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Greek mercenaries were not part of the standing army of the Persian king. It should be said that their appearance was the result of the corruption of the Persian system of exchanging land for military service. The officers who ruled various regions found it difficult to rectify the land for military service and assess the conscripts. It is much easier for taxes to hire ready-made veterans. These hired Greek soldiers were not only spearmen, but also other lightly armed javelinmen, slingers, and archers, but generally infantry. They are not suitable for being a citizen soldier in the game, that will conflict with the Persian's own soldiers of the same kind. It has to be a veteran mercenary or a champion unit, and then in P2 or P3, just train them directly in a general civic center, there is no need to make a small civic center like a colony.

I think voting options should be grouped, for example, people want to vote for Han Dynasty related names. The votes for the names related to the Han Dynasty should be collected and counted first, and then we should discuss which one is more popular. Otherwise, the votes will be too scattered. At present, the total number of votes for Han Dynasty-related names adds up to the highest, but this does not seem obvious.

Since people have been silent about what happened in Syria, Yemen and Somalia, they should be equally silent about what happened in Ukraine, otherwise what can I say? "Third world Lives Matter"?

Honestly, I really don't want to talk about politics, people with different positions may be arguing forever. I originally started this page to recommend a new name with a historical background for the next alpha. We should talk more about the 0 AD game itself, after all the next alpha is going to join the Han Dynasty and not Ukraine, no?

No, I didn't misunderstand, what I wanted to say was. With Zelensky acting as a pawn in NATO, how can national unity be achieved? Ukraine used to be a peaceful country, close to Russia and close to Europe. But that all changed after 2014, when the legitimate President Yanukovych was overthrown by a coup. The political situation that followed left Ukraine with no choice but to turn to the west. The new government went against the wishes of the people in the east and south. The seeds of division had already been planted. Today, in the eighth year of the war, there is no talk of methods of national unity. Will NATO promise Ukraine to be as peaceful as it was before 2014? No, NATO will not agree. The American government have long thought about sacrificing Ukraine and pitting Russia and Ukrainians against each other in the conflict, so that he can profit from it. In addition, Taiwan is not a sovereign country, please don't compare it with Ukraine, most of the residents on this island are not aborigines but Chinese immigrants. The remnants of the counter-revolutionary military government, who had committed various massacres against humanity in mainland China, fled to the island in 1949. If it wasn't for the U.S. Seventh Fleet to stop them, the CPLA would have eliminated them in the 1950s to achieve regional peace. But until now, this island has still become one of the pillars of the US Asia-Pacific strategy to achieve the purpose of blocking and restricting China's development. Until 2015, the U.S. military still wanted to wage war against China in the South China Sea, based on the advantages they had in the Pacific. You can't ask imperialism for peace, China won't trust the US that brings its fleet to its doorstep, and the Russians won't trust NATO trying to make Ukraine a member.

Excluding Zhangye, I prefer to support this name, at least it is Asian, and it is Syrian.

I can tell you that I watched this talk the first day it was released. But for us, this is nonsense, can talking about love and peace out of thin air stop imperialist wars? Has what happened in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Somalia, in Libya stopped? If you really want to issue a manifesto, please do so for Syria, which has been at war for 11 years, for Palestine, for Yemen, and for Somalia, not for Zelensky.

I agree with Lu Xun, a modern Chinese writer, who said: "The joys and sorrows of human beings are not connected with each other, I just think they are noisy", since no one cares about the suffering that occurs outside the West. Since people all over the world are fighting over different standards of justice. Then we have to avoid this kind of political maelstrom in a game that the whole world can experience.

At the same time as Russia and Ukraine have clashed, Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen, the United States is bombing Somalia, and Israel is bombing Syria. Why hasn't anyone mentioned these? God darn it, isn't the suffering of the third world worthy of sympathy and attention?

Yet Zelensky did not really strive for peace, we still see the bombed Donbass (where the war has been going on for 8 years instead of days), and the constant closeness to NATO And the Ukrainian army, which has re-armed with this, was not traced back to the people involved in the Odessa massacre in 2014. Honestly, those of us who live on the eastern end of Eurasia don't care if Zelensky is Jewish or not, because the real people involved in the Ukraine crisis are the Russians, who make up 17% of the country's population, and their relatives and friends - Ukraine people.

I think the catapult is not easy to use because those situations that make it more effective than ram are not easy to come up, some are related to the map design, some are related to the player's tactical habits. For example, if your opponent has built a fort in a narrow pass with several walls and fences in front, you don't want your ram to rush up and huddle, but you want the catapult to cross Strike the fort.

You mean increasing the rate of fire of crossbowmen from recruits to elites? It starts with an interval of 2 seconds, then 1.75 seconds, and finally 1.5 seconds. Provides a technique in P2 that makes crossbowmen a veteran as soon as they come out.

This is not good, it has nothing to do with the ancient history of the 0ad background, and the new faction that the next Alpha will join. And you have to know that a lot of people hate a politician who keeps neo-Nazi soldiers under his command and condone their massacre of their own people. There is no point in bringing this kind of political controversy to the game.

If related to the Han Dynasty, the suggestion is Zhangye（张掖）, a city in Gansu, a new city established after the Han Dynasty seized the Hexi Corridor from the Xiongnu, whose name means "stretching the arms of the Han Dynasty（张汉之臂掖）".

Shown here is a combination of helmet and armor. They are not random, but have relatively fixed combinations.

No, at this time Buddhism had not been introduced, Taoism had not yet appeared, so there would not be the kind of temple you want. It would be better to just add a medic.

This is unreasonable, Chinese crossbows are not faster to reload than bows, but generally more accurate, arrows fly faster, and have a longer range. I also don't recommend a 3 second interval, maybe 1.5 seconds is more appropriate.

Because there are abundant prey on the map, but we can only start with berries, and consume a lot of wood to reclaim farmland. Isn't this too wasteful? It is also very interesting to obtain a large amount of food efficiently from the prey in the early stage like Age of Empires 3, and send cavalry to explore and discover the beast group.

With the exception of the Pikeman, the other Melee Soldiers seem to be good at sprinting. And I think on this basis, it is possible to add a faction feature that allows the Celtic infantry to sprint at a greater distance and at a faster speed than the infantry of other ethnic groups.

It is good to only increase the protection against long-range attacks, so that the side with more spearmen does not have to be too afraid of the enemy's stronger firepower, and calmly annihilate the enemy spearmen. Or assign a part of the spearmen to expel and destroy the enemy's ranged infantry.

Do you mean let the infantry sprint like cavalry? this is a good idea. And it seems like it could be used as a trait to enhance Celtic infantry, increasing the speed of their charge.

That's right, simply increasing the damage of melee units doesn't help, either increase their defenses against arrows, javelins and slings, or weaken the damage of ranged units, otherwise melee soldiers will always be knocked down before they get close to the enemy.

In addition, I will check the professional books on the color of the armor and the smelting technology of the Han Dynasty that can be used as a faction feature.

There are some small problems 1. The shields of the Han army, like the Romans, can only be worn by grasping a handle with the hand, and cannot be worn on the arm. So Lancers don't need shields. 2. The long swords of the Han Dynasty are generally of a ceremonial nature. People will not wear such cumbersome weapons to fight. It is recommended to replace them with Ji. 3. Chinese soldiers do not use greaves on their calves. That's a laborious lever that makes it harder to lift your leg and walk. 4. The helmet is not suitable. I have posted some pictures of cultural relics here, which can be used as art reference. https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/71601-task-han-hero-elite-helmets/#comment-481742