I also enjoy the feature of being able to rename units.  This relates to Ynflaur's suggestion in an offhand way. 

Over the decades I have gotten into the habit of decorating units and armies which perform unusual deeds.  Perhaps it is a ' after their name for participating in a successful campaign, a * for turning the tide of a major battle, or simply renaming the unit from '12th Infantry' to 'Helsinki Guards' for conquoring an enemy capital.

I think not only an animation, but having to move your units to a city in which to conduct a triumph would be required.  You have to pull the army out of the field, but the army and city (nation, maybe?) gets a boost.  The cost wouldn't just be gold, per se, but could be opportunity cost as well.  Some nations may also want to parade prisoners, or execute them, as part of the triumph (opportunity cost of lost ransom, perhaps?).

I thinkthere are losts of ways for this to play out.

Great idea! And it wold be very nice if some icon in this forum represents fullfiled achievments. If the number of achievments is let us say 100, the icon would be 10x10 square, where specific pixel(s) represent fulfiled achievments.

I would suggest such achievments:

- peace lover - winns the game without being at war with anyone (neutral creatures and cities do not count)

- destroyer of the empires - winns the game by killing all opponents

- Famine, the third rider of apocalypse - loses some specific amount of population due to starvation

I like the ideas of triumpths and monuments. There's nothing like celebrating one's great victory with a marker on the world map and a grand parade through your capital city, boosting morale, diplomatic influence, and trade. (your people feel more comfortable with going abroad to trade, seeing as your mighty armies can clearly crush any threat to their safety) I think the defensive equivalent could be interesting, as well. Win enough defenseive battles at a given location and it becomes regarded as the impenetrable bastion of your empire's defense. This might weaken the morale of attackers, boost the morale of defenders, or provide any number of other interesting bonuses. Lose that city or fortress, though, and the entire country is demoralized while your enemies gain a great morale boost and maybe go home for a triumphal parade of their own, further boositng their morale and humiliating your empire in the eyes of the world.

A monument at the site would be cool too

My main concern is that any kind of cutscene-like Triumph will get old fast. It's a cinematic you watch once and then proceed to skip it all the time. But from thematic point of view, it's ok.

I liked MoM animations for researching a new spell etc. They were short enough that you'd like to see them once in a while.

Quoting GW Swicord,

reply 14

Not if Brad can teach the AIs to hold a proper grudge. I'd certainly be double-ticked if Those Despicable Folks undid all my hard work in freeing some locals from their oppression and salted the wound by tearing down our fine monument. If I were playing on the Fallen side and something like that happened, I'd want the next monument built from their foolish bones.

 

Quoting keithLamothe,

reply 4

Flying mountain...

 

Move over opponent capital...

 

Neglect to pay upkeep cost on flying enchantment...

 

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