the immortals from 300.

[Desmond]

Are they a myth or will they be a unit pack?

[RyBo]

They are real but they do not wear metal face mask they wore cloth. CA will never put them in game but there are about 5 Immortal mods on the workshop. I know of 3 that are copys from the movie and 1 that is close to real life as you can get...

[Hannibal Barca]

Everything from 300 is a myth. Immortals was a nickname given to Persian troops because if you killed one another would replace him and it seemed endless so they were dub "Immortal" were they masked middle eastern proto-ninjas... Hell no, just part of Frank Millers imagination.

[RyBo]

Lulz,They were real....They were the heavy infrantry. Hes right on how it was more of a general name but nothing like what he is saying lolol..

[RyBo]

here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortals_%28Persian_Empire%29

[Hannibal Barca]

what am I saying

[Mormacil]

The Immortals from 300 is a myth. Also 300 takes place way way before this game. So I doubt the Persians would still field the unit ;)

[Poo]

spartans didnt fight naked either :P

[Mormacil]

Just that one period in their youth :P

[Swimming Samurai]

I heard the Immortals where disbanded when the Persian Empire fell but then came back when the Sassanid Empire (after Parthia) took over but where Cataphract units.

Also the closes unit to that is the Elite Persian archers.

[Futurama Fan]

The Immortals WERE real, but the armor and weapons from 300 are innacurate. If you play RTW Alexander the Immortals unit does a perfect representation of what the Achaemenid immortals looked like. In RTW Barbarian Invasion, the game represents the Sassanid Persian Immortals, which were cataphracts (of the clibinarii type). They were also armed with bows.

[Darkwalker875]

Immortals were the elite heavy infantry of the Persian Empire and there name came from the fact that they wore bulky outfits and covered the lower part of their faces with cloth making them all look similar. They were always kept at a specific number so when one died, they were quickly replaced which spawned the superstition that they could not be killed hence the name. 300 is obviously a very dramatized version but they were praised as the best Persia had to offer and as one of the most effective infantry forces of the time. However this did not prevent them from suffering serious casualties at battles like Marathon.

[Fear2288]

As others have said - the ones in 300 are comic book versions. The real Immortals were just an elite unit of the Persian military force who also acted as royal guards and whose name derived from the fact that their number remained at a constant 10,000. IIRC they were outfiited in the usual manner of Persian soldiers - bows, wicker shields, spears, swords or daggers, and wore colorful garments with scaled armor underneath. For the Persians they were 'heavy infantry" but of coarse against the Greeks they were anything but.

The Immortals died with the fall of the Persian Empire though so they didn't exist during the time frame of Rome 2. Again as others have said a cavalry unit named the Immortals were created by the Sassanids in days of the Late Roman Empire but that would be a couple hundred years AFTER Rome 2.

[Hannibal Barca]

What you also have to understand most of what we know about the Immortals comes from the Greeks, and if you know anything about how they described history. Theyll make the enemy sound like the biggest badasses that ever walk the earth,Why? So they can say the Greek defeated them. Last stand of the 300 wasn't 300 Spartans vs 1mill Persians as described in the movie, it was more like 10,000 Greeks and 300 Spartans vs 50-100k Perisans which is still alot but its like the gossip game the story changes every time its told.

[Ape-tier Buffoonery]

For all intensive purposes just use Parthian Swords
Heavy enough in my opinion. And they're from the only fully "eastern" faction: Parthia.

As a poster earlier stated Elite Parthian Archers are a nice comparison too, but I find their lack of armour and melee defense to be saddening. They make good flanking troops in a pinch and can fight low tier units.

So it's your pick: No bow but decent melee stats
Or bow and alright damage but very low armour and melee defense stats