First of all make it functional.
Use some new models to fix historical inconsistencies.
It's will be hard for me to learn to do Wacky and Alexandermb's work.
But I will make props for the units.
that would be good
These did have armor in the advanced and elite rank and a little shield. Especially the Greeks.
Eastern archers like Persians and Mauryas had no shield or armor.
human beings always find ways to skip words.
The best thing would be to turn off the chat and / or as mobile games say, put pre-defined phrases to communicate, AoE already had something like that with the Taunts.