AoE1 did not have the unit models.
AoE2 does have womans and girls,
but its not the right timeline for such faction.
Historically accurate? While there are many Myths about them.
The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, even people from old India and China.
Never had any doubts that the Amazons were, or had been, real.
Many cultures had tales about the nomadic warlike women. It kind of makes sense,
that by ancient times in nomad societies women did fight too. Like by Scythian’s.
Modern historiography has vast archaeological evidence of over a thousand nomad graves from steppe territories from the Black Sea all the way to Mongolia. Spectacular discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons (bows and arrows, quivers, and spears) prove that women warriors were the product of the Scythian horse-centered lifestyle.
The Amazons were based on exagerated accounts of the Scythians. For the Greeks it was unthinkable for a woman to take up arms. However in the steppe, when the men were away to do some raiding or whatnot, nobody was left to protect the women, the children and the elderly. Which meant women were the most fit to defend the entire tribe, so women in steppe tribes (we also see that for the Mongols, to some degree with the Vikings too) learned how to use bows to defend themselves. Exagerate the differences with the Greeks (as it was common with far away people) and you have a people of warrior women.
The Scythians are on my list of civs to add to AOE1. And maybe having their villagers, including women, defend themselves with a bow once you reach the Tool Age or Bronze Age, could be a nice civ bonus to make up for the fact that steppe nomads have never been renowned for building walls.
The Scythians could fit a Barbarians pack (with the Gauls Britons Germans…) or an Eastern pack (with the Parthians Indians…), I could see them in either.
Scythians are one of my most-wanted additions to the AoE1 roster. They would be a good fit as well, due to encounters with several of the civs already in the game.
They would need a steppe architecture, which would be fine to implement if they came with other steppe nomad civs like the Xiongnu.
