Right, here I shall outline some propositions.

Vartan and I have agreed that from now on units that cost between 1850 and 2500 mnai will be limited to 4 of a single unit. This is in response to a few things:

a. The possibility of a spam of Cretan Archers, particularly by the Koinon Hellenon, or (less importantly) Dacian Elite Archers by the Getai.
b. The "arms race" of phalanxes in which players are obligated to bring only Pezhetairoi as Hellenistic factions or lose to the other player's phalanx. We feel that this will help mitigate this and free up some cash in the Hellenistic fight, and we don't want to make exceptions to our rules.
c. The low cost of some key heavy units such as Indo-Hellenic Heavy Hoplites and Thorakitai. Spams of these haven't popped up by I don't want to take chances.

Next, something a bit more hard-hitting

Division of Sauromatae into Two Army Types: "Bosporan" and "Sarmatian"

Currently, the Sauromatae are forced to have limits on the number of key Greek troops they can bring, while they are allowed an expanded number of non-factionals to fill their infantry needs. I feel that this division would allow for more factions to be represented in EB Online, and remove the need for restrictions such as this. A player would need to announce which army type he brings.

The "Sarmatian" Army
-Not allowed to bring Bosporan factional troops (except Scythian units) - this includes Bosporan Archers!
-Rest of roster is fully available.
-Maximum of 6 non-factionals allowed.

The "Bosporan" Army
-Different list of factional troops.
-Not allowed to bring Sarmatian factional troops (except Scythian units and some exceptions to be added)

I would add a host of troops to the Sarmatian roster to enable the "Bosporan" army including:

-Thraikioi Peltastai
-Thraikioi Hippeis
-Thraikioi Prodromoi
-Hoplitai Haploi
-Peltastai
-Thureophoroi
-Pontikoi Thorakitai (maybe) - to represent the later Bosporan legionary imitations
-Thorakitai (maybe)
-Epilektoi Hoplitai (maybe)
-Hippeis
-Lonchophoroi Hippeis
-Hippeis Xystophoroi (maybe)

This would be made possible via editing of descr_model_battle

The steppe factions are well overdue for an overhaul in their 3.0 stats; I will redo all of their stats in this regard at the same time as I stat the Saka.

--- Saka Proposal ---

I fully support a division of Saka into "Steppe Saka" and "Indo Saka" but I'm not sure how I'd work this out.