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I have been playing the full Sulla scenario for the first time.

In Italy I built 3 Italian Legions, with which, after a long wait for the other Legions to activate, Rome could be retaken while Sulla was fighting in Greece.

I then sent some of the legions to Sulla, to protect the flanks while Sulla was going into Asia.

I then discovered that some of those legions I sent were regional from Italy, but I couldn't see any particular bad behaviour of those legions in Greece. What are the limitations of those regional legions? I have read here on the forum of terrible slowness of German Legions in Italy, but in this war I couldn't notice a thing.

Another question: is there a difference in a normal (non-siege) battle between the Assault stance and the Offensive stance? With all the level 1 fortresses around, I like to use the assault stance to avoid losing time at these cities, but I wondered whether it made a difference when meeting a large enemy army in the field. In my game I didn't see any obvious bad performance, but then, every battle is different, and it is hard to compare. On the other hand, the only battles Sulla lost against Pontus were in assault stance on open ground against a 2:1 majority.

I think in a two player PBEM the Populares player should also control the Pontus faction. Only that way he would have any chance at all.

I don't think there is any regional limitation on Roman troops, legions or auxilliaries. It is only a limitation on the regions that they can be recruited in. Italian legions tend to have higher stats than those recruited in other regions though.

Erik Springelkamp wrote:
I then discovered that some of those legions I sent were regional from Italy, but I couldn't see any particular bad behaviour of those legions in Greece. What are the limitations of those regional legions? I have read here on the forum of terrible slowness of German Legions in Italy, but in this war I couldn't notice a thing.

I think that the slow Germans were the German auxilias.