Hello, just regarding the population; playing as Sparta, have the main building at t2, as well as a barracks and a marble quarry. I've not reached imperium 3 yet so i can't build the t3 one.
I'm trying to really carefully nurture my Homoioi population to get a large number of them, but every time i seem to get over e.g. 1,000 a lot of them seem to just randomly disappear, e.g. for no reason 500 of them will go and i'll just have 500 left in the city etc. What causes this please? Is it the events which pop up e.g. Riot in the Capital, does that reduce it? Or are people migrating to more sparsely populated areas etc?
Also, if i have a large number of peasants does that stop my Homoioi pop from increasing or are they totally separate things? (Totally willing to go on a peasant massacare spree if it means increasing the number of true-blood spartans
Thanks guys!