Quote Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking View Post
Bypassing the limitation on the possible MICs based upon gov. type in the way described in the OP is considered to be a cheat, just so you know. If you really want to do it anyway, you can of course do so - it's all up to you to decide how to play. I'm just sayin'.
Yep. It would in most cases also not be realistic to do so. Usually you should stick to factional troops as your core army and only use regionals as auxilary. The historical counterparts of your faction wouldn't trust briefly subjugated people to be armed again to full extend and form a major part of the army. Only when establsihing an allied client state you should benefit from the complete line-up of the regionals.

That's the way EB is meant to be played. There are of course a few exceptions, when factional troops or the required governments only come after a reform; but that's only true for a few factions.