Politics and the Family Tree (TWR2)

Overview: Politics and the Family Tree

In Rome 2 the player's faction includes a ruling party and one or more rival parties.

You can see an overview of the ruling party and rival parties by selecting your faction symbol in the central lower part of the screen, then selecting the Politics tab.

Ruling and Rival Parties

The ruling and rival parties affect various aspects of the game, such as:

• The generals and admirals that you can recruit.
• The influence of your ruling party, providing bonuses or penalties to your research rate, public order, tax rate and unit morale .
• The prosperity of your settlements on the campaign map (they receive a bonus if they are controlled by a loyal party).
• The roles of women in your society (women in some Cultural Groups cannot be faction leaders or military commanders).
• The percentage chance of a secession or civil war happening in each turn (determined by the loyalty of each rival party).

Your Ruling Party

If you select your faction symbol in the central lower part of the screen and then select the Characters tab, you can see the members of your ruling party in your family tree, any members of your ruling party who are not members of the ruling family (in the 'Other Nobles' column on the right hand side) and members of rival parties (on the left hand side).

On the Characters tab, you can select one of your characters and choose a political action, such as 'seek spouse' (to marry them to another character in the same party) or 'political marriage' (to marry a member of your ruling party to a member of a rival party, to strengthen the rival party's loyalty. You can use these political actions to expand your ruling party and rival parties, using the 'Hire Noble' button in the top left corner.

When you hire a new member of your ruling party, they appear in the 'Other Nobles' column on the right hand side. You may have a character in your ruling family who can adopt this new member into your family. Adoption moves the new member into your family tree. This enables the new character to get married and have children, expanding your ruling dynasty and providing your pool of candidates for generals and admirals in future, when the children reach adulthood.