Late-game Cursus Honorum

[Aodh Mór Ó Néill]

Just wondering how you all who made it to the Marians Reforms deal with the Cursus. I'm only in the 170's and the amount of FM's and offices there is to keep track of is melting my brain.

Is there some sort of special system people have for making Cursus management easier? Or do most people just give up?

[Mouzafphaerre]

Just wondering how you all who made it to the Marians Reforms deal with the Cursus. I'm only in the 170's and the amount of FM's and offices there is to keep track of is melting my brain.

Is there some sort of special system people have for making Cursus management easier? Or do most people just give up?

Nothing fancier than good old pen and paper I also take traits into account; such as, if a "good governor" is a "satisfied administrator" I let him be for the time being and delay his entering into elections for -say- Praetor. Likewise, I keep the bad apples from advancing, often safely tucked in Italian cities with low potential of trouble.

Critical provincial governorships (Hispaniae, Galliae, Africae, Sicilia, Illyria...) are given to Praetors, Propraetors or Proconsuls, which enables them to keep their posts for at least 3 years (=12 turns). My overall strategy in governing expansion lands involves keeping client rulers till reasonable cultural conversion happens and local recruitment pools dry up (unless RP reasons override gaming concerns). Thus, I doubt I'll ever have a governor of Gallia Narbonensis or Macedonia before I attain victory.