Cheats - what's the point??

[Megas Methuselah]

Well you might if you read the cheating requests for help notice nearly all of them are about the Marian Reforms, and they are there because at the moment the Marian Reforms are not actually part of the game. Frankly people who are in a Romani campaign want to play as Rome. If the intention was to just use local MIC then Carthage the mercenary capital of the ancient world is an option. The point of asking for help cheating to make a character who has all the traits to trigger the reforms but one a Populares is in order to get an impossible section of the game, and yes Marian Reforms are at a rediculous requirement, 90 settlements or the game is set entirely in the Polybian era. I have yet to EVER get a Popularis general.

Are you too lazy to use Italy as your sole recruiting ground for factional troops? For retraining, you'll just have to recruit new units in Italy, ship them to the front, and merge them with the depleted ones. The Marians are scheduled to happen as they historically have. So, slow down your expansion and take note that 4 turns is 1 year. Reforms don't happen overnight. As for the popularis trait, have you tried searching the forums? I remember seeing plenty of popularis threads through my years here, where players discuss the likeliest ways of getting the trait without cheating. I myself don't know as I've never played the Romans in EB before in my life.

Now may I ask you if you have ever feel better about yourself now that you are in a rant about how wonderful you are and how horrible we people who want to experience the Romani are? Romani are actually EB on easy mode and I don't have the patience to do one of their campaigns, staying Polybian for all eternity just well it doesn't feel like Rome, it isn't Rome if your army is exactly the type of thing Hannibal would get together

This was the Rome before Marius, and as you very well know, includes a rich and long history. Try to have the patience to use Italy as your primary recruiting ground, and to not blitz the damn map. Also, try not to fall for all those hollywood movies on Rome. It's BS, all of it.