Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
but why bulit hastati if you can get princeps with a bit more investment and maintenence costs?
Why training them? Because they were the less experienced part of the roman troops and training them is realistic and you can see that we want realism, as we are playing a realism mod. Else we wouldn't do it, would we?

By the way, I don't think Hastati are surprisingly bad. They are supposed to be worse than Principes and who would be surprised about that?