Quote Originally Posted by vlad 1
again for egypt (macedon and greek units ????)

where is druid units ???dogs, gladiators .
Vlad, the Total Realism Mod's intent is to improve the realism as much as possible, thus it removes fantasy and non-historical units.

At the time of the game, Egypt was ruled by a Greek/Macedonian aristocracy having been conquered by Alexander the Great. Although there would have been an Egyptian 'flavor', the armies of Ptolemaic Egypt were very much Helenistic in nature. For some reason, presumably variety, CA chose to model the Egyptian troops on earlier pre-Ptolemaic lines, totally out of place in history compared with the rest of the game.

Druids as available in the un-modded game are very much a fantasy unit. From what we know of them they were priests and bards, and not a military religious order, so to have units of druids is again very non-historical.

Dogs did feature in some ancient armies, however historically their use was very limited on the battlefield, being of more use in scouting and guarding.

Gladiators were occasionally drafted to fight on the battlefield, however they would have been equipped and operated as standard troops. The idea of them fighting in battles with their gladiatorial armour and weapons in massed units is again fantasy: the armour in particular was often designed to provide an entertaining fight, not for efficient protection. As rebelling slaves their inclusion as per the un-modded game is reasonable, a rebel slave would use whatever armour and weapons were at hand, not what was best suited for combat outside the arena.