A) As far as I remember, they do not need historians at the moment, but this may be wrong!

B) They usually prefer to have some kind of example of what you can do before deciding if they can take you in or not.

It also might be better to write your offer in this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...uitment-thread


Also read Tuxs statement, which I interprete to mean my A) above.