New Game?

[mercenarius]

First off, thanks for your kind words! And thank you for purchasing "my"games. I have to say that Glenn Drover is primarily responsible for the design of the "Victory & Glory" games. I did have some input, but Glenn deserves the lion's share of the credit.

You wrote:

Well I maybe on the final years of my life, but this will be glorious!

That is a lot of live up to! I'll do my best, of course.

Now I said that I was done with logistics, but that is not completely true. I decided that an army which fortifies a position will stay in that fortified state until it actively relinquishes it. This necessitates a small change in the army's Operational Command menu:

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Armies in fortified positions will be able to receive regular supply deliveries just as garrisons do and they can function as supply points. It will cost more money, however, than using an established city, fortress, or Vallum which has access to good transport. I haven't programmed this last thing, yet. I hope to do that this week.

The Ops Command dialog for "breaking down" the fortified camp is pretty simple:

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The "option" here will allow the player to convert any supply units in that army into food stores in friendly garrisons. This is more efficient for - you guessed it! - logistics support in general. In the case shown above, the player doesn't have any friendly garrisons in the province because this is a case of the Romans establishing a toehold in Dacia, as it were.

I'll post a little bit more about this tomorrow, with an extra screenshot or two.

[mercenarius]

OK, so "tomorrow" was about a week long.

I have coded the Ops Command for issuing a Donativum in the field. When the Ops Command is used, the Emperor's current force (only) is paid. For an army-wide distribution, the Administrative Interface must be used.

Here is a screenshot of the relevant dialog in action:

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This is taken from the Marcus Aurelius scenario. The recommended value for the donative will probably need a little tweaking. The Historia Augusta claims that Marcus actually gave 20,000 sesterces or 5,000 denarii to each member of the Praetorian guard. That is a somewhat difficult to believe, but that's what it says. Cassius Dio attests this figure independently (or, more probably, was the source for the HA) and also provides a figure of 675,000,000 denarii being left to Marcus upon the death of Antoninus Pius.

Well, I haven't adjusted the treasury in that scenario, yet. That gives me the opportunity to introduce the Deficit Spending warning. Here is an example if the player does specify a donative of 5,000 in this case:

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I'll try to post some more screenshots by next weekend. And I'll have to fish or cut bait about the monetary figures given by Cassius Dio.