the sabaean and Thureophoroi mod.

[Ibrahim]

Why would you give sabaean turbands, and remove javelins from nomad arabians?
Most sabaeans are depicted either bare headed.

true, but I gave them turbans because there are indeed other depictions that show what appears to be an arabian style turban-its called a 3amaamah in arabic. besides, I have difficulty depicting bareheadedness with the models I have. however, I do hope to have bareheaded versions in the future. In fact, I might have to model the units from scratch, but until then, that's all there is

Javelins are one of the oldest weapons around, and far spread too. It's a weapon known throughout the whole EB map, wierd that they wouldn't know about it in Arabia, no? Petroglyphs have shown cavalrymen with what likely are javelins..

of course they knew about it-its just that they weren't big on javelins. the only records I know of about javelins in Arabia are as officer status weapons, or in use by yemenis in the post himyar era of south arabian history (post 525 AD). otherwise, its described as a mostly "foreign" weapon, with ethiopeians being the most documented users. if javelins were used, they were a minority in an otherwise spear dominated people.

One example (there are more):

as for that spear, its more likely just that-a spear. it could easily have been a lance or spear used overhand as it is a javelin, so this petroglyphs can't really be regarded as evidence of one or the other. this, with what was written regarding arabians by strabo (the roman expidition to saba), the pre-islamic poems, etc, convince me that javelins weren't particularly common. (don't you wish they drew better than that?)

Actually if there were javelins to be removed, my bet would be on the King's elite.

true, but the guards share a model with another unit, so I'm stuck with this model (and weaponry) till furthur notice.