New General Units : Historical Question

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I believe I've got all my client state units setup. Here's what I decided on.

1. Ethiopian Client Prince : Basically, a very slightly beefed up unit of Ethiopian Swordsmen. Only recruitable in 3 - 4 territories in the southeast.

2. Arab Chieftain : Recruitable throughout the Penninsula, Sinai, and Nabataea.

3. Indian Hyparkhos (Vice Regent) : Indian Elephant General recruitable in the Indian territories.

4. Judean Client King : Western Mercenaries makign up the Judean Royal Guard. Only recruitable in Judea.

5. Dosidataskeli : Unit previously taken out of the game. Will the the default cleint kings in 3 territories in Northern Iberia, and recruitable general's bodyguards in another 2.

6. Iberian Tribal Chief : Iberian Medium Cavalry, recruitable in Southern and Eastern Iberia.

NOTE : Incidentally, the Uachtarach DuboGaiscaocha have become a merc unit; and one which only spawns very infrequently in my mod.
Any other suggestions? I need some room for more units, but if anyone has any terrific and smewhat historically accurate ideas, I'm open.

Great Idea, if I may say so.

For the India, I would use the Sreni unit. It is very historical, Indian elites from what we know used large swords (and Pattya sreni has a very big sword), and also his twin cape is what the elites of Mauryan empire used. The name would be "Yparchos" not Yparkhos.

For Judean client king, I would use a thureos carrying unit with bronze coated shield.
As Mein Panzer says, the name of his guard would be Ioudaioi Ekatontamachoi

they would most likely be armed as thureophoroi- see for instance the "hundred-killers" of Alexander Jannaeus in the early first century BC with their bronze-faced thureoi (Josephus, Antiquities 13.12.5).

and

Alexander Jannaeus' elite troops (8,000 in number) made up the front lines and were called "hekatontamachoi," which literally means "hundred-fighters," sometimes translated more dramatically "hundred-killers," which presumably referred to the number of men they could defeat, in which case they must have been highly effective troops.