So TWA is back, the same but very different. Its safe to say most of the previous fans miss the dead-is-dead gameplay, with its highly tactical and rewarding gameplay, epic plays, bitter fights till the end, ninja-caps and legendary comebacks.

The game moves on though, trying to be more appealing to the average player. However, I think that much of the magic of the original TWA is lost, but there are several easy fixes that could make the battles feel more meaningful than an all-out deathmatch brawl.

Dead-is-dead is gone, but with it went away the sense of achievement gained from executing a cost-effective play. Whether its a well-timed volley in the back of a unit, surprising charge, cornering enemy cavalry, the reward from taking a big chunk out of the enemy with little losses is gone, seeing as they will return full health in less than a minute.

The main change I'm proposing here is tying the reinforcements/replenishments to the point system. Healing your units should cost your team, bringing an entire force back from the dead should cost even more. Rather than adding to the enemy's tally, this would subtract from your own, avoiding a situation where you don't want to replenish at all, or else enemy wins. This would promote smarter gameplay, as throwing your units away in mindless charges would hamper your team, and also fight the mobility meta, where its more beneficial to charge-die-charge rather than fight&fallback; while also giving more satisfaction from dealing a lot of damage to the enemy.

In this context, I also don't think any player should be able to fully comeback from the dead more than 3 times. This would slightly speed up matches that are going on for too long, and punish bad plays, where a player just treats this game like a brawler, constantly charging forward with no regard.

Some other changes:

- slowdown capping in general,but especially for cavalry, to prevent the whack-a-mole gameplay. Capping a point should be a difficult but powerful & rewarding move that grants your team many points and demands immediate response. Current gameplay encourages highly mobile units running around from flag to flag, with little positional play. I also think the healing box should be either disabled or severely nerfed while a cap point is contested, including new units spawning on top of you during a cap-point fight.

- nerf chevrons hard. I'd suggest 5/10/15/20% or 10-40% at most for % bonuses across the ranks. High impact of the chevrons currently completely kicks out the careful balance achieved in TWA. Suddenly cavalry behaves like a germanicus old-vengeance, a heavy infantry unit with deeppockets can take on 2-3times as many enemies with almost no men loss, it justs create a confusing and frustrating gameplay for new players who lose their units in an otherwise fair fight. I also think unit xp should be given out more for capping points and less for fighting, to promote teamplay.

- Reward points for enemy base capture attempts. Currently, capturing the base is just a means for a grossly imbalanced game to end. As the meta matures, it will be less and less worthwhile to attempt captures. If small raids on the base already give immediate points or significantly boost the rate as long as the base is being captured, the main bases becomes more interesting to fight over. This will also generate comeback potential, as a team can push one side hard to get a sudden increase of points over the enemy, in an otherwise lost game.