Roman campaign - overpopulation and Iberian troops

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Ad taxes - yes, I had them on high or very high where I could afford it unrest-wise. It did help compared to my previous try when I had them on normal, but not as much as I expected, it had a negative impact on the governors' traits though, they all became rich or very rich, greedy etc. So I don't really know, I guess I will have to build health structure less or recruit huge cheap armies and then disband them, which seems a little preposterous...I use the add_population cheat with negative number to keep it at least under 30k, but that doesn't seem right either.


Ad Iberia - well, yes, they didn't expand until the 2nd Punic war, but there's a hundred years between the war and the Marian reforms (ok, you can get them as soon as 175 in game, but that's not the point. You can also conquer the peninsula much earlier, so it evens it out) when you are stuck with very limited recruiting options in Iberia. Looking at them, I have two problems with the way things are:

a) it seems that it is based on the actual events during the Roman conquest of Iberia when the peninsula on average was largely hostile to Romans and opposed their advances bitterly. The notable exceptions were what is today Catalonia proper and the Basque county which the game probably acknowledges by allowing the recruitment of mid level infantry in these regions (the Milites Ilergetum and the Clona Tekonac) However, I don't think that it necessarily had to be this way or that it was bound to happen, especially since the game starts in 272 BC. While the Carthaginians sure were present in the region long before, the intensive Carthaginian-Iberian cooperation began only after the 1st Punic war. The Iberian-speaking part of the peninsula (i.e. the part where Carthage can recruit the best troops) was a relatively developed civilization in its own right and there was nothing uniquely Carthaginian about it. Carthage and the Barcids in particular "only" persuaded them to side with them, they didn't really contribute much. I think it is perfectly conceivable that the polities might have cooperated with Rome (or anyone else for that matter) and supplied them with their troops just like they supplied Carthage.

b) from a purely gameplay point of view, it is kind of bummer that you are allowed to recruit decent local infantry in the whole of Sicily, Gaul or Greece and even Germania but you get kinda screwed in Iberia.

On a very related note - I tried to edit the EDU files to allow Romans to recruit at least the Iberi Scutari, it worked out fine on the strategic map, but when I switch to aan actual battle I get a CTD saying that "texture couldn't be found" or something like that. Any idea what I should do?

Edit: nevermind, figured it out, I had to edit the descr_model_battle file too.