Hey guys, a few issues with the Dacians and Thracians and bodyguard units in general:
First of with the Basileion Odryson in GC and the Thracians in the IA campaign, they have Thrakioi Pelekophoroi units in their starting armies, even though it's not available to recruit anywhere ( I suppose this may be a leftover from a roster overhaul ) .
Secondly, in the IA campaign as Thracia they have the Ktistai unit available as a general, which I believe is a mistake as this is a dacian unit.
Thirdly, the Thrakioi Rhomphaiaphoroi are still available in the IA campaign at the start, even though I think they should be phased out and only their late version should be recruitable, but they both are still there.
Fourthly, with the Thrakioi Hippeis and the Thrakioi Thorakitai Hippeis, it's the same thing as with the Rhomphaiaphoroi. ( I haven't been able to check the GC to see if they're not phased out there, either, as I'm not on that reform level yet.)
Lastly, the Thrakioi Hypaspistai bodyguard unit are also still available in IA, which seems a bit strange having a hoplite-esque unit at that time, though I'm not sure if this one isn't just intentional.
Now with the Getae / Dacians, on IA campaign they have very confusing bodyguard units : Dacii Ktistai Agemata, Ktistai, Dacii Basilikon Tarabostae, Dakes Aristoi Hippeis, Getikoi Epilektoi Hoplitai, Pedites Tarabostae and Dakes Aristoi Doriphoroi. This already seems weird because it's such a huge number, but now to the really strange thing. When I recruit or replace a general, the units seemingly randomly disappear or appear in the bodyguard choice tab, for example sometimes there are only 4 available, and then another 6 and so on. I don't know what's going on there, if some units that should be phased out because of reforms reappear or disappear sometimes or entirely something else, but whatever it is you should definetly take a look at the Dacian bodyguards.
This same thing by the way happens with other factions as well, if to a lesser extent. For example the Saka Rauka on GC also have 3 Bodyguard units; Skuda Uaezdaettae, Ysaninu Aysna and Spatahaura Hadabara, where as far as I can tell the Skuda Uaezdaettae also randomly just disappear when choosing a bodyguard unit.
I also remember this being the case with some other factions, though I don't recall exactly with which ones. However overall, it seems like there's some problem with bodyguard units, to a bigger or lesser degree with some factions. (Maybe this is even a Rome 2 vanilla game bug, knowing this game. )
I hope I'm not spamming the threads too much by the way, I just have a huge amount of time in the last weeks and am playing an unholy amount of DEI, so I'm noticing and posting all these things, being the over-particular guy I am