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Roguey,
There are three main issues:
1) The Legion are presented in the game as rapists. Josh and you are saying that there was actually a logical plan behind the rapes. The first issue is: Is the logical plan behind the rapes presented WITHIN the game? Because if it isn't, then the Legion were left to look like mere rapists and whatever plan is only in Josh's head.
2) Now let's assume the first issue does not exist. WHY is this the Legion's plan? History (and Roman history too) is full of desperate expansive wars, when have we seen someone try to enlarge their army through rape? Is Caesar copying someone or is he innovating?
3) Now let's assume that the two issues above do not exist, and that enlarging an army through rape actually makes practical sense. Out of all the possible plans for Caesar, why was the rape plan CHOSEN by the narrative designers? He is not the first one who is having an expansive war and needs numbers, there must be other plans too.
It's not explicitly stated, so one must infer it. It was certainly an oversight of Gonzalez for there to not be an option to ask Caesar about this aspect of the Legion. There's historical precedent, sure though as far as I can tell no one's been as autistic enough to state this as an explicit goal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_marriage#In_armed_conflict Caesar is basically Josh thinking "If I were freed from the constraints of morality, what would I do to achieve my goals to conquer an untamed wasteland?"