White zones are the center for recruiting these soldiers. Highlighted are zones of recruitment for those units. An army that will be able to win battles and conquer new lands for you on her own, provided you don't let them fight against severe odds or high-end elite forces.

You have militia, skirmishers, missile units, light infantry, heavy infantry and cavalry - in short, you can get a full army from them. They don't look much, but do not underestimate them: this is the army that spread, and defended, Greek culture across most of the Mediterranean basin for centuries. This will probably be your first allied army, after conquering Taras. Highlighted are the provinces where you can recruit them. These are the men that conquered Spain, defeated Hannibal and the Macedonians. Please note that you cannot raise them in the South and Northeast of Italy even though those are homelands.

Highlighted are the provinces where you can recruit these men. This is the army that conquered Italy and Sicily but was defeated by Pyrrhus and Hannibal. If you need to know what units you can raise exactly in Syria or Bibracte, I have to recommend you the famous 'Recruitment Viewer', what was an enormous help for me to finish this guide. Note that this is not a listing of units for every province. Let's take a look at the units and where to get them first. So, if you don't want to empty your homeland towns for each and every garrison and don't want to spend most of the time shipping around units, you might find this little guide useful. This will lead to a dilemma in a lot of cases because advanced governments restrict the ability to raise local units, when the Republican Rome has to rely, more than any other of the factions, on locals, not only as garrison or auxilia but often enough as core army.

On the other hand your zone of expansion is stretching over the largest part of the map, allowing you to establish advanced governments in most of the lands that you will conquer. The situation of Rome in EB is unique because for most parts of the game you cannot raise any of your native units outside Italy.

Rome 2 auxiliary units