Military reforms?

[themilo]

Eventho I've yet to see that actually happen in any mod I'd like to add a few points:

EB is all about Historical accuracy etc. having your Hastati on campaign in the forests of germania or the deserts of arabia magically transform into Marian legionaries, is just not plausible.
Reforms are changes, not simply upgrades. gameplaywise they are less upgrades than mechnics that unlock new units
Reformed units in EB are not always better than their early counterparts. Many players like to keep a few old units. For example the Camillian Triari clearly is a stronger unit than the Polybian one. It's not like the unreformed units become totally obsolete with the reform.
You don't have to "replace" all your armies. Just train new ones, Romans have enough money for that, and all others can slowly supplement their armies with new units. for example the Seleucid armoured Royal Guard, you simply add one (or two) to your royal army, they don't really replace anything. As romans you will probably have some armies with old equipment and others with new stuff. So what's the problem? Your old armies still kick butt, you just can'T retrain them anymore.
For romani the main advantage of reformed infantry is neither cost efficiency or raw strengh but availibility. While you can only train Cammilian troops in central italy, Marian legionaries can be trained virtually everywhere you'd want to go.

If there in Arabia then yes they should not change, if there in Italy they should.

I do admit that if reformed troops aren’t a straight up upgrade like they are in vanilla Rome then it’s not nearly as annoying, I also admit that even in vanilla Rome I should not have replaced my entire army although in my defense I didn’t expect it to be so boring, I still dislike the reforms since they result in a lot of tedious busywork since you can retrain a army a lot faster than you can build them and if I could I would remove them.