Genava55

Like AoE2 telling you which unit counter what? Personally I am not against your proposal, but the game doesn't include at the moment any visual changes for blacksmith upgrades for example. ----------- Maybe the compromise should be a stat visualizer option enabled only for debugging and testing, something modders could activate. I really want to stress the necessity to keep flexibility for the future and people could have different needs.

If I said it is against open source philosophy, this is because of testing and modding. It further complicates everything.

Not very compatible with open source philosophy. Transparency is better.

Increasing cost and increasing recruitment/training duration could solve the issue. For example, above 10 mercenaries, the cost increases exponentially (+10% metal cumulative). It could also decrease by their death or simply with a cooldown.

0 pop units would be really innovative and an interesting approach.

Bunch of pictures https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=238497414509891&id=105786014447699 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=186734969686136&id=105786014447699

Interesting for balance

Big thanks to Fernando Quesada-Sanz for sharing this thesis on the Iberian armament, volume 2 should be uploaded soon: https://www.academia.edu/44920313/QUESADA_SANZ_F_1997_El_armamento_ibérico_Estudio_tipológico_geográfico_funcional_social_y_simbólico_de_las_armas_en_la_Cultura_Ibérica_siglos_VI_I_a_C_Monographies_Instrumentum_3_Montagnac_Ed_Monique_Mergoil @Duileoga @soloooy0 @av93

It depends on the definition and scope of the Iberian faction. At some point it must be decided what it should portray and what it shouldn't.

Obviously the Chineses are not coming with this release, so... Personally I liked Xylon ; Xšayaṛša ; Xulsigiae

The brutal massacre of the Iberian town of La Hoya https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/brutal-masacre-poblado-iberico-hoya_15725 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fhistoria.nationalgeographic.com.es%2Fa%2Fbrutal-masacre-poblado-iberico-hoya_15725&sandbox=1 A study carried out by Spanish and British researchers on the discovered human remains of the inhabitants of this Iberian site located in Álava sheds new light on how they died: brutally murdered. An atrocious attack on an Iron Age city in northern Spain in the mid-4th or late 3rd century BC left more than a dozen corpses of men, women, and children strewn in the streets as the city burned. The injuries inflicted on the people who died there were horrible. One individual was beheaded, two had their arms severed and nearly half of the remains showed signs of mutilation, archaeologists studying the area have recently discovered. Now, a new study of the victims' bones, the first detailed investigation of their injuries, led by researcher Teresa Fernández-Crespo, of the University of Oxford, and published by the journal Antiquity, suggests they were killed by a neighboring community during a calculated takeover or act of revenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hoya,_Alava

Be aware that Divide et Impera mod is not really accurate on several aspects so stay critical.

Pontus used it several times (1st century BC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Amnias For the Diadochi I don't know.

Thank you very much!

https://www.almendron.com/blog/el-santuario-tartesico-de-cancho-roano/ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancho_Roano

For example this message, I am pretty sure to have put the links of several FB groups talking about Celtiberians, Iberians etc. https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/23996-iberians-celtiberians-lusitans-reference/?do=findComment&comment=403536 The same for this one: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/23996-iberians-celtiberians-lusitans-reference/?do=findComment&comment=402924

It is an interesting article starting from Koch&Cunliffe view of the Celtic language originating in the West but this view got profoundly destroyed by recent genetic analysis. R1B comes clearly from a population related to the steppes in the East. This population replaced the entire male lineage, we found no surviving Y-chromosomes from the previous Neolithic population. https://www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/20190314/461027127726/genoma-adn-poblacion-peninsula-iberica.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/ancient-iberians-dna-from-steppe-men-spain/ Furthermore, the most common view among linguists is that Lusitanian is NOT a Celtic language.

LOS CASTROS Y LAS GUERRAS LUSITANAS CAP3 El Legado Celta en España~Canal Historia España. El Legado Celta de Galicia | Documental Los pueblos celtas en la península ibérica | Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero Castros de la Edad de Hierro en el área noroccidental(...) La indumentaria de la Edad del Hierro en la Península Ibérica PUEBLOS GUERREROS DE NAVARRA - Guía arqueológica de los castros la Edad del Hierro de Navarra. Castro Celtibérico de CASTIL DE GRIEGOS. Checa (Guadalajara)

@Stan` Is it possible to get back the facebook links, at least as url and not embedded? By editing the message, I cannot see the raw code to get them back.

A small schema of the cultural situation of Iberian Iron Age (I put Iberian as a general meaning for native non-indo-european in the peninsula)

C, it is more coherent with the other names. There are several ways to write the sound K from Gaulish, Europa Barbarorum choose to write it with "K", I prefer to use a Latin transcription with the letter "C" like we found it in Gallo-Roman inscriptions. Examples: Kingetos or Cingetos.

Carnyx is a hapax but it should be karnus/carnus or karnuxs/carnuxs for the instrument. So I would say Carnucos (karnukos).

Indeed, this is unique. Could be Greek, Etruscan or even Iberian influence. What's impressive as well is the multiple destruction seen in the soil layers.