The next release beta_8 will come soon. Most probably in a week.

We don't plan to change any animations for that release, I'm afraid.
Our animation sensei, barocca, isn't available at the moment.
Also we are pretty satisfied with the Cav animations as they are already a big improvement compared to the beta_5 version. About the Ashi-Xbows we care even less since they aren't used in MP and are not an authentical unit.
That is not to say that we won't do them eventually, it's just not an urgent matter in my opinion. Also please understand that the working on the animations is very time consuming.

Our main focus at this stage is to fix the map issues and some other minor changes.



R'as