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{{Faction|image=[[Image:Senate_Faction_Symbol-Vanilla.png]]|Name='''Senate'''|Game=[[Rome: Total War]]|Culture=[[Roman]]}}
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=Overview=
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The Senate faction (also known as SPQR) is an unplayable faction in [[Rome: Total War]].
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The Senate faction is relatively immobile and acts as guardian of the Latium region and the city of Rome. They have comparatively strong units and provide a good defence for Rome in the early stages of the game.
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When the Senate faction is present in the game the other Roman factions will receive Senate Missions, have Senate Standing ratings and Senate Offices.
  
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==Overview==
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When the player has been manually modified via the [[descr_strat]] file, it's role in the Roman Policy is disabled. Senate missions are disabled, there are no Senate officers, and there is no Senate popularity standing. The Senate can be attacked by the other Romans when controlled by the player, and usually is within a couple of turns. Also, if you try to access the Senate Screen, the game will automatically crash to desktop.
  
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The Senate faction (also known as SPQR) is an unplayable faction in the [[vanilla]] [[Rome: Total War]] game.
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On another note, the Senate cannot build temples, but settlements controlled by the Senate faction will never revolt, no matter how low the public order. Additionally they will not be destroyed even when no male family member is alive; the only way to destroy them is to conquer their regions.
  
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The Senate faction is relatively immobile and acts as guardian of the Rome region, they have comparatively strong units and provide a good defence for Rome in the early stages of the game.
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==Starting Position==
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The Senate begin with control over the city of Rome and no other settlements.
  
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When the Senate faction is present in the game the other Roman factions will receive [[senate missions]], have [[senate standing]] ratings and [[senate offices]].
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==Victory Conditions==
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To win with the Senate faction you must conquer every single region.
  
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==History==
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==Senate Units==
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The S.P.Q.R. faction acts as protector of Latium, the region where Rome is situated and as lord of the other 3 Roman factions, giving them missions and influencing them in several ways: the missions itself and the result of these missions, completion will earn you the Senate's gratitude and nice rewards in the form of games, Senate offices (making the Roman faction more powerful) or denarii. However, if missions are not completed the particular Roman faction will become hated by S.P.Q.R. and in extreme cases war may be declared on the Roman faction not completing the missions.
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The Roman factions all have a very strong roster. Before the Marian Reforms they are an Infantry focused faction with limited cavalry and some archer and javelin support along with strong siege weapons. They have good infantry armed with big shields, Pila, which are heavy javelins, and a gladius, a short sword. They also get a strong Spear unit, the Triarii.
  
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S.P.Q.R. are mostly among the richest factions in the game despite controlling only one region and Rome's riches are mostly in minus.
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The Marian Reforms happen when a Roman faction controls a Huge City somewhere in Italy besides Rome. After the reforms they lose access to their old roster and get a heavily improved new roster. Any older units will not be automatically replaced, they will continue to exist, but you are not able to train any more or retrain them. After the Reforms they are still Infantry focused, but have much better core and support troops. Their late roster has extremely strong heavy infantry, among the best in the game, units such as Legionary Cohort, Praetorian Cohort and Urban Cohort. These men can overpower virtually any infantry opposition, and can form a tourtoise formation that makes them practically immune to arrow fire. They also have some excellent cavalry options that are only defeated by the ultra heavy Cataphract Cavalry from the East. Both their light cavalry and heavy cavalry are very strong. They get a very solid long range archer unit as well, the Archer Auxilia. Their only weaknesses are that their Spearmen, Auxilia, are not the best by a longshot and that they have limited ranged cavalry, only Cavalry Auxilia who are armed with javelins. Despite these slight drawbacks the Romans after the Marian Reforms are certainly one of the strongest rosters in the game.
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Also, Rome's public order is generally low when under S.P.Q.R. lordship, always between 45 % and 95 % to 100% in rare cases.
 
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S.P.Q.R. control the strongest units in the game combined with good generals and leaders creating an impenetrable defence for Rome in the early stages of the game. They are soon surpassed in military power by the other factions but because of the strong alliance with the other Roman factions, they are almost never under threat from other factions. Enemies may send small armies by fleet but they are always destroyed. The only enemies that enter Latium by land are the Rebels and in extreme cases, either the barbarians or the Greeks destroy the Julii and become neighbours with the Senate.
 
  
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If S.P.Q.R. gets destroyed, it is generally by a Roman faction when the Civil War starts. Mostly The Senate stand their ground for long and it requires certain skill to wipe them from the map in one move.
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In multiplayer battles the Romans can mix pre-Marian and post-Marian troops at will.
  
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Generally S.P.Q.R. only fights when an enemy army enters Latium (also iduring the Civil War) and despite having a port (and later a shipwright and a dockyard) they have no naval power as they never create any fleets.
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[[Image:Generals Bodyguard Senate.jpg|right|thumb|Senate General's Bodyguard.]]
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Rome is also the only place were Legionary First Cohorts can be trained, giving S.P.Q.R. command of the strongest unit in the game as said earlier. Their generals are also more than decent, for example Marcus Maxentius who mostly becomes an eight to nine star general.
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*Pre-Marian Units
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**Infantry
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***[[Peasants]]
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***[[Town_Watch_(RTW_unit) |Town Watch]]
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***[[Hastati_(RTW_unit) |Hastati]]
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***[[Principes_(RTW_Unit) |Principes]]
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***[[Triarii_(RTW_unit) |Triarii]]
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***[[Samnite_Gladiator_(RTW_unit) |Samnite Gladiators]]
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**Missile
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***[[Velites (RTW Unit) |Velites]]
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***[[Roman Archers (RTW Unit)|Roman Archers]]
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***Ballistas
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***Scorpions
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***[[Onagers (RTW Unit) |Onagers]]
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***Heavy Onagers
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***Repeating Ballistas
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**Cavalry
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***Equites
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***Cavalry Auxilia
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**Special Units
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***Arcani
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***Wardogs
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***Incendiary Pigs
  
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They do use diplomats but mostly only have one, being Flavius Nepos in the early game.
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*Post-Marian Units
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Assassins never seem to be used by S.P.Q.R. ( only seldom they use assassins in the Civil War) and spies are also not common.
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**Infantry
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***[[Auxilia (RTW Unit) |Auxilia]]
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***[[Early Legionary Cohort (RTW Unit) |Early Legionary Cohort]]
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***[[Legionary Cohort (RTW Unit) |Legionary Cohort]]
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***Praetorian Guard
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***Urban Cohorts
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***[[Early Legionary First Cohort (RTW Unit) |Early Legionary First Cohort]]
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***Legionary First Cohort
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***Arcani
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**Missile
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***Light Auxilia
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***Archer Auxilia
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**Cavalry
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***[[Roman Cavalry (RTW Unit) |Roman Cavalry]]
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***Legionary Cavalry
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***Praetorian Cavalry
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***Armoured General's Bodyguard
  
 
==Modding the Senate==
 
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A set of files changing the internal name of the senate faction is available [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1340 here].
 
A set of files changing the internal name of the senate faction is available [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1340 here].
  
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==See Also==
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==Senate Details==
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*[[Factions in RTW]]
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For more details and information on the Senate faction, see the, [[Senate Details (RTW Faction)]] page.
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Latest revision as of 15:00, 26 October 2023

Senate (RTW Faction)
Senate Faction Symbol-Vanilla.png
Name: Senate
From Game: Rome: Total War
Culture: Roman
Playable:


Overview

The Senate faction (also known as SPQR) is an unplayable faction in Rome: Total War.

The Senate faction is relatively immobile and acts as guardian of the Latium region and the city of Rome. They have comparatively strong units and provide a good defence for Rome in the early stages of the game.

When the Senate faction is present in the game the other Roman factions will receive Senate Missions, have Senate Standing ratings and Senate Offices.

When the player has been manually modified via the descr_strat file, it's role in the Roman Policy is disabled. Senate missions are disabled, there are no Senate officers, and there is no Senate popularity standing. The Senate can be attacked by the other Romans when controlled by the player, and usually is within a couple of turns. Also, if you try to access the Senate Screen, the game will automatically crash to desktop.

On another note, the Senate cannot build temples, but settlements controlled by the Senate faction will never revolt, no matter how low the public order. Additionally they will not be destroyed even when no male family member is alive; the only way to destroy them is to conquer their regions.

Starting Position

The Senate begin with control over the city of Rome and no other settlements.

Victory Conditions

To win with the Senate faction you must conquer every single region.

Senate Units

The Roman factions all have a very strong roster. Before the Marian Reforms they are an Infantry focused faction with limited cavalry and some archer and javelin support along with strong siege weapons. They have good infantry armed with big shields, Pila, which are heavy javelins, and a gladius, a short sword. They also get a strong Spear unit, the Triarii.

The Marian Reforms happen when a Roman faction controls a Huge City somewhere in Italy besides Rome. After the reforms they lose access to their old roster and get a heavily improved new roster. Any older units will not be automatically replaced, they will continue to exist, but you are not able to train any more or retrain them. After the Reforms they are still Infantry focused, but have much better core and support troops. Their late roster has extremely strong heavy infantry, among the best in the game, units such as Legionary Cohort, Praetorian Cohort and Urban Cohort. These men can overpower virtually any infantry opposition, and can form a tourtoise formation that makes them practically immune to arrow fire. They also have some excellent cavalry options that are only defeated by the ultra heavy Cataphract Cavalry from the East. Both their light cavalry and heavy cavalry are very strong. They get a very solid long range archer unit as well, the Archer Auxilia. Their only weaknesses are that their Spearmen, Auxilia, are not the best by a longshot and that they have limited ranged cavalry, only Cavalry Auxilia who are armed with javelins. Despite these slight drawbacks the Romans after the Marian Reforms are certainly one of the strongest rosters in the game.

In multiplayer battles the Romans can mix pre-Marian and post-Marian troops at will.

Senate General's Bodyguard.

Modding the Senate

The internal name of the Senate faction is romans_senate The strong alliance between the Senate and the other Roman factions exists because of the superfaction romans_senate line in the other Roman factions sections of the descr_strat.txt file.

If that line is removed the alliance becomes a normal one that can be broken by any of the parties at any time. However that does not remove all the hard-coded attributes associated with the Senate faction. If you wish to play the Senate as a normal faction or mod them to represent another faction in RTW v1.5 you should change their internal name to something else. This has to be done in all the files the romans_senate name appear in. The apparent name can be left the same so instead of 

 {ROMANS_SENATE}					S.P.Q.R.

in expanded_bi.txt you have: 

 {NEW_NAME}					S.P.Q.R.

A set of files changing the internal name of the senate faction is available here.

Senate Details

For more details and information on the Senate faction, see the, Senate Details (RTW Faction) page.

RTW Factions
Armenia | Britannia | Carthage | Dacia | Egypt | Gaul | Germania | Greek Cities | The House of Brutii | The House of Julii | The House of Scipii | Macedon | Numidia | Parthia | Pontus | Scythia | Seleucid Empire | Senate | Spain | Thrace | Rebels
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