well, if we play the recon mod, then it automatically takes players out of that mold, as they can't have arb's, xbows are of limited importance and spears are balanced again (and will be more so, along with cav by the sounds of it in the next version).

I've always thought rules were a good idea, but in my experience if you put up a game with rules like 'no cmaa'or '3 max', then people just don't want to join - they prefer their little 4 arb, 4 cmaa, 4 ck steppe map world.

Of course, i'd be interested in knowing of others who are of this rules frame of mind though...