Roman campaign - overpopulation and Iberian troops

[moonburn]

romans where never confortable in iberia to start with 60% of the peninsula are mountains (thus one of the reasons why they are so mineraly rich) and appart from the coastal areas the romans had a very hard time coping with the natives wich where always unrully

even ceasar speaks of the lusitanians as being ungovernable

as for the politics if an army marches into your land you´re not going to allie with him you´re going to get back to basics gather all that you can and kick them out like the numantians/arevaci/celtiberians did to the roman armies

the illergette got destroyed by the romans so they had no love from there either

in rl/history rome benefited alot from a growing anti kart hadast feeling that was brewing in the peninsula due to the actions of the barcids no matter how much control they had over the elites the carthies where not as much loved as they where tolerated (i mean hamilcar barca was killed by the iberians ) so the game tries to protray properly the way the iberians where not too keen on being subjugated to anyone and eb2 will probably be even harder to subdue iberia since you can control the capital but you will have a hard time controlling the country side with it´s roaming armies of rebels and hundreads of tribes refusing to bend their knee to whoever tries to control hispania

[seleucid empire]

well there are tons of recruitable mercenaries in Iberia anyway. I believe there is actually two different pools of them. And as Rome, you can definitely afford it

[Lusitani]

even ceasar speaks of the lusitanians as being ungovernable

True to this day ...

L.

[Marcus Darkstar]

As a solid roman player I'm more than eager to see more units to the Allied States roster aka regional troops. One iberian troop in particular I want added is the Loricati Scutari and my reasoning is in its own historical passage.

Historically, the Loricatii Scutarii were some of the most vicious of the Iberian soldiery. They were used exclusively by Iberian chieftains and were the best of the regular line infantry. They fought mainly in battles where lines were used, rather than the usual guerilla battles across Iberia, and were last used by the Pompey brothers in the battles against Caesar. They were actually able to break Caesar’s army, only to be routed in turn when Caesar himself charged their line while cursing his own men as cowards. At this point, Caesar’s army turned and utterly routed the Iberians and Roman deserters.

They at least from that passage saw use as allies by romans (albiet romans on opposing sides of a war). Would be nice to have something other than light skirmisher infantry as axillary in the entire Iberian peninsula.