Nescio was against giving the abilities to other civs to capture enemy engines, he answered just after. Up to the others.

Who would be the one still improving animations? Found this discussion since it has been just quoted, and went fast over it. The incorrect unphysical torsion spirals need fixing, as explained in:   Besides: As mentioned in:   To fix that those don't end looking the same, and if there's a will to properly delve into siege engines, a whole type of machines is being ignored, while many being considered are probably misrepresented:  

Perhaps they could be able to have scorpions and bolt towers (but no stone throwing catapults).  

Amazing. This answers: Can the campaign map work with real time also? I've spent some time thinking about how the latter option could maybe work with more than two participants in multiplayer, if you want to discuss it.

It gives one the impression that one is eating meat even if they never hunted. I'm not gonna lie and say the ancients were vegetarian (except the Buddhists and the Jains). But I'm also not gonna lie about them pursuing pacifist or strictly self-defense based victories.  Is there already a mod for this ?