New faction Preview - The Byzantine Empire

[The Wizard]

What concerns me here is the total lack of arbalasts. Are you seriously telling me they didn't have any.

That would be realistic, considering the fact that, in the East, the composite, recurved bow was the mainstay of the archery.

A pity we aren't seeing the mounted core that formed the tagmata (singular tagmaton; Byzantine field army), the pillar of the Byzantine military. No frontiersmen either? Surprising, knowing CA's tendency towards Romanticesque units.

Would have liked a sort of special mercenary recruitment system for the Byzantines, but this'll do. It won't really make a difference between unreliable mercenary and regular Byzantine soldier on the battlefield, but... meh.

[econ21]

A pity we aren't seeing the mounted core that formed the tagmata (singular tagmaton; Byzantine field army), the pillar of the Byzantine military.

What's the mounted core you think we are missing? I'm just curious because there seems to be a bucket load of types on page 3 of the preview - more than MTW, IIRC. Do none of them fit the bill?

The main omission to me would seem to be armoured spearmen - the scutatoi that Kraxis commented about.

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

A pity we aren't seeing the mounted core that formed the tagmata (singular tagmaton; Byzantine field army).

hey where did you learn greek.This is a very interesting language but its not greek the sigular is Tagma and the plural is Tagmata.Tagmaton maybe is in an other language...