Goddamn Roman people! Oh, and disappearing Spaniards..

[weemadando]

Playing Rome: Total War too much I've come to a point where the people and senate expect so much of me (easy to have happen when you haven't lost a battle in 100 years and even when the odds are 3 to 1 against you generally wipe the enemy out with less than 2% losses), that if I have losses more than about 5% in a battle the confidence in me from both people and senate plummet by one or two levels in a turn - is there a cure for this?

Also - I had the Spanish faction leader (and only once of his bloodline left) surrounded by 8 assassins, 3 spies and 2 diplomats and then in his turn he vanished... My "agents" and 12,000 Roman men then spread out to try and find him, but he'd fucking vanished - again, what happened here and how do I prevent it in future?

[HemlockGrey]

The Spanish faction leader probably died of natural causes.

[Vympel]

Also - I had the Spanish faction leader (and only once of his bloodline left) surrounded by 8 assassins, 3 spies and 2 diplomats and then in his turn he vanished... My "agents" and 12,000 Roman men then spread out to try and find him, but he'd fucking vanished - again, what happened here and how do I prevent it in future?

Hemlock is almost certainly correct. How old was he?

[Darth Wong]

Playing Rome: Total War too much I've come to a point where the people and senate expect so much of me (easy to have happen when you haven't lost a battle in 100 years and even when the odds are 3 to 1 against you generally wipe the enemy out with less than 2% losses), that if I have losses more than about 5% in a battle the confidence in me from both people and senate plummet by one or two levels in a turn - is there a cure for this?

I've found that the key to gaining popularity with the masses is the rate at which you conquer new cities, more than anything else. As for the Senate, you just have to faithfully fulfill all of their missions.

Also - I had the Spanish faction leader (and only once of his bloodline left) surrounded by 8 assassins, 3 spies and 2 diplomats and then in his turn he vanished... My "agents" and 12,000 Roman men then spread out to try and find him, but he'd fucking vanished - again, what happened here and how do I prevent it in future?

Why would you have so many assassins and spies and diplomats surrounding one guy? Just kill him with an army and be done with it. I've never had that many assassins in one place; their upkeep will be similar to that of a small army.

[weemadando]

Why would you have so many assassins and spies and diplomats surrounding one guy? Just kill him with an army and be done with it. I've never had that many assassins in one place; their upkeep will be similar to that of a small army.

I'd just swept a huge mass of agents across Gaul and into the Iberian peninsula assassinating my enemies and paving the way for my Northern army to come south to the Pyrenees. They were all on the way to the boats (to head to Greece) that had just dropped off my reinforcing army from North Africa when I stumbled across him.

And he was about 60 or thereabouts, so natural causes is a distinct possibility.

[Vympel]

I hardly ever assasinate. My generals are all Germanicus' impersonators- find the enemy chief, kill him in battle- personally, if possible. Nothing is more satisfying than watching the commander get thrown from his horse and being trampled underfoot.

[weemadando]

I hardly ever assasinate. My generals are all Germanicus' impersonators- find the enemy chief, kill him in battle- personally, if possible. Nothing is more satisfying than watching the commander get thrown from his horse and being trampled underfoot.

I was actually hoping to take out a lot of the Spaniards more powerful generals (they had been fucking owning the Brutii who tried to move into Iberia and were pulling out as I attacked) so that my glorious armies could easily breeze through making me seem far better and having the Brutii lose yet more face (they have about 5 territories left and noone has actually paid any direct attention to them).

Assassination is also not nearly as rewarding as it was in Shogun where you got to watch your ninjas doing bad things to the enemy, but I must admit, watching an enemy general being crrushed by a massed cavalry charge is also good - but not as funny as when the enemy general is on foot and has 300 wardogs fighting over his body...