The campaign roster prevents Carthage from recruiting archers, despite the assertion that its archers ranked among the best in the ancient Mediterranean. The criticism concerns faction design and the game's omission of missile troops attributed to historical Carthaginian forces. A strategy game's roster is an artificial campaign constraint. It should not be read as a historical order of battle.
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What an archer-free Carthaginian roster leaves out
The game's archer-free Carthaginian roster conflicts with the claim that Carthage fielded some of the ancient Mediterranean's best archers.