@ 89 Romani Provinces, need Advice.

[Zephyrus Targaryen Aegyptos]

Hey Ludens,

I reread my post and realized how unorganized and difficult it is to understand what is being wrote.

So basically the dilemma i have is: Take Bibracte and weaken the avernii by destroying their barracks and sacking the city for gold, or to hold off on Bibracte and replenish my armies with good units.
It's one or the other because taking Bibracte would begin implement the Marian Reforms on the next turn, which would not allow me to retrain my units.


The desires to take bibracte is to destroy the 5k gold barracks they have there that is pumping out solduros. I want to take that out before the barb faction gets too big. Also, I want the gold of sacking the city... around 10-15k and + 5k +2.5k for the 2 barracks.

Only bad part of taking Bibracte is a few things...

A minor thing is it will take me deeper into Gaul, provoking war with Aeudui who I am in peace with.

The main reason is that it will take me to 90 provinces, which will automatically take me to the Marian reforms. Many of you think this reform is good for you, but it is not good for me right now for a few reasons.
1. I am currently in the middle of building barracks at home in the Italia provinces... but if the Marian reforms happen, the barracks are automatically cancelled, and all those turns to construct the barracks will be in vain.
2. I need to replenish my armies.
A) After the Marian reforms, I cannot retrain camillan triarii, pedites extrodinarii, and equites p.e.... which I have many coming back home to retrain. Many of the units coming back home only have 1-5 soldiers in the unit and have about 20 units coming back on boats.
B) I'm a bit low on principes rn, because I just had the Polybian reforms about 12 turns ago. So a lot of my Camillan Principes are gone.
Also I want to stack up on Polybian Principes as they are the best bang for your buck for heavy infantry in all of EB, IMHO. These polybian principes would be perfect as reserve armies as they are relatively cheap, and deal armour piercing damage along with having good armour themselves.

So this is my Dilemma. To take Bibracte and start the Marian Reforms, or to hold off on Bibracte and replenish my armies with good units.

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I actually decided to hold off on taking Bibracte until at least my barracks are finished, which is about 6 more turns. The Avernii garrisoned the empty city of Bibracte immediately on the next turn with a small army, and I immediately resieged it with a full stack under Caivs lulius Caesar.

Thanks for getting back to me Ludens! I look forward to interacting in this forum.