Roman Palace

[Gunzak]

Is it really worthwhile to wait till Rome has palaces before invading? My current units I can produce in my homeland are already very good and with large numbers of cavalry I should have no problems with crushing the Romans or any of the barbarians north or west of her. I am debating whether to strike Rome while they are weak and quickly overrun Italy or hold off another 30 years which might make them a much more formidable foe.

I am playing as Macedon on Hard/Med.

[Poulp']

you're talking about the hard coded marian reform, right ?
from what I recall, only Baktria and another faction I don't remember (not SPQR) benefit from it.

edit
excerpt from EB faq
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=84854

Other Reforms:
All other factional reform units are tied to the "March or Time" event (Vanilla Marian Reform) which requires the Romans to build a huge city in central Italy to trigger. This is just an arbitrary time delay.
that's all there is about it in the faq
it's kind of frustating though because I know I'm overlooking something and I can't tell what it is.

By the way
it's fortunate I had a link to the FAQ because I couldn't find the thread manually.

[thelord]

I think Macedonia gets their reformed phalanxes after the vanilla marians?

[Rodrico Stak]

And don't all factions get their reformed bodyguards after them?

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I think Seleukides get Kataphraktoi if not played by the player.

[Fondor_Yards]

Greeks get a pike unit, macedon gets a new quasi elite pike unit with decently wide recruitment, Pontus, Hai, Parthians, Saka, and Baktria get their late generals, rome gets a few new ships, and I think that's it.