We all know that current citizen-soldiers can work and build buildings, as well as fight.
This has been a major turn off for many people who came from Age of Empires and similar games. Instead of regurgitating all that's been said in the past, I'll just post a link to a comment that described it best:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993448
So, I'll propose a system that's already present in some mods for the game, with a few caveats.
The major changes would include the fo