Although I really like ETW, especially when playing modded versions, I have to admit that the battles do not look better at all than the battles in M2TW.

While some of the new rather technical effects (various shader FX) look good, overall the artistic quality of units is very lacking. Skins look bland, units are made up of clones with VERY minor variations. One prime exemple are militia units: the basically wear a uniform! All these things were done better in Medieval, which is quite disappointing.

Does anyone here know whether it is technically possible to get rid of the clone units and use different models and skins in a single unit? (I know about the variations on ultra and I did a reskin myself, even though I don't know much about modding)

Lance, missing Stainless Steel's beautiful units