Was reading a couple of pages back, someone argued that some armies never met each other . I think that it doesnt take away anything from the game to have armies that never met in the mix , its cool to let people experiment with historical battles that never occured in real . If historical war games would be limited to only armies that met each other they wouldnt be as iinteresting as ones letting you decide who to make war on , Of course we dont want the persian empire waging war against hitler ! but you know what i mean . As long as the civilazations are aprox from the same period in the history timeline of the world its cool.I think Historical games must be very loyal to history when it comes to recreating armies artwork , builduings . and history background and periods they lived in but leave the freedom to gamers who to make war with or against who....