Sweboz (Germans) slightly underpowered

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You 'bout summed it up quite well, Moros, and thank you for the acknowledgement, TRULY, it wasn't easy and hopefully this evolution will satisfy all of these issues, balance and historical. I am VERY excited about the next release because there are so many changes and hopefully I have done the Germanic peoples justice, but as always, I will be first person to admit I am not perfect, so there might be some fine-tuning (so bring on the feedback) such as with the Reforms which haven't been implemented in any previous version.

The main problem is that potentially any faction is playable (not really a problem) so game-balance-wise we don't want to have any faction stand out as ALWAYS the unstoppable juggernaut, it just doesn't make sense. Also, a certain amount of free will in the shaping of history is a wholly desirable element in the RTW engine, which does not allow overbalancing and certain history, besides the fact that the Germans were just not THAT active until Caesar's time, and I would argue that it's not because of Caesar at all (although certainly the ability to rally a large collective army against a particular foe is an element, smaller forces were always common). The Time of the Warband was the reason shameless promotion of my reform, haha, ok I'm being silly, but anyways.

We're appreciative of the thoughtful discussions, though, so don't get us wrong.