Hegemony team...rob and rick
I'd like to recommend a refinement in the future. I find that I get more enjoyment playing games when I can customize my character. Even if it's superficial. I would like to recommend for personal and in game organizational/strategy reasons to allow some appropriate customization of military units. For example allowing the player to name his own units. (exmpl: the 8th hoplite-mountain brigade) Maybe add the ability to give a unit a standard with some basic color or geometric shapes to choose from. Perhaps when appropriate, allowing the player to develop the size of his units, within game balance limitations. (example a hoplite unit w/troop strength of 20 instead of 40 or 50)
I understand some of these recommendations might sound simple but may actually be challenging for game balance. But I for one would get more enjoyment from conquering the ancient world with my own units that I've either developed or nurtured/built up. Or at least units that I perceive as my own. Just another idea from the people. Hopefully you perceive this idea as a refinement. Keep up the great work!

Matt

Rob,
This all sounds wonderful. History is full of critical or significant generals and military units. The customizations you mention sound great and will greatly increase the uniqueness and effectiveness of the military units players rely on to execute their strategies. The customizations also sound intuitive. Players should also get extra satisfaction from succeeding with the units/generals that they developed. Sounds like Rome might blow Gold away. I wish you and your team all the luck.
Matt

i also think that would be a really good addition to the new game to at least be able to name your own units. a few months ago i finished the book, "caesars legion," which was mostly about his spanish tenth legion. pompey was the first i believe to start naming the legions. so it would add more realism but mostly for organizational purposes so that you could find your units easier. as for naming cities, i don't think that would be necessary.

SWEET!Thanks for the great news. I can't stress enough, that the customization options you mention will make our armies easier and more enjoyable to organize and identify. Combining this with the General upgrade options you mention sounds wonderful. Not only wonderful because these options are fun, but wonderful because if your team develops it well, it'll be more realistic too. There is no doubt the team at Hegemony is on it! Awesome!

yea i was wondering about the sacred band too. i haven't finished the philip campaign but sounds like there isn't one in the game. i read i believe it was pelopidas' biography a while back and he created a hand picked sacred band unit of 300 men to face the spartans who had taken thebes(where he was from) and who at that point in history were dominant. but pelopidas was successful with the sacred band and used subterfuge to get thebes back which in turn began the downfall of the spartans. they were believed to be unstoppable. later on though pelopidas was killed by alexander the tyrant of pheraes army when he was seeking revenge against alexander. good stuff! it's been kinda difficult understanding these ancients writing styles and keeping up with all the names of people in their stories when you don't know the circumstances. but history has opened up a whole nother world for me that i never thought i would enjoy.

I have a recommendation for a future expansion packs for Hegemony Rome. How about a expansion pack based on the Roman conquest of Italy? Like start as the city of Rome and conquer the Italian cities around?