Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29145474-20170101165108/@comment-27200931-20170111210335

Loke Khan Torgou of Rhun wrote: Also why are you guys doing everything you CAN to argue that they are militia tier units and elite?

Can you just not accept the fact that the golden easterlings (imperial ones) are elite? Don't mind me, I see that you're biased in favor of the Easterlings and I decided to tease you. It's ok, I'm biased in favor of the Dalish too. If I could, I would give them full plate armor and muskets.

Also, I wouldn't call those Easterlings (the warriors shown in the teasers) "militia level", they are clearly battle-ready trained warriors. But calling them "elite" would be really far fetched. In my opinion elite units are the Black Uruks, the Swan Knights, and so on and so forth.

The Easterlings in the LotR mod for Rome Total War had some interesting elite troops, the Goldenscales, warriors fully clad in golden scales and wielding large maces, and the Blade Dancers/Dragons/or-something-else-that-I-don't-remember, less armored warriors that used a strange two handed double bladed weapon.