@Lazyo, i understand how stats work now, although thank you for pointing that out. I was talking about increasing it further to reflect how effective it was at its purpose (almost at "elite" status), but to increase cost as well for reasons discussed earlier and to make it balance. The legion has repeatedly proved its potency through multitudes of victories through the centuries it existed. Especially the period of EB under Marius (v Cimbri, Numidians iirc), Sulla, Pompey (v Pontus), Caesar (v Gauls) etc. It had disastrous defeats as well, dont get me wrong, they werent an uber-elite unit. However, because they standardised SO completly, there are really very few other "elite" types one can use (no pedites extr. etc.). So in recognition of both history and that standardisation, they should at the very least be almost at par with elites of other factions. And to be perfectly frank, the Praetorians, though composed of veterans, were more of a secret police than real soldiers who did regular duty. Especially during the time period in EB. So I would not count the Praetorians as an elite (and realistically speaking, who takes them in battles anyway?).

@gg2, under the system i outlined, legions would be more expensive, but equally, have their stats bumped (to account for how many troops they would have per unit, and to account for improved "quality"). I also want to make it clear, that this is NOT sanctioned by Vega or anyone else. It is just how I would think it would/should work.