Unit strength

[Ca Putt]

well It's not too much of a difference thus It could be related to the northern guy wearing a shirt(because its cold) and the southern one not(because its warmer) at least today there is somewhat a climate difference between the nomandy and the region around orange, at least there was last time i checked.

I would agree with bean as they are southern and northern gauls(who also live in Cisalpine Gaul and the mediterranean coast) not inhabitants of northern and southern gaul.

[/Bean\]

I'm not saying they are the same climate. I'm saying that Cisalpine Gaul should be counted as Southern Gaul, because it is inhabited by Gauls, it's in the south and has a rough geographical similarity with the rest of Southern Gaul (obviously meaning the parts along the Med and near the Alps, not meaning places like Aquitane.)

[kekailoa]

The problem with the climate argument is that you can recruit Southern Gallic swordsmen in Camulsoladae (spell check) and Ictis, and the climate there is much like Normandy, Belgium and Brittany. (IIRC, the reason for them being there was the migration of southern gallic tribes and belgaic tribes to the region and being known by the same name and cultural oddities as some of the mainland tribes).

Btw, does anyone have any answers to my later question?

[Foot]

The northern version comes with a shirt, the southern without. Working on the principle of WYSIWYG, the shirt adds one point of armour according to our system. It is as simple as that. No interesting conspiracy theories. This ain't Dan Brown's head, ya know.

Foot

[Watchman]

Also the Northern guy wears a helmet, which is good for 3 more points (and the merc version has cheekpieces for a further point)...

Arguably the names "Northern" and "Southern" are rather misleading, given for example that the latter is the staple swordsman type on the British Isles and in north-central Europe; it's really more of a "Gallic" and "Not Gallic" division, which is why I assume an economic logic behind the division.

Still can't figure out why the Gaelaiche (the basic Gallic spearmen, to the more ubiquitous Gaeroas what the Bataroas are to the Botroas more or less) are a reform unit though...