1 maybe you forgot alexandria home to both greeks and egyptians
2 nevertheles ptolemies right now are realy penaltized from this system.unit like toxotai kretike and other who were historically used by this faction and in eb cannot be recruited now unless you build a hellenic collony (and if you build a colony no machimoi) a sollution to this would be to make all those units (like toxotai kretikoi )recruitable in central goverment
3 the biggest misanderstanding with native phrourion is what it means . a) local recruitment b) non greek settlers ,what ptolemies did with galates and egyptians
a) if this building represents local recruitment you should be able to build both hellenic collony and recruit from the local. the fact that you brought 1000 collonist from hellas shouldnt make rome unable to recruit local units
b) if this building represents non greek settlers to a town as ptolemies did with egyptians and galates then there are 4 problems with this system.
1) recruitment doesnt fit with the name and purpose of native settlers colonies. if as seleukid you conquered alexandria if you build native phrourion you should be able to recruit persians there not native edyptians
2 in order to bring something you need to already have it. if as makedonia conquer a german town and build native phrourion i will be able to build some units. if those units represent settlers,settlers from where?
3 this mean that certain factions like epeiros where their cities had many regional units cannot recruit them now because they need laarchia,and if you build laarchia no greek units can be build from goverment nor from colony
4 this means that if city has only two regional units. if you build native goverment you wont be able to recruit greeks so you are left with only two units, and if you build greek goverment you will loose the regional units so why to create them in first place.
this is not only historically inacurate(that an epeiros player will have to choose between 3 ylirian units or greeks when they used both) but also has problems in game play
so the beutifull regional recruitment mechanism from ebi is no more
if the team for some reason doesnt want to change the system ,its fine but i have give many valid reasons both from historical and game play perspective why this system is wrong
and sorry to bother you with the questions
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