Hey, just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sam but I go by Heliozah. I've been playing the game for roughly a week now and I'm loving it so far. It reminds me of when my dad and I played Stronghold. I'm more of a city builder game lover so I mostly focus on building up my city more than I focus on the war aspect, but I do enjoy that as well.. Just not when I first started and I was almost immediately attacked by the AI and barely survived... Just to have them come back and destroy everything again after I rebuilt everything lol I play as the Romans because come on... we all know they're the best! Anyways, I'd love to know any tips or tricks y'all have and just to get to know everyone playing.

See Delenda Est for the simplest way possible to implement a slavery system. One complexity I'd like to add is to make the available slave pool be a global limit rather than per player. But that's about as much complexity as I'd add. 

Google "The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra pdf", first link (dokumen.pub). Chapter 12 start at page 179 (198 of the pdf).

Local_Auxiliary_Units_in_Roman_Syria_Ico.pdf I found another strong one through Researchgate.  

I need a visual reference to draw a version; I'll draw it by hand. First, I'll do the basic version.   What I see are auxiliary archers from the 1st-2nd century; I don't think they'd be wearing that. And then the closest thing is the sagittari from the 4th century. Do you have the link to the text ? I'll paste what I've read first. And if I find any visual support related to the text, I'll paste that too. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858117.013.37 I found it but I don't have access to the chapter and the rest of the book. If someone could chat and take a look, that would be great.