The answer is yes.Originally Posted by J.Alco
Many Indian Kings in the period had all-female bodyguard units. Quoting from Duncan Head:
The Seleucid envoy Megasthenes records Chandragupta Maurya attended by armed women, some Tamil kings had similar female guards, and 2nd-Century AD sculptures from Amaravati show several armed women... Megasthenes describes his [Chandragupta's] guardswomen escorting him on the hunt, riding horses, elephants, and chariots.
Latter Indian dramatists assign women guards to many Indian kings (including legendary ones), referring to them as "Greeks"; Duncan Head speculates that Greek women may have been hired along with Greek mercenaries as the Indo-Greek empire fragmented during the 1st Century BC.
IMO, it seems unlikely such units would be used on the battlefield, but one could probably argue for their presence on it. The (usually) exhaustively researched DBM army lists permits the player to field one element of "Maiden Guards" if the player wishes.![]()
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