Originally Posted by
QuintusSertorius
Capua is in Campania. Campania features two of the greatest Hellenic polis' in the west: Neapolis and Cumae. It was to represent those two pretty significant settlements that I added a Hellenistic Polis to Capua, not because the city itself was Greek-founded.
Well, first thanks for the info. I think i will add a minor polis to Capua to them.
That decline is why by 272BC it only merits a Polis, rather than Metropolis. The only reason they had the most powerful naval forces in Italy was because the Romani had a pitiful navy prior to the First Punic War, and thus they had essentially no competition for the title.
Well but some of the city-states in Magna Graecia, such as Rhegion, Croton and Locri, asked Rome for military help because of the wars that they were having with their neighbours. Also, Thurii, which was located on the Gulf of Taranto and under Tarentine rule, asked Rome for help in 282 BC, after being attacked by Lucanians. This situation inevitably led to a conflict between Taranto and Rome, since Taranto felt Rome was interfering in the affairs of the Greek colonies in southern Italy, which the Tarentines considered under their dominion.
Taras act like "protector" of the other hellenic colonies in south Italy. And i think it was the last great Hellenic city from south Italy that fell to Romans. I think it deserves to be a Metropolis.
They most definitely do have them in the unaugmented descr_strat.txt - I'm looking at it right now. They also both have them in-game, which was why I never added one to either.