Medals for units fighting with hero

[Versace]

I wish a unit surviving in a battle alongside with a hero could get a medal. A medal would raise strength by 5 points and maximum 4 medals for a unit. The more unlikely the unit is to survive the higher the chance of getting a medal.

Warlords2 had this and I always enjoyed having those special units with pretty medals, especially when one unit would follow the hero and survive late into the game.

[magian]

I liked the warlords 3 medals better. I believe units in combat got an additional die roll for having a medal, and the lower of its two rolls was used (lower is better).

[KGB]

I'd like to see Medals too.

In addition to medals I'd like to see the ability to produce better units (extra strength, extra moves etc). It could be a very simple system tied to the city wall level so no new menus are needed:

Wall Level
L0: Normal unit
L1: +1 move
L2: +1 strength
L3: +5 wall bonus (as now)
L4: +1 move
L5: +1 strength
L6: +10 wall bonus (as now)
L7: +1 move
L8: +15 wall bonus (as now)
L9: -1 turns (new wall level, cost 400 gold)

Now every wall level has value so there is a reason to upgrade walls. A maxed out city would build units with +2 strength and +3 moves at a rate of 1 turn faster (2 turn units in 1 turn, 3 turn units in 2 turns etc).

KGB

[Versace]

With lvl9 wall you would always want to produce spiders or wizards I think. 2 turn unit in 1 turn = double output. That is too much. I would replace the -1 turn with something else, maybe plus 5 strength or something like that. I like the idea in general though.

[KGB]

It costs 800 gold to go from L7 (starting capitol walls) to L9. That's a lot of money. On turn 1, a hero and Spider cost 1300 gold. You'd need to reach 2100 to get 1 turn Spiders. That would require an incredibly lucky pillage/ruin search to get there. So I doubt it's going to happen on turn 1 and even if it did it would mean giving up a 2nd hero.

Also remember you could instead simply buy Spiders in another city for 800 gold and have 2 spider cities giving you the same production as 1 turn spiders in the capitol.

Most other cities start with far weaker walls than L7. I doubt more than 1 city would get upgraded to L9 besides the capitol and even then only if you were on a really rich gold map.

KGB