After about a year break from the game I am back to playing Rome. I have tried several of the mods available here and while I am interested in playing them I keep running into a series of oddities. I have tried several mods such as Cursus Honorum, Epigoni, Reign of the Ancients, and Lofman Little Mod (I think) and the these oddities keep happening. First I am only able to access one starting date which comes up as January 15, 163 BC which switches to Jan 1, 1 right away. At this date all countries have truces lasting until year 6. If I play as a republic the Senate has 0 members which prevents me from undertaking any foreign policy. If I play as Rome the standard historical characters that start the game such as Lucius Aemillius Barbula aren't available. At least in Cursus Honorum mod Consular elections do not happen me.
This all seems strange, and I have tried both 2.2 and 2.31 and while Vanilla functions fine the mods do this in both patches. I haven't seen any comments about this in the relevant threads, so I wonder if I am doing something wrong. Some of these, like not having historical characters are minor, but a non functioning Senate is an issue for me. Is there something I need to do to fix this, or is this what everyone experiences?
This all seems strange, and I have tried both 2.2 and 2.31 and while Vanilla functions fine the mods do this in both patches. I haven't seen any comments about this in the relevant threads, so I wonder if I am doing something wrong. Some of these, like not having historical characters are minor, but a non functioning Senate is an issue for me. Is there something I need to do to fix this, or is this what everyone experiences?
