Quote Originally Posted by IsItStillThere View Post
True, and its understandable on the land battles. You can only control (and the computer render) so many men at once in a battle. So I can understand understating numbers of men.

And for naval battles, the forces are limited to 20 ships a side. Fair enough. But to pretend that in 1700 that the major nations had no ships of the line?! Ridiculous. How about Britain and France starting off with a couple of fleets of ten each? Would that be so wrong?
Yeah, I pretty much agree with all of this. From Shogun onward CA has been determined to make us tech up to get what was already available at the campaign start date. In Rome, by the time you can build triarii you are almost to Marius despite the obvious historical existence of the entire manipular legion when the game begins. Ah well. This may be how they choose to balance the factions.