[Jasper]

Originally posted by PhilD:
These sound like good ideas; I'd widen the area where only light troops were allowed (frontmost area as well as the flanks). But, what's going to be missing from the role of light troops is the disorganizing factor of light troop missile fire - with no formations to maintain, this will be hard to take into account...

IMHO Morale loss from damage due to missile fire is a reasonable aproximation of disorder from missile fire.

But, the real problem is the supplies. The "supplies" abstraction in Dom is only about food, but I think it should reflect more than that; it should be near impossible to raise and maintain a standing army of only heavy troops. These heavy troops should be a backbone that your army is build around - better morale and durability, but too expensive to have them make up more than a quarter of your army. I like the idea of some number of "light" troops in each Province not requiring supplies.

I disagree. In particular Roman and Greek armies were composed mostly of well armed Heavy Infantry. Focusing solely on the cost equation is IMHO not the answer, as it will invariably lead to the most cost efficient unit being best.

Also, you wouldn't mind the supply cost of light troops if they were actually effective in battle.