Realistic Camillian time army?

[the_handsome_viking]

I think you are correct for the cavarly part, that most Roman cavarly were mercenaries from north. I just find it too "hard" to run one hero to north( rebel terrain in beginning of the game), recruiting all cavarly, bring em back to southern armies for fighting for sicily,southern part of Italy and some Carthagian cities. After taking northen Italy to gain access to gaul cavarly I think I will began to use them.

As I said I don't know too much of this period.

So the Romans used mercenaries from northen Italy and Samnites as "elite" swordsmen and spearmen for their army correct?

I just always tought that before Marian reforms Rome didn't trust so much of their army to mercenaries/auxilaries as they did after reform.

Thanks very much for your feedback. It seems I have some studying to do regarding this soon

That gives me an idea...

What if your DIPLOMATS, or SPYS, could do recruiting???

that would be awesome, and I'd imagine fairly realistic.

[QwertyMIDX]

You'll have to lobby CA for that one, not us.

[Inepticus]

A typical pre-marian army should consist of equal numbers of Hastati and Principi, with half as many Triariai, so something like

4 Hastata
4 Principi
2 Triariai

Add 2 Velites next.

Then add to that a general's unit and one other unit of cavalry only, anything will do.

Then the rest of the stack (assuming the army is a full stack army) should be made up of allies only, ie Italians for example. Historically these armies were at best 50% Roman.

Under no circumstances should an army be totally made up of Romans, unless of course one is symbolising a double legion with no supporting troops, which kind of defeats the realism aspect of the composition.

[QwertyMIDX]

Unfortunatly most of the italian troops aren't in the game yet. It is also good to remember that a lot of them fought in the roman manner, especially as time goes on.