Historical accuracy of Celtic units?

[anonymous_joe]

Actually, regarding CEltic units, what size will they be? Will they be around the 40 mark like vanilla?

[khelvan]

That varies per unit, as all of our units do. Lesser units will generally have more men, and greater units fewer men. Chariot units, for instance, will be very small.

[anonymous_joe]

Will Celtic armies be numerically similar to the Romans, for example, or larger?

Or, being armies of trained soldiers pre civil war, would they have had smaller armies?

[khelvan]

Generally, the size of units will be similar across all armies, the differences being in unit cost and availability, to represent where factions had advantages in manpower or cost. For instance, horse units will be cheaper for steppe factions.

There are many reasons to do it this way, but one of them is that we are limited in the number of units that show up on the battlefield. If we make one faction have too much of an advantage in manpower or quality on the battlefield -itself-, based on the number of units that can fit in the battle, it is likely that this faction will always win the battles on the battlefield. So we must be careful that we don't give too much of a battlefield advantage. Limitations in the game engine force us to make choices in this regard.