Historical Accuracy proposals

[cristixe]

What about Dacia,
Theoretical, dacians were thracians. But Dacians were stronger and richer, they should start with Sarmiszegetusa and also make a city like Buridava, Piroboridava or anything with -dava cause dava means city in dacian as I remember.
Herodotus said that Dacians were the most brave and powerful from the many people of thracians. They should have more armour and no romphaias cause this were moesian. Some units like Tarabostes( heavy cavalry) , Drapanai(falxmen) , armoured falxmen, or Komati ( skirmishers)

[Zarax]

Thrace is supposed to represent both.
Early faction represent Odrysian thrace, while post reform it's supposed to be more Dacian in focus.

[cristixe]

I didn't know that Odrysians were so powefull...
What about the units?

[Squigg_XXIII]

Sinope was conquered later on, in 275 Pontus was pretty much confined to the area around Amasia.

The sacred band were definitely heavy hoplites ("armed in the greek manner") and while it was never mentioned anymore as a unit it represents the cream of the citizen militia, which fought intensively in the truceless war (likely in the classical form) and the 3rd punic war (where it was likely reformed in the thorakitai style).

The switch towards heavier liby-phoenician units is represented in game, both early with lesser quality civic units and later with them replaced by liby-phoenicians.

If you wish to discuss historical accuracy issues then you should also provide sources to support your point of view

Plutarch's Life of Timeleon documents the battle but after re-reading the source I evidently misread the piece

[Zarax]

Plutarch is right about the battle, however the citizen army rose again out of dire necessity after the 1st punic war.
There is no direct mention of the sacred band, however under a skilled general like Hamilcar they managed to beat the cream of the crop of the punic mercenaries, veterans of the 1st punic war that turned against their former employer.

If you're interested about it, this is an excellent book: http://books.google.it/books/about/T...0C&redir_esc=y

Cristixe, here's a quick read about the Odrisai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odrysian_kingdom

[Archesel]

Another addition that could be right: Scytian/Sarmatian standard horse archers are half-nude, like they were in vanilla, aren't they? So knowing how the climate is in the steppe, maybe add them a shirt (like in RTR, EB...)?

[cristixe]

Another addition that could be right: Scytian/Sarmatian standard horse archers are half-nude, like they were in vanilla, aren't they? So knowing how the climate is in the steppe, maybe add them a shirt (like in RTR, EB...)?

I agree with this!
Actually no more half-naked guys except Naked fanatics.
They weren't so tribal keeeeee

[Archesel]

+1 cristixe. I live in what was Northern Gaul at the time, and i'm saying you how cold it can be

[Stath's]

I also agree to less naked units.

[Zarax]

It is possible of course but we're quite short on manpower, especially on the artwork side so we cannot promise anything fast.