New Civ emblem:   Did the Theban army carry aspides of this shape in classical times? Debatable to probably not. It's likely a shape based on earlier archaic examples which are lost to us, but what's not debatable is that the Thebans themselves used this design to represent them. I imagine the design is a part of their national identity and founding iconography. It's all over their coinage and even today is a well-known symbol for Thebes. My head canon can imagine a scenario where during some excavations on the Cadmean hill to level it off and build their religious and civic monuments they uncovered evidence of their 'glorious' bronze aged past, which included shields or votives in this shape, so they built their founding myths around these objects and possibly even displayed them in their major Cadmean shrines or temples. 

@lilypoppy I think the 'Persia' biome terrains are going to be closer to the 'rugged iberia' you're going for. Check out the Hindu Kush skirmish map for example, or the Zagros Mountains skirmish map. You can also use the tree types on those maps to approximate what you'd see in the drier parts of Iberia. I'd swap the gazelles for deer and you're probably only going to see palms only on the coasts. 

Never mind. I was using another mod that must be conflicting with CWA

This is on the fixes branch

"No surrender" is an obviously false statement, that's exactly what they did. I'd advise not to use AI too much, there's plenty of things it doesn't consider. But I prefer to discuss these kind of details by PM and not here. Thomson's gazelle is certainly from East Africa, so that's quite wrong. I'm not familiar with all maps, plants and animals from the game, I don't know if it has lynx or ibex, but goats, rabbits, wolves and bears could be used, for example. There should be hard-leaved bushes, semi-evergreen forests, and depending on the exact region, the landscape can be dry-looking. But all these things can be easily found out first (and then check what the game has, and even propose to add what it lacks).