Velite Recruitment

[orwell]

Should a Velite spawn in a rebel army in Italy on the second turn of starting a game.

[Simmons]

Should a Velite spawn in a rebel army in Italy on the second turn of starting a game.
Are you asking if recruiting a unit of Velites would cause a rebel army to appear?

[orwell]

no, I started fresh game, and I thought velites didn't show up till the first roman reform, so should rebels get to recruit them/spawn them earlier than that?

[abou]

My experience with rebels in Italy were that they all had low status Camillian units and Samnites - e.g. Leves, Rorarii, Samnite spearmen. I never actually played to the Polybian reform so I don't know how that changes things.

[Simmons]

no, I started fresh game, and I thought velites didn't show up till the first roman reform, so should rebels get to recruit them/spawn them earlier than that?
Yes I know what you mean Orwell I've seen it also rebel armies composed mostly of Rorarii with the odd unit of Velites.

[stalin]

I edited them to leves in descr_rebel_factions. In notepad choose to replace "velites" with "leves". After the reform you might want to switch back

[Arawn]

I've seen rebel armies composed soley of about four units of Velites right at the begining of the game too. You can then bribe those armies and those Velites will join you, but you can't retrain them (save for a weapons upgrade obviously). Seems a little odd. Has to be a bug surely.