Alternative UP for Rome?

[Ambassador]

Hi all,

I just read an interesting article about Polybios' - a greek historian of the 2. century BC - view and analysis of Rome's lasting dominion and impact in the Mediterranean world. He wrote, what made them differ from all other empires of that time was their reslience to easy defeat, like Macedonia, Seleucia, the Ptolemaians or Greek states suffered. After even major military defeats like against Hannibal they still wouldnt give up and pump out new troops, just to ultimately defeat the enemy.
Now I thought about possibly changing Rome's UP from faster roads to the ability to have access to recruiting. Recruiting is already possible with nationhood, which comes rather late in the game. So its to no use for the early Romans. But being able to recruit early on would reflect Rome's ability to build up legions very quickly.

Alternativly we could think about making the recruit ability available earlier, possibly with a tech Rome can get quickly.

What do you think?

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Nice idea, but currently the strength of Rome depends on their fast movement around their empire and the strength of their praetorians. A new UP would need a lot of testing, so I doubt that it will be included.

 

[Feyaria]

It wont help rome much, because I dont think praetorians (swordsman) are draftable... if i remeber correctly, draftable units are warrior/axe/mace/musket/rifle/infantry/mech inf

 

[Deego3]

The Roman UU is to powerful to be draftable.

 

[zbelg]

I don't see a problem with the current UP, it's historically accurate and actually very helpful for conquering as mobility is a nasty handicap when trying to manage a large army.

Nationalism is just fine where it is currently and moving it to the classical age would throw everything out of loop. If it's a matter of mechanics just use slavery and whip your troops.

 

[Cethegus]

I don't see a problem with the current UP, it's historically accurate and actually very helpful for conquering as mobility is a nasty handicap when trying to manage a large army.

Nationalism is just fine where it is currently and moving it to the classical age would throw everything out of loop. If it's a matter of mechanics just use slavery and whip your troops.

Imagine alt-historical Rome drafting the German/French/Spanish/English/Turkish cities to oblivion a 100 years before the appropriate civs spawn and then crush them with their troops. That's exactly what would happen to the new civs if human player got his hands on early drafting.

Not going to happen. It's a nice and thoughtful idea but not fit to RFC.