Qm said

[thejeff]

The problem with the animal leadership fix, is that if you limit animal leadership to special commanders then does every nation get one? Just those with recruitable animals? Or national animal summons?
If the point is to not be able to mix it seems you'd have to have special animal leaders. I guess if you also added an indy elephant handler to the indy provinces with Elephants it could work.

If the point is to keep elephant squads small, then the other animal summons, many of which rely on a large number of weak creatures become even more underpowered. And the animal commanders from Call of the Winds/Wild become even better. All the elephant squads will be led by Black Hawks...

I like the idea of repel working against trampling. It'll hurt elephants a lot and other tramplers (especially pretenders) less or not at all.