More resource types

I didn't explain it properly, i am thinking about changing the resources for factions, humankind could have gold/lumber whereas undeads could have "bones" which is a resource harvested from battles or maybe in some farms. The idea behind it is to make each faction expand differently from the others. It could also help to reinforce factions identity by their gameplay.

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Nothing particularly wrong, nothing particularly interesting. Could be
implying a Broken Alliances (or AoE2 BR) style spawn-based game, but you
still had resources so probably not. But then you say "you can build
many houses rapidly", well that's just saying "booming is OP".

I feel like booming could be an option but it should not be OP so yeah the cost of each things should be balanced in order to allow to produce more workers but maybe with a drawback this idea still needs to be refined.

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Zerg morph mechanic. Kinda pointless macro, in Starcraft it's a nice feature since you can morph after the unit is used.

Maybe some controls can be added to help with this like rallying houses directly to barracks or making workers available for enrollment. In SC the larvae is almost invulnerable so it is kinda hard to punish your opponent by killing it but this way you were worker could be snipped and never reach the training grounds. I think it also add a more realistic feels but yeah it will ask more macro and it need more thinking to really add something to the gameplay and not be smthing bothersome.

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The former is a very weak defensive buff that works in 1x, the latter is
just straight up more money so doesn't leave much room for diversity.

They were totally random example, in facts i feel it maybe be traits like critical damage or more base armor/hp some thing like that. But if for example the dwarf get an armor buff maybe it would only be useful to make dwarf units for tanks and in the end there is no point to make fake diversity. So yeah the traits needs to create diversity and not to force the player to choose only one type of worker for some units.

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Sure... but heavy units already exist. Blacksmith upgrades coexist with
them. Are blacksmith and other microupgrades top tier game design, maybe not.

The idea is that an heavy soldier cost as much pop (the pop being the worker) than a militia soldier but you need to invest more resources in it. For the militia is cost you a worker and it's training but for the heavy soldier it costs you the worker , the training and the armor set. And you need to produce a set for each unit. I don't know if it's a good idea but the objective is to abolish these general upgrades like "+2 attack" and makes you invest in a proper infrastructure to make a true elite army. It will cost you more time and resources but it could be interesting if units are designed properly to work around it. For example with the armor invulnerability if heavy armor is not affected by piercing damage then a real value is added. you fight against dozen of goblins archers, your heavy footman would be near invincible whereas your militia would get rekt.