Grandkhan
Telvanni Master Wizard
Btw about the army - shouldn't it's be decided by roman population ages 16-30 rather than buying legionaries?
For example agrarian changes that create more men with enough economy to buy weapons should increase the army numbers, no?
Or by this era all legionnaires are paid employees?
By this point, the Marian reforms have been passed. The Roman Legions, at least by Sulla's time, were already professional soldiers and were provided with standardised equipment by Rome.
As for the auxiliaries, they are also professional recruits. Its best to think of them less as 'my personal army' and more as 'the soldiers who are loyal to me and me alone, and are paid from taxes collected from my provinces.' A local garrison that moves with you, to put it this way. Its an abstraction, roll with it.