Ancestors Legacy

Very nice! Company of Heroes comparisons apt: similar ideas, different execution. I have no real criticisms (friendly fire is a bit harsh, Anglos seem underpowered, etc., all nit picking and likely to be patched), just an open suggestion: I feel like there's more to be explored here. I commend the realism, though, if I were developing it, I would personally have gone with more mythological units and ideas, writing the campaign according to each faction's worldview and story for their experiences. This way greater unit variety, spells, etc. could be brought in and the campaigns made more colourful while still being true to the spiritual side of each faction's history. This is obviously not the intent: a bloody, realistic portrayal of the brutality of the past is instead given to us, a window into its physical reality that's quite enticing in its own way. Plundering villages, your boys slaying terrified peasants at random, one gets the impression that the warriors of the day are the ultimate in Chadliness. Realism in the historical sense, especially in the last few years for this brutal kind of realism, is popular today but I think also missing important aspects of reality. One does not get the impression, for example, that the people doing the killing thought that they were just recycling people through the World Tree, or that "God would sort them out" etc, which is just as real and just as compelling a concept to explore. I imagine a mod of this already excellent game exploring such themes, perhaps with a feel somewhere between this, The Last Kingdom and Warcraft III. Anybody interested in making it?