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Right, for attack I agree. Maybe only +20% attack over champ, not much more. But regardless, you still want heroes to have great health or armor (either one) so that you have time to utilize their bonuses or auras. Due to the nature of focus-fire in the game it would be too easy to snipe heroes otherwise.

Rhino Reveal(tm) at the end had me in stitches

Well, with unit AI a unit turns to face its target quite rapidly. With soldiers this isn't too bad, but with a large siege tower and large ships, those units turning to face their target will look very rapid indeed. Large object wheeling around very fast. Perhaps there can be a target angle element where this can be relieved a bit. Also, will need code to handle multiple projectiles. @Freagarach As currently the UnitAI only allows 1 projectile.

I'm down. I don't want to see ships and siege towers snapping around at their targets though.

Another work in progress re-mapping. This time, it's the Fortress: And here you can see a comparison, where I lightened up the roof texture and added a bit of yellow:

He gave proper attribution too.

Age of Mythology did this quite well. If a bunch of villagers in that game, who do not use formations, even default ones, are tasked to a point they create a quasi or pseudo scatter formation and arrive at the destination in this configuration. This can be done in 0 a.d. when using the null formation. In addition, perhaps soldiers can travel in and arrive in a nice box formation, but not a battalion. Battalions only happen if an actual formation is selected as now.

The most wanted feature is a new phase tech icon. ok

770 MB? For real?

I think the way units overlap now has negatively affected combat.

I have no idea what you mean. I feel like people just love to propose outrageous stuff for the game without thinking it through. Most semiautomatic firearms don't even fire 4 times per second.

Yarvill!

4 shots (arrows, javelins, slings) per second is just not gonna happen. I get what you mean about units dying too quickly, but this is hardly a good solution.

I have seen this bug. Is it territory that has already been explored? Sometimes the game won't let me place walls even in already explored areas. I have to go explore it twice. @Freagarach @Stan`

I've tried it and it is very nice. Perhaps can be added to the base game.

I guess you're thinking of more "army formations" rather than battalions of like-units. In that case, yeah, one could imagine some army formations that do some of the following: Could have any number of formation options shown dynamically depending on the composition of the selection.

No offense, but that is a lot of words to say "I dunno bout dis. we can make it gud tho" Wedge isn't a tactic, it's a formation. You don't click it and then cavalry automatically pwnz0r the field. You click it to put your cav into an formation that gives them some kind of stat buff for the tactic or maneuver you want to perform. You still have to command the maneuver.

Someone streams a good looking map. My god, it's beautiful.

I think there are ways to give the feel and approximation of battle tactics without needing to turn the game into a Rome:Total War clone. On the "extreme" end, there are Battle for Middle Earth-style battalions, which I favor, but on the other end, there are stats, auras, formation control, PreferredClasses, etc., which don't remove the mosh pit completely, but gives a sense of tactical control. While I prefer the former, I've implemented the latter in some ways in my Delenda Est mod. Check out in DE how hoplites and pikemen boost each other, and how the Wedge formation helps cavalry. Minor changes for sure, but can incentivize more tactical unit usage.

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Right, but a lot of these buildings are just abstractions anyway, so "Castra Auxiliorum" could work in the game's context.

Unless someone is a true believer in a concept, it's difficult to put in the effort to make a mod for it. Not that making mods is difficult, but the motivation isn't there. You're better off taking some time learning how to mod, then make a mod to show off your concept.

I'm horrified. Will we go back to machine gun Scythian Archers? Let's just reduce damage of ranged units. Ranged units should be the support units, not the primary damage-dealer anyway. We've had a dozen discussions on this already and the concept is broadly supported, just no one has bothered to make patches because it changes the meta (lol).