Hints (Rome)

This page is for displaying all hints displayed at loading screen in the game Expeditions: Rome. They explain game mechanics, provide information about the Latin language, Roman society and historical information on which the game is based.

## List of hints

* Morale and approval: The initial Morale and of your Praetorians at the start of combat is determined by their approval of you.
* Untrained enemies: militia and untrained civilians have the Untrained status effect. Killing them will restore your action point. Try to always land the killing blow with someone who still have an unused amount of skill to spend that action point on after the kill.
* Vocative in Latin: In Latin, nouns and names change dpening whether you are talking tabout a person or to that person. For example, when talking to a Legatus, you would call him Legate.
* Mithridatism: Mithridatism is the practice of protecting onself against posions by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts.
* The Ladder of offices: the typical career of senator began as a quastor, led through the position Praetor, and ended for some with Consul.
* Shield strength will not regenerate while character is stunned or knocked down.
* Every year, two Consuls were elected to rule Rome side by side.
* Rations: Make sure to keep your rations well stocked while travelling, as your praetorions respond poorly to starvation.
* Gladiators for hire: In Rome, gladiators were commonly employed by wealthy people as guards to protect their lives or as thugs to intimidate their political opponents.
* Take your time: War can take years. There is no time limit, so go ahead and take as much time time as you'd like to explore the worldmap, craft items and talk to people. What kind of terrible designed game would put a time limit on that?
* Injury deterioration: Keep a close eye on the health of your Praetorians while you travel. Untreated injuries may deterioarate and ultimately kill a character.
* Codex: Need a refresher? Check out the codex in the main menu to re-read any of the tutorials, consult a full list of all Status effects in the game or perusethe glossary of esoteric terms.
* The Three Names: A Roman's fisr name is used by his closest friends, his middle names is his family name and his last name is a sort of nickname commonly used by others.
* The Marian Legion: A Roman legion consists of 48fighting men and 1200 servants, divided into 10 cohorts of 6 centuria each
* Absolutely barbaric: Barbarian originally meant anyone who does not speak Greek. However, when Romans adopted the term, it came to mean anyone who doesn't isn't Roman or Greek.
* Mutiny. Your praetorions may leave your party if their Approval drops too low. Your closest companions will never leave.

## Trivia

The hint: "Take your time: War can take years. There is no time limit, so go ahead and take as much time time as you'd like to explore the world map, craft items and talk to people. What kind of terrible designed game would put a time limit on that?" is an inside joke towards the predecessing game Expeditions: Viking, in which the campaigns in the first and second act have a time limit for a certain in-game days. Some players complained about the time limits being short.