Rorarii to Vigiles Retraining Is Pointless

[Aluminum Elite Master]

So, playing as Rome on a new Grand Campaign for the first time in eons (played as Rome in Imperator Augustus Campaign recently, though), and I found an interesting situation:

Rorarii get the ability to upgrade to Vigiles once the 'Cohort Organisation' technology is researched, yet upgrading them serves no purpose since Vigiles have exactly the same stats now. Not sure if Vigiles used to be better, or Rorarii worse, but right now the two units are somehow identical, even down to the maintenance cost.

Thus, retraining for 150 each is incredibly stupid, because they don't improve at all, and their base cost is only 32 more than the cost to re-train them! Which means re-training them would increase their overall cost by almost 100% while doing nothing whatsoever.

Just odd. I have to imagine this is the result of either Rorarii or Vigiles being rebalanced somewhere along the way.

There's an easy solution, though: just have Rorarii become Vigiles for free.

In the end, I know it's not exactly like people use mobs of Rorarii, but personally I do use them to defend sieges in the early game and I just find it funny that when I hit Cohort Organisation that I found they retrain into an identical unit with just a different name.

Only other possiblity is that one or the other has incorrect stats showing... which I can't rule out, but it just seems like rebalancing is probably why the two units are now identical despite one 'upgrading' into the other.

[Jonny]

Lol yes they have the same stat for whatever reason, I'd expect a buff, even the littlest buff would be cool

[Lucky Stralex]

there are a lot of oversights like that in the game

[Aluminum Elite Master]

I am unsure as to why or how this post came up again for folks given that it's been 7 years or so, but at least this was a nice blast from the past when I played R2 lol.

[OwlRaider]

Originally posted by Aluminum Elite Master:

I am unsure as to why or how this post came up again for folks given that it's been 7 years or so, but at least this was a nice blast from the past when I played R2 lol.

Some people still play Rome 2 or heck are playing it for the first time after buying it in a steep sale(winter/black friday/etc). You'd be surprised how many people still play all the old total war titles, well less so for Medieval 1 and Shogun 1 as they run poorly on modern machines but Rome 1(original not remastered), Medieval 2 and onwards are still being played a lot even today. As for Rome 2 specifically, many people, myself included, stayed away from it as if it was the plague due to its horrible release state and never bothered to try it out after the Attila fiasco. These days however after all the DLCs including the recent ones several years after release and the patches that came with them, Rome 2 is in a much better state than it was for most of its lifetime so people are still getting into Rome 2 even today for the first time.