oscar said:
The whole "legions are nerfed heaps when your playing Romans" sounds pretty lame. I understand it's to ensure a challenge against the AI but any number of solutions (make legions more expensive, make it easier for your foes to recruit, make it you face lots of revolts) would be better then that.
Eh, the legions are actually p. good units, especially those with segmentata armour. Yes, they're probably not the best units in the whole game (fighting Macedonian elite phalangites is a challenge even with top notch legions), but then again the Romans weren't so successful because of unstoppable ĂĽber-skill murder tanks, but because they had high discipline (and the legions do have high morale, I've seldomly had them flee even when highly outnumbered) and because the Romans used the better military tactics.
Which is kinda like how it works in the game, too. Throw your legions frontally against the enemy and you might lose. Use flanking tactics, use auxiliaries smartly etc, and you will win.
Legions *did* occasionally lose against their enemies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_ ... 8279_BC%29