I am opening up some threads to discuss ideas that are currently lingering in dev. Read carefully, think carefully and argue carefully. Make sure your comments in these threads make sense and please refrain from spamming.

The goal of this thread is to create a race overview that makes sense in an intuitive way and has some sort of symmetry in it. Rather than randomly tweaking races around, I'd like to have some systematic way of designing them and assessing their values. Their power can always be adjusted by tweaking unit costs easily.
The general tendency of these suggestions has much to do with both other threads that I have just created. Please read those first before firing at my ideas, because these ideas have reasons behind them (I for one know that ppl will scream for the old Nazgul no matter that it's the #1 race messing up the game).


So here some ideas:

Orcs
In general Orcs need other racespells. Powerbooster rather than intelligence resistance is what Orcs need! ROAR should be back :P

1- Uruk Hai. They are fancy. But I prefer them to be brute and simple. There should be a 'standard' attacking race for new players. I think Uruks are good for that. Their main stronghold should be their units.
Ideas:
- 300 pop homes
- 8/0 cheap offspec, 0/7 cheap defspec, 10/4 medium elite (highest def on off-elite in game it should be)

2- Oleg Hai. They are troublesome and need change. Some ideas:
- Give Olegs highered gains on Pillage and/or an offensive bonus on pillage attacks.
- Need more good ideas. Olegs should be quite plain too but with fancy income-stuff. A revamp of the merc-concept is much needed in AatW.

3- Rept Hai. Very overpowered atm.
- 15%-->10% second general.
- 9/2 elites, 0/7 defspecs.
- quadruple losses, Venom attack (
- Immune to reconing (very good when Cover of Mordor is gone).

Elves
DE- I was thinking of an rp bonus on guilds. Mana regeneration should be cut to +50% instead of +100%. ML bonus should be lowered or disappear completely.
HE- Same units. Give them double fame gains. Make immortality useful again (make Mortality part of the Orcish ROAR spell?). Let HE homes hold 1/3 tp. Second general 5--> 10% bonus.
WE- Make yards count as walls. Give 0/9 instead of 0/10 leet. Let yards be destroyed by WoC. Keep 2 hr thief return and +25% tp regeneration.

Humans
Remove EM. Add a new spell, perhaps science-related (every 500 citz produce 1 rp?)
Britt- Remove wall bonus. Remove tp bonus (lowering max thief damage). Give science bonus (if not in racespell). If in racespell, make Britts a little faster.

Templar
Give 45% max homes. Give 0/7 defspecs, 7/2 elites and 4/1 clerics. Make CH hold 100 clerics and produce 1 rp (and give magic protection). Maybe make guilds count as weaponries.

Viking
- 9/3 elite max. Preferably 8/3 or 9/2 like Reptie.

Birds
Eagle:
- Give free Emesens every tick (0-0.5% of max pop?)
- Make Emesen basic unit. Keep 1/0 stats.
- Create 5/1 offspecs.
- Make intelligence ops free (like SELF-ops).

Owl:
- Keep 1 hr return time on thieves and 1/2 self-op gains.
- Thief unit: 0/5 (highest thief def in game) NOT TOO CHEAP. Give 0/7 defspec. Remove tp regeneration bonus.
- Make intelligence ops free.
- Make thief ops made by Owls (failed or succesful) not appear in tribe news (but can obviously fail and lose thieves).

Cursed- enhance Pest features. Removing heal or making it a lot more costly would be a good start.
UD-
- Make Vamps immortal again (no easy mortality). Keep 7/9 stats/price. Keep gaining Vamps on unit losses. Give 3 hr return time or a second general (+10%) or give them a free raid on any hit including hitnruns.
- Give 'sacrifice' option, converting citizens into rps. Make them gain rps on citizens slain on raids. 100 citz = 1 rp.
- Give Nazgul feats: no selfspells, no exploring. Make their soldier cost 25 cr.

Nazz-
- Can explore & run spells.
- 2 hr returntime
- Can not be intercepted
- 25% magic resistance
- +25% damage on BC & Raze.
Soldier 0/0 - 66 cr
Offspec 5/2 - 466 cr
Defspec 0/7 - 666 cr
Nazgul 6/4 - 800 cr (highest def on elite together with Uruk)
Thief 0/2 - 200 cr.