Whyyyy? That's more stats for those other units to remember.

There shouldn't be more unit types for more unit types. There should be unit types to fill roles.

Minotaurs fill your melee foot soldier role.
Catapultasaurs fill your arty role.
Weird archer statue alien guys fill the ranged foot soldier role.
Angels fill your flyers role.
Giant dudes fill your big tanking guys role.

The only duplication there should be in roles being filled are the Generals unique units, IMO. Anything else is a waste of time and is just adding more units to memorize what they do.

In my opinion a little variety would be nice in basic units, especially if the team gets to choose, or you get by control points, for example:

Team voting near the beginning of the match to decide between the faster creep, stranger creep, ect. but personally I like this much better:

When the team captures a 'Manticor lair' they get Manticors spawning in that lane, or all the lanes. Manticors could be flying unit which slows enemy units and hit harder, allowing for that lane or all the lanes to be come faster at killing units, and slightly better against demigods. And it would only have to be one extra unit.

Overall I think a little variety is good, but having like 100 diffrent units to spawn might be pushing it a little.

It looks to me that there is variety, but only between the Demigods. I mean that the 'Fatman' Demigod has his own type of minotaur (which incidentally isn't a minotaur ) and the female Demigod has plant type minions.. That's fine with me, especially if summoning them will be automated and it's just a constant stream of troops.
All i really want is to be able to identify my troops and my enemies.

all a question of balance. At this point, just about any idea can work if the devs want to put the time into it. The 1st beta is pretty much ready to be released (10 more days). All these ideas are great, but honestly pointless until we can get our hands on the beta, try it out, then make suggestions appropriately.

Who said creeps even had to be in the lane? whats to stop the assassins and generals from fighting over it at a part of the map with no creeps (see the lava map in the trailer for an example of what I mean) for a creep in their normal lanes? And plus who ever said assassins can't handle units? Torch Bearer has some very nice aoe spells from the look of it. And I meant it could hit a little harder than a minatour (like 25%-50%?) and there would be only one more unit.

While some parts of the team took a diversion to capture the lair others could push back the lanes.

(and on the point of assassins being unable to handle creeps and generals being unable to handle demigods see: this post by me for my thoughts on the subject)

Edit: oh you said the generals would be better, well they can't control (from what we know) the spawns from the portal they have their own personal army that will (hopefully) be balanced with other demigods, the lanes are completely separate from player units. And I meant the spawns would be in a lane, reinforcing that one lane)

The Queen of Thorns has those summonable tree guys, so I think there will be more units than we see now.

Yes which is a tide and flow game something the devs have said is much diffrent from demigod:



Which means that you A) shouldn't have let them take it in the first place. Went for the other unit spawning point. C) pushed ahead to their base while they were busy. D) Something else you think of that dose something better therefore winning you the game!

To be honest we don't know how it plays. But the devs have suggested that:



If spawning a unit in a lane isn't a significant advantage then I don't know what is, I was merely offering up the idea of a spawn as a possible way to get unit varitey in there under the assumption that these elements which provide "significant advantages" could possibly be on the level of an extra spawn.


(And the A argument, is get better at fighting and win next time!)

It's a way to help resolve stalemates, not an imbalance.

I would also like to see a different sets of creeps if at all possible. They would have the exact same states as the other creeps though just a different look.

 We have preconceived notions because devs have made quite a number of psots and there are a few interviews and such.

 

  We discuss based on those.. and are subject to be wrong or what we say not be applicable to the game.

I agree with innociv: we might come up with a good idea without having even played this thing.

well, then, maybe some spawn units could have some special abilities