cornelier. Lentulus was 275 v. Chr. at the side of Manius Curius Dentatus Consul abd successfully fought Pyrrhus at Beneventum. For this success he received one Triumph awarded and put to the surnames Caudinus too. He left this surname at its descendants. Its sons Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus were likewise Roman consuls.

[dunty12]

Thanks Zarax, that clears things up for me and makes me understand the game a little more.