You can recruit only 1 unit per city, per turn?

[Silver]

Well this sucks. From Medieval II onward I have been used to recruiting several units per turn at least when I built high level troop recruiting buildings. I thought this feature had been introduced by Rome 1 already.

[Lebhleb]

Since any city in rome is both Military and Economic at same time, and they build up much faster, you kinda have to use more than 1 city to recruit, besides, its when you start retraining when the game gets insane.

[Silver]

yeah, didn't take me long to figure that one out as well. Never merge your units after a battle if youre still in a city which has the necessary buildings to replenish all losses - can do so within 1 turn lol, if you have the cash. It'll subtract the people from the settlement and potentially improve public order as well (not just cause there's a bigger garrison now but also because there's less pop)

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by Silver:

yeah, didn't take me long to figure that one out as well. Never merge your units after a battle if youre still in a city which has the necessary buildings to replenish all losses - can do so within 1 turn lol, if you have the cash. It'll subtract the people from the settlement and potentially improve public order as well (not just cause there's a bigger garrison now but also because there's less pop)

Though, do take notice of this, as much as pop bonuses from buildings are usefull, you will deal with Squalor, which even in early game can be worse than it is in any other game [its why i ussualy don't do full on campaings in Rome even if i prefer it over other games]

[Silver]

early game? I feel like squalor only develops towards mid to late game as your cities become large and huge cities. but there are always ways to mitigate it like temples, arenas, governor present, increasing garrison, lowering tax level and, if nothing helps, a "controlled rioting", i.e. let the province riot for 1 turn, it will kill hundreds of people and lower squalor as long as you can get the happiness back up in time again

also I play with unit size "large" so regularly recruiting units (or peasants and sending them off the province to populate others) also helps this way. Unit scale "huge" would drain cities way too fast.

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by Silver:

early game? I feel like squalor only develops towards mid to late game as your cities become large and huge cities. but there are always ways to mitigate it like temples, arenas, governor present, increasing garrison, lowering tax level and, if nothing helps, a "controlled rioting", i.e. let the province riot for 1 turn, it will kill hundreds of people and lower squalor as long as you can get the happiness back up in time again

also I play with unit size "large" so regularly recruiting units (or peasants and sending them off the province to populate others) also helps this way. Unit scale "huge" would drain cities way too fast.

Dunno i always found it annoying anytime [my Scipii campaing litruelly frozze since i have to deal with some spanish provinces and carthage since of damned squalor]

[HazardHawk]

To deal more effectively with squalor build the grain exchange and then the Market and advance that building chain no further, build the first two levels for farms and no further (farms cannot be destroyed once built), do not build sewers at all and allow illness to help keep the population down. The exception is when you get into backwater regions that will not grow and then you can build these buildings. This mechanic is the same in Medieval 2.

[Storm Runner]

if all else fails there is the nucler opten of letting the city rebel and then haveing 3 army's near by to perform a "mass pop control excersise"

[Hat8]

If I remember correctly the Roma Surrectam mod allows you to mass recruit.