Depiction of imperial reforms

That sounds... kinky.

Well several of my history teachers have referred to him, and my dad mentioned him as one of the best. (Thanks to his book I was able to shut up my Spanish teacher, who said the phalanx was a Roman Formation where all the Legionnaires locked their shields and formed a wall of shields, and that it was the precursor to armored cavalry (way to go dumbo))

btw, I think the mercenary thing makes the most sense. Have a few eliter units (like Thessalian Cavalry and Galatian Wildmen, or mercenary uber elites (like Pheraspidai mercenaries or Mercenary heavy Hellenic Spears) for sale. I don't think its very fair that I can hire two armies worth of mercenaries in Makedonia and conquer the Makedonians with it.

Well M2TW has option of limiting each faction to be able to recruit only factional units. So i have high hopes for EB2 in that regard .

In the meantime you can try link bellow to remedy loads of mercenaries:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=87649

Thanks but for now I'll try to avoid adding anything on to my game.

Besides, I heavily rely on those mercenaries in alternate theatres of war, since I rarely have more than two or three stacks for any theatre of war.

I know this is old, but I just wanted to say: I'd like to see EB2 within my lifetime. The Imperial Reforms aren't a bad thing, and scraping them and whatever cool features you have planned for them would indicate a lot of needed changes to EB1 that wouldn't be necessary otherwise. These limmitations can be remedied quite well with certain features is M2TW, so, y'know.... :D

Scrap some of the mercenaries, not my legionairres.

well only about 1% of the EB population actually gets to use them:shame:

how exactly do u change the imperial reforms and polybian reforms to earlier times? to be honest i usually get to around 220 bce and i get bored of the romans and the same with the gauls cuz it'll take like 4000 turns to get to 120 bce or whatever