descr_model_battle.txt

[Monkwarrior]

By now I have already deleted a few models.

But I still have problems with the amazons and the cheat_oliphants (Yubtseb) not only in the “descr_model_battle.txt”, but also in the “export_descr_units”.

Regarding oliphants, I deleted the unit, but not the mount. If you want to delete a mount, you must also delete it at least in descr_mount.txt. In view of that I didn't delete any mount.
With amazons, you must also delete them in descr_mercenaries (all of them, in all the campaigns) and in export_descr_buildings, as they can be recruited by slaves with one building (I don't remember which). If you don't do that, the game reads those files and try to find all the units and models before loading, giving an error.

And what about the peasants… there are a lot of models… and the civilians (males and females) did you already tried to delete them?

I've deleted east and egyptian peasants. This is possible because I eliminated peasants as recruitable units and those peasants don't appear either as rebels (ours is a "western" mod ). The others are still present because they are included in the rebel armies. (it seemed accurate to me that a revolt would be full of unhappy peasants)
I'm not sure if the missing eastern civ peasants will create some problem, as we are using two east factions (armenia and pontus) as base for iberian factions. For the moment I can play the campaign without problems, but perhaps I am using (due to my PC) very low preferences.