Quote Originally Posted by Shabby_Ronin
by that reasoning why should you have any of the various reforms and events that are in the eb script?

there were a series of situations, chance events etc that all added up to the creation of reforms
Those were broad social and military changes, not the actions of one man. So much of Hannibal's march depend on Hannibal being born, and being born the same person in the same world. It's not inevitable and not necessarily likely that it would have occurred.

It's true that EB's reforms mostly follow history, but that is simply due to limitations of the engine. There are only so much reforms and reformed units one can include. With the exception of Epiros, all factions in EB were around for enough time to have at least a chance to reform. One can therefore argue that the reforms included in EB are historically the most likely option, even if they need not have happened at the time that they did.

Including Hannibal's march, on the other hand, seems an attempt to shoehorn a famous character in.