Quote Originally Posted by VivaSalsa View Post
I read on this forum somewhere, that in your first version whenever your reforms happen (4x as Romans), you cant retrain your units and have to start rebuilding your armies. I generally like this idea but 4 times is kinda excessive don't you think?
Just another viewpoint:

Retraining has never been a problem for me, because personally I never do it. I never retrain units in EB, not for any faction. All I do is raise new units, and merge them into depleted veteran units. That's like a veteran unit getting some new rookies to fill the gaps in the ranks. Yes, the veteran unit's overall experience level goes down because of the new rookies not having any experience, but that's realistic IMO, so makes me happy.

When the Roman reforms come for me, I just keep on merging depleted units from the previous reform together until they are too small to fight effectively anymore, then I disband them in the nearest Roman town. New units of the latest reform are recruited to replace losses to the old-style units. For a while, I might have armies with units from both reform eras - veteran units with old style equipment, and rookie units with the new equipment. Change was likely to be a gradual process anyway, there's no reason for a legion to throw old style equipment away until it wears out.