Roman Empire

[Palaiologos]

Does anybody know the locations of villas in Italy and Gaul?


I only have those in Brittain.

[Palaiologos]

Designing information

1. How can i increase the corruption rate of communism?
2. How can i increase the unit upkeep of communism, so that all military units require one shield and one food?
3. In the picture below the cursor points at the historical location of Nicaea. Should i include it? It was an important city of Asia Minor and for a brief period the capital of the Roman Empire. However if i include it, it will jam up the place(i.e-too many cities).



P.S. Does anyone have any better city graphics in mind?



Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!!

[Palaiologos]

1.Should i use Latin names for the cities and buildings or normal English ones?


For example: Belgrade=Singidunum
Lutetia=Paris




2. Does anyone has in mind a graphic that could be used as a Patriarchate building? It will replace something worthless such as SDI, but i want to include it for historical reasons.

[Valuk]

Use the Roman ones, since the modern-day denominations didn't come up until quite late in the middle ages(until the time of the Carolingian revival in the west and in the east the names fluctuated between slavic and latin up to about 1200).
And you really should include Nicaea, since it later became the mainstay of Roman power in Asia Minor(thought I'm guessing that this scenario won't stretch to the time of Alexios Komenos )

[Stefan Härtel]

Does anybody know the locations of villas in Italy and Gaul?

I'm sending you the maps you asked for right now. One has imperial villas near Neapolis and Rome (red empty squares). The little red dots near Naples are villas also.
Just so you won't be surprised, I split the maps up, and there's five mails with a total of ca. 3MB.

1. How can i increase the corruption rate of communism?

You can't. It's hard-coded.

2. How can i increase the unit upkeep of communism, so that all military units require one shield and one food?

The cosmic parameters at the start of the rules.txt:

3 ; Communism pays support for all units past this

You can't make them cost food, though. You can only do this by giving them the settler flag, thus making them be able to perform all settler actions.

3. In the picture below the cursor points at the historical location of Nicaea. Should i include it? It was an
important city of Asia Minor and for a brief period the capital of the Roman Empire. However if i include it, it will jam
up the place(i.e-too many cities).

Yes, you should definately include it.

P.S. Does anyone have any better city graphics in mind?

I attached one I made with this post. Maybe you can use it.

1.Should i use Latin names for the cities and buildings or normal English ones?

Yes. "Internationally", many of the cities, particularly those in Germany were known with their Latin ones in any case, as the present names origined in local dialects.

[jim panse]

hello palailogos!

i´m currently working on a scenario about the ottoman empire and i´m creating the units right now. i found a pic of byzantine troops some pages ago in your thread. the pic shows roman/byzantine troops of the 14th century.

my question is: constantinepolis fell in 1453. were there other troops in the first half of the 15th century or not?

(i won´t be offended if you can´t/won´t help me, it was just out of curiosity and a bit of information gathering for my scenario )

best wishes for your scenario

jim panse

[Valuk]

How do you mean other troops? There were troops of mostly albanian origin still stationed in the Morea, but were mostly dispersed by 1461 due to infighting between Thomas and Demetrios Palaiologos.
Byzantium had virtually ceased to exist in 1362 as the Turks captured Adrianopolis and had lost its last remaining possesions in Thrace(except for a few cities such as Selymbria and Mesembria).
The last Byzantine expedition against the Sultan in Thrace was in 1384.
From then on Nea Roma held only 2000 Centurian guards and the elite Cretan archers.

[Palaiologos]

Valuk is correct. Mainly Albanian troops were used by the Despots of Morea. In Constantinople itself there were foreign mercenaries mostly. At the siege of Constantinople the Emperor ordered a "draft". 4.973 men presented themselves out of a population of 60.000. These results were disapointing since the majority of those men had never carried arms before. The defence of the City fell to the 2.000 Italian mercenaries.

These 4.973 men however were well armed. They had western type mettalic armour along with a shield and spear. The empire of Trebizond employed lightly equiped horsemen mainly.

If you like i can e-mail you pictures of the varying uniforms of the Medieval Roman army.

[Palaiologos]

In 217AD the restriction of Roman citizenship to qualify for enlistmen in the Legions was lifted. Does that mean that there were no more auxiliary regiments after 217AD?

[Palaiologos]

If i remember correctly it was Diocletean that created the regional field armies. What was the situation on the German frontier at his time( i mean apart from chaotic). What were the positions of the Legions before the creation of the Limitanei units?

Were they the same as in the 1st century AD?

[jim panse]

it would be very kind of you to help me out of my misery.

steph_sander@hotmail.com

thanks in forward for your good-will. i need these units to represent East Rome, you know

[Palaiologos]

Aid

It seems this scenario is more massive than i expected.

The only way to cope with the differents epochs in the Roman Empire's evolution is to use batch files. Not only that, but it has taken me a lot of time to track down all the legionary possitions and naval stations( I found them at last!). I still have to work out the Tech tree and Civil buildings.

I am already receiving help in the form of information and graphics by Fairline and Stefan, but....
So i find myself in the disgraceful possition of asking for aid. If anybody is interested in CO-DESIGNING this scenario with me, send me an e-mail at PericlesDervisis@hotmail.com, or a PM. His part in the design will be as big as he wishes. Even the smallest of aids will be welcome.

I am determined to finish this scenario, by myself if i have too, but it is impropable that i will meet the deadline of the end of the christmas vacations.

[fairline]

Originally posted by Palaiologos
In 217AD the restriction of Roman citizenship to qualify for enlistmen in the Legions was lifted. Does that mean that there were no more auxiliary regiments after 217AD?

IIRC the Auxilia continued into the later empire as limitani alongside vexillations of the former legions, and often retained their earlier names. When Diocletion set up the central field army he introduced 2 new infantry formations - the legio Palatina and Auxilia Palatina - so, in this form the 'Auxilia' unit title was retained until at least the end of the Western Empire.

I think the old Auxilia were retained as they were often specialist troops, such as archers or cavalry, even though their soldiers may well have been either citizens or barbarian recruits

[Palaiologos]

First of all what the hell does this "IIRC" mean? I see it everywhere in this forum.



1.I plan to have the Sarmatians, Slavs, and maybe Alans as one generic civ, the Slavs. Would that be historically accurate?

2. The vassal states of Armenia, Palmyra and Bosphorus will obviously not be other civs, but in the Roman civ. Now, since these kingdoms were at the borders of the Roman world surrounded by barbarians they must have had some sort of military(The Palmyreans repelled the first Persian invasion by themselves alone), which certainly was not Roman legionaires. Any info on their army?

[Palaiologos]

Many of the barbarian areas outside Roman control are uncharted by the maps. I have found no maps that have the major non-Roman cities on them. Therefore i will use modern names and locations for them. Since i do not have the cities' founding dates either, i will use my judgement. Some are obvious(Hamburg) but for the rest......


So if anyone feels offended by the blasphemy of my upcoming actions must wait no more, and send me some info!.


And before anyone asks i do not want to name cities "Cimbrii", "Teutons", "Huns"etc.

Thanks.