Caius Flaminius, oh, your knowledge of Roman history would be most appreciated! What I meant by my previous post is that we, those who are interested in creating this mod, could actually start doing something practical. I appreciate all the nice and constructive thoughts that have been put into this thread. In my view, things would progress better if we were discussing the different aspects of the mod while playing the Alpha build, for example. To this end, I have been fiddling with some unit graphics in an attempt to come up with some plausible Roman infantry units but it is very time-consuming.

The greatest challenge for this mod, in my humble opinion, is the graphical aspect, i.e creating Roman legions a la Rome: Total War (and even better ), Macedonian Phalangites who look and FIGHT like they should! Hellenic: Total War had awesome looking Hoplite infantry but their fighting animations were most disappointing. The same goes for most of the units in this mod (apart from Tower Shield pikemen--a unit found in the Bronze Age Expansion for HTW.

What gives me hope that this could be achieved is the superb animations made by Duke John, and others, in the Middle Earth: Total War Mod.

Back to Roman units' suggestions, I am no history expert but I remember that the early Roman units, mainly the Hastati, Principes and Triarii, had different equipment later on. For example, the Hastati and Principes' bronze helmets were replaced by iron ones, since the bronze helmets were vulnerbale to the "barbarians" longswords. If this is true, then we could have a first-generation Hastati, wearing a bronze helmet and a second generation Hastati, wearing an iron one. That could be represented graphically and statistically too.

I'd appreciate any information on what type of weapons/armour Roman units had. Recommeded websites/books would be great!

Cheers for now!