Roman enslavement: Senate gets 25%

[Darth Binky]

I've frequently run into the population 400 issue, especially in my latest game as the Julii. I'm not going to rehash the bribe issue, since that's already been covered (I agree with Bhruic and the rest).

You do need to have the people in the province to be able to raise units. The population can't go below 400, period; even if you massacre the population and bring in a plague.

But you cannot raise new units unless the population can "cover" the unit size. So to raise an 80 man unit of Hastati, you need to have 480 men in the province. If you've got 482, then you will be able to raise exactly one unit of Hastati. It does appear that raising units in this manner will in fact drop the population. This also affects retraining damaged units similarly.

It's only noticeable towards the beginning of the game, especially if you are the Julii attacking the puny Gallic villages, for example. Wipe them out and you'll have to wait a bit before replenshing your lost troops (if any ). Bigger cities will have hundreds of survivors of your purges, so you won't have trouble raising units, or at least I haven't yet (now that I'm attacking the Greeks/Macedonians, who have large, well-established cities).

I haven't really bothered trying to see if the slave thing is true. That'd be difficult to prove, methinks. Or more time-demanding than I'm willing to spend on it.

[Upward Mobility]

I haven't really bothered trying to see if the slave thing is true. That'd be difficult to prove, methinks. Or more time-demanding than I'm willing to spend on it.

The slave thing would actually, IMO, be pretty easy to confirm. I usually have a spy and a diplomat in the Senate's province (never know when a decent stack is going to be sitting there without a family member leading it, just begging to be included in your forces at a discount, since it costs less to bribe than it does to actually recruit, in my experience).

Double-click on Rome, check the population. (your spy should allow you to see this, right? Correct me if I am remembering this wrong). Do your attack on a city, note the number of slaves from enslavement, then check Rome's pop. This is of course assuming that you haven't gifted an annoying border province to Rome to have the barbarians attack THEM instead of you.

Total extra time: about a minute. In fact, I think I will try this tonight after I get home from work.

Unless I am forgetting some other factor?