Being a great fan of the Romans this is not something you might expect. Nevertheless I feel the imperial reforms must be removed. I will explain why.
EB2 will have about 10 new factions. These factions need troops. Every troop takes a unit slot. The unit limit has however not risen at the same ratio as the faction limit has. The Romans have 4 reforms and therefor use up a large amount of the unit limit. By removing the imperial reforms 7 unit slots are freed.
-Imperial legionary cohort
-Praetorian cohort
-Praetorian cavalry
-Western auxillia
-Eastern auxillia
-Cavalry auxillia
-Archer auxillia
These slots can then be used to create new interesting units for the new factions.
A second reason is that these troops are not necessary. The Imperial legionary cohort is basicly the same is the republic one. The Praetorians can only be recruited in Rome anyway. 2 Slots for a bodyguard is quite expensive. The auxillia can be replaced by local troops, gallic cavalry auxilla, syrian archers etc.
The third reason is that the reforms happend at the end of the timeframe and it also assumes that the transition from republic to empire was inevitable. With major reforms the republic might have survived.
The fourth and last reason is that only a few people reach these reforms.
I hope I won't be lynched for this.
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