Automatic battalion exist in other RTS , called Rise and Fall Cilization at War. That why I have the hope we can imitate that way. The game is freeware because Midway fall into a bankruptcy, but have a trickle to start to play.
Ptolemies, Seleucid and Mauryans are incomplete ( art department ) we haven't volunteer from main team specially our leader Enrique, need to review a lot of art concepts.
if another RTS had that feature and was one of top feature of that game, I think can work, I prefer create battalion from trained units a create , and when you need citizen soldiers , only disband battalion, and all are single again.
In AOE Slingers are good vs defensive structures but these rol was cover by skirmishes in AoK. ( I mean high resistance vs towers) -You forgot a special class like Maceman, it's like sword but with more crush attack and less pierce or cut. - Chariot it's another range cavalry but these in the old alphas aren't weak vs spearman - and a variant of Elephant are the ranged elephant... Many of this aren't in design document because nobody planned introduce the Mauryans.