So 2.0 and levies brought a very nice change I wasn't aware would be happening that I realised from watching Arheo's interview with Lambert. Pop types influence levy composition.
Roman nobles contribute to light cav, citizens contribute to heavy infantry and freeman to light infantry.
This has the knock on effect that planning cities becomes very important., in a way that I never thought of in previous versions. In my Roman playthrough, the province of Latium is awash with courts of laws, libraries and academies not just for research but to increase citizen and noble percentages to increase heavy infantry and cavalry in my levies. Therefore there are lots of Roman citizens in my capital province. As I expand into Magna Graecia and Cisalpine Gaul I build up plenty of mills to increase slave output and forums to increase freeman and thus manpower as their pops initially need to be assimilated/ integrated before contributing to levies. This means the Capital province is far more privileged in contributing to research, education and the elite forces while everyone else toils away to bring in the profits. Citizens are close to Rome, freeman are outside Rome,, generally. As I assimilate these pops, and their cities grow, I then add libraries to these cities previously dedicated to slaves and freeman. I then start pushing the slave cities further afield, unless I've integrated the Greeks.
Before this patch I always struggled to relate to the patrician/ plebian and social rights struggle of the Socii in ancient Rome but this new system has really alleviated a lot of that, it feels so much more realistic. I always thought of citizenship as a concept and didn't think it fitted the 'pop type' concept of IR. But seeing all the updated systems, (the culture rework, buildings, levies) start to flow with one another maybe it can.
But my question lies in how can this be improved upon further. Should all non integrated pops be immediately demoted from citizen? And if they should how then do we maintain their levy composition? Should a generalised new pop be introduced to soften the blow of all these non integrated pops being demoted from citizen?
Roman nobles contribute to light cav, citizens contribute to heavy infantry and freeman to light infantry.
This has the knock on effect that planning cities becomes very important., in a way that I never thought of in previous versions. In my Roman playthrough, the province of Latium is awash with courts of laws, libraries and academies not just for research but to increase citizen and noble percentages to increase heavy infantry and cavalry in my levies. Therefore there are lots of Roman citizens in my capital province. As I expand into Magna Graecia and Cisalpine Gaul I build up plenty of mills to increase slave output and forums to increase freeman and thus manpower as their pops initially need to be assimilated/ integrated before contributing to levies. This means the Capital province is far more privileged in contributing to research, education and the elite forces while everyone else toils away to bring in the profits. Citizens are close to Rome, freeman are outside Rome,, generally. As I assimilate these pops, and their cities grow, I then add libraries to these cities previously dedicated to slaves and freeman. I then start pushing the slave cities further afield, unless I've integrated the Greeks.
Before this patch I always struggled to relate to the patrician/ plebian and social rights struggle of the Socii in ancient Rome but this new system has really alleviated a lot of that, it feels so much more realistic. I always thought of citizenship as a concept and didn't think it fitted the 'pop type' concept of IR. But seeing all the updated systems, (the culture rework, buildings, levies) start to flow with one another maybe it can.
But my question lies in how can this be improved upon further. Should all non integrated pops be immediately demoted from citizen? And if they should how then do we maintain their levy composition? Should a generalised new pop be introduced to soften the blow of all these non integrated pops being demoted from citizen?
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