Yeah, I think being able to capture and use enemy siege machines (I don't know about building them) would balance their damage and health. Or maybe making them less resistant to Pierce damage. You can only have one hero at a time, I've never seen this as a problem. Their supposed to be OP. I think both are good ideas, Fanatics are WAY too resistant for being naked (IMO, they should have almost no resistance, but tons of damage), and champ cav maybe could be slowed down/more expensive. I play MP pretty frequently, (not on the scale that I know others do though), and I personally have only ever found Elephants OP. Walls are broken in general, but the best fix to this is to make palisades only build able in owned territory, and to maybe allow them to upgrade to real walls when those are unlocked. This would mean the player wouldn't have to delete them, making real walls more valuable as well.

I totally agree, but there are some issues that maybe need some more thought: -"Spear 111 hp for some civ but 100 for other, no sense": I don't see a problem with this, it could be some civ equipment characteristic. Maybe it would be nice to specify why exactly. -"cata too much hp", "catas too op": it has been said that the whole siege stuff is messed up, and that engines were capturable at some point. I've argued that civs should be able to capture/use them after building the Arsenal. -"héroe OP": it has been argued that the unit represents the whole retinue, which would be composed of the most elite warriors (most units would actually represent a bunch of them). -"champ cav is nonsensically fast", "naked fana has capture speed of a champ despite not having any of the drawbacks of a regular champ": it doesn't seem ideal to have units banned from games (and people whining about if they are being produced or not). Can't champion cavalry be more expensive, and naked fanatics have less resistance, for example? Or whatever that doesn't give an unfair advantage, without making things bland. Personally I don't care about unbalanced factions, but plenty of people here are too obsessed with MP, so there's that. -"palisades are useless,but when spammed are somewhat annoying": I'm not a fan of the "territory" stuff, but given that's there, I don't get why palisades can be built outside of it, doesn't this just enhance spamming? It doesn't make much sense to build palisades in the middle of nowhere, considering that they needed maintenance (the wood would rot). On the other hand, making them a bit stronger but weaker against siege would make them useful in the early game and not annoying later. Maybe civs that have weak siege should have other advantages, like fire units, if even. Also, Towers should be able to be built just besides Palisades (while pressing CTRL), Walls don't have this problem. Ideally, but more radically (and needing new animations), Palisades and Walls should be strong but not very useful if not supported: some units could be able to slowly climb over them, but have extremely reduced resistance when doing so, making Palisades and Walls quite useful when combined with Towers or ranged units.  

nerf the Persia, proof: https://www.youtube.com/@SaidRdzRTS -20 = 200 pop

I don't know if it's possible to add enemy obstruction(movement) when the enemy is already formed. Idea: Battalion simulation through group pathfinding blocking.   Unified Collision Box: When a formation is activated, the engine should generate a dynamic bounding box encompassing the entire group. Environment Blocking: Both long-range and short-range pathfinding algorithms (A* and Flocking) must calculate the route based on the total size of this block. If a narrow pass blocks even a single corner of the box, the entire formation should search for an alternative route or halt, rather than breaking ranks   Pivot Points: Turns should be executed using a central or lateral axis of rotation for the entire block, accurately simulating ancient infantry maneuvers

Everyone think that game needs more balance! Too balanced! Not fun! Catas fine! Fanatics and champ cav fine! Stop ruining game! It's going to be boring! Stagnant! Old! Everyone leave and play mods only! No one wants to play same civ with different colors! STTTTOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!