this guy is just farming rating with two accs btw lmfao, i dont knw if its an offence but worth reporting @user1 my user: Slendy  ,   his user: pimmelberger

Ah, yes, I did check for slingers and archers, but forgot the javelineers, then I was thinking something like the kestros, but now I see that when darters are mentioned, javelineers are not, and their numbers are quite suspicious ("five hundred heavy infantry, three hundred darters and as many archers, while the Geloans sent crews for five ships, four hundred darters and two hundred horses", for example), so it's just a translation matter, and in some cases, like when referring to Apollo as Far-darter, even an archer. 

The original is ἀκοντισταί which translates as javelin-throwers. We can name the javelineers as Malian rather than slingers, and keep the slingers as gymnetes. I just wanted to offer a local name which may sound better than a generic class.

I’m glad this mod is finally easy to find. I’d grab it from your GitLab for now, and if you ever update it for newer versions, I’d love to try those too.

Yeah, maybe I should have continued the discussion there, but it slowly re-emerged here after that link. What you criticise is not what I’ve proposed, since nothing would be “completely different after a single phase-up”. Regarding Coalitions, I proposed a choice tree of more alike tribes, to avoid what you say and to enhance the strategies being chosen from the start (with some flexibility, while keeping the main characteristics of either Britons, Gauls, Germans and Iberians, it’s just choosing details of exactly what to have, among the possibilities each civ would have). Regarding Leagues, the original civs (Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, and hopefully in the future, Thebes) would set the main strategy, and then some advanced Treasury building could give choices of who would join the League, giving the player some quirky thing (like what I said about Corinth) that, again, shouldn’t change the general strategy of the civ actually being played. To make it even easier for the adversary to prepare, there could be a message stating “X joined Y’s Coalition/League”, and while a very few tribes in a Coalition are necessary, more than that or even a small League should be cost prohibitive for competitive MP, I see it more as SP content, and to solve the “which tribe to choose” and “which Hellenes to ignore” problems.