Wolfshart, I appreciate that you aren't actually attacking us but I did say several times that Roman troops also represented Allies, and if you look at your first post again perhaps you'll see how it can be missinterpreted.

Basically the lower the government the lower the factional MIC, our elite Allied units are contained in the higher level factional MICs, because they are factional troops. Also, the higher the government level the lower the regional MIC, so either way you'd end up with unrealistic recruitment, because you'd be badly hurt by either Romanising or by having Allied states.

To get around the problem we have the Italian Allies considered Roman for governmental processes.