Quote Originally Posted by jhhowell View Post
For those suggesting that the Evocata should just be Reformata with chevrons, I believe there are three reasons that's not what the EB team did. First - Evocata get more armor (the greaves), and experience chevrons only increase the skill component of defense. Second - region, Evocata are only available in Italy where they were granted land upon retirement. If they were just a type of Reformata, they could be retrained in Gaul or Asia or wherever, just like regular Reformata. Third, unit size. Evocata are 160 man cohorts, Reformata are 200 man cohorts. Presumably this is to partly reflect the much smaller recruitment pool, not all of whom would be willing to return to the legions.
Ah, those days, when this thread was still young!

I never suggested to use Cohors Reformata with Chevrons for Evocata, but to give the Evocata the skill values of the common cohort and make them recruitable with a few chevrons. Following my idea there still would be two different unit types, which could also use slightly different equipment, different AoR, different size, etc. It was just an idea to get their skill values in line with the regular cohorts, based on the assumption that - regarding their combat proficiency - evocata are just experienced legionaries.

Just to make that clear, not to revive the question.