Sabellic

The Sabellic faction group, sometimes called the Osco-Umbrians, spans most of the territory in central Italy, in and around the Appenine Mountains.

Overview
The Sabellic roster is virtually identical to the Latin armies fielded by Rome, with their units using the same graphics and mechanics only with some stat adjustments and, at times, different names. Sabellic Noble Cavalry is weaker than Latin Equites, and they do also lack an equivalent to the Latin Triarii, denying them a powerful late game battleline and siege unit. In return, their other melee infantry units have far superior charge strength and charge block stats compared to the Latins.

Overall, this means that the Sabellics, like the Latins, have a weak brigade roster in the early game but can strengthen their armies with hoplites and cavalry once their cities are slightly developed, and can transition into an army of flexible skirmishers and swordsmen capable of both melee and ranged attacks in the late-game.

"The native inland tribes adapt to the tactics of their new neighbours, developing the classical hoplite into a more flexible and powerful legionnaire swordsmen."

- In-game Description

Factions

 * Bruttii
 * Campania
 * Frentani
 * Lucani
 * Marsi
 * Picentes
 * Sabines
 * Samnites
 * Umbri
 * Volsci
 * Mamertines (Invasion Sandbox of The Eagle King DLC, as well as a non-playable faction in the Pyrrhus Campaign of the same DLC)

History
Sabellic warfare isn't known in anywhere near the same amount of detail as that of their Latin cousins, but it can be assumed that their early warfare was very similar, owing to their shared ancestry and cultural similarities.

While some of the Sabellic tribes who lived near the Greek colonies, such as the Lucani, are known to have fought as hoplites, the exact extent of hoplite warfare among the Sabellic tribes is unknown and it's possible that those more distant from Greek and Etruscan civilization did not adopt this style of warfare.

The Sabellic Samnites, with whom Rome came into a series of prominent conflicts known as the Samnite Wars in the late 4th and early 3rd Centuries BC, are known for having had an influence on Roman battle tactics and may have been the inspiration for the swordsmen/javelineer combo later adoped by Roman Hastati and Principes, explaining the inclusion of Light and Heavy Pilum Swordsmen in the Sabellic rosters.

Later Sabellic allies of Rome were thought to be equipped in a very similar fashion to the Roman armies they reinforced. This, combined with the lack of specific details for Sabellic warfare and their close cultural and ethnic relation to the Latins, probably explains their very similar roster in-game.