#expeditions: rome

[rpgchoices]

Welcome to the pre-poll for the Bracket Tournament poll for "Favorite RPG romance", this one for female characters.

I decided to separate them as often male characters are more popular here on tumblr, and after asking on a poll here on tumblr, the majority of people voted to separate. It also made me realize that there are no genderqueer or non binary romances in rpgs?? none that I could find? So for now, I separated in two categories of characters who uses he/him and she/her (the Asari for example, all use she/her and that is their one and only gender).

I had 80 names so I had to reduce the list a little bit to get to a sensible poll tournament! So the first Round Zero is the elimination of most of these names, which I randomized with a List randomizer. I did my best to add as many characters from rpgs and rpgs as I could remember, so apologies if I forgot anyone or made any mistakes! Given this is the initial round, you can still ask me to join specific characters.

The tournament itself will have 32 characters! So for this round Zero I will choose the TOP 4 characters of every single poll. For example, in this specific poll post I will choose the first 4 characters for the tournament, same for the next etc etc. And then the 32 characters will all end up in a tournament!

*sorry I mispelled MINTHARA!

Here is the link for Round Zero, which is just a selection of the top 4 characters for each poll! Because of this all the selections are happening at the same time:

Poll 1/8

Poll 2/8

Poll 3/8

Poll 4/8

Poll 5/8

Poll 6/8

Poll 7/8

Poll 8/8

Or you can click at this tag for all the parts

If some characters end up with the same amount of votes (ex. characterA and B are the cleat top2 characters in the poll, but then there are other 4 characters with the same amount of %) then I will do a quick one day poll to choose among them!

[nulfaga]

painted miss macula over one of the female portraits (very roughly, i'll see if i have the patience to refine her). expeditions... why are you so incredibly difficult to mod. and to unpack. anyways the original's under the cut

i changed. one or two things as you can tell lol. also version w/o the birthmark because i like how i rendered that cheek:

[heroineimages]

Army-Camp Management Sim?

So I was fiddling with Expeditions: Rome for the first time in a while, and thinking about how while the legion-management features are interesting, they're also super limited. I mean, you can upgrade the camp, recruit officers and legionaries, tell them where to march to, and give orders in battle, and that's about it. And it got me wondering, what would it be like to make a full army-camp simulator? (Screencaps taken from Expeditions: Rome)

I've seen city-builders that kind of do this with the Romans, but what about playing as a legatus managing a full legion and auxiliaries along the Rhine or the Danube or Hadrian's Wall or the borders with Kush or Parthia? Or being in charge of keeping the peace between Iberian tribes in Roman Spain or between the Egyptians and Greeks in Roman Alexandria? (I can even see Spain as kind of a tutorial campaign while the Rhine and Parthian frontiers are hard-mode.)

Players could be responsible for maintaining troop morale, maintaining and upgrading the camp and local defenses, training soldiers, recruiting officers, procuring equipment and materiel, creating and maintaining supply lines, managing relations with the locals, carrying out the emperor's orders, recruiting local auxiliaries or requesting legionaries from the consul, playing local and imperial politics, assigning troops to missions (patrols, raids, reconnaissance, escort duty, shake-downs, etc), and even drawing in camp-followers (merchants, tradesmen, entertainers, prostitutes).

And it doesn't have to be just the Romans. I can see it working for just about any professional or semi-professional army throughout history. Anyway, that's my thoughts. Feel free to chime in with your own ideas!

[luxecoffin]

YCH commission for @mybookswerealltome!

interested in a similar piece? check out this post for more information.

[mariko-was-here]

Expeditions: Vikings and Expeditions: Rome are super underrated Games. I’m so in love with this series right now. Really didn’t expect this!

[mistresstrevelyan]

“You have reincarnated as a cat.” has to be the funniest Game Over screen EVER!

[fandom-geek]

ngl i've been kinda surprised by the lack of veilguard stuff i've seen on my dash since it released - i've very thoroughly given up on it, but even ppl who seemed hyped about it have largely just... not been posting abt veilguard at all.

then i looked in the da critical tag and, uh, yeah. i can understand why. it's not an actively bad game, but it sounds to be very... shallow and mcu-ified? i'll admit i had basically given up on veilguard, but i did kinda want bioware to prove me wrong. not that i would've bought it anyway given the way they've treated their company veterans. it's just such a shame.

[vihola]

That's the best game over I have ever seen, I'm tempted not to reload

[vitanithepure]

Oh, come on... on the day of Void Shadows I get an email that GreedFall II is out in EA?

And I started playing BG3 again to give Gale the evil ending he deserves? And kinda have a Expeditions: Rome game going...? And Veilguard is just around the corner?

[ancient-rome-au]

The Vanilla Expedition

[sforzesco]

Do you think Pompey (and potentially Cassius) had anything to do with Ariamnes' misleading of Crassus?

not really as far as pompey goes, maybe a little bit for cassius! there’s some textual conflict about the role of ariamnes in the expedition & to me it feels a more like it came from a pro-cassius account, potentially from cassius himself, to further cement the narrative that the expedition was doomed every step of the way and to paint cassius’ own role in a positive light, probably in part to justify or absolve him of the fact that cassisus deserted his commander (when he split off from octavius and crassus in plutarch’s account. regardless of whether or not this was planned between the surviving commanders or not, it looks bad, and in plutarch’s narrative, it is desertion, no matter what justifications were given)

[rpgchoices]

The top 4 characters will get into the tournament!

Post 1 here for more explanation and info.

all parts at this tag

[nulfaga]

getting up at gallicinium.... ugh. neither of them are morning people. caeso just suffers it more gracefully.

[firestorm717]

@heroineimages: I agree that the romance options for a female legatus are... lacking. I prefer to romance male characters, and the choices are Caeso and Bestia with Cato as an optional third. Cut for spoilers:

Caeso's side quest is a whole bunch of baby-mama drama, which is the opposite of romantic. I have no idea who thought it would be a great plotline. On my first playthrough, I was a complete bitch to the slave girl and yet Caeso was still like uwu but maybe that's my daughter?? Oh, STFU you big himbo.

Bestia is... Bestia. I always roleplay my PC's as polite and diplomatic, so they don't jive personality-wise with Bestia, hence why I haven't romanced him yet.

And then of course there's Cato, who you already summed up in your post >_>. Cato was totally tagged on at the end of development, cause the writers were like, "oh shit! how do we solve the whole women can't own property thing??" and, as you said, chose the most boring-ass politician to propose a political marriage. Like I barely had any interaction with Cato (whereas the whole Act 2 storyline involves Cleopatra), disagreed with his moral principles at the dinner party, and here he is with a marriage ring. Do I accept or do I get kicked once more out of my own villa cause I lack a penis?

However, I don't know if the other Roman men of that period would have made a better romance partner ~_~ Cicero would have been entertaining, but certainly does not have the legatus's best interests at heart. Marc Antony was a total playboy. Julius Caesar with all his ambition would have turned the marriage into a power struggle, IMO... although I do have to admit, he was super cute at the beginning (I loved his fanfic journal! XD), and I was disappointed that he got written out of the narrative so quickly. My first time, I also didn't realize he had died during the ambush until Thermus mentioned it later.

So yeah, honestly I would have preferred if the writers had hand-waved some off-stage political marriage just to get the property rights issue out of the way, then let the female legatus have an affair with a hot non-Roman historical figure. I mean, Vercingetorix the sexy blonde Thor is RIGHT THERE, lol.

THQ Nordic just dropped a new game that has me salivating a little. If Expeditions: Rome builds off the game-play of Expeditions: Vikings as effectively as Vikings built off of Expeditions: Conquistadors, this could be a truly excellent game…

[lucrezianoin]

I... I love you, old man

[ruvviks]

10 and 25 for rome >:)

oc asks!

10) What fact do they excitedly tell everyone about at every opportunity?

rome is part of the group of people who discovered black holes! he's not one to brag about that but he loves talking about black holes in general, and discussing all his other theories. he's a walking encyclopedia in general but especially space facts will get tossed at your head all day if you're not careful

25) What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot?

rome's best friend at the academy, morris (red reaperkiller's blorbo), has an angel stuck in his computer and because of that talks about angels a lot. rome would've had a hard time believing him at first since he's a man of science, but rather than becoming a sceptic he always tries to prove things with logic and reason and this situation is no different from that

because of this, he has knowledge with which he can create many devices that could be used to detect the paranormal (since angels and demons and to an extent ghosts too have the same origins in this universe), as well as measure frequencies in the surroundings that can accurately predict an angel warning (kinda like how you can predict extreme weather; angel warnings are stuff like huge flocks of birds that can do a lot of damage, or a light anomaly getting tangled up in electrical cords, etc)

while it's not entirely useless to the universe itself, it IS useless to the direct plot since rome's field of expertise is space and he has entirely different things to worry about, with his sister judah having vanished in space first and foremost, but now also a crew returning from the moon with only three of the original crew members of which two barely function anymore and a cosmonaut from some other mission they saved from certain death from a russian spacecraft in the moon's orbit. he's busy!!!

the technology he could develop would be super handy for some other guys running around in this universe but they're all the way over in louisiana (around rome's hometown actually! but that still doesn't change the fact he is now in the state of washington very very far away with a moon crisis (it's not the moon) (they think it's the moon) (it's all connected to judah's disappearance from many years earlier) (they don't know this) (rome suspects it but wants to be wrong so bad because if he's right that means he will probably never see his sister again) (he's right))