A historically-accurate Roman conquest timeline

[QuintusSertorius]

This is another exercise related to my Guide, ensuring people are taking settlements when they should be. I'd appreciate input and critique on dates, I've primarily used UNRV for specific dates, along with backing some of them up with The Fall of Carthage and Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy. I've only really gone as far as the Augustan Reforms.

A real question which could become a set of instructions all of it's own is how to deal with "independent, but allied" settlements, for example Massilia, Arse, Emporion, Syrakousai and Iuvovoaeta. Some were later conquered, but how could they best be represented? Taken and given a long string of type IV governments? The bigger question is whether each settlement needs a consideration of how they were historically Romanised. Some were immediately made provinces, others took much longer.

Here's the list in chronological order:

272: Taras
270: Rhegion, Bononia
264: Messana
258: Alalia
240: Lilibeo (by treaty)
238BC: Raid Segesta, hold until Polybian reforms
237: Karali
229/8: Segestica, Dalmanion, Epidamnos
224: Patavium
222: Mediolanium
221: Arse?
219: Lose Arse to Qarthadast
218: Segesta
217-203/191: Lose then regain Segesta, Mediolanium, Patavium
216-211: Lose then regain Capua
212-209: Lose then regain Tarentum
215: Regain Arse, Emporion?
211: Syrakousai
209: Mastia
206: Gader
204-202: Raid Kirtan, invade Africa
200: Bocchoris (by treaty)
200: Raid Pella
197-179: Baikor
188: Asia Minor ceded by Seleukids to Pergamum
181-179: Raid Numantia
167: Ambrakia, Epidamnos; Raid Pella; Makedonia made protectorate
157-5: Raid Vindobona
154: Segesta
154-139: Oxtraca (client state), Lusitania (client state)
147: Pella, Demetrius
146: Qart-Hadast (expel), Adrumento, Atiqa, Lepki; Raid Ippone and any other Qartadastim holdings
146: Korinthos (expel), Thermon, Chalkis, Athenai, Sparte
138: Sucum-Murgi
137: Tyde (client state), Galaecia (client state)
133: Numantia (siege), Pergamon, Sardis, Mytilene, Ipsos, Side (bequest)
129: Hallikarnassos
121: Tolosa, Viennos
105: Ippone, Siga, Lixus (all client kingdoms)
101: Tarsos
96: Kyrene (bequest)
91-88: Social War; possibly allow Italian settlements to rebel and re-take.
91-88: Lose Asia Province (Pergamaon, Sardis, Hallikarnassos, Mytilene, Ipsos, Side) and Greece (Athenai, Sparte, Korinthos) to Pontos
86: Regain Asia Province (but not Tarsos, Halikarnassos client kingdom) and Greece;
80: Mytilene revolts
75: Raid Singidunum, Serdike, Naissos
74 Bithynia-Pontus created and lost
71: Heraclea?
70: Amaseia, Sinope, Trapezous
68-63: Krete
67: Regain Tarsos
66: Antiocheia, Damaskos, Sidon (Syria province created)
64: Ankyra (client state), Hierosolymia (client state)
63: Trapezous, Mazaka (client state)
62: Nikaia regained
61: Lose then regain Oxtraca/Lusitana, Lose then regain Viennos
58: Salamis
51: Loss of Syria to Pahlava? Or just raided?
58-51: Gergovia, Viennos, Burgidala, Lemonum, Avaricum, Bibracte, Cenabum, Darioritum, Bratoporios, Vesontio, Bagacos
55-54: Raid Camulosadae
49: Massilia
30: Egypt annexed (Paraitonion, Alexandria, Memphis, Dispolis-Megale, Pselkis)
29-6AD: Singidunum, Serdike, Naissos, Tylis
25: Ankyra (province)
16: Iuvovoaeta
15: Veldideno
9: Vindobona
8: Vindelicoppolis, Mrog Arctegone, Gawjam-Heruskoz, Gawjam-Habukoz

9AD: Lose Vindelicoppolis, Mrog Arctegone, Gawjam-Heruskoz, Gawjam-Habukoz to Sweboz

There are question marks, because I'm not sure whether some settlements fall under the areas concerned. Furthermore, I may have made some mistakes or omissions along the way.

A completely ancillary issue is the Marian reforms as they're coded in the game, namely that I think the province requisite is too high if you're playing historically. You might have about 48 provinces in 110BC. I know it's been dropped from 50 to 45, but I still think that's a little high. The automatic one strikes me as a little pointless; at 90 provinces you're well beyond the scope of the historical empire and long after victory conditions. My own preference would be to raise the trigger to about 130BC, drop the province limit to around 35 and make it automatic at 90BC or something like that. But that really is a separate issue to this timeline, just something made clear by doing this.

Comments welcome.