Someone noted that the man on the Obsidian mirror header look like an Inca (see here).
If an upcoming DLC add the inca to the game, the llama caravan are the perfect caravan skin for the Inca.
So what type of caravan skin can replace the atlantean caravan in place of the llama ?
Minoan bull
Atlantis legend can be inspired by the Minoans. This is my preferred option. Also the Cretan Bull was captured by Heracles.
Dwarf elephant
According to Platon there was elephants on Atlantis. Dwarf elephants inhabited medditerranean islands in the past. I prefer to keep normal sized caravan elephant if one day the Hindu pantheon will be added.
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There’s a mod for AoM:EE that replaces the Llama caravan with a dwarf-elephant caravan. And it’s so much more immersive. You absolutely can’t go wrong with dwarf elephants. I want that change to happen. In fact, I might even try to recreate that mod, once I figure out how modding AoM:R works.
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I instantly thought dwarf elephants would be cool 
What about capybaras for Incas? Also, secretly hoping for Incas or Mayans, which ever they can make the most unique and epic.
For Incas, llamas would be the correct caravan unit. But so are oxen for the Japanese, so they had to figure out something else, because the Norse had oxen already.
If you ask me, I’d rather they replace the Atlantean caravan unit with dwarf elephants and give the Incas their llama, than make up a capybara-caravan, or something. Even if capybaras are cute.
It’s literally the same amount of work, respects the Inca, and improves the Atlanteans.
Nobody looses a unit, since the llama doesn’t vanish (unless you don’t buy the DLC, but then you get a different caravan unit for free, replacing the llama)
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I’m on board in making the Atlanteans strip away their current identity slowly and coming up with new ones like you suggested. Afterall, they were created by the devs in the first place.
I have always felt that the core theme of the Attys seems to be aquatic / ocean. Maybe like merman/mermaid like creatures? Or maybe crabs?
I would say large turtles but I would like to see them be used for the Maoris even though I don’t think they ever had a proper caravan for trading. Maybe the giant moa would be a good choice too.
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what i don’t undestand why not make caravans myth units? i mean chinese showed its possible at like this chinese are the complete outsider to the other civs for whatever reason. so if all had myth units as caravans this would open new possibilities. just another maybe useful idea beside the dwarven-elephant-lama-switch.
And before they want to do Romans, make model changes to all Atlantean military units to look less Roman and more… Something not everyone can identify at first glance.
This is basically my biggest gripe with the Atlanteans and the game in general. The Atlanteans don’t feel like their own culture, but like a blend of romans and incas.
That, and that they kept the Atlanteans from before the destruction of Atlantis as Greeks. I understand it for the original game. The Atlanteans were an Expansion faction, and going back and change the base game to fit into the new lore established in the expansion wasn’t possible. I get that. But that’s not true for Retold.
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In theory, absolutely. They could make every caravan unit for every pantheon a myth unit.
But is there a good reason for that? The chinese have a myth unit, yes, but that’s tied to a specific god, and their regular caravan unit is a machine. An incorrect depiction of something that was actually built.
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I imagine a robot thing like the Automaton, probably based off a marine animal. I like the crab suggestion, holding a basket on its head with its little claws.
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