>>56841
The issue Rome ended up having was mustering an army for their vast empire, one of the people wrote something to the extent "It is claimed that as a citizen of Rome, I am king of all the Roman empire touches, but I have not a piece of ground on which to call my own"
What exactly is it that someone is fighting for in that case?
Money poured into funding Mercs, who would rather abandon the battlefield than die, because they were fighting for money and not a homeland, the foreigner is never truly at home unless he is among his own people.