Making Spartans a Roman unit

[Dash]

I was just wondering if someone could help me in making it so that the Romans can recruit Spartans from Sparta.

It doesn't seem to be working very well for me.

[Templar Knight]

i think you can recruit spartans as Rome, but you have to do it before the Marius event, and you have to control sparta

however i could be wrong as i have never done this personally

[rory o'kane]

no, i'm fairly certain you can't. that'd be blasphemy!

[Dash]

Yeah, unfortunately you can't, as I found out the hard way. =[

[icydawgfish]

I thought all factions could recruit the hoplites but only Hellenic factions could recruit them after the reforms.

[Dash]

I'll go check on more time... after I reinstall my RS. I mean, I'm sure they can recruit most of them but I'm not exactly sure with the Spartans. Before I started messin with my game to make them playable, I bribed the city and cheated to get the highest barracks, and I didn't see them.

EDIT: Nope. Romans don't get Spartans, but I guess they get Athenian hoplites at least.