SECURING THE NORTH! Total War: Rome II - Rise of the Republic - Rome Campaign #7

[@basvandeven1837]

''Cursus honorum: the Ladder of Politics'' - Chapter 1 The next few episodes, we will be talking about Roman politics. Specifically, we will be tackling the rather important ''Cursus honorum'', the ''course of honours''. You could literally picture yourself a ladder, every step being a new political office, with its own title, benefits and, of course, official tasks. Whereas most of us will know that the two consuls of Rome were omnipotent -- from ''omnis potens'', ''all powerful'' -- in politics, few people know that consul was NOT the ultimate step of a Roman political career: censor was. Access to the Senate was important, yes, but it was not actually anything major: acceptance to the Senatorial ranks came as a nice side-gig upon becoming Quaestor, the first step of the ladder. For a brief overview: a Roman first needed to be born in the right gender -- male -- and be born into the right family. Generally speaking, all aristocratic patricians came from the first set of noble families selected by Romulus around 753 BC. New families would, in due time, join these, but having the right name certainly had its privileges. After being born with the right 'credentials', you would need to be sufficiently educator, preferably in rhetorics. Furthermore, in order to join politics, you HAD to have served in the Roman military (as an Officer) for several years. This again shows us that the Roman world was one of the militaristic aristocrats. Step one: become a Quaestor. In a series of rather complex elections, our young and aspiring nobleman had to be elected as one of -- usually around -- twenty Quaestores. Small note: during the Early Republic, only four Quaestores were appointed every year. The minimum age for a Quaestor is 30 years old. The job of Quaestor wasn't especially interesting, but it came with one major ticket: a seat in the Roman Senate. If can't influence politics, if you aren't in the Senate, after all. Quaestores had one of the few non-military related jobs in Roman politics. They were the highest kind of civil servant, being responsible for administration in the Roman provinces, for collecting taxes and for deputy military assignments (not common). An even more select few of the Quaestorial pool, usually only two, was assigned to serve as the personal assistants to the two consuls of that year. Each year, another four Quaestores were assigned to the Roman treasury. These so-called ''urban'' Quaestores actually oversaw the Templum Saturni -- the ''Temple of Saturn'' -- in Rome, because that was where the actual physical treasury was housed. Again, this goes to show how intermingled politics and religion were in Rome. Aforementioned temple also housed all official laws. Effectively, this made a section of the Quaestores 'supreme archivists'. I want to take a moment to address another historical 'weirdness' in Roman times. I will sometimes mention the year 753 BC, for example. BC means ''Before Christ''. Obviously, the Romans did not actually know this Christ-guy in this specific time. He was not born yet, after all. Rather, Romans defined years by the consuls that ruled in that year. For example: Cicero was born in our year 106 BC. The Romans would have referred to that year as ''the year of Caepio and Serranus'', because the consuls of that particular year were Quintus Caepio and Gaius Serranus. This effectively meant that Romans had to memorise hundreds of consuls, just to be able to tell one year from another year. From Quaestor, we will be going to the office of Praetor. Till next time!

[@basvandeven1837]

Haha, yes, I happen to be. Lionheart usually uploads this around my 8PM, when I go through my subscriptions.

[@heldaneurbanus5135]

I wanted to thank you for these tidy little summaries. I may not be learning all that much (being a bit of a Romanophile) but I greatly appreciate the effort. Well worth the time anyone spends reading these. Truly top notch.

[@wura4444]

The Romans also used AUC: Anno urbis conditae, which means after the city was found. 752 AUC was one BC. That's an alternitive use of naming the year that Romans used. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita

[@davidwhitfield6025]

I noted it was 390 BC at the start of this episode. That was the year that the Cisalpine Gauls captured Rome (although not the Capatoline Hill). The Romans had to pay a massive ransom to buy off the Gauls. Obviously the Gauls are elsewhere in this run through.

[@trk4973]

David Whitfield "Woe unto the vanquished"

[@carineaerts3735]

vae victis(woe to the vanquished).Brennis,leader of the senones

[@Queerienlannister]

Yo lion you really should raze any cities outside of your culture group. The cost of culture difference and the cost of converting severely outweighs the cost of rebuilding the city with your culture. Hope ya see this mate, have fun in your campaign

[@mechanismprototype]

Seleucus Nicator does this get rid of the city like I'm attila or does it reset all buildings to lvl 0/1

[@Queerienlannister]

@@mechanismprototype You can't get rid of cities in this game, it will reset the building chains like the main building and the port to level 1 while other buildings that can be demolished are removed

[@BenjinWS]

Hey, you're using my General mod! How long has this been going on for? *_Digs through previous videos_* Great to see it being used! If you spot any issues or have any suggestions, let me know.

[@stiansoerlie]

Looks like a good mod good job

[@s.h1434]

Benjin yes please fix the shields for roman generals which is going through their bodies on upper side!

[@angelosikolakis7619]

He said he used it a few episodes ago seems pretty good!

[@BenjinWS]

@S.H Which shield do you mean? There are a lot of shield variants being used (a screenshot would help).

[@lionheartx10]

Its a great mod Benjin! Thanks for making it! :)

[@goldeneagle22]

you should really remember to put your slingers and skirmishers on guard mode so they don't just run after enemy units

[@bramvaessen1576]

I really liked you King Of Total War video, with a good Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference

[@spasjt]

"The granary is full my Lord." Love Stronghold.

[@Queerienlannister]

Btw, a quick tip for if you're searching for an enemy army. If you go into the diplomacy tab and choose select target or smh, you can find enemy armies on the map, both in FoW and in ambush stand. This helped me avoid ambushing

[@sgtvoncarstein592]

i work 3rd shift i been watching them all night to stay awake ;)

[@enchantingdan3449]

Everybody: Sabine 7Bfor7B: Sobbin

[@walnzell9328]

20:51 I'd hardly call the Etruscan League a tribe.

[@cameronmcallister7606]

2 years late; but a tribe as used by the Romans basically just means "A group of people", in a broad sense anyhow.

[@pp-wo1sd]

Who else hears Brian the Blessed as the voice actor for some of the voice lines specifically the "italian swordsmen" line

[@stragiculous9849]

I would go for Logistics, if you're only interested in proppin' up your general, yet since he's "The Man" of Your Family, I'd go for the Strategist-option, which gives extra gravitas, which translates directly into more political Power, and stability(or, in the cases where it brings instability, in the other houses, more gravitas=more Power to do something about the instability. Gravitas is King! ;) -then, I'd do Logistics NeXT, then Commander, for even more gravitas, then second-Level Tactician, for map-speed, then NeXT Level Commander, again... one for gravitas, one for general-abilities, off and on, throughout the game... while never giving anything more than a single gravitas-point to generals of other families. Works like a clock, every time. ;)

[@Medikto]

So he lost more then 70%.

[@miker891]

i always find it a waste to shoot at missile units when cavalry can take them out but to each there own

[@lionheartx10]

Can’t charge the cavalary at them when they have spears sitting right behind.

[@elchupacabra84]

same, prefer to close infantry lines, which causes AI to withdraw skirmishers behind its own infantry. Once the two infantry lines are locked, bring your cav around the rear, wipe out the skirmishers, then after rear charge the lines. usually causes a mass casualty rout pretty quickly.

[@SaulKopfenjager]

@@elchupacabra84 These were the worst tactics I think I have ever seen by a human player, & yes you can charge your Cavalry at the skirmishers just enough to scare them back as your Infantry line moves up, withdraw the cavalry from their feint attack and swing them around the wings and flank into the enemy retreated skirmishers who btw will had very little opportunity to have done much firing and just stamped crush them and then get around to rear charge into the enemy rear lines, hammer and anvil. (Your frontal Infantry assault is the anvil, your Cavalry is the hammer, while I'd call your skirmishers a kind of sickle cutting down esp hard targets firing in support in angled arcs from behind your Infantry but anyway.)

[@josephdunlop5130]

Im enjoying it so far keep it up😁😁

[@TheMob1210]

marry of the younger of the two cammilus brothers.

[@HeruEviscerated]

At 27:00, the music was so in sync with what was happening

[@MarkoSRBa]

Good catch sir

[@UvaLuva]

You should definitely go for logistics

[@THANAT0S_]

Ther is no the economy is growing quote in stronhold its our food stocks are growning (my liege)

[@akhikahf1947]

To the Victory!

[@Ahrixvn]

Name of the song at 30:25 please :

[@x4treme]

My saviour :)

[@lachlanneal9375]

Who can give solid advice on how to become dictator in the grand campaign? I can never get enough senate control to declare empire

[@Luckyheraclius89]

Nice vid

[@roberttriplet1]

Hey, So i am trying to reinstall Rome Total war after all this time but it isn't letting me run the game. I looked online and it told me to do a command on the command prompt and it should work but it still doesn't, I have windows 7, what do I do ?

[@lionheartx10]

I've not heard of that issue before with command prompts. I'd try completely uninstalling the game, checking all the install folders have been deleted then reinstall on steam and leave it a while to update then try running it!

[@THANAT0S_]

How big is the map?

[@zeppelinled3967]

I think there should be an option to sell your slaves.. after all dude came with a galley or two full of slaves, sold them all,paid the tax and left.. tax being 2000....

[@manbaby6354]

How old is Camillus

[@billpappos]

1.2k likes 0 dislikes

[@stevojd3961]

Wednesday night cure for feelin unloved ;)

[@christianwhitlatch7036]

the music

[@yoranger7735]

is this no longer an everyday series?

[@lionheartx10]

It never was an everyday series. I said at part 1 this was an Every Other Day series!

[@pranavjoshi5822]

Secure the loyalty of other parties in the political system

[@tomm8120]

Damn 0 dislikes, I'm impressed. (Ik it only has 1.6k likes, but still, not a single dislike).

[@dlmc1728]

im 12 watching during covid 19 tanks

[@MASTERMIND-mr6er]

Hello :D

[@dejlislive5751]

it anoys me how the set up the provinces. I guess they're trying to make the game harder or something but you own 3/4 but you cant get to the forth through your already owned territory. it anoys me that nursia is in that province when obviously it isnt feasble.

[@derptube2148]

Well historically Nursia was part of the province. This comes down to an issue with the game when it comes to crossing the mountain, when in real life the army would just march through the hills.

[@socappy5218]

wow no dislikes

[@anne-mariehurran9137]

Lionheart I’m sorry to bother you with my problems but your literally my last hope. I’m having a lot of difficulty with Rome 2 I bought it today but it will not launch I’ve tried everything followed a load of KZbin videos please help. Regardless if you help me or not big fan your awesome at total war.

[@lionheartx10]

PC specs? Have you tried reinstalling it?

[@anne-mariehurran9137]

I’m running windows 7 but I’m going to upgrade it to 10 when I get home. And praying that is the cause, but the specs are GeForce GTX 1050 ti 4gb ram i5 2400. Thanks you for replying.

[@lionheartx10]

Anne-marie Hurran hmmm it should run on that system, ideally another 4gb would be good to take you up to 8gb total but the game should run on 4gb fine. Maybe try reinstalling the game first as it should work in Windows 7 just fine

[@anne-mariehurran9137]

I know I really don’t know what’s happening here.. really disappointing I’m going to upgrade the ram in the next few days.. once again thank you for replying.. il just have to keep watching you play until I sort it out. Thanks all the same though.

[@lionheartx10]

No worries let me know if you manage to get it working!

[@MarkoSRBa]

*noise*

[@trixbeats7599]

Check your tax rate... I see its 10%

[@afrosamurai6969]

Lol 1100-0 likes/disslikes. Very rare

[@Medikto]

Haters didn't make it to episode 7.

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[@MrShark-kb2rr]

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