Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir
Stakes?.

sorry, couldn't resist.
a low-cut, lightly dressed Buffy unit would totally rock!

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I think the longbow stakes sound good, but I think it might be unbalanced and overpowered. Would be best if all units could place field fortifications, and only do so during the deployment phase, maybe also locking it to the defending faction. That would also need locking it with certain general's traits so it would only appear in correct time periods and for the factions that historically used it.

As for the cannon elephants... I thought screeching women, chanting swimming priests and chariot machineguns would be the climax of the historical inaccuracy spree. However the "secret multiplayer features" might include ability to lock units and set rules when creating a game, so that it'll be possible to play multiplayer without them without having to wait for the first mod that removes them. If that's the case, it means multiplayer won't be broken because too few are prepared to install the major historical accuracy mods.