On recruiting - we're defining recruitment areas on a per-unit basis.
On the weapons upgrades, I don't think this is in our plans. I believe they will be rather ubiquitous.
Weapon upgrades are and should be universal. Provinces with iron usually trade it for food, wine what have you. Technical expertise was fairly widespread in the ancient world too. They weren't animals, peoples of different ethnicities got together all the time and did work, when there was profit in it. Celtic Druids often 'vacationed' in Athens to discuss philsophy, Phoenicians and Rhodians traded wine to the Britons in exchange for tin.
Weapon upgrades simply mean better quality steel and better forging processes, which can be learned through experiment or trade. Everyone has the potential.
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