Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops
I'm pretty sure there's a simple explanantion for the incendiary pigs: when Pyhrrus saw his elephants were scared by porkers he exclaimed (in his broad cockney accent) "flamin' pigs!" giving rise to the RTW developers hilarious wrong conclusion. The unit should be called "Pigs o' Fear" and come with a "crackling" button.

Likewise the talk of adder venom mentioned above is a misunderstanding on the use of snakes. The Skythians probably adopted the Atlantean trick of using actual snakes as arrows. I propose a Skuda Fat Thulsa Doomoi unit to represent this obscure aspect of steppe warrior culture.

May I also suggest that many have misunderstood the actual battlefield role of canines. Its quite possible small puppies were released into battle to lower the aggressiveness of enemies through endorphin release and the "awwwwww" effect. If we could re-scale the wardog model to a much smaller size, add a bow and give them a de-beserking effect, we'd be much closer to the truth than the inital post.