Also I’ll leave it here:
It was my BRIEF concept and I was heavily attacked for it because it’s brief lol. I don’t believe in heavy fan concepts with calculating percentages, drawing art, etc., because in the end they will never be accepted anyway. I don’t do empty work. So I just showed the direction. Regarding the Romanians specifically, I simply named 3 possible bonuses and 1 unique building - crypt.
I mainly spoke about Rus’ and Ukraine. Everything connected with horsemen needs to be changed there, because these peoples never had knights. They need to be renamed “Ratnik” (means smth like “man from warriorhood”) and the skin changed. The boyar should be renamed as Vityaz (boyars did not go into battle at all, they were businessmen and managers).
In Rus’ before Peter I (i.e. Just during the time period of AoE 2) there was a bad fleet of small ships, so most of the ship types need to be removed from port, but somehow make sure that the unique small Russian ship Ladya (version of drakkar) is more or less competitive.
Both races must have cannoneers.