Ask a Developer: Romani Faction Team

[antisocialmunky]

1) How are we going to deal with frontal cavalry charges with the Romani? Right now, pretty much any cavalry can roadkill a rank of infantry that are not pikes.
2) Are we going to use the armour system for Camillian -> Polybian and Marian -> Imperial?

If we can use the armour system, we could armour units by their area with scale in the east and chain mail in the west.

IE using the Western Set of Upgrades present in M2TW For Romans:
Camillian Unit start at Leather(Camillian Standard)
Polybian Unit start at Light Chain Mail(Polybian Standard)
Marian Legionaires start at Heavy Chainmail(Marian Standard).
Eastern provinces upgrade Marian Legions to Partial Plate(Marian Scale varient)
Imperial Legionaires start at Full Plate (Imperial Legionaire skin)

You could make a Segmenta Legionaire Fan-Service-Variant or another Eastern Armoured variant for another Imperial Legionaire type with Advanced Plate

If you guys tie the armour line of buildings to reform markers and use a script to destroy them when Romans don't own the province, then you could probably do this fairly easily since M2TW doesn't just add the arbitrary +1-3 or RTW and instead specify a 'type' of max armour. This could then be abstracted out to other faction's reforms too.

And the best thing is that you get around 4 units for 2 unit slots.