Question what is historal in XGM ?

[swhunter]

Hi
Just asking what is historal in XGM ?
The time and units
thanks

[Zarax]

This is kind of hard question...
I can tell you what is not historical for sure:

- The spartan royal guard was definitely gone by the game starting date, spartans were still around but much lesser in both numbers and skills...

- sacred bands are also probably historically out of date, especially the greek ones

- thureophoroi and thorakitai are probably less powerful than their historical counterparts, they were among the best troops hellenistic states could field not counting heavy phalanx or hietaroi/cataphracts

- parthian companions are quite a fictional unit

- most new thracian units are probably more heavily armed than historically

- many ptolemaic units are not quite historical although better than what you find in vanilla

- there might be a few more fictional or fantasy units but not so bad as vanilla, the rest is pretty much historical with some stretches and educated guesses...

[swhunter]

Thank you, that has helped alot. I guess adding the what ifs, for greek and other factions wuld make it more interesting than the historical.
And to add better balanced battles.

Thanks for hearing me.
And i do understand its going to be a slow road for XGM for awhile.

[The_Brittunculi]

Some factions still have inaccurate colors, especialy the Ptolemies and the Parthians.

The Parthians still have an army of purple-wearers. Purple was extremely expensive at the time and only worn by royalty and the wealthy, not the army.

The Ptolemies' army's colors are more obvious with their gilded equipment.