It’s being implemented in Classical Warfare AEA! We don’t quite have the attack part yet, but at least you can receive bonuses while in formation for moment. In particular Phlanax and Testudo. I may add/tweak a few more.

I agree that a lot of them are visually noisy. In anything final, I'd reduce a lot of the noise in the textures and not pack in so many flourishes and details. I think the Athenian one is perfect for what I'd aim for. I'm super fond of the Han and Syracusan ones too.  These are only mockups. The techs, bonuses, etc. in most of them aren't real.  The ones which are real I had to do a lot of work to force the LLM to pull the relevant data from the civ profiles in Trac, which are outdated of course. The LLM doesn't have the entire source code and public mod inputted, of course, let alone Delenda Est.       

@CoyoteTango I, and many here, agree, as you can see in my suggestion: This is known and discussed, as is maintaining formations during attacks, I think some have been working on it a bit, but it could be that others are against it, although I fail to see the appeal of preferring fighting blobs of units instead.

Sure, I also only play SP, and I've argued that's what over 90% of players actually do, so it cannot be overlooked as it usually is (if growing the game is among the priorities). But, ideally, whatever is implemented for SP shouldn't be a source of unfairness in MP, and that's why @wowgetoffyourcellphone observation is valuable. Preferably certain things should be automatically banned from MP, but for some reason this doesn't happen, and it has been many times a source of conflict among players.

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