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I have not posted this in the Rules3.0 discussion because it is rather a game variant, which I have tried to invent years ago.
It's easy:
If more than half of your starting force (= 19+ health) is made out of one race, your units can use additional racespecific abilities and/or spells, even if units of your dominating race are not there any more.

All I have worked out is the Dwarves and the Undead:

Dwarves:
If more than half of your starting force are Dwarves, you can use the charge rule.
Other units have learned to charge from the dwarves and they will not forget before the game is over.

Undead:
If more than half of your starting force are the Undeads, all your armies can cause a Rout:
If your other units have lived among the Undeads they will look and behave like them.


This can be extended to spells:
If more than half of your mages (= 10+ health; = more than 18/2) are Coral Elves, all other units may cast racespecific spells of the CE (but they cannot cast their own racespecific spells). However they still need the right color.
So if you play 12H of CE-mages and 6H of Firewalker mages, your Firewalker mages can cast blue CE spells. Without Standing Stones or Attune they cannot cast green CE spells. And they cannot cast their own racespecific spells, because they are not dominating.

With the current rules you have to:
1.) Choose how to count IDs and keep track of different colors: How much red magic have you available, how much black magic, ...
2.) Additionally keep track of different races: 4 red magic from the Lava Elves is not the same as 4 red magic from the Dwarves;
3.) And you have to apply some more rules distributed over the rulebook: How to double IDs, how to apply Palsy, ...

The big advantage of this dominating race rule is, that you can strike off one of these three points:
1.) Choose how to count IDs and keep track of different colors: How much red magic have you available, how much black magic, ...
2.) Additionally keep track of different races: 4 red magic from the Lava Elves is not the same as 4 red magic from the Dwarves;
3.) And you have to apply some more rules distributed over the rulebook: How to double IDs, how to apply Palsy, ...

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I want to point out that the other approach can be found in the Rules3.0 discussion, which is in my opinion even better: