Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
Level 5 regional barracks, which requires a type IV government to be able to build it. Thus if you never use type IV governments, you won't be able to recruit them.

I'm using them to partner with my FMs in my Pergamon game right now, along with as governors so that my family don't have to carry all the burden. Got two settlements (Pergamon and Byzantion) which can recruit them, I think Nikaia isn't long off being able to as well. For added irony, I actually prefer my regional troops to my factional ones in my current game, not least because the core of my fighting line - Classical Hoplites - are regional.

The Greek one has the Lonchophoroi Hippeis unit as his bodyguard, who are quite useful. Better than my FM's bodyguard at any rate, and more of them. The Italic one has Campanian equites as his, they're not bad.
Lonchophoroi better than Hetairoi?