Quote Originally Posted by Optimus Tertius View Post
Haven't had that before. In fact fighting the romans is very hard all the times (for me). What is your difficulty-setting for the battles? That could possibly be the issue...

Anyway, is the AI supposed to have the reforms earlier than you can achieve them? I was playing the romanii and got attacked by sweboz elite-pikeman (wich are quite strong)...and that was in 242 BC...they only had 6 settlements at that time and they weren’t fully developed yet...seems a bit unlikely to me that they already met the requirements for the reform.
The Germanic pikemen aren't reform units. They're available from the beginning with the level 5 MIC. The Swebox reforms give them Germanic Heavy Infantry and Germanic Heavy Cavalry, nothing more.