Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
The whole team is very excited to announce a brand new feature in Ancient Empires which has been appropriately branded War Reparations
This mechanic in its entirety has been created by new and talented addition to the team JMack, who has been working on it for the better part of weeks.
What is War Reparations, who does it affect, and what does it do? Let's delve into this. In brief summary, this new script attempts to emulate the historical culmination of the Second Punic War; Carthage, humiliated at Zama and having lost its grip of the Iberian peninsula, is forced to negotiate a peace with Rome. Severe war reparations are forced upon the state by Rome, in an attempt to reduce their influence. The War Reparations script entertains the possibility of Rome and Carthage making different choices than what they historically did - will Rome refuse Carthage's plea? Do the payments from Carthage appease the Romans, or will they demand more?
War Reparations Feature for AE
1. Overview
The feature will offer you a possibility to make peace with Carthage and parties involved
under harsh Roman terms. Or if you are playing with Carthage chance to make peace and
have a little harder campaign with those Roman terms forced onto your faction.
When the peace happens Carthage has its CAI personality changed to Defensive to mimic
the behaviour that really happened all those years ago.
Playing as Rome you have options at turn two to continue war or demand consessions.
If you continue war, everything will be same as your normal campaign without this feature.
If you choose the latter option you will have two other options at next turn. First one is
to force war reparations which will be the main option for this feature. It will make
Rome gain war reparations and also sanction Carthage and limit its money reserves.
Other one is to force Sanctions on Carthage which will then you guessed it, force
sanctions (just limiting Carthages potential).
2. War reparations detailed
2.1 General
The condition of having a possibility to force war reparations or sanctions is that
Publius Cornelius Scipio has won the battle of Zama at turn one.
Just for notion, after each choice the game is autosaved.
To see how reparations are going, you'll have message every turn telling you around
figure of how much reparations were paid in that turn. Reparations have a possibility
of having eccellent year or a really poor year and the reparations are paid acoordingly.
Also there is a possibility of a eccellent or really poor season and again that affects
the amount of reparations.
There is also yearly overview message to tell around figure of how much reparations
you've got.
If in multiplayer, players are playing both Rome and Carthage, option for Carthage to
beg alleviation to payments is disabled.
2.2 Playing as Rome
There are seven levels of war reparations: alleviated by three, alleviated by two,
alleviated by one, normal, harshened by one, harshened by two, harshened by three.
You can demand more reparations by three times with each time a possibility of Carthage
to declare war on you out of desperation. Harsher the terms, more probable the chance
for war. In addition harshened terms also have a yearly chance of Carthage declaring war.
Chance for demanding more comes up every 2 years (8 turns).
Also every year there is a chance of Carthage asking alleviation to the terms. You can
either agree or disagree their pleas. If you choose agree, your relations to Carthage
will slowly start to get better over time. If you alleviate the terms many times, the
better relations you'll have.
2.3 Playing as Carthage
From Carhages point of view, there is a chance to beg alleviation of the reparation terms.
Plea for alleviation will have a slim chance of that Rome agrees. Also this might make
Rome angry and declare war against you. If you manage to ask alleviations second time
you'll have even less of a chance to get it and more of a chance of war. Same goes for
asking third time.
2.4 Playing a faction other faction than Rome or Carthage
If you play any other faction than Rome or Carthage, there will always be war
reparations forced on Carthage
If you are really lucky and playing as Carthage you manage to pay the reparations for
50 years (200 turns), you'll get a message reporting that reparations have been paid.