My lords, I'd like to have shallows in the game, not the AOK version but more like the rivers in RON. Just give it cool graphics in which all the units wade through with small splashes, move slower, and take 2x damage. Also, there is a chance that (15% maybe), when a shallow crosser is attacked, it takes 3x damage and is knocked down, causing it to take 3x damage, removes all attack and movement, and takes about 5 seconds to get up. This would not apply to seige and maybe heavy cavalry. Then, you can also place cointaners of buring pitch on top of walls/towers and have a chance to ignite enemy units. Attacked could climb onto the wall/tower and use the pitch to their advantage. Some seige weapons would also be able to use it (remember the awesome alchemy catapults in the AOE 1 intro)? Then, you can maybe have a blacksmith/armory upgrade building like in AOK/AOM for researching upgrades, as well as creating personalized weapons. You can bring a soldier to your blacksmith and pay a certain amount of ore (can't we call it metal ) and the smith will create a custom weapon for that specific soldier, taking, say, 45 seconds. The soldier can later pich up the weapon for x1.5 attack. If the soldier is killed before he picks up the weapon, it goes to waste. It wouldn't be too effective for citizen soldiers and the such, but great for heroes. Then, you can have a plow or something (I'm not too great with history of the time period) that you use to sow salt in fields, effectively destroying and ruining the terrain so that a new farm cannot be built on that location. And, um... Make the walls big. And cool. And have stone walls only able to be attacked by seige (like in RAF). Can't think of anything else... Oh! Make a "home guard" type of building that makes free (weak) militia when enemies go near it. Maybe make it unique to the Spartans (are they even in the game?) because the had the *insert big word I forgot here* (slaves) that fought too (I think). Um... Do you know if nvdia gforce 6800 supports the OpenGL thing, cause I never heard of it before? BTW CheeZy, your AOM stuff owns. Everyone, go buy AOM and play his stuff to pass the time