I hate that the Marian reforms trigger date is so early (220 BC). I understand that the reason for this is because most campaigns are over long before the Marian reforms actually took place but CA should have seen this coming. CA should have taken a page from their Medieval playbook and incorporated eras into Rome or in the very least included a variation of Rome's provincial campaign, one that starts sometime after the Second Punic War.

This is the one area where Medieval shines over Rome. Because of the lack of eras and Glorious Achievement goals in RTW's campaign game few gamers will see their campaigns progress beyond 150 BC and even fewer to 100 BC or beyond. There's simply no incentive to keep playing other than to see if you can conquer more than 50 provinces.

Well, the good news is at least we can mod the game so that the Marian reforms do not affect gameplay. Thanks to the available options in the text files we can it so that Republic era troops are unaffected by the Marian reforms and remove Marian reform units from the game competely. I'm sure numerous solutions will become available over time thanks to the TW modding community.

However, I don't think it's asking too much for CA to make it so we can change the Marian reform trigger date via a simple change in the descr_strat.txt file. This would be a welcome addition for the expansion pack.