Local Military Colonies in Gaul

[Cryoshakespeare]

Hoy! So in my experiments in Epeiros as Massalia, I noticed something a little disconcerting. The first level local military colonies built in around probably 5-6 provinces in modern southern France all give +2 recruitment of the lovely Solduroi, really some of the coolest heavy Gaulish infantry. The thing is, a native faction in Gaul can only recruit these guys in one province, with high level infrastructure required. Is there justification for this kind of disparity, or have the recruitment pools just not been tweaked correctly?

[QuintusSertorius]

The policies behind the Local Colony represents settling professionals from any mix of four groups: training natives in non-native ways; shipping in non-native/neighbouring settlers to provide your manpower from a source that isn't going to have immediate sympathies with the locals; settling highlanders and nomads to stop them raiding you, co-opting them to stop other highlanders/nomads raiding your frontiers; and settling mercenaries who are around the region, both to provide a source of good quality troops, and to stop them being hired by your enemies, or turning to banditry. It is not a government, and intentionally doesn't just draw from the local population (that's why there are no levies or semi-professionals in the pools). I'm also keen not to simply duplicate local recruitment wherever possible.

Gaul is one of the more speculative areas for the Local Colony, as is the case in much of the west outside of north Africa and Megale Hellas. The main problem is lack of units of a sufficient level of professionalism in the Celtic roster, mostly because there are still a lot of regional units to come. In southern Gaul, the Gaesatae and Solduroi are the primary potential source of outside settlers. Unlike more northern parts, it can't feasibly draw on Celto-Germanic, Germanic or British units.

[Cryoshakespeare]

Right, I get you. I figured that might be the case. I guess I just found it puzzling that Confederation level governments wouldn't have that same effect of drawing on local and nearby professionals, but then, maybe my understanding of how a Gallic faction would do these things is faulty. Thanks for the reply anyway