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What are thoughts on adding units that are unique, or have a unigue look from specific countries instead of just based on weapon types. Example in the game are the hussar, hungarian hussar, teutonic knight, spartan hoplite etc.

Would more be welcome or do they not have a place in this game?

Unique look - not enough. But I believe we can always change some stats to make them a little different.
So pretty much any cultural-specific unit is welcomed, but historically famous would probably be faster and more likely implemented.

we should learn from age of empires, theres many different nations but they share most of the units and each nation has a couple unique units.

But we dont have nations in this game, so i was worried adding more unique units would make it look like there was just a random assortment of troops added without much thought

However if you dont see any problem with adding units like this, then thats cool

Squirrel5555 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:21 pm But we dont have nations in this game

yet.

Gral.Sturnn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:15 pm we should learn from age of empires, theres many different nations but they share most of the units and each nation has a couple unique units.

Because that's the only logical concept. Any two forces of similar technological advancements and wealth would be almost the same on average. Rarely on the history happened any specialized units, and when they did - they were mostly not really unique (e.g. parthians, turks, avars, early magyars and many more typical steppe cultures all had similar horse archers, mongols were just selected for being deemed the best).
But also taking it from AoK - some cultures, because of style of life, geographical placement, specific technology dependence, etc. had clear advantages - various nation-wide bonuses.

Wow, are countries in the plans?

If thats the case, let me get to work on some concepts

Squirrel5555 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:53 pm Wow, are countries in the plans?

If thats the case, let me get to work on some concepts

More like nations, cultures or cultural groups.
My current ideas are cultural categories, so roman, nordic, celtic, slavic, steppe etc.

Wow, this could be great...

I would want to suggest a SEA cultural nation.

Italians had great navies around this time period

DreJaDe wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:14 am I would want to suggest a SEA cultural nation.

SEA as in South East Asian

Or

Sea units

Squirrel5555 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 11:36 am Italians had great navies around this time period

South East Asian of course

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