Quote Originally Posted by BigTex
But the selucids used scythed chariots still, and the pontics on occasion too. The Casse and briton tribes used chariots also.
All these factions did actually use chariots to some degree. For the Seleucids and Pontics they were mainly an attempt to break the phalanx-phalanx stalemate, as a weapon of disruption.
The chariot archers are wrong, though. The Assyrians were the last to ever use them in the middle east, and I don't think the British celts fought like that. It would have been much more accurate to give them javelins.

All kidding aside, there was real danger that CA would go down the fantasy road. For now, the danger seems averted.
I actually think it was because most people have more misconceptions of antiquity then of the middle ages. People expected to see Egyptian chariots, period. In MTW2? People expect to see kilts...