Quote Originally Posted by Foot View Post
date requirements are there to manage reform requirements that cannot be portrayed within the RTW engine (social change, etc). It would be impossible for the Marian reforms to have happened, say, at anytime within our timeframe because there were social requirements that were important, but that we cannot reasonably represent in any game mechanic. To ensure that a reasonable amount of time has passed to allow for these changes to occur in Roman society, we place a year, before which point the reforms could not happen. It is not history-on-rails, but a realistic interpretation of events and changes in society and government that we just cannot portray any other way.

Foot
I stand corrected. But of course the best thing about EB is that each person is free to make their own changes. From now on I will realise how much of a cheater I am =)
Thanks for the explanation anyway.