Quote Originally Posted by Gabeed View Post
See, I don't think so. I think the smart ones still won't. Especially since I'm talking about the incredibly cheap ones that are easy to javelin to death (African forest) being at 5000. Others would still be as high as 10,000, or more. I'm not saying that it has to 50% of the previous cost for elephants . . . I just want to find the small overlap between expensive and affordable. Right now no one in their right mind would use elephants.
I agree with here, however if we are going to go through this, let's not alter the EDU, let's just go with the easier way, giving them 5000 mnai should do the job as you wrote. If someone cheats...well by replay we can check the mnai the cheater spent.

My idea is that we shouldn't make the rules faction based, but culture... for example:

Western Hellenic factions: AS, Ptolies, Maks, Epeiros, KH
Eastern Hellenic: Pontos, Baktria, Hayasdan (Not sure about that)
"Barbarians": Arverni, Aedui, Sweboz, Lusos, Casse
Nomads: Saka, Sauros, Pahlava (Not sure about that)
Western non-Hellen: SPQR, Karthadastim
And Saba which will get unique rules, I guess...

Also, someone in the past advised to not let the people to have more than 4 or 5 from the same units, I totally agree with this. It's boring, when you see tons of Pantodapoi Phalangitai or Cohors Reformata dancing on the battlefield. If someone plays with Romani, then has to understand, there weren't only legionaries and Hellenic factions are not just phalanxes and heavy cavalry.