Thanks a lot, Jubal and Silver Wolf!
Update for the Roman Factions!
The Republic of RomeThese are turbulent days for the roman people. After the death of their first dictator in a hundred years, and almost recovered from the devastation that decades of struggle, both abroad and internal, brought, Rome finds itself threatened in various fronts once again.
Iberia, one of Rome's most ancient provinces, is now nearly completely dominated by the rebel Quintus Sertorius and his iberian allies, and he is not about to content himself with it. Sertorius must be stoped at the price of having him nominated dictator, or even worse... king of Rome!
In the East, King Mithridates and his armies threatened to take over roman influence and power in Asia Minor for years, and now, after they have invaded, yet again, roman provinces and allies there, war against Pontus has been declared.
Parthia also threatens roman territories. The descendants of the Persians have expanded through the lands of Babylonia, Armenia and Arabia until they reached almost Rome's back door. Will the Parthians be willing to halt their expansion or will war follow?
And in Italy, who is this man that drives a horde of slaves, gladiators, and even freeman who have decided to join an army of rebels? Surely nothing more than rabble scum to be delt easily by Rome's armies...
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Unit Roster
1 -
City Guards2 -
Velites3 -
Auxilia4 -
Legionaries5 - Legionary First Cohort
Stables
Roman CavalrySiege Engineer
1 - Onagers, Ballistas, Scorpions
2 - Heavy Onagers, Repeating Ballistas
The Officers
General, Aquilifer, Standard Bearer, Centurion. Legionaries will only be recruitable in Italy. In the later game, however, some cities across the map will be able to expand and recruit them. But there will be few of them.
The Roman's siege weapons will be very powerfull. It will compensate to take ballistas and scorpions to the battlefield as they will cause a lot of punishment to the enemy.
To represent the Roman religion tolerance, a system of foreign temple construction will be available. You will be able to construct temples to the native gods, though not all the levels.
Roman territoriesThe Eastern ProvincesAfter the wars against the Seleucid Empire some of the cities in Syria were somewhat absorbed into the roman sphere. The truth, however, is that Rome, represented by its Senate, as always been reluctant to create new provinces, thus increasing its bureaucracy and was happy to let those cities be governed by local Etnarchs or even pro-Roman princes from defeated households, as long as they keep paying tribute and wont do anything that goes against the Senate's interestes there.
Now, however, with the war against Pontus and the always threatening Parthians expanding untill the point of reaching roman borders the necessity for a firm and capable command demands that someone from the senatorial ranks is sent to the Eastern Provinces in order to establish order and defend them at all costs.
The Senate has sent a Proconsul there with orders to hault the armies of Pontus if they try to invade. Also its his duty to begin diplomatic conversations with the Parthians to remind them of the pact they signed with Sulla, representing the Senate, not so many years ago, and to act accordingly if they don't want to remember.
It's not an easy job. The Senate has already three different wars to fight so its not likely to be able to help with money or troops. So it's up to whoever is in command to act, and act quickly.
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Unit Roster
1 - City Guards
2 - Velites
3 - Auxilia
Eastern Auxilia
4 - Legionaries
Stables
Roman Cavalry
Siege Engineer
1 - Onagers, Ballistas, Scorpions.
2 - Heavy Onagers, Repeating Ballistas.
The Officers
General, Aquilifer, Standard Bearer and Centurion
Territories
The Eastern Provinces are roman so will have access to roman temples as well as to the system of "foreign temple construction".
They start allied with the Roman Republic and probably as a client kingdomm, and will receive sproradic reinforcements from the Senate
Although the rule of "legionaries are only recruited in Italy" also applies to here, they will start with one city capable of recruiting them.
The Roman RebelsWhen civil war erupted in Rome, Quintus Sertorius took the side of his uncle Marius and travelled to the Iberia to secure to loyalty of those provinces but was soon defeated by one of Sulla's legates.
Sertorius fled to Mauretania where he organized an army and defeated many of Sulla's legates there. The news os his success in Africa reached the Iberian tribes who were being attacked by Sulla's legates in the region and an embassy was sent asking him to return to Iberia to lead it's armies against the oppressor.
Sertorius soon desimnarked on Iberia bringing reinforcements from Africa and with the help of the Iberian tribes, took over almost all of the Iberian territories under the senate