my concerns and ideas :
-is "heavy infantry" or "armored infantery" not better to replace macemen instead of "champion" ? especially as there are no more pikemen ...
-crossbow-mens could be armored, archers couldn't. Few R&D was put on man-size crossbow (500years? save in china) compared to bows (>3000years)... that's why they were less efficient in RL, the X-bow R&D turned toward arquebuse : easy using, with even worse accuracy and worse loading time. but in a world without gunpowder you can imagin crossbows improved, with auto-loaders, bolt-magasin ...(especially if you add new materials such as mithril) in the same way that bows became long bow then compound-bow to compensate the lost strength compared to crossbows... (ex Cho-Ko-Nu in china used in battle until 1895... way later than longbow : repeatble X-bow, less powerful but 10 bolts in 15sec !! with mithril it would be as powerful as RL X-bow and quicker than longbow !!) and X-bows still easier to master compared to bows...
-as tier 4 units were limited to 3 per civ, I'm kinda sad with losing 3 options : shadow (limited ot undercouncil), shieldwall and flurry.
(for flurry I loved to have in the defense tree 1 unit that can attack... same as shield wall being 1 unit that can defend on the attack tree as the best defender it was strange, but a defending melee unit would still be nice) is blizt reachable through the drill promo line or only throught the combat promo line ?
(I liked the idea of needing to chose where you devellop your army... with possibility of being strong whateverbranch you choose. with those change I fear we will go back to the vanilla system : attack units, defense units, mounted units, siege units. and in order to be performant, you would need to have all branchs... or at least 1 attack + defense. I fear a lack of specialisation.)
-I dread the lost of specialising workshops for the luirchips
- I'd rather disable the gunpowered units.. (maybe with crossbow replace longbow for dwarvs, arquebuse replace crossbow for dwarves, cannon replace heavy catapult for dwarves)
all other changes are for good !!!
-those wonders : ok,
-promos : ok
-tech : ok
-civics : I'm waiting to see how it is changed