Just for the record...

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who all reading this is terrified that we're going to go to war with Iran by the end of March?

Also, for the Rome game:
I'm thinking of introducing a rule to model the veto power over laws possessed by the 10 tribunes of the plebs. My plan is to give each faction 1 tribune, each of whom can veto a law or candidate once. You can veto a veto, but that uses up your veto as well. Hopefully, this should provide for canny strategizing and not silliness? (In actual history, the tribunes could veto as often as they wanted, but this seems likely to lead to disaster.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't know... were the Tribunes actually typically controlled by Senatorial factions? If not, then I would suggest that you reserve that as part of the "gameworld" that you control. If they want to get a veto, they can engage in demagoguery to try to accomplish their goals. And if they do something that the Tribunes would veto (in your judgment), then they face a veto and have to either bring the Tribunes around or deal.

The danger is it being a mechanic which is fun and interesting but bears little resemblance to the actual way Roman politics worked. (If the Tribunes were typically in the pocket of one faction or another, then never mind.)

--Adam

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Tribunes were typically owned by a faction or political leader in this period.