Historic Battles for EB?

[Eduorius]

Thirdly, have you looked at the Italian troop roster? It's not exactly wildly different to the Romans at all. Samnite Allied Medium Spearmen are very similar to Camillian Principes, and differ only in their main weapon to Polybian Hastati. Bruttian Infantry are pretty similar to Polybian Hastati and vary only in their main weapon to Camillian Principes. Samnite Heavy Infantry are a poor man's pedites extraordinarii. Campanian Cavalry were used extensively by Roman armies.

Lastly on the "numbers" issue, it really wouldn't be hard to reduce the number of hastati, principes and triarii and replace them with Italians. One battle had four each of the two former - easy switch right there.

In Ausculum, many of the Italics were allied to Epirus so NO. I am not going to have armies that have Samnites with the Romans, if the Samnites, Bruttians, Lucanians, Tarentines, etc were allied to other guy. I apply the same rule to Metaurus.

I dont like to use armies that use hoplite shields for the allies. The Bruttians was one of our last units so they were not there when I made the battles, beside they were not used after the Second Punic War in Roman armies because they sided with Hannibal and even left Italy to fight in Zama.

I use plenty of Italic cavalry.