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Lovely. I'd use it for the Goths. The rounder one on the previous page for the Suebians. In fact, I'll update the first post to add your concepts.

It wouldn't feel like you're commanding a TW clone at all. No more than the base game feels like you're playing an Age of Empires clone.

It offers RTS-like control in a battlefield setting.

The individual soldiers in the battalion would have their own health bars just like now. They would just be locked into battalions and move and act like in Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2. To test this particular map with all civs, I'd need to make some more "generic" skirmisher replacers, based on battlefield role instead of class (heavy infantry, light infantry, etc.). Not impossible, but some work. Yeah, I can do that now!

The hippo looks too small to me.

The old berry bushes are 100x more recognizable.

I think it would be good to make the worker elephant have a driver.

IMHO... hack damage is for melee, pierce for ranged, crush for siege. But I know Empires Ascendant enjoys using the scattershot approach.... so, why not... give it "crush" attack. lol

Looks good. Don't get too hung up on one animal.

About "clubmen", the game would benefit from an assortment of basic club actors.

Indeed. The Royal Stoa has been problematic for a while, both for gameplay and historicity.

Let's discuss, shall we?

If only there was a mod that fixed this that could serve as a guidepost for change.

Ain't that the @#$%ing truth.

True, for the men. I was thinking it was a good reference more for the elephant actually.

I wish we had a spawning feature. We could do something interesting with the military colony concept (perhaps they spawn free settler infantry or something).

I'm not accusing you of saying anything. Maybe then, we call the citizen soldier pikeman something else. Phalangites Makedonoios, perhaps.

Okay, so from a gameplay standpoint it would be problematic to have 2 pike champions and no citizen soldier pikeman. Thoughts?

So, this indicates the Silver Shields should be the standard pikeman, while the Bronze shields (more prestigious) should be the champion?

Mild misinterpretation^ 20,000 "Macedonians" = 10,000 Golden Shields 5,000 Bronze Shields 5,000 Silver Shields

Was thinking the Carthaginian hero Hannibal could use a makeover. Maybe something like this: Any thoughts?

"Argyraspides" indicates "Silver Shield." One might wonder why these guys don't have silver shields. There's no indication what this corps of men was actually called, so something more descriptive like "Romanized Swordsman," is just as good as anything else.

I don't think it should change vision at all. And good luck finding a better technology name.