1st, shooting with a bow is a much more strength-requiring and tiring job in real life than in game. For example, I remember reading in The Cambridge History of the Greek and Roman Warfare that the Seleucids chose the strongest of their recruits to be trained as archers, even so, after merely shooting about 10 arrows continually they would get fairly tired and their accuracy and range noticeably reduced. So I figure that an archer unit should become "exhausted" if they shoot all their about 30 arrows incessantly and their last 10 arrows should barely be able to hit anything except maybe an elephant sitting just ahead of them.
2nd, many historians and military manual writers living in Roman era emphasized that the proper use of the gladius should be stabbing, not hacking and slashing. Dionysius of Halicarnassus who lived during the reign of Augustus called the latter the fighting style of the ill-trained barbarians. So I believe if we could see the legionaries use their gladius for swift stabs behind the protection of their huge scutum, it would be much more historical than seeing them raise their gladius high in the air at the risk of exposing their hole body, but I'm not sure if the battle animation of a certain unit could be modded.
I have not played RTW for half a year and currently don't have those book I recited at hand, so excuse me if my memory fails me.
And last, Hooray for all your great works and I can't ( but definitely will ) wait to play the most wonderful EB II!
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