Another from Asleep-Emotion9161 on reddit
The bactrian camel rider and the Ghazi line were already presented above I will not write more.
First the camel lancer for the Berbers and Saracens (together making the Umayyad Caliphate), an imperial heavy camel troop from the stable with 1 range (similar to a steppe lacer but with bonus against cavalry) since both civs have bonuses and techs that beneficiate it and especially Saracens were the original camel civ and nowadays feel a little bit underwhelming.
Then I will like to propose that the archer line is split, crossbowmen and arbalest will be given to most European civs, maybe just excluding eastern Europe (Bulgars, Magyars, Slavs, etc…) and I would also like to propose separate technologies for crossbows and archers since thumb ring giving crossbows more accuracy makes no sense, maybe a technology called Windlass (a mechanism with handles for reloading a crossbow) gives a faster fire and more attack but no accuracy bonus to make a distinction between archers and crossbowman.
Good concept for most european civilizations but I will be sad if the chinese who invent the crossbow didn’t a have access to this weapon.
Continuing with camels, I would like to propose a Mongol and Cuman unique support camel “monk like” called Naqqara (for the drums), it will not have any attack, instead a healing area effect and maybe an attack speed bonus.
Finally for Persians, I would like to give them a heavy armored unique variation on the steppe lancer called the Sassanid Cataphract (since both Byzantines and the Sassanid empire used heavily armored cavalry) that can be created in the stable, also to replace the Savar that is now a regional paladin variation.
Good concept but not at the cost of removing the savar fir the persian.
The second proposal for Persians is separating the war elephants in two phases (similar to a Konnik it will be “two different units”) with half of the original war elephants hit points for each phase: first with a rider on a wooden tower with the current statistics, then, when the rider is killed and the tower destroyed, the war elephant turns into the current graphics but with more attack and speed but it causes friendly fire (to represent that the elephant is now a loose beast).
Good concept to have a frightened elephant.
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