Legionary & Centurion before Return of Rome:
They had the color of iron, the same as their previous versions in the Iron age (the Long Swordsman and Phalangite).
Legionary & Centurion in Return of Rome: They now have the color of gold, all over their body, to differentiate; but this is close to the color of bronze, making them feel almost like their counterparts of the Bronze age, made of bronze (image #1), or simply it doesn’t look like made of iron at all… and you need to feel the Iron at that stage of a match:
Mid-way solution: Give them the color of gold only to their helmet, exactly like that aoe2de profile icon that exists since a 2021 event, to retain the feel of the armor made of iron (image #2):
Bronze and Iron Age variant looks so much different so that’s hardly an issue. However I wouldn’t mind, if Legionary would receive current Phalangite shield and Centurion would receive cape to look different.
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Yes, I’m talking about the feeling of that age tho, I do distinguish them too without any problem.
In a supposed match that will not end in Tool age, you may spend quite some time in Bronze age with those “orange” units. Afterwards, in Iron age you very quickly upgrade through “gray/iron” units to “yellowish” again, top to bottom. Seems pretty dull, and it hasn’t been like this traditionally. There may have been only a demand for a mild visual differentiation of the final unit from its previous.
AoM and AoE4 have the same problem.
The last upgrade is golden.
In AoM it’s worse because the Bronze units are silver.
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