Quote Originally Posted by Danest
I've wondered about that "no soldiers below the rubicon"... obviously RTW does absolutely nothing like this. And another thing I've wondered about - Italy appears to have gigantic bands of roving mercenaries... the mercenary population of most heavily trafficked countries is higher than the population of many of the nearby villages. I'd think that would terrify the populace, but this is probably a game mechanic rather than something physical, I figure.
Well RTW does it in a bit different way, by having Rome and the senate as an entity of its own.

In my view, the way CA chose to represent Rome in Vanilla, Senate-Julii, Scipii and Britii, instead of 1 faction, is there to represent the Republican nature of Rome, and things like this Ancient Roman Law about General not permited to bring their armies past the Rubicon.