If you have been following the DE release notes, you may know that a couple of months ago they introduced distinct graphics for the elite versions of the units. In most cases the changes are subtle, like some gold or extra feathers.
All this time, I've been exporting those graphics from DE. With a recent format change, the process is slow but luckily can be done in batch.

The important thing is that the graphic porting is almost complete and I now have the question of wether to release the graphics for all versions of the game or only for those players that use the DE graphics.

Before anyone asks, there's no point in creating a standalone visual mod for other versions of the game. In order to have the separated graphics, the base code of the game has to be changed and will only affect the Community Patch

My suggestion is that these new graphics for the Elite versions of unique units also receive their own visual mod like the one for the DE units:

https://www.voobly.com/gamemods/mod/1514/De-units-slp

so this way anyone playing with the vanilla graphics can choose if they want the new elite graphics, or the vanilla ones. I would use their visual mod from time to time, the majority of the new graphics are kinda cool, very few ones are ugly like the Elite Obuch for Poles. By having a separated mod for Elite U. reskins, the vanilla graphics are preserved, and the only change would for the elite version, which is my opinion, one of the best approaches.

Chris pointed out yesterday that CBA players may not like anything that deviates from classic AOE, so we'll probably end up doing that.

In any case, zunks, your help will be much appreciated in testing because I will likely miss some grpahics in the 250+ ones I'm creating.