I think you can have just about anything you want if you're willing and able to mod it into the game. I would be "surprised" to say the least if you could make an all female hakamas / kimono wearing army from launch. That being said I'm sure Stardock will include some variations on armor and weapons so the player has a good selection but I don't know if you will actually be able to build a weapon or uniform from the ground up visually. As long as I can pick color scheme, weapon style, and armor style (typical choices are African, Asian, European, etc) i'll be happy.  

I think the word you are looking for is "costumization" -

OK. only landisaurus is probably gonna get the joke.

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Somewhere (I don't think I posted it) I was constructing a list of faction ideas for myself, and one of them was an 'Amazon' style army.  Though, my high school social studies teacher taugh me (I have no other source of the info) that many of the accounts for the 'amazons' were based upon chariot riding clean-shaven people that attacked north egypt.  There are other (or related accounts) of a group of peoples that only had 1 breast since they could shoot bows like men.   I don't remember what I was told about the historical relivence of them, but I think the 1 breast was supposed to be padding or something like that.

of course, this is fantasy anyway, so I guess it doesn't really matter.    They could all be women riding bears on roller-skates, and I guess you can't argue.   Creating female models and having everything work with their different forms seems like feature creep to me since it wouldn't actually add that much value to the game, but *shrug*.  I love having costume choices.

I'm sure that even if stardock doesn't have all females be an option from the start, a horny and talented nerd somewhere will create a custom race of only sexy ladies and upload it to the distribution feature stardock plans to have in place.  So I'm not worried about it being included.

I hope it is very possible as well. Such a thing goes well CoA and unit creation.

you do have a point.  In GC2 it takes quite a while before you really have a large selections of ships since you start with only being able build tiny ships.   I hope that its a bit faster to get your main unit selection in elemental, Most of my fears on that were dispanded when frogboy said that you didn't research 'super cutlass' or other upgrades like that the way you did in GalCiv, which to means that once you can build swords (I'd imagine given by the smithy, one of the 1st buildings in the city-build tree) you can build anything that only requires a sword (so a basic sword amazon would be available)

The super elite units that come from the war cottage or whatever will take longer of course, but you could build a weaker unit that was effectivly the same thing I hope and expect will be available quickly like you desire GWSwicord.

Best quote ever. If only Stardock forums had signatures...

Give's "mount point" a whole new meaning, doesn't it?

Having a way to quickly/easily apply custom textures, or change the tint on existing ones (WindowsBlinds color changing anyone?) would be cool.

Well it's a great idea... but it has to be done in such a fashion which won't prevent human players from being able to use a change of clothing to trick or cheat another human opponent. 

For example if I had some Undead Black Knights which were extremely nasty and tough... it should not be possible to adjust a few colors and shapes so I could make any horsemen appear as the Undead Black Knights.  If this is possible then a major problem appears of not knowing what you're fighting without viewing the stats of individual units which becomes time consuming and tedious especially for massive size maps.

Hey, I was just trying to be a good feminist. I didn't touch that 'mount point' stuff despite the big laugh. Until now anyway.

You really are a devil, aren't you?

NTJedi - I kind of like the idea of mis-guiding your foe based on appearance.  Then again, I'm all about fog of war and imperfect (or even downright lying) intelligence: a feature which I love, but I know others detest.

FYI I am a Spy?

Yeah, I can see the need for not deliberately confusing people.

The main reason I wanted this was pure cheesecake.

I say "watch out for <color>" in strategy games ALL THE TIME!  I'd almost say its a flaw with the game "demigod" because the colors are so subtle that I can't do it.  I have to try to spell their crazy names.  I've encountered 2 color blind gamers, only 1 of which couldn't figure out what player I meant at any time.   (this is in part because I'm always red, and I wouldn't refer to myself by color, and the rest could be distinguished)

This is because there are usually so many colors on the map that saying "tan" doesn't help.   In Master of Magic, Sins of a Solar Empire, age of empires, starcraft, and risk I almost exclusively refer to players by their color rather than their actual faction names, unless I'm in a group of particularly good friends.  Dawn of War I often refer to by their color scheme.  In age of empires 3 and Civ I refer to them by their AI player in cases where it applies.  Civ 4 I sometimes say "watch out for" and use the type of civilization or the leader, but I still use color from time to time.  

If I saw a bunch of "blue" an my mini-map I'd blame "blue" if I wasn't expecting that kind of trickery.  Especially with custom armies, since they wouldn't look that different otherwise.