Originally Posted by
Roma_Victrix
It feels strange to say this to you, but you're wrong! All of this was going on after I already achieved the Thorakitai reforms. It's already 212 BC in the game. I took Damaskos in like 216 or 215 BC, and I was already recruiting Thorakitai and have been able to build the fourth tier Reformed Hellenistic Colonies elsewhere (even though I choose not to because screw them, I want my regular phalangitai). As far as I can tell, I can only build the Local Military Colonization buildings to get Kataphractoi here, because it wasn't even allowing me to build anything beyond the second tier of the Hellenistic colonization, Helcol_two as you would call it. AND YES, THAT WAS BACK BEFORE I BULLDOZED THE JEWISH GARRISON.
What government do you have in Damaskos? What's the level of Hellenistic Polities?
The upgrade path concerned is this one:
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helcol_ref requires factions { f_makedonia, f_epeiros, f_pergamon, f_pontos, cul_3, } and hidden_resource eastern and not hidden_resource arabian and not hidden_resource baktria and not hidden_resource daha and not hidden_resource satrapy and building_present_min_level govmakedonia makedonia6 or building_present_min_level govepeiros epeiros6 or building_present_min_level govseleukid seleukid5 or building_present_min_level govptolemaioi ptolemaioi6 or building_present_min_level govbaktria baktria5 or building_present_min_level govpontos pontos5 or building_present_min_level govpergamon pergamon6 or building_present_min_level govbospor bospparadyn ; Eastern - not Satrapies
Originally Posted by
nvm
On turn 343 I am feeling worn out on my Rome campaign. 160 turns to go until Marian reforms...zzzz. I may be merely inbetween a blitzing player seeking to conquer everything ASAP and a patient one willing to see all 1000+ turns to the end, but it doesn't seem to be enough. I hope something changes to make the wait for Marian reforms and Cursus Honorum a bit more bearable (especially considering you do need to indulge in it to achieve the reforms without the auto-fallback - you need a Consul at least!)
Make changes of your own. Create your own mini-reform, where you might stop recruiting Hastati for your main armies, relegating them to garrison units. Later on, you could do the same with Triarii.
Or better still, tinker with your neighbouring powers without conquering them. Send out your agents to interfere with them and launch military campaigns to preserve a balance of power where no one of them can rise to dominance.