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[Ibrahim]

Something that could be done relatively easily (and probably with just a few days of work) would be to include something like a 'Historical Armies' category, whether it be on the EB2 site itself, or otherwise somehow included in a barrack's description. The idea is that this would give a brief overview of what the 'average army' should look like for your faction, perhaps including stock formations that certain factions historically used.

For example, you say "The Polybian Legion can be reflected with four units of Hastati, Principes, Triarii each, with two velites, etc. ...they fought in a maniple formation, here is a picture and an example of how it was used. At this time period, the Romans maintained -x- number of legions, at this time period they mained -y- number of legions."

Now apply that to Pontus... "By 240 BC the Pontic army was organized mostly along the lines of the Diadochi armies, with heavy phalanx troops, light supporting troops complimented by cavalry. But by 140 BC they had switched to a much more mobile force, and the phalanx was phased out slowly, bit by bit. This can be reflected in game by having an army with -x- number of phalangites, -y- number of pontic heavy inf., etc."

I think that this helps add some depth and additional roleplay value for players to try and play as historically as possible. It might even be a good idea to try and include 'official' troop numbers for factions to go by. For example, historically the Ptolemies maintained, say, 10,000 Agema troops. Then say that a huge unit scale plays at, say, 1:2000, then you can try to match the historical army size of ptolies by having five or so units of Agema, and so on down the line.

nice idea

though I recommend smaller proportions (so you can fit more in a stack)