I'm curious why they stop the game's chronology at the time when Christ comes around. That certainly wasn't the end of the history of the Roman Empire.
- And from the standpoint of military history, it's a pretty arbitrary date: the following century saw the Roman Legion modified to include spearmen to counter the heavy Sarmatian and Alan cavalry (armored lancers), and another century or three saw the Romans incorporating 'barbarian' heavy cavalry and Hun horse archers into the Roman forces as auxiliaries and adding small catapults as 'field artillery' to the legions. Some potentially very interesting battlefield developments for a game that focuses on the tactical battles . . .
Plus the Romans faced organized Judean guerilla tactics in the first century or two, after, as well.
