Legionary Cavalry

[PaladinUSA]

I looked around, but didn't see this posted yet.

I started a new campaign as the Scipii, and managed to take Carthage without much trouble within a few years. Having occupied the city, I can build Equities and Legionary Cavalry, but no Roman Cavalry. In my last campaign, the Legionary Cav was only available after the Reforms (as it should be, right?), but now I can build this unit, and it is only a few years into the game, way before the Reforms.

Seems like a bug to me. If so, I'll repost this in the bug forum. But if it isn't, can someone explain why I can build them now?

Is this a bug, or should I be able to build them?

[Quillan]

I suspect it's an oversight more than anything else. If you dig into the export_descr_buildings.txt file, you'll find the list of buildings and what is required for/provided by each. Legionary cavalry does not require the marian reforms, while the early and late legionary cohorts do. I think the legionary cavalry probably was supposed to require the reforms, but it wasn't put into the file. Personally, I've added it to the file so I can't build them until after the reforms.

[PaladinUSA]

Amazing that wasn't caught during testing...I can understand certain difficult to reproduce bugs not being caught, but not something like that. At least the fix is easy.

[Jagger]

Actually I am not surprised at all. There are so many changes in that mod. And testing takes so much time. I am not surprised nor irritated at all. They are only human and they aren't being paid to create it.

It is a great mod.

[Oaty]

It's not too much of a difference to me as I have about as many of them as I do triarii before the reforms. And if your not playing as the Scipii they're almost guaranteed to beat you to the imperial palace.

[Dorkus]

doubt this is a bug. they're listed as pm units in the tech tree included in the game.

arguably makes the hippodrome too good (given the nice order bonuses races provide)

[KyodaiSteeleye]

On a similar note - I've found that by the time Marius comes along, i have the infrastructure to allow me to build early and late legionnary cohorts, so i have never built an early.

It would be better if late cohorts came in at a specific date, replacing the ability to build early cohorts.