In CivIII I enjoy playing as China, and besides changing most of the silly, westernized city names to realistic ones I marvel at the Chinese Unique Unit, Rider.
The unit looks and acts more like an Arabic or Mongolian unit, not a Chinese one at all.
Am I way off base on this?
Are there other historically inaccurate UU's in CIVIII?
A more appropriate Unique Unit for China would be either some form of Rocket Troop, or a Repeating Crossbow-armed unit.
The Persian Immortal is depicted totally incorrectly, as they were Spearmen with Wicker Shield, similar to a lighter-equipped Greek Hoplite.
The Iroquois Mounted Warrior is another problematic one. The Iroquois were primarily forect-dwelling slash and burn agriculturalists, not nomadic horsemen. A clubman would be more accurate, or bowman.
The F-15 is not the greatest Unique Unit for the Americans. More appropriate would be a Heavy Frigate, as in
USS Constitution and its sister ships or a specialized US Marine, as the US Marine Corps size and strength are pretty much unique to the US. The problem would be handing amphibious units for other countries.
The Janissary would be much more appropriate for the Ottomans than the Sipahi, as they were unique to the Ottoman Empire.
The true Numidian Mercenaries were actually light cavalry, not Spearman. If they were called Spanish mercenaries it would be more accurate. Also, rating them as better than the Greek Hoplite is clearly off. The Hoplite is underrated for combat.
For Korea, the Unique Unit should be the Korean Turtle Ship, without question.
The Swiss Mercenary is a odd choice for the Netherlands, as they were not used that much at all. The Reiter, an armored cavalryman equipped with pistols would be much more accurate.