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    Spartan


    The Spartan army was the military force of Sparta, one of the leading city-states of ancient Greece. The army stood at the centre of the Spartan state, whose citizens' primary obligation was to be good soldiers. Subject to military drill from infancy, the Spartans were one of the most feared military forces in world history. At Sparta's heyday in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, it was commonly accepted that "one Spartan was worth several men of any other state."

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    Orion
    Type: Infantry
    Orion was a giant huntsman in Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. In Greek literature he first appears as a great hunter in Homer's epic the Odyssey, where Odysseus sees his shade in the underworld. Orion served several roles in ancient Greek culture. The story of the adventures of Orion, the hunter, is the one on which we have the most evidence (and even on that not very much); he is also the personification of the constellation of the same name; he was venerated as a hero, in the Greek sense, in the region of Boeotia; and there is one etiological passage which says that Orion was responsible for the present shape of the Straits of Sicily.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(mythology)

    Vulcan
    Type: Light
    In ancient Roman religion and myth, Vulcan is the god of both beneficial and hindering fire, including the fire of volcanoes. Vulcan is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. The god belongs to the most ancient stage of Roman religion: Varro citing the Annales Maximi, recalls that king Titus Tatius had dedicated altars to a series of deities among which Vulcan is mentioned.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)

    Titan
    Type: Heavy
    In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The Titans were overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Olympians, in the Titanomachy ("War of the Titans"). This represented a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks may have borrowed from the Ancient Near East.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(mythology)

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    Rolling Thunder
    Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder

    Designated Fire Zone
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    Structures

    Machine Gun Turret
    A gun turret is a weapon mount that protects the crew or mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_turret

    Cannon Turret
    ^

    Artillery Turret
    ^^

    Patriot


    A patriot is someone who feels a strong support for his or her country.

    Units

    Abaddon
    Type: Light
    The Hebrew term Abaddon, an intensive form of the word "destruction," appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon

    Ragnarok
    Type: Air
    In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and reborn gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok

    Cyclops
    Type: Light
    A cyclops in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed".
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops

    Commander Abilities

    Entrenchment
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    Paeon’s Wrench
    In Greek mythology, Paean was the Greek physician of the gods. In the Iliad, the Olympian god of war Ares is wounded by mortal hero Diomedes, who is assisted by Athena. Ares is taken up to Olympus in a hurry, where Paeon applies medicine that produced an instant relief. Hades too had a similar medical treatment by Paeon when he was shot with an arrow by Heracles.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)

    Wraith


    Wraith is a Scottish dialectal word for "ghost," "spirit".

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    Fury
    Type: Light
    In Greek mythology the Erinyes from Greek "pursue, persecute" sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" were female chthonic deities of vengeance. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath".
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furies

    Vulture
    Type: Air
    Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains. A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head, devoid of normal feathers. This helps to keep the head clean when feeding. Research has shown that the bare skin may play an important role in thermoregulation.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture

    Marauder
    Type: Light
    A person engaged in banditry or related activity.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauder

    Commander Abilities

    Drone Scavengers
    Scavenging is both a carnivorous and herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead and decaying organic matter present in its habitat.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger

    Dragon’s Teeth
    In Greek myth, dragon's teeth feature prominently in the legends of the Phoenician prince Cadmus and Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. In each case, the dragon's teeth, once planted, would grow into fully armed warriors.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%...th_(mythology)

    Structures

    Drone Cloud Turret
    ???

    Arc Turret
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    Phantom


    Ghost, in traditional belief, a physical manifestation of the soul or spirit of a deceased person. Any fictional or metaphysical species or individual beings that are invisible and/or appear incorporeal or like illusions, not necessarily having to be from the deceased.

    Units

    Stalker
    Type: Infantry
    Stalking is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted or obsessive attention by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are related to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The word stalking is used, with some differing meanings, in psychology and psychiatry and also in some legal jurisdictions as a term for a criminal offense.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking

    Shredder
    Type: Light
    The Shredder (Oroku Saki) is a fictional character and primary antagonist of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredde...Ninja_Turtles)

    Ravager
    Type: Heavy
    ???

    Commander Abilities

    Orbital Laser Hack
    ???

    Mechanical Collapse
    ???
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    Looks good so far!!!

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    best one lol
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    I think what EoN lacks in mentality is just the thing you mentioned so far.

    Mythology is not made of greek+norse mythology all around the world.

    The South Americans Asians Africans have also good stuff.And I see storywise weak that people in those regions wouldnt put something from their menthalty into the fighting ground.

    Also greek and norse mythology is done to the ground (just look at Mech Warrior ) it looks cheesy in a fashion.

    Mythology okay but not just european mythology.

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    I got one

    Aesir
    Type infantry

    Is from the Nordic mythology and is one of the two main "god" races (can be traced back to the jötunn), where the other god faction is the Vaner. The Aesir is made op by Odin, Thor, Tyr, Vile with more, but not Loki who is a jötunn, Frej, Freja and Njord belong to the Vaners.
    Aesir is also spelled Æsir by some.


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    Yes, I know there are probably more units, will add them when they appear in official unit list.
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