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It's certainly not something we can recommend as it's most likely in a legal greyzone, at best, and illegal at worst. As long as it's only linked to, and not something we can be directly tied to I would say it's ok. The big issue is probably that it might be possible for someone to be able to get the AoE content, without having purchased AoE, if so that's certainly illegal. If they however are recreating things from scratch then it's much more likely to be ok. Them using the name Age of Empires for it is another thing that might be trouble (it isn't legal strictly speaking, so I guess it's more a matter of whether or not Microsoft etc knows about it/decides to pursue legal action against them. If it's purely a mod that tries to provide the same gameplay/civilizations, then there shouldn't be a problem. I would assume that it's ok if it's described along the lines of "like Age of Empires"/"similar to Age of Empires" as well. If it uses any content from (i.e. actual content as in graphics/sounds/text, not by e.g. having the same names for units etc as they are using non-AoE specific names) or the name Age of Empires (or any of the names associated with it such as Rise of Rome) it's not something we can get behind in any kind of way. If someone creates something like that anyway we will remove any mention of it from our forums/FB/G+/etc as well as any files from any possible mod download site we could hypothetically host at a later date. We certainly don't want to be associated with illegal activities. And there shouldn't really be any reason to either, if someone wants to create something similar to Age of Empires they are much better off creating new content and just be "inspired by Age of Empires".

I usually play Britons when I am not making assets for the game. I also enjoy Chinese and Vikings. Ponies are nice too ^^

I don't see a good reason for rams to attack soldiers at all.

Totally agree with Thorfinn, also balista should be more acuarated or have damage, rams are more effecitve at the moment both atacking buildings and units, ram vs caballery or almost any unit ram wins, also skirmishers and archers are to way to powerfull, u just mass them and win against any caballery or infantry unit, as thorfin said they were more suportive than main army thing

Someone reported this on trac I closed the ticket cause balancing is done here, feel free to reopen it.

Mountains anyone? (painted by shieldwolf23)

I think I would go for the Gaul. I like their building style

I do Sparta since I enjoy using lots of infantry.

too many romans here

About the tail alpha, just do whatever you want with it. Of course, at the typical game zoom level, you can probably barely even tell that there is a tail. When I make these models, I'm thinking about the reuseability in other games as well (as well as a bit of future-proofing), so I go for a level of detail that is probably unnecessary for normal gameplay. The models are also used in promotional material. So, you don't actually need to paint it at final texture resolution. Textures are so easy to resize afterwards (of course, don't spend a huge amount of time redoing anything now, just for the future I think these are good ideas). Computers are only getting faster, so, it won't take long until that texture size is beefed up a bit. Probably!

Good Job =)