OK, so putting gladatiors into combat was really only a crisis thing to do for the very late Roman Empire, and by occasional slave uprisings. And they were DEFINATELY never sent out "On Campaign" or anything like that.
However, the Rebel Freedmen units in EB2, if resulting from just blanket emancipation or what have you, have absolutely no order to their ranks. They're just a mod of poorly trained butchers, house slaves, gladiators, etc.
It would be REALLY neat if these units could have one or two gladiator models within their hordes, if the gameplay logic allows for it. And honestly, if we're talking about "freedmen" its fairly historically accurate.
The problem would be, could we limit them to only factions which might have professional blood sporting classes of slaves? Was there anyone in the Meditteranian but the Romani would favors gladatorial games of any sort at all?
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