Quote Originally Posted by Diamondj
I have always thought that it would make much more sense to drop Saka in favour of the Maurya Empire. Besides the fact that they would be more powerful, EB already has several other nomadic factiosn with similar units, Maurya would have completely novel units.
At the risk of sounding a bit curt, they're not in because the majority of their holdings lay outside the map of EB, with not enough extra provinces to spare for them, and their interests cannot be accurately simulated without expanding the map quite a way to the east. It's simply not possible to include them accurately, although I believe RTR has them as a faction if you're interested.

There are a number of topics on the subject (also one in the EB2 forum) to search for.