Opinions on Caelum (MA and other)

[RamsHead]

HoneyBadger said:
One small thing that would really benefit Caelum in any age, without making them overly more powerful, is to equip some wingless troops with harpoons. That would give them a nice little boost, but at the same time, harpoons aren't going to win a game by themselves. They're also thematic, since any nation's going to want to possess the ability to strike at it's own people-and harpoons are the best choice vs flyers. Nets would also be good, as would a winged troop that simply dropped rocks on opponents.

Personally, if I were leading a nation of flyers, I'd just send them up to about 500 yards in the air with bags full of marble-sized to golfball-sized pebbles and have them drop them on any troops they happened to come across, but that's hard to simulate in the game.

Actually, I don't think it would be that hard to simulate. If you are modding, take a Caelian unit to make your rock-dropper guy. Give him a ranged weapon with a certain number of effects. Give him a negative reinvigoration of 20 or so, and, viola, you have your rock-dropper guy. The weapon's range will indicate how far the guy can fly out with the bag of rocks, the number of effects will obviously indicate how many rocks are in each bag, and the steadily increasing fatigue will indicate the exhaustion the guy feels when he is flying around with a bag of rocks. The problem will be that he will continue to get fatigued after 100, so it would not be a perfect simulation but close.