[EB] Thoughts on balancing Rome in a historical way

[TheShakAttack]

They are more expensive, like 1800. The problem is you can't get cohorts and all their supporting units and still have money for a cavalry unit or 2. That is unless you take less units and taking less units is actually a serious weakness.

The average line infantry cost for a semi-balanced army is about 1300-1400 unless you are phalanx and then you employ really expensive line infantry and cavalry and cost effective filler support like hoplites and celto-hellenic hoplites and then you buy the cheapest missile units possible to fill out(3 slingers).

Rome is comparable to the latter case except their expensive line infantry is cheaper but their support units cost almost as much as they do so you have to skimp on cavalry or archers and you don't have very many cheap options for either.

I understand your point. I agree that aux need to be much, much cheaper.

My original argument was that legion cost should be bumped (remember u are getting more men per unit), but also their stats; limit cohort numbers (to prevent spam), and nerf non-mounted aux/merc troops while making them a LOT cheaper. That way the decision becomes: should I bring in a small or large core of legions and what type of aux do i bring?

Just pulling numbers out of my ass (to illustrate my point; I am not a modder so these are NOWHERE near the actual/practical suggestions), make legions 10-15% more expensive, but also improve their stats by that much. Make aux/mercs (bcoz remember, mercs are acting as aux) 20-30% cheaper, but only decrease morale by about 10-15%. Like I said, this is a rough illustration and not the actual recommendation.

My only concern is that only one part of what I discussed will be implemented, which will ruin balance.