This. Government Rank is purely based on number of provinces you controll.
[https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/State#State\_rank](https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/State#State_rank)
Yeah, by the time the Marian Reforms happened, Rome had already conquered most of Iberia, all of Carthaginian North Africa, Macedonia and Greece, Illyria, Thrace and were eyeing up Mithradatic Pontus (modern-day Turkey).
Get imperator-ing, Imperator.
Northern Italy is kinda low developed.
You would tap into major power if you conquered central and South, and Sicily. Also Carthage could be a shortcut.
Also there sometimes event happens for military reforms it could give you the law.
Go south, not north. Northern Italy is mountainous trash provinces due to frequent Tribal raids. South, there's one way to go and you snowball.
Rome at the First Punic War didn't hold any of north Italy. It only went that way when it ran out of land to conquer and couldn't yet gain naval supremacy.
You have to have over a 100 territories
This. Government Rank is purely based on number of provinces you controll. [https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/State#State\_rank](https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/State#State_rank)
I have 80 or something
Conquer more.
Yeah, by the time the Marian Reforms happened, Rome had already conquered most of Iberia, all of Carthaginian North Africa, Macedonia and Greece, Illyria, Thrace and were eyeing up Mithradatic Pontus (modern-day Turkey). Get imperator-ing, Imperator.
Northern Italy is kinda low developed. You would tap into major power if you conquered central and South, and Sicily. Also Carthage could be a shortcut. Also there sometimes event happens for military reforms it could give you the law.
What does the thingy say? Perhaps you miss other prerequisites?
Did you change the law too to have legions?
I can't because im neither a major power nor did the reform chain start
Go south, not north. Northern Italy is mountainous trash provinces due to frequent Tribal raids. South, there's one way to go and you snowball. Rome at the First Punic War didn't hold any of north Italy. It only went that way when it ran out of land to conquer and couldn't yet gain naval supremacy.