Quote Originally Posted by Swabian
the yuezhi didn't (or most likely did not) play any role on the EB map until, as you allready said, 100 years after -272 or so. but later, they conquered baktria and bacame a very rich and quite powerful realm. one can of course argue, that they are halfway out of the timeframe and even might have not appeared on the EB map at all, but on the other hand, they could have appeared earlier with almost the same probability, since they knew of the alexandrinian realm and (it's parts nearby) and they had enough reason and ability to attack baktria during earlier times, didn't they?!
The subject came up in earlier thread that unfortunatly had to be closed, but the gist of the argument was that even if they were present on the EB map at the start of the game, their focus would be east, not west. They only turned west when their position as local steppe power had been lost to the Xionghu. Thus, to accuratly represent their situation, one also needed to include Xionghu, Han China, etc. This is not an option, so I am quite happy with the decision to drop them alltogether. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing them as an emerging faction or a scripted event.