We have seen elephants for South Asia, step lancers for North Asia, gun powder units for East Asia and mule charts for West Asia.
All of them give the region a more authentic feel.
What units could do this for Africa and America, where siege, naval warfare and gun powder was not really a specialty?
I think eagle is fine as an identity unit as is for Americas
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Africa: Mambele Thrower (African Knife Thrower)
Africa could get the arabian horse for the northern civs, and a regional skirmisher for the southern civs.
Mesoamerica could get the obsidian warrior; so eagle warrior is a unique upgrade for aztecs.
South america could get the andean warrior as replacement for the eagle warrior.
West, East and South Africa are unrelated regions with little connection. The best would be to create 1 or 2 regional units for each African region.
- Assegai Spearman or Bantu Warrior would be a Scout-replacement for South African civs, similar to what Eagle Warrior are to Native Americans.
- Somalis, Swahili, Saracens, perhaps Persians and Turks should get the following ships: Baghlah to replace galleys, Dhows to replace Trade Cogs.
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MesoAmerica (Aztecs Maya, and if follows: tlaxcalans, chichimecs, tarascans, mixtec, zapotec etc): Jaguar Warrior, Eagle Warrior, Arrow Knight, Priest of Quetzalcoatl, Axeman, Slinger.
Inca (Guarani, Chachapoyas, Taino, Tairona, Qulla, Lupaca, Aymara, Tiwanaku, Wari, Mapuche) : jaguar warrior (with a spear), macemen, slinger, axeman.
Already in game it’s the Gbeto.
Africa need a heavy cavalry who look like the Lifidi Knight of Aoe3
Donso : melee infantry armed with a spear with a ranged charged attack (like the fire lancer but with a spear instead of gunpowder shoot)
There is many african units in AoE3 and AoE4 who look good.
War canoe, replacement of the war galley. A canoe who fire many arrow.
Chasqui replacement for the eagle warrior.
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The Mpombo Scout would be the scout infantry for African civs without cavalry. It’s basically a Steppe Lancer on foot, though it wouldn’t have the range in the Dark Age. The Assegai would be a Cavalry Archer replacement, and it’s a fast javelin thrower, and because of that, it would have a minor attack bonus against archers, but a very small one.
I heard that the largest portion of the armies here were often bowmen.
Maybe a unique archer line that features lower damage but more durability and cost effectiveness?
I like the cavalry from the Sundjata campaign.
Here are some weapons that could be used for new units.
Weapons common to the entire continent:
• Assegai
• Incendiary gourds (generally used against besiegers)
• Spears with multiple points and/or metal barbs
• Poisoned arrows
• War canoes
More specific weapons:
• War billhook (on shafts or with ropes) → the entire Sahel
• Knives and throwing clubs → both central Sahel and Bantu Africa
• Fighting bracelets → eastern Africa
(By the way, there is no shortage of exotic swords in Africa for us to use as well).
Well, Lifidi (padded armor) was used in the central (Hausa, in Bornu together with iron cuirasses) and eastern Sahel (Nubians), but not in the western (Mali/Songhai used mail and cloth armors) and usually by cavalry, but sometimes in a short version for infantry as well. It did not let any arrow or javelin pass through, but it was highly flammable in return — which led to the obvious counter-response in the form of flaming arrows and javelins (swords too, but that wasn’t a common occurrence).
Exactly, the Mpombo (Kongo) and Marimbirimbi (Zimbabwe) were specialized runners similar to the Chasqui of the Incas.
And as I said in another post, the mounted javelineer was a mainstay in the war of the Sahara and the Sahel. It even seems that they were preferred to horse archers, although the latter were also used.