I had already typed this, but it's a good response to your post.
It's actually interesting just how much homework the Devs did on Rome. The Garlean Empire matches up so perfectly with most of it.
Event their penchant for dramatic statements like crashing moons into things and Razing nations (Doma).
Rome was a giant empire, but every province was run almost as a separate country. The Empire did not have the resources to do policing work, or to remove rebels and such. They only had that sort of control inside Italy. In the provinces the governors really only had one authority, and all other power stemmed from that.
They could control the Legions.
So often the Roman's wouldn't worry so much about small scale stuff, since it wasn't worth sending a Legion after. Then once it would get big enough they'd wreck everything, burn what's left, and piss on the ashes. The Roman's crucified people because it was a symbol. They would often crucify people all along an entire roadway for tens of miles, one particularly gruesome case had 6000 people along 100 miles of road.
The romans did this, just to make a point. Anyone who traveled that road (which took days) would be surrounded by dying and tortured people the whole time. Think of all the resources it takes to do something like that, and the Romans did it just to make a point.
If they could have crashed a moon into Carthage, trust me, they would have.
It's actually interesting just how much homework the Devs did on Rome. The Garlean Empire matches up so perfectly with most of it.
Event their penchant for dramatic statements like crashing moons into things and Razing nations (Doma).
Rome was a giant empire, but every province was run almost as a separate country. The Empire did not have the resources to do policing work, or to remove rebels and such. They only had that sort of control inside Italy. In the provinces the governors really only had one authority, and all other power stemmed from that.
They could control the Legions.
So often the Roman's wouldn't worry so much about small scale stuff, since it wasn't worth sending a Legion after. Then once it would get big enough they'd wreck everything, burn what's left, and piss on the ashes. The Roman's crucified people because it was a symbol. They would often crucify people all along an entire roadway for tens of miles, one particularly gruesome case had 6000 people along 100 miles of road.
The romans did this, just to make a point. Anyone who traveled that road (which took days) would be surrounded by dying and tortured people the whole time. Think of all the resources it takes to do something like that, and the Romans did it just to make a point.
If they could have crashed a moon into Carthage, trust me, they would have.
