Fabius

Not sure where to ask this, but when is the expected release date for A27?

Ah I see, well one can only test and see how things play out

so phase 1 would be 30s Phase 2 could be 20s Phase 3 could be 15s

why not instead add a bonus for phasing to second and third age that reduces the training time of Spartan Hoplites back to their normal time of 20s, or even make them train faster in third phase?

Vulcan lives!

that is a really nice icon looking forward to the in-game unit

I have a question, was it intentional that melee cavalry get buffed by centurions? Cause that does juice Consular up even more lol

So when do we call an end to the voting and move into the consolidation phase?

I like the unit upgrades and definitely think they should be tested and added, but how exactly are we going to test them effectively if the player community doesn't want to be helpful and let it go in the community mod? Seems to me the only option will be to override the player base for their own good.

what exactly are you referring to when you say you are afraid of there being to much micro? I am not seeing how you need much micro for centurions. you aren't going to really micro them on the battlefield and there are only 8 of them that you can have at any one time. The most micro you might have is setting up the initial acquisition and thats just getting some rank 2 troops and popping them into the barracks for 2 minutes to reach rank 3.

If you look at the model up close in the editor you can see that the fellow is wearing the classic Imperial Gallic helmet

The marian legionaries were still using Coolus style helmets and the montefortino style helmets, they haven't adopted the traditional Gallic helmet that we all associate with Imperial Romans yet.

well until we have something better we just keep using it

there are two models it seems, both look nice, but the helmets are completely wrong for the time frame

Ok, are those from the scenario editor?

I believe there are two swordsmen technologies included in the merge requests that increase the durability of swordsmen for Rome among others, so that has already been partly covered I think

What unit model are you using for the centurion? Wowgetofyourcellphone has some very nice republic centurion models, we could ask if we can use them for this project

Ok, fair point. I think then keeping it to Hastati will be enough.

A Triari centurion would be awesome. As you say we do get second rank infantry from the army camp which speeds up the process considerably. One could then stick some in a barracks for 2 minutes and you are sorted. Here is an idea though, if you garrison a centurion in a barracks then the XP trickle is increased to show that the centurion is drilling the men to be better lol.

Only taking 5 changes is a bit tight fisted, may as well keep with the community mod then. Frankly the simple solution is to have one big poll and ask the player base what they want included in the Main AD game from the community mod. Then you don't have to worry.

well those results are for the previous version which is now released, so It seems reasonable that they get replaced with a new poll regarding features for the next version. Perhaps we need a feature freeze date ourselves and then discuss what all we are going to put on the new list and then post it for voting. Something like that. Otherwise we will all just keep coming up with new ideas lol

Hmmm, yes that is a fair point.

what do you have as the general stats for health and armour? there does not seem to be a mention in the merge request

Centurions are supposed to be highly proficient individuals so combat proficiency in excess of a champion is a good bar to set I would say.

4 minutes in the barracks gets you rank 3 on a hastati, but thats not overly ideal for games that often run quite short. I would prefer just a straight limited recruitment from the barracks or some other place like an army camp.