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Honestly, Roman elephants dont sit right with me. Elephants never played a significant role in Roman victories (or defeats) AFAIK. We have civilizations which lack basic units like infantry javelins, not because they never used them but because they never played a significant role for them (i mean all civs have spears someone must have figured out to throw it). Romans are already diverse and they will neither gain from having elephants nor lose from not having them.

The AI sends its only hero to die in its first attack. The hero dies, so the AI instantly lose. Make the hero stay in home base, near the Civic Center. I can see that the "retreat" trigger activates when the hero is at low health, but it doesn't work very well on slow infantry and Elephant heroes.

I always play by myself with the computer opponent. Therefore, delenda est is particularly interesting to me because it offers many development options and more building alternatives. It's certainly been discussed before, but it's a shame that the Roman legionaries aren't able to throw the pilum. For example, you could switch it around like with the Immortals. Easy for me, as a non-programmer, to say. It would, however, make the history more accurate. The Romans were the absolute world power in ancient times, also based on this tactic. Likewise, military camps are inferior to the military colonies of the Phoenicians or Seleucids. It's the same with shipping; galleys were both capable of long-range weapons; above a certain size, they had long-range weapons on board and could ram or board ships. Of course, I don't want to dictate anything to the other players; I like the authenticity of the figures and the painstaking attention to detail, and the gameplay isn't that important to me. I would also like to have optional raider gangs or pirate ships, in addition to treasure. That's why I particularly like the Danubius map. This way, everyone can shape their game the way they want. Otherwise, I really like the game... please never stop...

I partially agree, but you don't have to attack the fortified positions to be ahead. In fact, you should ignore the buildings and go after the enemy's gatherers. In multiplayer games, people will resign once they see you are far ahead. This is possible even in P1.

Yep

I agree.As a non-roster mercenary unit it's fine.

If I may dream: Walls that protect against projectiles if behind a wall, except for "artillery" Abitlity to build a bridge (Settlers 5 had that) - this could preconfigured sites on the map where the path crossing a river or so is initially blocked (like a closed locked gate) but "somehow" indicating a bridge could be built here. Building a bridge basically means creating a building animation and when finished opening the path ("unlocking the gate") thus allowing crossing the bridge - similar to opening a gate in a wall or palisade. The mechanics must however be inverted: default closed for everyone. Only if the bridge exists the path is open - but for everyone. Interesting gameplay could be that you could destroy bridges as well thus closing the path again. Ability to build roads that have a speed aura for everyone following them. Adding water as a kind of resource - i.e. building a field in the desert does not make much sense unless you are close to an oasis (open water body) or build a well or fountain to get water from underground (romans of course build aquaeducts ). Crop yield could be low if no water with a limited lifetime of the field, and high if water is provided by a nearby source. For existing maps, the well house is the only possible source of water. For new maps, an area around water bodies (oasis, rivers, lakes, ponds...) could be defined that allows farming. On desert maps this could force players to fight for water access.

Yes that’s right @Atrik. Although both those cataphracts also access the tech I nerfed by about 50%. so through that tech they get another nerf. i think it will be interesting to see how speed vs hp nerfs play out. But ultimately we just need to get some nerf out there.

On another note, I've actually made some great progress on the map recently: (haven't painted the ocean floor yet) I will upload some screenshots and the files when I'm done; but I want to remake some sections and polish everything up a bit more first. As you might remember, I am using the 'desert_persia' biome mixed with the 'aegean_anatolian' biome. Southeastern Spain is a lot more arid than regions like Italy, Greece, or Turkey and not far away at all from a typical "desert". Honestly, I was really afraid it could turn out looking horrible, but they ended up fitting together quite well in my opinion. The only thing I struggled with was fading between bushy and earthy spots. There are a lot of textures available for empty and dry grounds. And some others full of bushes ( / vegetation in general) - namely 'Desert plants b persia' and 'Desert plants a'. What's missing is something in between to fill this gap. Patches of bushes don't just abpruptly "end" at a particular point; instead, with increasing distance, bushes are becoming smaller and sparser. And it's this transition that I find very hard to replicate with available textures. If someone could create a such a texture that would be amazing. Essentially a sparser variant of 'Desert plants b persia' (and if of 'Desert plants a' too that would be even better!) @wowgetoffyourcellphone maybe?