Scythian Clothing/Armour:
Here are some example of the types of clothes and armour the scythians wore.
Here you can see the women wore very pointy hats ( but this was mostly for noble women/princesses so I don't know if it would be important for the normal women in the civ).
Scythian Saddle:
Sarmatian Armour:
Hello, this city was build tonight by myself, chek this out Pity that camera restrictions do not allow me to screen whole city at once.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613275337
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613275368
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613275412
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613275466
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613275495
And another.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613310239
A cavalry that can be upgraded a lot could be considered strong, even if it's initially weak...
So 'strength'/ strong units can be achieved in more than one way.
I was talk years ago with Micheal in a topic, we can follow the path of Forgotten Team, adding Civs not as mods, adding as Free DLC or Free Expansion to let the team finish the game, later... In years we can add more things.