Quote Originally Posted by Populus Romanus View Post
For everyone's biotching about Roman "pedites spam," that is actually historically accurate. Historically, Allies outnumbered Romans in the Legions by a ratio of 2:1. This "pedites spam" is therefore pretty accurate.
Hardly. Pedites represent picked troops. The Socii rank-and-file would be equiped similarly to the Romans and are represented by normal hastati, principes and trairii. For that matter: a mid-republic consular army would have consisted of two legions (Romans) and two alea (allies). The allies supplied more cavalry, but the infantry was divided about 50:50.