Quote Originally Posted by Pycckuu
Why just not have the biggest cities built up to "large town" or whatever it was, and have the player start with some advanced units already created?This way, there is still fun in building up your cities, and its somewhat historical because your faction already posseses the high quality units it had for years.
Ahem, dude, that's the level that most cities start at! And you only get hastati and troops like that! in fact, in vanilla the biggest cities are bigger than that! It should be at level 3 for usual ones, and 4 for biggies!!