Senate

In Warbirth, most buildings have either limited LOS, or do not have any LOS at all. Aside from Sentry Posts (which have limited LOS) and Forts and Keeps (which have a low but upgradeable LOS) the Senate has extensive LOS which can be increased with each Culture level researched from the Library. Thus placement of your Senate, in addition to setting your capital, also has strategic implications too: you want to place your Senate down in an area which can't be easily attacked, yet has a location that is central enough to oversee your nation's territory.

Unlike the vanilla version of Rise of Nations and other mods, only 3 patriots may be spawned from the Senate:

• Green: only one, the Elder.
• Red: Strongman,

Legislative policies

NAME	GENERAL INFO	COSTS	LEADS TO
Authoritarianism	"Obey the commands of your superiors — you, you deserter, rank coward; you count for nothing, neither in war nor council!" Access to the Strongman patriot. Cheaper infantry production and upgrade cost	Resource cost:  : 300  : 160	Prerequisite for training late-game mainstream cavalry and spearmen (UUs don't get this debuff).
Tribal Confederacy	"They laid their hands upon the land as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting: 'Our plans will succeed!'" Access to the Peer patriot Increases Commerce Limit	Resource cost: : 250 : 150

Social policies

NAME	GENERAL INFO	COSTS	LEADS TO
Polyarchy	"Everyone is equal before the law." Cheaper research Access to Captains	Resource cost: : 450 : 250
Aristocracy	"When they divided Purusa how many portions did they make? What do they call his mouth, his arms? What do they call his thighs and feet?" Cheaper cavalry production and upgrade cost Access to the Warlord.	Resource cost:  : 600  : 300	Keep (upgrade of Tower)

Political policies

NAME	GENERAL INFO	COSTS	LEADS TO
Commonwealth	"The bad and good alike in honor share. " Dock and Siege Workshop units have decreased cost and build time. (Not available for .)	Resource cost: : 800 : 450
Monarchy	"Our brave king will endure no ill, / The hawks with him will get their fill." Access to the Monarch. Unlocks Tier 3 Taxation and Religion. Required for Heavy Chariots, and access to 3 new Wonders - Royal Palace, Necropolis Complex, Ramesseum (Not available for .)	Resource cost:  : 800  : 600

Unlike other mods, no Age techs are required to access Government upgrades.

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Notes

Probably a massive square building, very much like a ..... palace? dunno. But it definitely should be an enclosure of some sort. Perhaps it can be based off the Asian Meeting House of Kings & Conquerors. A porticoed antechamber, with seats at the back.

• Egyptian - reuse K & C
• European - ruse K & C. Probably used for Indo-Aryan version too.
• Akkadian -0 a tall square enclosure with colonnades within, and a whitewashed brick wall without. The Palaace upgrade is reminiscent of the Ishtar Gate.
• Finished.
  • Chinese. square enclosure, with 2 huts and a gateway. There is a Ding, and a gong.
  • Aegean

Patriot design:

Only 2 patriots are available: Green ones, and red ones. There is little to no variation between one or the other.

• Chinese: Green guy is carried on a sedan chair, but red guy is a king who drives chariots with an umbrella man.
• Egyptian (ARab and Egyptian and carried over for Alexander):
  • same as K & C / Age of Empires, but the woman charioteer and her Arab escorts are replaced with more authentic units - they wear heavy armour but the driver IS the woman from KC.
  • black slaves carry the woman / priest.
• Akkadian (includes Hittites)
  • Uses the Egyptian chariot patriot for the green guy but uses vanilla RoN Darius for red patriots.
• European (Celts, Indians, Iranians, Germans - carried over for Alexnder)
  • Green patriot is probably shared with Greece, but the red guy is a Celtiberian Warlord from KC with 1 Hattic standard bearer and 1 Botroas swordsman.

Three special versions still need creation:

• Malay - Green1 is 2 women, on an elephant; one of them carries an ankus, the other a Vietnamese flag.
• Native American (how?) - Green 1 walks on foot, but Red guys ride sedan chairs.

What about Alexander?

Cultures:

• Germanic / Celtic / Dacian: See above.
• Black African - possibly a variant of Egypt
• Akkadian/Persian/Indian - the green dude walks and is Achaemenid in apperance. Escorted by Greek mercs. Note that the general of the Indians drives an elephant like the Nubians.
• Greek, Mediterranean - Greek popularis with Macedonian bodyguards. But the red guy is the Greek military turant of KC.
• Egyptian/Arab (again!) - see Warbirth.
• Kushan/Sarmatian - unknown. Most likely a derivative of Age of Empires Indian factions.

What about captains?

• For Age of Chariots and Hammurabi, they are usually on foot. Otherwise.....
• Chariot-borne: Only Egyptian, Arabs drive them.
• Elephant: Indian, Nubian one is elephant-borne.
• Horseborne: all other factions.