Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
Nomad FM's are historically correct... what makes them monsters on the horseback is the fact that the Romans in later times call them monsters... monsters are represented as monsters in EB...


Fewer and weaker FM bodyguards will make the roleplaying horrible... you can't risks your FM to lead a frontal charges because they will very likely to be killed... The monstrous Saka FM is worth their crazy - near suicide - charges... but they can survive easily and win.... quite historical...
but they still can be defeated... only the stupid ai (or historically idiot strategos) let his phalangitai obliterated from the flank and not ordering troops to support them...
The Romans called them monsters because they were very much an infantry based army...
Look at who the Romans faced, the composition of their armies and the majority of their opponents.
None of them before the Parthians were true cavalry threats (with the exception of Makedonia perhaps, who used retarded tactics to defeat themselves...)