My own thoughts on the matter are the following:
(short version)
1. Add a "wooden shield" upgrade in tool age, and remove tower shield in iron
2. Move improved bowmen to tool age, and make them an upgrade of bowmen
3. Add +2 shielding to cavalry, heavy cavalry and cataphracts
4. Increase the cost of stone throwers, catapults and heavy catapults to 450w 200g, double their pop, and double their damage
5. Increase the cost of ballistas and helepolii to 250w 200g, double their pop, and double their damage
5. Remove the short swordsman upgrade, remove legions
6. Reduce the damage of scythed chariots to 7, and their armor to 0 (but keep the hps and area damage, which is cool)
7. Remove hoplites, camels and nobility from shang, but give them long swordsmen and ballista towers
8. Remove camels and elephants from hittite, but give them improved bowmen
9. Change the boat bonus for greek so it applies to all boats, not just warboats
10. Change the swordsman bonus for choson to +50% swordsman hps
11. Change the tower bonus for roman to -33% cost, and give them ballista towers
12. Remove cavalry from minoan
[This message has been edited by wedsaz (edited 02-22-2000).]