Roman History Question

[Spike88]

I've been playing a lot of Rome Total War lately. My current campaign has me as the Julii's eradicating the Gauls. My main army is compromised of my faction leader, Flavius Julius, who has not lost a single battle so far. After his last battle I noticed that his name changed to Flavius Victor, I searched the internet to see if there was a reason for this and could not find a reason. Did his name change because he has never lost a battle or something else? And did this really happen in the Roman times?

This is a RTW thing, Vanilla RTW is extremely unhistorical, I wouldn't take much from it. RTW is known for giving names to generals like candy, It isn't hard to get a "Flavius the Great" if you try.

I recommend getting Europa Barbarorum.

I doubt victor was actually used, if you won a few great battles you'd probably sent home to Rome with your Legion and given a Triumph.

[Raptor1]

I doubt "Victor" would have been given (I don't know too much Latin, but I also doubt that is syntactically correct in either case), but the Romans did give victory titles to generals that did especially well. Probably the best example is that of Scipio Africanus, which got the Africanus after he crushed Hannibal in the Battle of Zama.

But these were mostly (all) referring to names of places, and such "Victor" is almost certainly unhistorical.

[rubenandthejets]

TW Rome Vanilla made me really angry with it's hsitorical "inaacuracies" i.e. it was a JOKE. New Kingdom Egytians fighting post Marius legionaires? Phalanx Germans? BAH!

The real clincher for me was a "slave revolt" in an overtaxed city that featured "oliphaunts" as in super oversized elephants.

Oh that's GREAT! What's next? F#CKING ZOMBIE DRAGONS??? Maybe they can ride around in the anacronistic chariots and fire ray runs too!

However, once I looked around for some mods, this game has become the single most frequently and most absorbing game that I play. Personally, being a big fan of the Hellenistic / Diadochi period I'm an Extended Greek Modified user.

And the moral to all this?

MODDERS ROCK !!!

[Stealth Hunter]

Don't forget the infamous flaming pigs.

[rubenandthejets]

The flaming pigs were REAL!

The Romans tried a buch of crazy stuff when Pyrrhus handed them their butts using elephants in 275 BCE (Livy tends to talk the Romans up a lot-they wouldn't have totally overhauled their millitary if they won as easily as he writes), including flaming pigs, wagons with swinging hooks and scythes and elephant sized caltrops.

Finally, after a little experience, light troops (velites, auxillia) sticking spears into an elephants' neather regions was found to be the best way to take them out.