Roman civil war

**Generalizor** · November 01, 2011, 04:50 PM

Will the roman factions start the civil war if I play as a non roman faction? If that is so in what year will that be?

**Drustan** · November 01, 2011, 09:43 PM

Unless you edit game files they cannot be at war with each other if you are not playing as one of them.

**Generalizor** · November 02, 2011, 09:11 AM

Thats strange the civil war did happen after all.

**MortenJessen** · November 03, 2011, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Generalizor

Thats strange the civil war did happen after all.

Imagine you playing as Carthage. After some 150 turns there are only one Roman faction left besides the Senate, the Julii.
Then Imagine what a civil war would be like....

That is why when player is non-roman, it will not happen.

**Generalizor** · November 04, 2011, 05:21 AM

Sure there may be complications but history shouldn't be let down just because the game isn't balanced.

**Drustan** · November 06, 2011, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Generalizor

Sure there may be complications but history shouldn't be let down just because the game isn't balanced.

As far as the Roman factions go, there isnt really much historical accuracy involved, there was only one Roman state until the split into east and west. If you want the game to be more true to history, play a mod instead of vanilla.

**SakyaIllidan** · November 11, 2011, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Generalizor

Sure there may be complications but history shouldn't be let down just because the game isn't balanced.

If you want historic game, then you must noy play with Carthage, because they was exterminated by Romans^^

**MortenJessen** · November 05, 2011, 06:34 PM

My guess is that it has nothing to do with balance issues. It is purely practical. A civil war needs "participants". And a player playing a non-roman faction surely gets rid of the "participants" as fast as possible, making a civil war somewhat of a balance issue, as what is left of the Romans after a civil war would be easy picking for the human.

**Benneffect** · November 07, 2011, 04:52 PM

I've had it happen. Don't remember the year in game.

**Benneffect** · November 16, 2011, 06:51 PM

Heck, if you wanted a TRUELY historic game, youd sit there watching it play itself. Everyone playing TW changes the course of history with the forces and territories they amass in-game. I'm pretty sure Rome never expanded to modern day northwest russia, but I do it all the time.not very historic....