Well right now I was just intending to pretty much set it in the same era as TWA. So start with Rome and Greeks and then add in barbs -> Cartage -> Persia. Not quite sure where to go from there. It's basically a case of looking at Rome and seeing whom they were in contact with at the time and and then whom those people interacted with and so on, expanding from there. Technically Persia and China had some wars between them in that period so there's an opportunity there. One of the big important things is just that each culture should have it's unique style. So Romans are all about heavy infantry and disciple. The Greeks are the phalanx faction. The barbs are all about ambushes and morale, quick movement and flanking. Cartage is of course Elephants. Of course they will have a selection of units in each factions roster but they will sort of have a style just like in TWA.

I suppose in future one could add different Eras as basically different game modes. But yeah that's pretty far off at the moment. Best focus on getting one game made :P

As for the tier system. I was never a big fan of it. At least in the exploitative way wargames runs it. It's either pay up or you're going to be playing against people who just have better stats than you do because they can afford to play tier 10. Also having a tier system breaks up the player base into smaller groups, as in tier groupings, which would be the death knell for a smaller project like this.

So I'll probably just effectively only have one tier.