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    Default Re: Romani have a type I government in Capua?

    I get your point, but with a type I government Romani can raise the same legions in Capua, Ariminium, Arretium, Apulia as in Rome, while I wonder if this is historical.
    I believe troops supplied by allied cities were clearly distinguished from Roman legions raised in the City, they were auxilia, not the same Hastati, Principle, Triarii.

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    Default Re: Romani have a type I government in Capua?

    Quote Originally Posted by Julianus View Post
    I get your point, but with a type I government Romani can raise the same legions in Capua, Ariminium, Arretium, Apulia as in Rome, while I wonder if this is historical.
    I believe troops supplied by allied cities were clearly distinguished from Roman legions raised in the City, they were auxilia, not the same Hastati, Principle, Triarii.
    There is a minimod for that. But it makes it even worse
    Now you get Samniti troops everywhere^^

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    Yeah, I'm also finding things not to like about that mod.

    The solution is just to build core roman troops only in Roma for awhile.
    Imo, the following "mod" is almost perfect:
    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
    For installation process, I followed the following: RTW Gold > Alexander > EB 1.1 > 1.2 > Official Fixes > 1.2 Mini Mod Pack 3.1 > LZ3's Custom EB Fix Adaptation > Phalanx Mod > RS Textures > Naval Strat Map Add On > Lysander's Sihunet Formations Adaptations > EOM 4 Carthaginian Governors Edition > Atraphoenix' RS Legions Adaptation For ALEXANDER EB > Getting Rid Of The Giant Trees Mod > (I've also modded the Roman reforms to happen sooner, deleted 7 files/folders to get rid of window lights and torches for night battles, and added 3 SKYMOD_BI .txt files for night lighting.) - The only thing missing is a 12 turns per year mod, maybe 6 tpy instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julianus View Post
    I get your point, but with a type I government Romani can raise the same legions in Capua, Ariminium, Arretium, Apulia as in Rome, while I wonder if this is historical.
    I believe troops supplied by allied cities were clearly distinguished from Roman legions raised in the City, they were auxilia, not the same Hastati, Principle, Triarii.
    I'm not sure about the recruitment options, but you can always destroy the type I government and build a new one. Following this you can choose whichever type of government you think would be best at that time. Once you decide that it's time to integrate Capua fully you can destroy the government and install type I again.

    I'm just not sure of recruitment options in Capua with different types of governments. Just take a look at recruitment viewer and it should show what's possible to recruit.

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    Default Re: Romani have a type I government in Capua?

    Quote Originally Posted by Julianus View Post
    I get your point, but with a type I government Romani can raise the same legions in Capua, Ariminium, Arretium, Apulia as in Rome, while I wonder if this is historical.
    I believe troops supplied by allied cities were clearly distinguished from Roman legions raised in the City, they were auxilia, not the same Hastati, Principle, Triarii.
    Our Hastati, Principes, and Triarii are intended to represent the bulk of both Roman and Allied contingents.

    Roughly 30% of the allies accompanying a Roman army were Latins. In 272 BC, a large majority of Latins were colonists who were distributed throughout Roman-controlled Italy. Almost all Latin colonists were the descendants of Roman citizens or had once been Roman citizens themselves (Livy 9.24, 9.26, 27.9). Consequently, the Latins were equipped and organized in the same way the Romans were.

    It's also clear from the description of a number of battles (Ilipa comes to mind), and from Polybios' description of the army on the march that the entire army, including the alae, was arranged in three lines. This suggests that the non-Latin allies contributed soldiers who fought in essentially the same way as the Hastati, Principes, and Triarii.
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