About the animal theme, what if they ONLY required resources? Like, wolves costing 1 gp/10 res, and bears 1gp/30 res? The problem comes with castles... If fortress could be replaced with a temple for this theme, it would be good. But a fortress (den? homely cave?) with a building time of 1/cost of 150, no defence rating and no walls inside would work too, if we can mod these things.
But animals would be quite weak versus archers, and most players would just recruit indies for that reason. They do have money... Even with population-killing dominion. Well, the druids would take most of that money, and buildings.
And how would vine men, and nature magic, fit in? Animals/vine men? Vine men with some equipment? A national hero Fenris the Great Wolf, leading an army with Gift of Reasoned Vine Ogre wearing Fenris pelt? Maybe blocking (the creation of) certain items should be considered. Maybe Malrus the Son of Fenris?
Just some weird ideas... It's nice to read all this, but all these things won't fit in one mod.
EDIT: can a unit have a cost of zero?
[ November 26, 2003, 10:45: Message edited by: Endoperez ]