[Wauthan]

All the units you mentioned are produced by the special Machaka starting sites, so sadly it's not all the easy to do away with. I would really have liked to have the bane spiders, and their weaker brethren, as noncapital units myself.

I'll see if I can do something along this line in the next Version of my Empowerment mod. I need to test it though, and putting the most deadly "basic" assassin in a position where it can be massproduced sounds like it could topple the scales so to speak.

You seem to have given this some thought. What about adding another unit to Machaka? Something small and cheap that still works as a support unit perhaps... Perhaps one could add the "Spider" animal unit to Machaka, give it webspit and stealth and then add a sort of stealthy "Brood Keeper" unit to go with it. Both would be pretty weak units but atleast you get a cheaper scout unit that's available out of capital.

But then again Machaka already got a stealthy priest. Perhaps if I lost the priest levels to lower the cost and turned it into the "Brood Keeper"?

Sorry for rambling. Modding always gets the gears spinning in my head.