I would like to express my opinion, from my game experience, so I will talk only about things i understand and I think they would not help to make game more balanced...
-Fisrtly, bloodlines +10hp instead of +20 would be nice, cuz if enemy pocket get civ with bloodlines, and u did not ,ur team is in great disadvantage, 20hp per knight is pretty much, with this change, franks do not need to change their bonus, 20% would be enough
-Secondly, do not reduce cost of EEW upgrade, problem is that aztecs for example are too overpowered because of their carry bonus and EEW, they can make something like semi-fast imperial with one town center (like 50-60 vills) get imperial and flood enemy economy to death. Other civs need big eco to advance to imperial ,otherwise they are not able to mass units, while aztecs can spam EEW to ur eco in like 30-35 mintues while u are still in castle age, it means u have no chance. (only on open maps of course)
On maps like arena u can see monk rush and then up to imp with one TC few farms and milion vills on gold and right after up u just get raped by tons of EEW. (This is more problem of Aztecs carry bonus than eagles warriors thou)
-Thirdly, I think skirms are ok as weel as archers, M@a kill skirms, skirms kill archers ,archers kill M@a, problem are scouts, civs who have scouts + bloodlines have great advantage over other civs in feudal, archs + scouts really rape all other armies if u do not have bloodlined scouts, but maybe change of bloodlines to 10 HP would fix this.
-Fourthly, I would not change conquistadors, they are too overpowered on maps like arena etc, because they are too fast with great attack for castle age
-Fifthly, It is not good idea to let missionaries carry relics, another overpovered bonus for spanish on maps like arena where relics are MUST ,and classic monk has no chance to compete with them, I would prefer to increase their range to 8 instead of 7
-Sixthly, adding 10% speed to goth villagers is something like aztecs carry bonus, in my opinion too overpowered. I have no clue how it can affect game but i think it is too much, because some civ can not compete with goths in post imp ,even if they do not have this bonus.
Thanks for reading. I appreciate ur ideas, questions etc.
[This message has been edited by maximusSVK (edited 01-17-2011 @ 12:58 PM).]