Redundant Units?

[a4rino]

I am new to MotE and I had a quick question about units. Playing as Prussia, I noticed that I have many different types of units to choose from but that some of these units share the exact same stats and costs. See the example below, in which I've highlighted a few of the culprits:



Is there really no difference between any of these cavalry units? What's the point of having these different types?

 

[Seelmeister]

The major powers in the game have a good number of these almost identical units. The differences are purely cosmetic; they are extra flavour units so that historic units are represented.

 

[SAS]

I like it actually

 

[Ilhador]

The historical units should have replaced the generic one, but I think someone forget to delete them.