Am I the only one who realised that the new stats have made Spearmen so terribly overpowered? I mean, the balance in EB 0.81 was very nice and EB 1 has some excellent features, but the new skins and the unbalanced stats are making me mad. Basically, what I've seen is that the developers have overpowered to much anything holding spears, including most Greek units such as the hoplites and the Makedonian pike phalanxes.

But most of the Romani stats are screwed, now. The awesome and professional Roman Legions from EB 0.81 have turned into a bunch of weaklings, and that includes the Cohors Evocata. Their attack wasn't upgraded to reflect the new balance changes, and their defense even got lower. Now I'm having to trouble to defeat a bunch of hoplites with a Cohors Evocata!

I say that we must return to the old balance. Spears are very overpowered, to a degree that lacks any realism. Were they so strong, then why would Ancient peoples such as the Celts and the Romans bother to make expensive swords to their nobles and professional infantry? Indeed, many times a spear is weaker than a sword, less maneuvarable than many shorter swords, and many times it lacks the punch of a longsword manned by a professional warrior.

Plus could anyone give me details on how to get the old Roman legionary graphics? I have nothing against the new ones, except that their faces, well, for my personal taste they don't look as good as the tough old Roman face. Plus they're bigger and have no proportion with most other Romani units. They were a fine idea, except for a few tweaks I would make for myself, but then wouldn't be better to wait 'till all other soldiers are reskinned?

Apart from that, they are good and all... But the old graphics were fine. Just remove the trousers from the Cohors Imperatoria, the Imperial Itallic Helmet from the Evocati, and it was fine. At least it did have some similarity with the other Roman skins, and all were very good works of art.