Well, partly. Lets both be honest about this and say that if a Carthaginian army had come out of Sicilia during those 6 months, you would not have said "sorry, Legio II can't do anything about it, because their soldiers are in Rome", and you're making this up is just now to counter my (or actually, mini's - I just stole it) argument.

It's still not just that though, as it takes much more organization - and thus even more time - to give leave to a whole legion to on their own go to Rome, then reorganize and then go back to Taras. If they're not actually going to be disbanded either, then I think they should at least have to go to the city itself.