Ah! That's too bad. Oh well! Guess I'll just have to play with them for a bit to see them in action in later versions of the mod.
Out of sheer curiosity, what would be the heaviest cavalry available to either the Sabaeans or the Sweboz on the opposite side of the map? As the Romans it seems the heaviest cavalry I can muster are the Scythian nobles, who are sort of semi-cataphracts. I'm assuming that's the same case for Sabaeans and Sweboz. I haven't ventured too far east, but it looks like I can only recruit Armenian Horsearchers and Lancers, obviously not their elite cataphracts. That's a shame...they're easily the most impressive looking unit in the whole game, as someone else here has mentioned.
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Best looking Cataphract title surely belongs to the Armenians, though the others are not far behind. The Sarmatian Cataphracts look underwhelming at the moment though, I know their mount model isnt finished but still they dont look quite as heavy as the other Cataphracts even the Alan Nobles partially look more heavily armoured, they also suffer of quite many clipping issues. I suppose their armour rating is going up in the future with a new mount ?
Yeah, it would be nice to have heavier looking Sarmatian nobles, although I absolutely love the retainer cavalry. Even the Sarmatian horse archer bodyguards look pretty amazing.
Ah! It's so refreshing playing as a Hellenistic faction again, this time Epeiros, and being able to recruit Kataphractoi heavy cavalry from Damaskos, unlike the Romans who could not (as previously mentioned). However, as a Western Greek faction, is Damaskos truly the westernmost city on the campaign map where I can recruit Kataphractoi? I wish you could at least recruit them from Alexandria or Antioch as well, although having those Indian elephant stables including elephant cataphracts is pretty sweet (despite the enormous budgetary cost for recruitment and maintenance). Does anyone else know of any other cities where a Western Greek faction can recruit kataphractoi?
I think you could also recruit them in edessa with either high level native or hellenic colonies.