Local Auxiliary Legionaries for Rome [ Ver. 0.7.2 – April 2024 ]
Local Auxiliary Legionaries is a mod that aims to add an auxiliary force consisting of the local people of the region, that is trained in the Roman arts of war.
While this might seem like a totally fictional mod, that is not entirely the case. Though in the vanilla game, auxiliary troops are almost exclusively light units, studies show that the auxulia was actually mostly heavy, legionary-ish units. This mod is not in any way historicaly accurate, but the consept of legionary-ish units are accurate. Here is a quote from an article written by Dr. Phil Hendry "Most auxiliary cohorts contained heavy infantry similar to legionaries – wearing mail and helmets, carrying spears and large shields"
With Scutums, gladiuses, and tactical training in Roman formations, fighting style and disipline, they are equal to the Roman legionary in battle, but with resistance to the local climate, making them an excellent force in the local regions.
So far i have added 12 units, each belonging to their own regions on the map, but i will progressively add a unit for each local culture. They will only be recruitable in their respective regions as auxiliaries. This will add an unique touch to your armies that origin from different parts of the world.
Recruited from Auxiliary Barracks, in their respective regions.
They are also (For now) recruitable as General Units, however, in update Beta 0.6 i will replace this feature with 4 unique general units. one for each climate/direction on the map.
Feel free to post comments and Requests in the comment section.
**[Last Update]**
Ver. Beta 0.7.1 [Update April. 17th 2024]
*[FIX] Balanced Unit stats. The stats are meant to reflect that of the regulare legionaries, but some "ghost – defence skill" was present (making them quite OP). This has been resolved and stats are now like legionaries.
*[NEW] Added Culture relevant Unit cards to make it easier to distinct between the units.
Ver. Beta 0.7.2 (Hotfix) [Update April. 17th 2024]
*[FIX] Rebalanced unit stats again since some units had less melee defence skill than others (due to armor type).
*[Change] Lighter armored Legionaries (Carthagenian and Egyptian] have been changed to medium infantry to increase their mobility
(Earlier updates notes can be found in the change notes)
[ROADMAP] (This will change, as i work on the project)
Beta 0.8: Add Bactrian and Arabian Legionaries, also make Marian Reforms required to recruit the units.
Beta 0.9: Add Persian and Thracian Legionaries
Release 1.0: Add the rest [Big boii update] All Auxiliary regions has their own Legionary Unit.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
