I'm playing the ERE and I encountered something very strange. I had a small army of 45 peasants, 24 horse-archers and 31 spearmen (don't remember fancy name). The city which was near me that belonged to the Sassanids was "Kotais". After one turn the city belonged the me, the full stack of Sassinids was down to half and in the new city of mine I had 4 archer units with silver defence and bronze attack. I also had 7 peasant units with silver defence as well as 1 mercenary horse archer with silver defence and bronze attack.

It was wierd...