1st legionary cohorts and roman citizenship

**Rob of the Julii** · February 05, 2009, 07:52 AM

Hi, I'm doing a roman campaign atm and I'm about 8 turns away from the Marian reforms coming in (building an Imperial Palace in Capua). At the minute my empire is rather far flung and fighting wars against the seluicids in Pontus, the Cathaginians in North Africa and the Iberians in Spain. My military is therefore rather large and I want to replace all the old Polybian units with the new Legions asap. The only problem is the 1st cohorts. I want one in each of my armies seeing as I'm trying to play as authentically as possible. 1st cohorts can only be recruited in cities with Roman citizenship and in my game only the cities in Italy and Sicily have been granted it. Is there a way to mod the game so that 1st cohorts are recruitable from cities with provincial barracks like the standard legionaries?

Many thanks.

**Eskali** · February 27, 2009, 12:19 AM

sorry i had a look and cant find it, anyone else know how to do this?

**florin80** · February 27, 2009, 12:14 PM

In vanilla rtrpe the first cohort is recruited after the marian reform from the last level of the barracks(Roman Citizenship) which can be built with no restrictions anywhere on the map. If you want to make them recruitable from the previous level you need to open the file export_descr_buildings from Rome - Total War/data. Or from Rome - Total War/RTRPE/data if you have the mod switch version of rtrpe. Make a backup of the file first. Then find this building:

Code:

        muster_field requires factions { romans_julii, slave, }

and make the first cohort recruitable from there as it is from the next level. I.e. you add this line:

Code:

                recruit "roman legionary first cohort i"  0  requires factions { roman, } and marian_reforms

under the one of the regular legionaries. Which is this one:

Code:

                recruit "roman legionary cohort i"  0  requires factions { roman, } and marian_reforms

Save and exit. Make backups first(of your saved games too)so in case something goes wrong you don`t lose anything.

**Eskali** · March 03, 2009, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by florin80

In vanilla rtrpe the first cohort is recruited after the marian reform from the last level of the barracks(Roman Citizenship) which can be built with no restrictions anywhere on the map.

Ohh...i thought they had a restriction were they could only be recruited in Italy?

Originally Posted by Rob of the Julii

1st cohorts can only be recruited in cities with Roman citizenship and in my game only the cities in Italy and Sicily have been granted it. Is there a way to mod the game so that 1st cohorts are recruitable from cities with provincial barracks like the standard legionaries?

I was thinking they'd have a hidden resource like the Spartans?

**florin80** · March 03, 2009, 09:14 AM

No, there is no hidden resource restricting either the last level of roman barracks or the first cohort. The only thing is that their recruitment depends on the marian reform having taken place. Again, I am talking about vanilla RTRPE, not its mini mods or related projects(such as ExRM or Imperator).