Roman Legion composition?

[The General]

One thing about this thread is the variety of units within a legion from a players perspective. However there appears little support for a pedite heavy stack. Its quite another from the AI. From what I have encountered playing Audei, Getai, and currently Cathage is that the roman stacks are predominantly pedites often 50% or more of the units, with a scattering of Sammite units, and then a token presence of the traditional Roman units.

Just a thought

AI tends to indeed spam Pedites/Triarii, but fortunately EBII will have means to restrict the recruitment of elite units.

While playing in the campaign map, I will use accensi and velites in Italy and the vicinity of Italy. However, as I move farther away from Italy, and, my Romanii skirmishers take losses... then I recruit local skirmishers.

My expansion outside Italy runs a lot faster than the historical roman expansion. During the polybian era my troops were fighting around the Baltic Sea, the Crimea, and westernmost Africa. When the Romans ventured that far away from Rome, they relied on local skirmishers... though of course, it took them a bit more time to get there.

So, I am left with three choices: don't expand as fast, use velites and accensi in very far away posts where you have no recruiting grounds (not historical), or, recruit local skirmishers in distant regions (like the Romans did when they got that far, during the Marian and Imperial period).

It has been repeatedly pointed to you now that people are criticizing your over use of Pedites Extraordinarii and Triarii, not the use of local skirmishers. Triarii were the oldest (or wealthiest) of heavy infantry, only to be used if needed. Pedites Extraordinarii made up even a smaller proportion of the army, and certainly were not line infantry either.