Alright I was playing as the Bruti and had recently captured a city with a baltic circle to Epona, I was a little busy at the moment and decided to destroy the temple later. Then I returned to the building thing it turned out I could build a awsome temple to Horse. The city has been my hub for building calvery ever since.
I have heard that the romans were very opened minded to new gods (I think its a polytheistic thing) and would asimulate ideas and romanize it.
So I want to know is this the only god you can build outside of the norm with or can you romanize many gods. Also will towns with strong cultural idenitys asimulate faster with these temples?
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I know that the temples of one faction can be upgraded to the temple of another faction if both temples have identical bonuses, but I've never had an experience like that.
Yet another RTW player discovers the Temple of Horse.
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Lorentius Vadis Legionary
posted 27 September 2005 00:42
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I think the Romans were very practical when it came to permitting the worship of gods. Personally, I've never come across Epona---or I may have overlooked it.
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greasypig Legionary
posted 27 September 2005 01:08
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I don't know if I'm making a mistake by doing this but I never destroy enemy temples when I take a city.
That's because when I check the temple stats it says stuff like "Improves public order 15%, public order bonus due to law 10%" etc etc.
By doing this does it give me more of a culture penalty or does keeping the existing temples keep the people happier?
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Imperatorius Legionary
posted 27 September 2005 02:10
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Quote:
I think the Romans were very practical when it came to permitting the worship of gods. Personally, I've never come across Epona---or I may have overlooked it.
LoL or more likely it's an error/easter egg in the game. I've never had one myself, but I've read that it gives insane bonuses to your men, like +5 xp and other stuff. This probably wasn't historically inspired. lol
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Kaidonni Legionary
posted 27 September 2005 05:14
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Keeping anything of another culture can promote cultural differences in a settlement for a looooong time. It's best to build your own temples, it helps decrease cultural penalties. And your own archery ranges, etc. Though you may just want to wait until you get the next Government building, and then upgrade all the other buildings, rather than demolish and replace. Except for temples...I think you need to demolish those to build any of your own.
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posted 27 September 2005 06:12
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I don't know if there are any other temples where you can do that but if you come across a sacred circle to Epona make sure you don't destroy it because it will count as a Roman building anyway when you upgrade it to an awsome temple just like any other building.
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lars573 Legionary
posted 27 September 2005 09:57
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Quoted from Imperatorius:
LoL or more likely it's an error/easter egg in the game. I've never had one myself, but I've read that it gives insane bonuses to your men, like +5 xp and other stuff. This probably wasn't historically inspired. lol
Hardly an error, it might be an easter egg. It's simplely that levels 1-3 of the Temple of horse can only be built by the Spainish or Gallic factions but levels 4 and 5 can only be built by the Romans.
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nice dictator Legionary
posted 01 October 2005 23:11
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well supposedly Rome allowed the worship of other gods. Most conquered people were polytheistic and could adapt Roman gods too. Thats why Rome was so hard on the early Christians who refused Roman gods.
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yakcamkir Seraph Emeritus
posted 02 October 2005 06:50
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Yes, a Pantheon to Horse gives +5 Experience bonus. It is because Epona was the only Gallic god who was worshipped by the Romans. Most were equated with and replaced by the relevant Roman god (usually mars or Hermes).
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KaiserWinterfeldt Legionary
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posted 02 October 2005 06:56
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As the years moved on, the Romans gradually switched the worship from the native gods to their own, but when a territory was first conquered, they basically said, "We'll worship your gods too!" It made it easier to control the populace until loyalty could be established.
Yes, but Epona was worshipped throughout the whole empire. Rome took Epona as one of its own gods. Quite why, I don't know.
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samari_tycoon Legionary
posted 03 October 2005 18:03
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I think its quite simple, the romans had no horse goddess. She must had been popular with the roman calvery, and would spread fast.
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Although the Romans worshipped local gods to calm the people, only Epona spread back to Italy. The Roman god of horses was Neptune, as the Greek one was Poseidon (these ancient gods had the idea of multitasking long before any management company).
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samari_tycoon Legionary
posted 05 October 2005 16:12
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*slaps his head Oh I forgot him...
Only the good guys win... Not because they nice but because they get to write it down in the books.
I never did pull that trick off but man, I sure did want to. Can you imagine pumping out units with +5 experience, and silver weapons/armour?
You can leave temples of a different culture up if the public order bonus is large enough. Eventually you should replace them with your own unless you keep theirs for bonuses you cannot get. (such as experience for the julii)
Temples don't do any more for culture penalties than regular buildings. Culture penalties are based on the culture of all buildings.
shadowarmy Legionary
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posted 05 October 2005 19:15
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Themistocles472 Once in RTW I was the Bruti and I made a large egyptian temple of Osirus or somethin into a awsome temple of Juno.
yakcamkir Seraph Emeritus
posted 07 October 2005 09:08
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If you have a quick peek at the bottom of descr_buildings.txt, you will find that there are various types of temple. Each temple can be built by one or more factions, and it is just renamed according to culture. Osiris and Juno are the same temple (Health if I recall correctly).
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samari_tycoon Legionary
posted 07 October 2005 17:49
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I thought Ihmotep was the egyption god health he was a great docter when he was alive...
Only the good guys win... Not because they nice but because they get to write it down in the books.
yak is correct. A lot of temple types are the same, just renamed and maybe with slightly different bonuses in different factions. War, love, law, etc. There were soem very informative posts by people such as dad_savage awhile back on this.
It's worth checking building browsers when you take settlements tos ee if you can eventually do a direct upgrade from their temple building to one of your own.
The culture penatly is determined, mostly (i get confused on this) by the buliding types. When you mouse over them after clicking the city tab it will tell you what culture they are (if they are different). IIRC the temple buildings are no worse than any other.
This changes with religion in barbarian invasion, BTW.