I'm pretty sure I read that hero units would be attached to a unit, like the little unit commanders from Rome on are, who have different armor and/or carry the banner. So, for now, I'm not *too* worried about them as they also said they'd largely be about providing morale bonuses.

As for guns from horseback, if they functioned like dragoons, I'm not sure how this would work in STW2. Unless the battlefields are huge, they generally aren't big enough to make riding to the battle, then getting off to shoot, then back on to ride away, really viable or sensible in my opinion. Although, perhaps dragoon-like units would just have better movement points or whatever on the strat map and shoot on foot in the tactical map. That would be neat.


EDIT: Unrelated, by why is it this forum seems pretty dead in comparison to twcenter and official one? I tried reading over there but most of the posts gave me migraines...