HI CA,

It would be a good idea to differentiate more some units variants to promote more their use.

I personally, almost never see the use to recruit empire spearmen without shild or high elves silver helms without shild.

But  if you could make those empire spearmen into a more offensive unit (give them a little more attack than their shield counterpart-or turn them into pikemen), then they would have a more specific role into the defensive category and a reason more than unkeep to recruit them.

- light highelves archers could be more speedy than their armored archer counterpart etc.

it would make these units more relevant...

Speed is 1 obvious stat which should change.

If units had cost-based soft caps that would be another obvious stat.

More CB, especially since at the point of the game you might use spearmen without shields, you’re facing mostly enemy infantry.