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These are definitely for the UI. It's just very difficult to get accurate characters wielding accurate weaponry.

Above: Scythian Commoners (left), Scythian Slaves (right) Above: Skilurus, King of Crimea Above: Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae Above: Ateas, King of Scythia Above: Scythian Shaman (Healer)

Yeah, that's what I mean. While "Father Loving" is the most "accurate" translation, "Father Honoring" seems more in-line with context. But yeah, the original "Philopater" and "Soter" etc. might just be easier to go with.

Yeah, so I felt it was a bit redundant to have two heroes in a row with the same epithet. I think "Philopater" loses something in the translation to English for sure ("Father Loving"), and is a bit awkward. Do you think "Father Honoring" sounds better? Yeah, AI. Whatyagonnado? The ancient and Renaissance sculptors sometimes added unrealistic musculature to their male figures, so I'll go with that.

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Works in progress. Support Units

Above: Miltiades the Younger (left), Themistocles of Athens (right) Above: Aristides the Just (left), Pericles of Athens (right) Above: General Iphicrates (left), Socrates (right) Above: Athenian Citizens (left), Greek Slaves (right) Above: Priests/Healer

Above: King Leonidas and his "Battle Frenzy" upgrade Above: General Brasidas (left), Admiral Lysander (right) Above: Unused hero Agis III (left), Cleomenes III (right) Note: I might add Agesilaus as a 5th selectable hero and use the left-hand portrait Above: Queen Gorgo (left), Spartan Female Citizen (right) Above: Priest-Healer (left), Helots/Slaves (right)

(Above: Hero selection for Carthage) Hamilcar Barca: The scion of the Barca family and conqueror of Spain Xanthippus of Sparta: Mercenary general who saved Carthage from itself Hannibal Barca: The famous son of Carthage who took the fight to Rome Maharbal, son of Himilco: The brash and valiant cavalry commander of Carthage The Citizens of Carthage: The rich and powerful political class of Carthage The Subject Peoples of Carthage: Conquered or Enslaved by the growing sphere of Carthage, they are forced to toil for Carthage and collect the resources vital to its trading empire I was thinking of adding one of the Magos as a 5th hero. Thoughts?

(Above: the patron of Syracuse, Arethusa) ^Last, but not least, is Archimedes

www.imagine.art It takes several (and I mean several) attempts to get good images for each character. I have a library of hundreds of images now where I had to choose the best ones. Current AI generators have a difficult time creating historically accurate images and characters, so there is a lot of trial and error to trick the algorithm to give you what you want. You see how none of them wear helmets and I crop out their armor and that's because the algorithm errs on the side of fantasy almost 100% of the time. If you want to create fantasy Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones characters and armors, AI is great for that. Someone needs to train an AI specifically to be more historically accurate without having to jump through so many hoops.

I like the idea of at least giving the commander player a hero unit. Perhaps when this unit dies it can be retrained at one of the team's CCs. Furthermore, this unit can only be retrained X number of times and costs more resources for each revival.

The Theban Greeks Theban Citizens (left) / Theban Slaves (right) Above: Pagondas, son of Aeolidas (left), General Gorgidas (right) Above: Pelopidas the Beoetarch (left), Epaminandas of Thebes (right)

Okay, I'll rewrite the first post: Can we please have this feature added so mods can utilize it and the base game can continue to be lame and lifeless because a guy thinks it reminds him of something else completely unrelated?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAg8SAgzWE

Gentleman is still at it!

The Han Chinese (Above left to right: Liu Bang, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Wu of Han) (Above left to right: Minister, Healer, Han Peasants, Conscript Laborers)

Wondering if we could do something like this, where if you hover over the portrait in the Information panel you can see a higher resolution image of the selected unit.