I thought, after playing with Athenians and Spartans, why don’t the Romans have some key skins for siege units from Chronicles, to help tie them to both worlds? The rest of the civ looks amazing, I however think that the Romans having the Chronicles siege workshop unit skins and the Palintonon would really tie them to both realms. Keep in mind, no stats changes, just unit skins for the Scorpion, Mangonel and Trebuchet.
Thoughts?
We would need a Roman Republic civ for that? Maybe Latins.
The palintonon should be given to the Romans Goths Huns 3K… everyone knocked out before the 11th century when counterweight trebuchets were made. As for the rest of siege engine, they feel too ancient (bronze-clad rams for example), while technologically 4th and 5th century Romans were at the standards that would remain until European civs would start shooting ahead after AD 1000.
It would make sense for more or less all units of the early medieval civs.
Romans certainly had no Knights.
Though I generally hope AoE2DE gets regional skins in general. Then there could be an early and late medieval European unit skin set.
Chronicles units skins should stay with chronicles civis for the simple reason of readability.
The villager skins of chronicles fits the indian civis but that is no reason to use them there.
It can always be an option that people can simply opt out of.