Gaesatae Question

[SaFe]

1) Every single historian ever lived has reinterpreted his sources for his personal position

2) Elite, yes, but I have yet to see someone prove to me that Gaesatae are uber supermen in the game or that there is anything incredible about their stats.

3) Even if not by you, he obviously was a member of the team well respected by others.

On this whole argument:
Everyone is trying to interpret history, and both sides have evidence to back their view. So as long as you accept that "there is a high enough possibility the EB team can be right" (which doesn't need to reach 50%, considering the lack of information we have about these people, 20~30% in your view is fine) then you have to accept why the team designed it this way. Yes, they could be wrong, but so could you. If in your view the possibility is so low it's not worth mentioning, then go fix the stats yourselves. If you refuse to accept there is a possibility at all (which, from all the "these are fantasy units", seems often to be the case) then there's no point debating as you wont' accept anything.

I think you responded to me with your answer, so i will try to answer.

1) You're right, but there is a difference in a modern day historian with access to all available data and a historian in the ancient times with mostly "mouth to mouth" knowledge. Look for example what we learned these days about the battle in Teutoburg Forest comparing the knowledge our grandfathers had.
2) I already said it is not possible to give a answer about the unit's perfomance in battle as i can no longer play EB, but after all we know about those elite unit, 2 HP in comparison to most other elite units seems not right in my opinion. To be honest it is not the stats of the unit that is disturbing, but rather the way of discussion in this thread.
3) Sadly Ranika(the celtic expert and i learned a lot during our many discussions from him) is not around anymore, he would give you the better answer.
I can surely respect other views, but i can and never will respect a person's view backed up by quotes from a book that never existed. Perhaps you know what i mean, but i will not going deeper into this sad example of "scholarship".