“Warriors, they approach, make ready!”

[atomic gorge]

concept:

Fairly simple, the Speartons have their stance when enemies are in their line of sight, why not add animations for other units?
Swordwrath could twirl swords for example, or hold them out in front of them 2 handed like the very first games idle. JuggerKnights clang their shields and so on.

Ranged units:

Ranged units obviously don’t need these, they’d just start shooting. Could add idle animations for them though like Eclipsors and Archidons checking their bowstring and their arrows, maybe throw in a little twirl of the arrow.

Purpose:

Other then looking cool, this could be another indicator that there’s about to be a fight, by the time you get that prompt to scroll over, they’ve already reached your lines and are now wreaking havoc, but if say you had another heads up in the form of JuggerKnights clanging their shields, maybe you’d be able to avoid some damage to your units with a keen ear…?

Won’t let me add a part I forgot so

It’s an extra image! That’s certainly not confusing

[forest axle]

Actual good idea, impressive

[atomic gorge]

Thanks

[gusty pagoda]

[rich remnant]

in swl two units did this (primarily only speartons and swordwraths), since Swordwraths have block in swl, the ai instinctively activates it when an enemy is near their base

for the idle animations: swl also had stuff like this, like how Swordwraths would randomly perform push-ups, speartons throwing their shields forward, and etc

I'd like it if generals had taunts instead of idle animations too

overall: thumbs up

[atomic gorge]

Yeah exactly like this

I genuinely forgot the swl stuff though I got the idea from Speartons makingready