Wishlist for Rome 2 (and beyond)

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Am I the only one who is super excited about being able to choose your troops equipment?! Even if they only give you a few choices, but allow people to mod it so you can choose all the equipment from all factions!
I would love to make Rome a Kingdom, and then equip my men with round shields and pikes when I fought the Parthians!

It would be nice to actually be able to carry out Marian reforms.

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It would be nice to actually be able to carry out Marian reforms.

Exactly. The thing that made Empires so great was their ability to adapt to new threats and conditions. When they failed, it was usually because they didn't adapt. If you are in command of a European country, it should be up to you how you adapt, since so much of your success hinges on it.
Take Rome and Parthia for instance. When the Parni started fighting their way into the Seleucid empire, they adapted their way of warfare from light horse archers to a mix of that and heavily armoured heavy cavalry with lances. It brought them success in their region. Rome fought the Samnites and then the Gauls and Germans, they changed their military to adapt to new enemies and territory. It brought them success in their region.
When the Romans and Parthians fought, they both failed to adapt to their new enemy, and so both of them had success in their region, but not outside of their region.

The ability to adapt made them great, and the failure to adapt nearly ruined them. Since this whole game is about changing history, it would be so cool to be in charge of how and if your country adapts. And of course you could balance that out by making it that your regions have certain military traditions, and if you start training and equipping your men for a way of warfare that is not part of their military tradition, they will have penalties until that new tradition develops over the years, and the longer a country does one thing, the better its men get at it (up to a point). So if the Arsacid Empire adopts heavy infantry and siege machines for its invasion of Rome, they will not perform as well as the Roman ones, but will still do better than horse archers and cataphracts.