You will enjoy - I've been using PDan's unit tweaks since the beginning with great pleasure. The Formation changes are legit as well; I can't recall ever picking that promotion for my units, but now it's my default going Formation II on all my (non-sword) melee.So after several games in the last version and one in this one, I've come down firmly against the new Skirmisher line. I really dislike them; they have most of the strength of the old ones, with the added downside of making it feel completely impossible to hold on rough terrain. It doesn't seem to matter what unit I put on rough terrain, the AI will be able to do enough damage with Skirmishers to either immediately kill the unit or force it to retreat, and there's no good answer to them if they have open terrain to retreat to anywhere nearby. Trying to attack a civ with Skirmishers near their roads is painfully Sisyphean; trying to defend using your hills that are surrounded by plains is similarly frustrating. They absolutely annihilate anything that doesn't have Cover, and do a lot of damage even to units that do, using ranged naval units anywhere near the coast is out of the question, because it will just get deleted by a Skirmisher or two.
I was originally in favor of this change as I thought it would let the unit be tactically powerful, but I don't feel like that is what's happening. They feel even more imbalanced than they did before we started this Skirmisher shake-up a few patches ago.
I'm going to give my next game a run with Pineappledan's Unit Tweaks mod to see if I see like that version of the units any better.
I have nothing but love for VP and all involved, but it took me one game to realize this new mounted ranged isn't for me. Why are terrain specific variables being thrown onto a single mounted line, when we don't have general defensive terrain bonus for any mounted (I understand for gameplay, but it makes little sense to say my horses, aside from chariots, have no advantage on high ground, while simultaneously slapping some negative modifier on my ranged cavalry because they're on a hill)?
Supreme Glorious Leader will not be indoctrinated!