Faces are those standard vanilla.
I am not an artist to make new face type.
Some are steppe faces (pre christian unit) other are normal faces, from caucasian units.
So blame CA for the faces :)
The color looks very bright because
1) The illumination is very strong, to show details. Ingame light is less but must test them, still.
2) I believe in colorful units, all that brown is bit boring :)

Still must wait for forgus last word, he is the historical man, around.

Bye