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Am I the only one that doesn't really get how come the pioneer portrait looks like a falconer? It doesn't look like a pioneer at all to me.
I think its a dove. I always assumed its a reference to the dove on noah's arc finding that sprig of whatever it found when the flood waters went down. But to be honest, thats a crazy far stretch, so your guess is as good as mine.
Hunting hawk. For eating. Not the hawk. The prey.
Units gotta eat too, don't they? The assumption is that they're foraging in the territory they cross. So, hunting hawk.
So, my dudes have not yet learned how to make pointy sticks, but they have hunting hawks?
They haven't learned how to make pointy sticks out of proper pointy-stick-making materials, or pointy sticks that are any good at taking down boars. Further refinement of the pointy stick technology leads to successful military applications.
Seriously. You think horse domestication just shows up? They've likely been practising animal husbandry for decades before you came along. How else do you think they get any real farming done?
I assumed they got out their and tilled the land with their hands. I am empire, so my dudes are not weak little fleshy humans like you kingdom folks. They are strong and capable of actually doing things without needing critters to help.
The hawk is smart enough to hide during combat, the Pioneer will just charge right in.
At first I thought it was so the pioneer could find things by having a trained whateverbird flying around scouting. But that really doesn't make any sense. The pioneer is just a guy with a tent or two and a wooden barricade in his backpack.
Still the picture is awesome, so I say keep it!
I say the picture should be used for something more awesome than a pioneer. And the pioneer pictures should look like an actual pioneer, not some poet.
It was from a time when Elemental was using art pieces predominantly rather than portraits generated from the model. Since every faction has the default, old skool pioneer in its army list, it saved them needing to write a unit creation script specifically for the pioneer.
Considering the game does this for units when you get tech upgrades....it's just one more tiny polish point they've not yet gotten around to doing.
The filename of the portrait is "Kingdom_Scout1.png", so I assume the falcon has something to do with visual range and that the picture was not ment as a pioneer portrait when it was drawn.
What I want to know is, is the person a guy or a girl? 
How about this interpretation:
The hawk-like flying bird is the sole descendant of doves, adapted to the harsh world of elemental. So, the pioneer has a dove because pioneers create settlements, and so they also hope for a peaceful existence. Doves (sometimes) symbolize peace on terra.
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