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got the diegetic ammo display done. also note how bad the spartans animation is. Actually the posing I am fine with, but its way too fast. Hard to know if its right until its in the game. But timing ultimately depends on what works best for gameplay, so even though it looks awful right now and I want to change it, I'll wait until I have enemies to fight and then I can tweak it to look best with what feels best.
The amazons spear throw I accidentally put too much forward movement into so she snaps back. I won't use root motion to fix that, rather I'll just reduce how far forward she goes. Either way would probably be fine, so I just go with simple appraoch.
In general, since the spartan is a more tanky strong guy and a professional soldier, I try to make his movements short and disciplined, compared to the amazon who is more wild and puts all of her might into her attacks. 
I've already put quite a bit of time into the amazons animations during prototyping and feel they are pretty close to good enough, but rest of the characters will probably need like 3-5 passes each. Hero characters getting the most attention. I try to do all characters passes at the same time, rather than trying to "finish" any particular one, because still learning a lot about animation and so the best that I can do now might be a lot worse than best I can do a few months later.