About to play first mod

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Madoushi a warm welcome to you.

I would build type 1's and 2's wherever possible. If neither are possible, I would sooner go with a 3 than a 4. With 3 you reap benefits of some factional as well as a lot of local troops. Type 4 is usually unnecessary most of the time, and the allied generals demand a hefty salary. Keep a levy garrison in your type 3's and you'll be fine.

I'm curious, as a Camilian era general, what are your armies currently consisting of? (i.e. how many of each unit type do you have in your current, standing armies?)

I've just remembered, I'm running a Roman Allied Legions mod by konny, which prevents me from recruiting Roman Camillan era legionaries from anywhere except Rome itself. In other Italian cities, I recruit Samnite Allied medium infantry, Bruttian Allied medium infantry, and Lucanian Allied medium infantry, which are a bit like Hastati, but use spears. These are just as good as Hastati, sometimes better.

I always install Type IV governments as Rome, but don't always buy an expensive Allied General to run the town - it's not always necessary, except in the really big cities like Syracause.

My early Roman consular armies (I always have two, one in the north, one in the south) are formed like this:

One of each type of Roman unit: One Family member, one Equites, one Leves, one Hastati, one Principes, one Triarii, one Accensi, one Rorarii. 8 Roman units, representing 2 Roman legions.

Then I add 8 allied units, representing 2 allied legions. To start with, I have to use the most basic units from my other towns: one Leves, one Accensi, and six Rorarii, which I use to represent 'Generic Italian light infantry'). When I've upgraded my native barracks, I can start recruiting Samnite Allied medium infantry, Bruttian Allied medium infantry, and Lucanian Allied medium infantry, which I use to replace the 'Italian' Rorarii units. Also Campanian, Greek or Gallic cavalry, which will replace two of the allied infantry units. Later, when I've conquered some towns, I can start recruiting Greek skirmishers and hoplites, and Gallic spearmen, Ligurian spearmen, and other native units.

My full stack is thus only 16 units. I prefer to give the enemy a fighting chance by letting their full stacks outnumber me.