Roman auxiliaries

[Reverend Joe]

How will the Auxiliaries be represented in EB? Will they be exclusively mercenary units the player has to find manually? Will they be built into the building tree (I forget how the exact names, but I recall that there was an option to simply use what was already in a conquered city, then integrate the city later- will auxiliaries come from non-integrated cities?) Or is it something else?

Ave EB.

[Mongoose]

I think that they will be recruited in certain cities...But, not being an EB member, i might be wrong.

[khelvan]

When certain factions who had a tendency to bring natives into their own forces, standardizing their equipment, take over different areas of the world, some native or other faction units will be available to them as auxilia (or equivalent, in other languages). For the most part these will be able to be recruited in the native areas only, while they are under control, though there are a few instances we may show a historical tendency to "go to where the jobs are," so to speak.

[Reverend Joe]

So, will Roman auxiliaries be regularised, or just whatever can be recruited from the conquered cities? Or can they not recruit auxiliaries?

[khelvan]

In many cases, auxiliaries will be available to Rome as a reskin of native units, more or less.

[Reverend Joe]

Thanks for the info.

[Randal]

And what about italian allies, in the earlier periods? I suppose most of their infantry would simply be represented by the normal roman infantry units, but most cavalry would be Italian. (a polybian legion was supposed to have 300 equites. An italian allied Ala had 900 cavalry, and some 4000 infantry.) Are those normal recruitable units?

And what about early imperial auxiliaries? Those weren't native units anymore, they had Roman equipment and training, if possibly a bit less of both.