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* [[Break Meter]]: Courage: Fierce, Good, Weak, and Panicked. Some enemies are easier since their maximum morale is lower.
* [[Break Meter]]: Courage: Fierce, Good, Weak, and Panicked. Some enemies are easier since their maximum morale is lower.
* [[Chariot Race]]: one of the mini-games
* [[Chariot Race]]: one of the mini-games
* [[Combat by Champion]]: The fleet battles are represented by the two flagships fighting. The trope is subverted, since winning the flagship battle can still cause the rest of your ships to be destroyed.
* [[Combat by Champion]]: The fleet battles are represented by the two flagships fighting. The trope is subverted, since winning the flagship battle can still cause the rest of your ships to be destroyed.
* [[A Commander Is You]]: And a leader of several historical field commanders, one per legion.
* [[A Commander Is You]]: And a leader of several historical field commanders, one per legion.
* [[Conscription]]: Legions are levied and reinforced locally, raising or strengthening one lowers the manpower of their current region and their initial courage depends on that of the habitants of the province where they are raised, it reaches the maximum eventually, thanks likely to some offscreen [[Boot Camp Episode|BootCampEpisodes]] going on.
* [[Conscription]]: Legions are levied and reinforced locally, raising or strengthening one lowers the manpower of their current region and their initial courage depends on that of the habitants of the province where they are raised, it reaches the maximum eventually, thanks likely to some offscreen [[Boot Camp Episode|BootCampEpisodes]] going on.
* [[Decapitated Army]]:
* [[Decapitated Army]]:
** The death of a general is followed by the general retreat of a significant part of his army. If the units aren not very brave to begin with then it overlaps with [[Keystone Army]].
** The death of a general is followed by the general retreat of a significant part of his army. If the units aren not very brave to begin with then it overlaps with [[Keystone Army]].
** If the player loses Italy, taxes are no longer collected in any province.
** If the player loses Italy, taxes are no longer collected in any province.
* [[Easy Communication]]: Averted, during battles you can only change the orders of the units who are within the leader's range of voice (and each leader has a different one.)
* [[Easy Communication]]: Averted, during battles you can only change the orders of the units who are within the leader's range of voice (and each leader has a different one.)
* [[Empty Promise]]: You can promise a certain tax setting during a negotiation and then set it at different level, with no real consequences.
* [[Empty Promise]]: You can promise a certain tax setting during a negotiation and then set it at different level, with no real consequences.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Check, you start as a ''Centurion'' and your task is to be a ''defender of Rome''. The Romans however had [[From a Certain Point of View|a particular view on the subject of defense]]; what a better way to defend a territory than to conquer all the ones around it, crushing any potential enemies... so they spiralled into known-world domination fairly quickly (The Mediterranean Sea was called ''Mare Nostrum'', [[Badass Boast|"this sea of ours"]]).
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Check, you start as a ''Centurion'' and your task is to be a ''defender of Rome''. The Romans however had [[From a Certain Point of View|a particular view on the subject of defense]]; what a better way to defend a territory than to conquer all the ones around it, crushing any potential enemies... so they spiralled into known-world domination fairly quickly (The Mediterranean Sea was called ''Mare Nostrum'', [[Badass Boast|"this sea of ours"]]).
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* [[Opening Narration]]: Romulus and Remus founded Rome [snip] and some years after that there you are, an ambitious young [[Title Drop|centurion]] sitting idly by the banks of the Tiber river, with a legion.
* [[Opening Narration]]: Romulus and Remus founded Rome [snip] and some years after that there you are, an ambitious young [[Title Drop|centurion]] sitting idly by the banks of the Tiber river, with a legion.
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: The player can attempt and seduce Cleopatra succesfully if certain conditions are met. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkS-FT8vV0 The scene] is implemented as a special form of diplomatic bargain and ends with a [[Sexy Discretion Shot]].
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: The player can attempt and seduce Cleopatra succesfully if certain conditions are met. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkS-FT8vV0 The scene] is implemented as a special form of diplomatic bargain and ends with a [[Sexy Discretion Shot]].
* [[Permanent Elected Official]]:
* [[Permanent Elected Official]]:
** You, the game spans decades and centuries but you are an inmortal Roman magistrate, with a better rank as time passes and you progress.
** You, the game spans decades and centuries but you are an inmortal Roman magistrate, with a better rank as time passes and you progress.
** The political leaders of the other nations are permanent, too. Hannibal will greet you at the gates of Carthage no matter in what century you pay him a visit.
** The political leaders of the other nations are permanent, too. Hannibal will greet you at the gates of Carthage no matter in what century you pay him a visit.
** The Roman generals hang on in there too until they are killed in battle.
** The Roman generals hang on in there too until they are killed in battle.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: You start as a simple Centurion with a simple legion and end up as [[The Emperor|Caesar]] when you win the game.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: You start as a simple Centurion with a simple legion and end up as [[The Emperor|Caesar]] when you win the game.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: The legions can plunder a province for a one-time bounty. It makes the province poorer for the rest of the game.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: The legions can plunder a province for a one-time bounty. It makes the province poorer for the rest of the game.
* [[Risk Style Map]]
* [[Risk-Style Map]]
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Panicked units make a 180 degree turn and leave the battlefield. A lot of units panick when their leader is killed so massive routs are common.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Panicked units make a 180 degree turn and leave the battlefield. A lot of units panick when their leader is killed so massive routs are common.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The chariot races to [[Ben-Hur]] and there are some to [[Cleopatra]] (she looks exactly like [[Elizabeth Taylor]]) and to [[Spartacus]], among many others concerning classical antiquity.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The chariot races to [[Ben-Hur]] and there are some to [[Cleopatra]] (she looks exactly like [[Elizabeth Taylor]]) and to [[Spartacus]], among many others concerning classical antiquity.
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To [[Defender of the Crown]]. And the [[Total War]] series could be considered this to Centurion, since they share a lot of concepts and gameplay.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To [[Defender of the Crown]]. And the [[Total War]] series could be considered this to Centurion, since they share a lot of concepts and gameplay.
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of the game.
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of the game.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]:
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]:
** Plundering an occupated nation makes its romanization progress slower and makes other free nations reluctant to sign an alliance with you.
** Plundering an occupated nation makes its romanization progress slower and makes other free nations reluctant to sign an alliance with you.
** Outrageous taxes often lead to popular uprisings.
** Outrageous taxes often lead to popular uprisings.
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