Wasn't the Shade clan into using Total War games for historical reenactments? If you are hoping for that, forget about it. Despite the implication in the History Channel's Decisive Battles television program that you can reenact historical battles from the period with the game you can't really get anything remotely close to them. The gameplay doesn't allow it, and is more like a typical gamey RTS complete with horses that can jump right over a phalanx, artillery that shoots exploding rocks and fire arrows that work in rain storms and incinerate their targets in 5 seconds.