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[Ichon]

IMO- the recruitment pools along with diplomacy and some better graphics are the best improvements to EB2 from EB.

It does make sense to have some of the elite units able to be recruited for all the fully realized civilizations at the start of EB. Of course in very limited numbers... perhaps only in the Capitol with 1 or 2 max available and very slow pool replenishment.

To get more would require new territories and larger population to draw from. That should probably most of the civilizations actually. Only a few reached their heights during this era. More often than not they bumped into Rome and fell into decline though even Rome obviously between the reforms and the Republic vs the Imperium had different sorts of "elite" troops.

The thing is I doubt there will be very many- "what if" type of units imagining some civilization which had defeated Rome and what sort of reforms their military might have undergone. Still it would be a vast improvement to expand the pool of recruitable elites from 2 to 8 as your culture and faction expands.

It should be a bit of a tough decision to keep those 8 elites gathered in 1 invasion/response army or scattered along the frontiers stiffing the regular troops. Benefits both ways.