My idea was to give all Phalanx 1 range but Macedonian one 2 range.
Considering how long the Sarissa was that wouldn’t be that crazy.
In a traditional Phalanx you would run into the spear of the solders in the second line but for the Macedonian it would be the 3rd and 4th line too.
The thing is that I really want to see the Macedonians having a unique cavalry unit.
In a game like AoM, AoEO, AoE3 or AoE4 that wouldn’t be an issue because you could easily give them lots of unique units.
We can be happy if we get 1 unique unit for each civilisation.
And both Greeks and Macedonians getting a Phalanx infantry as a unique unit is a little boring, especially because you can’t remove the generic Phalanx from the game.
I think a lot of people want Return of Rome to be Romae at Bellum.
AoE2 is also full of unique units that are never being used.
(now someone will argue that they all have some use cases but 90% of matches are decided by Knights and Crossbows)
I think that’s a little over ambiguous.
And even if we’d get new civilisations it would be a waste to go to Greek first, considering that also the Macedonians already exist.
So many regions of the world have 0 civilisations.
I’m not totally against Greeks or Macedonians getting a unique infantry unit but please not both.
I also made the suggestion that the Hoplite line becomes a regional unit in my other thread:
New Generic Unit ideas