As a history buff and professional stage combat choreographer, while I love the macemen, my only criticism about them is they make swords feel less special.
If we can't do late medieval dismounted knights/zweihander/Civ V-esque-longswordsmen as a separate unit, is there a way to have maceman be overall weaker than swordsmen but get a buff against certain heavily-armored classes of units somehow?
It's just that swords feel a little less special now, y'know? And the current swordsman doesn't really have a "professional soldier" feel somehow. The classic iconic medieval weapon feels really incidental and weirdly obsolete in medieval wars now. Ultimately a small critique and the Templar might fix that but I'm still playing the same save and haven't been able to use Hooves and Holy War yet. But zweihanders would be great.