Interesting observations there Metal. While I haven't played any games yet I made some quick notes about my impressions of the gladiators both during the kickstarter special highlight spot reveals and after (when we got the full playtest card document) I went through and noted some observations/basic overviews on each of them to fill in the gaps in my knowledge.
I haven't fully read your thread yet but a cursory glance reveals that it mostly matches up with my impressions. Would you care for me to share my old basic jottings to see if I spotted anything you might have missed? It's generaly only a sentence or two for each gladiator. Not as in depth as yours, but I'm looking forwards t soaking up everything you've written here to see how it bears out.
MetalHeadMax wrote:
And even compared to his closest pedestrian matches Urine...
Please tell me that's a typo. I know you found him unimpressive but surely he wasn't that bad :p. It's also possible that this is the Septimus on foot profile that they've given us and the mounted one hasn't been released yet.