Gently caress it. I'm not a professional and I'm not going to pretend to be.
Here's Sparta in its current state. I want your feedback.
Just take
this file and drop it in your Civ 5 Mods folder.
My mind is focused on a few balance changes for Sparta. There are some who will cry that having that many soldiers is overpowered. There are some who will cry that having that many soldiers to maintain, and the fact that they don't receive XP from training buildings sucks donkey parts. That said, I think I can nerf them while buffing them at the same time by reducing their soldiers from being the main body of the player's army to the soldiers being a healthy supplement to the player's army. At the same time, I would throw in XP for soldiers from military training if I could.
There are others that I would consider.
Sparta's main issue right now is that while they are booty warrior tier early game, they fall off into probably the lowest of the low tiers around late renaissance. Having a bunch of spearmen or pikemen doesn't translate well into a modern army (eventually they become lancers, anti-tank guns, and helicopters.) In my experience, late game Sparta... There's poopoo tier. Then there's the ground. Then there's fifty feet of poop. Then there's Sparta's tier.
Though, to be fair, I'm not much of an early game player. I can tell that Sparta revolves around playing a damn strong early game to have it made late game.
I just lost my first game as Sparta today, and it was an eye opener in the respect that having a big bad booty warrior army isn't everything (especially when you're running out of Supply...) So don't overestimate their UA.
All this being said, I think I'm ready to label Sparta's playstyle as:
Bully