Anything you can do to make this great game even better is greatly appreciated
I was looking at export_descr_character_traits and I found those Roman military traits but they're very hard to get, I've never seen a rank higher than Tourmarches and I've never got the Domesticos ton Scholon of the east or west ancillary in any of my games.
A couple more things I gathered from my Roman campaigns:
Mourtatoi are one of the best archer units in the game and they're very easy to mass produce because they're cheap and can be trained from a level 2 range. Maybe reduce their recruitment pool and make them recruitable from a level 3 range. Also their AOR is weird, they cannot be recruited in central Anatolia, but they can be in Heskif and even Tabriz.
Scoutatoi spearmen no longer have the shield wall ability. Is this a mistake because the Scoutatoi swordsmen and Castrophilakae still have it.
In my experience the Serbs are usually one of the first factions to die sometimes by the hands of the Hungarians or more often by the Romans which is historical I guess but maybe you can turn Ras into a fortress to improve their survivability.
Also the Romans no longer start with their elite Tagmatic units in Constantinople. I guess this was done for balancing purposes, but I don't think they made the Romans overpowered because their upkeep is enormous. Two units of Scholarii cost nearly 5000 per turn. I would also greatly reduce their recruitment pool, even though you have to wait a long time before they become available, but when they do you can just mass produce them (providing you have the economy to sustain them, which you usually do by that time). 1 unit every 10 turns (same as Varangians) is not unreasonable imo.
Also I've never seen a jihad declared against Constantinople whereas in SS it was usually the second target after Jerusalem. I think it would add a much needed challenge to the Roman player. And the Bulgarian uprising should be much more difficult to put down, currently it's nothing more than a minor inconvenience.
And another thing which is probably not high on your list because the CBUR roster is great as it is, but are there any plans to improve the Roman roster like adding some Broken Crescent units like Kontratatoi pikemen or Vestiaritai heavy swordsmen or maybe some units from Chivalry 1, a RTW mod which from what I read has the most accurate representation of the Roman army of that time?
Sorry for the long post, keep up the great work!