Quote Originally Posted by Ludens View Post
Not going to happen even then. It's pretty much impossible in reality: apart from the geographic limitations to warmaking between them it's unlikely that two civilizations whose centres are so far apart could meaningfully interact, let alone throw armies at each other. Off course, adding the Han would mean sacrificing resources (unit, faction and province slots) that could be used on the western part of the world map. I really doubt the team is going to do that for a faction that historically had very little influence on the current campaign map.
It was an idea for a Eurasian campaign map, not a European-dominated one.
And the Kush provided a key cultural exchange between Rome and the Han Dynasty.