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Chariots
Rationale for chariots - with 2 HP, they still kinda sucked for their main purpose - running into infantry and disorganizing their lines. Usually, more than half the chariots would die before they could sucessfully disorganize an infantry unit. Now with 3 HP, they're much more survivable. I did a test with a chariot + infantry army attacking a fort. I defended the fort's maingate with heavy infantry, and the chariot was actually able to push my infantry back and allow their own infantry to stream into the fort (I lost the battle). Without chariots, those infantry would've been slaughtered as they got cornered and squished together at the gate by my heavy infantry. Also, with 2HP chariots, they normally would've died and routed before accomplishing their objectives.

Now my only concern is I made them too overpowered against cavalry... >_>

Hoplites
As for hoplites - thanks to TWFanatic's short_pike idea, classical hoplites can keep a cohesive, awesome looking formation instead of breaking into individual units like regular spearmen would.

See this thread:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...hariot-minimod

Sacred Band
This unit's 2ndary weapon was useless, and Carthage already has a ton of elite units with 2 weapons. Carthage has units like the heavy iberian infantry, Iberian assault infantry, hand-picked heavy libyan-phonecian infantry, heavy libyan infantry, elite african infantry, etc - I wanted an elite classical hoplite unit instead of just another regular two-weaponed unit

Elephants
I mainly added the extra HP for survivability and to justify their enormous cost. Now half your "smaller" elephant types won't die and rout from only 1-2 volleys of javelins. It's only a 25-33% HP increase, so they're tougher, but still very kill-able. Also, it justifies the chariot HP increase which is now at 3. It would be weird, at least for me, if a smaller elephant and a chariot both had 3 HP. I wanted the smaller & larger elephant to be tougher so I added +1 HP for both...
1-why not add 2 hp for the mount, and give the rider 1 HP? as the horses are driven, not ridden, the game can treat it as a separate entity. unless the 2 HP already refer to the horse and man put together?
2-makes sense to me. and I like the restating.
3-Elephants: I don't know what to say about this-mostly because I don't know too much about elephants.

4-now for the hoppers: I'm not in favor of the short_pike attribute whatsoever; while it does solve the problem or lacking cohesion, I think it kinda ***** up stats to an extant. I think we can change the radius of the combat unit instead, from 0.4 (the default), to 0.1-0.25, while maintaining the formation spacings. the result should be a cohesive unit, without playing with the stats (unless, out of safety, you may reduce the attack -1 or -2).

that's the theory anyways; it worked in N2TW. now to actually apply it to EB.