Are the Romans too Powerful?

[guineawolf]

I am running vanilla RTW at 1.5. To compare the troop qualities of the Greeks and the Romans I created a custom battle with one army of only Spartan hoplites, all upgraded veterans, and another army of Roman troops, all of which were Legionary 1st Cohorts, upgraded to the max. The Spartans were defending an unwalled minor city, sort of like Sparta in the 'Siege of Sparta' historical battle. According to their unit card description, they are 'perfect soldiers'. However, in reality, they were massacred to the last man by my endless waves of Roman legionnaires, even when I set the difficulty to the highest possible level. Even though this was not really a formal, scientific, closed-system no-variable experiment, the fact that these Roman legionnaires could basically chew up and spit out the very, very, very, very best the Greek cities can offer chills me. Does anyone else recognize this problem?

with what i have figured out recently,i got such conclusion:
your Spartans:
28 attack(since against legion=infantry,decrease 4 attack)=24 attack

6 armor
18 defense skill
5 shields
=29 defense


Legion 1st cohorts:
21 attack
25 missiles

15 armor
14 defense skill
5 shields
=34 defense


but it seems Spartans just lost becoz of their low level equipments,let see if they have same level equipments:
Spartans:
still 24 attack

but with 15 armor
18 defense skill
5 shields
=38 defense

exellent morale=14 morale
very good stamina


legion 1st cohorts:
21 attack
25 missiles

15 armor
14 defense skill
5 shields
=34 defense

good morale=10 morale
good stamina

and Spartans got exellent morale and very good stamina that let Spartans fight longer compare to others,yes Spartans are perfect soldiers if they get same protection from their armor as legion does..
Urban cohorts only got 12 morale....

Yes other factions have no chance against romans. They have the best infantry, reasonable cavalry and archers. Egypt might be the second best faction. Rest are barbarians or only phalanx nations. In that perspective RTW is unbalanced . In M2TW theres no supreme faction.

They have the best equip and best train infantry......