New Roman AoR

[Zarax]

Err, sorry about not specifying the faction I was talking about...

Yes, my idea is to eventually give the romans a slightly different AOR choice by allowing them to recruit factional cavarly only in Italy while at the same time getting AOR cavalry from auxiliary barracks everywhere else.

They would get a more limited infantry selection from AOR pre-marius that will be gone post reform as their factional troops looses AOR limitations.

Still have to think in terms of balance, will let you know when I cook something...

[CaesarVincens]

Alright, sounds good.

[Suppanut]

I also agree with you on Roman' auxiliaries cavalry AOR as romans relied on auxiliary cavalry more than infantry. But I will proposed for ranges AOR to be kept for romans too as they seem to relied on them quite intensively while infantry auxiliary were the things they almost not use at all.

[CaesarVincens]

The problem with the Romans is that half the time the natives would be put into Roman style auxiliaries, which are already in the game.

[Zarax]

I'll look into what can be decent historical representation of the model and let you know...
It would be good to open a separate thread about this though

[Suppanut]

At first, I think about made all roman auxilia to become AOR. But from my experience in AI play during bug testing tell me that currently most of the times roman almost can't rampage outside Italy at all and often lost to Macedon(dominator in most of my tests) or Spain(I have only 1 test that roman rampage outside Italy and rule europe). So if we made their auxilia to become distributed AOR among areas then they will perform even worse. I support the idea on made AOR of roman very limit to cavalry and range units without access to normal infantry, camel, elephant and horse archer to made sure that they have Achilles's Heels.

Here is my idea on Romans' AOR barrack
Gauls&Germania
- Barbarian Cavalry
- Barbarian Heavy Cavalry

Spain
- Round Shield Cavalry
- Long Shield Cavalry

Thrace
- Thracian Cavalry

North Africa
- Numidian Archer
- Numidian Cavalry

Balearic Isle
- Balearic Slingers

Crete
- Cretan Archer

Rhode
- Rhodian Slinger

Thressalia&Aetolia
- Thressalian Cavalry

Terantum
- Terantine Cavalry

Greek
- Greek Militia Cavalry
- Greek Cavalry

Cappadocia
- Cappadocian Cavalry

Syria
- Syrian Archer

Egypt
- Nubian Cavalry
- Nubian Archer

Eastern
- Eastern Heavy Cavalry

Steppe
- Scythian Light Cavalry
- Samartian Mercenary

Bactria
- Bactrian Cavalry
- Bactrian Archer

India
- Indian Longbowmen
- Indian Cavalry

Arabia
- Arab Cavalry

What do you think about it?

[Suppanut]

Zarax, What kind of bow that Numidian Archer use, composite or normal bow?

[CaesarVincens]

I believe its a normal bow, they have short range.

[Zarax]

Suppanut's choice sounds pretty good to me, I'd just add eastern heavy cavalry in anatolia and the cleruch cavalry in egypt as they joined the roman army pretty enthusiastically after augustus' conquest.