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A wrinkle that's getting hard to deal with is Homo Neanderthalensis never developing ranged weapons past the occasional thrown spear. From the pattern of bone breaks in several skeletons, "stab and hang on," appears to be the main tactic with a spear.
A developing hypothesis to their disappearance is from a rapid cooling period where the forests they dominated disappeared and their normal ambush hunting wasn't viable due to the lack of suitable cover.
Homo Sapiens thrived because of ranged weapons like the bow and arrow and atlatl. They didn't need as much cover because we could shoot from outside the prey's alert distances.
The Homo Sapiens hunting style was also more wolf-like. Persistence hunting is also better suited to open terrain.
But how does this affect Sabers and Sorcerers?
I've set it in an alternate Great Plains. The very terrain that might have killed off historical Goo Goo!
I might have to do some rethinking of my bad-guys.
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