Arsenal upgrade for long-term use

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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Gunpowder Magazine

Gunpowder Magazine

Effects:

  • Petards get +10% attack and can be trained from Arsenals
  • Forts can train Falconets (or equivalent)

Other changes:

  • Revert the ability of Forts to train artillery by default
  • Grant the upgrade to China through consulate shipments (either the Russian Fort or British Petards)
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I don’t remember the last time I trained a petard. I find them superfluous.

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The ‘Artillery Quadrant’ upgrade should increase the range of the artillery, but the artillery would start with -2 range as a base range.

This would make the artillery not so powerful from the beginning.

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they are tactical units for very specific purposes. i have trained them vs hausa to nuke universities. the surprise factor is key, as is distraction

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Usually against important buildings. (factories, wonders, urban centers, etc).

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It would be nice to try to increase their usage by such upgrade. I do not use them too

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Why you will build an arsenal instead of an artillery foundry??

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Arsenals are already pretty poorly designed as it is, no need for extra spaghetti.

Also, petards are fine as they are.

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Forts already train falconets.

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How about you read the post again.

Forts training Falconets is a very recent change and I suggested it be reverted as a default.

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I think forts are generally underused and allowing them to train falconets is a little buff to them that gives them a little more utility.

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I think there are better ways to buff Forts. And this would still allow that buff after an upgrade.

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I really fail to see the reason behind this upgrade and tangling forts to arsenals.

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They already tangled Artillery Foundries and Forts, and I think that should be walked back a bit.

Thematically, increasing defensive building attack or a self-destruct option for Forts would make more sense for an upgrade called Gunpowder Magazine.

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You wouldn’t, you would build an Arsenal for the upgrades it provides. This just makes it so it’s not completely useless once all the upgrades are researched.

There are also a few factions such as Japanese or Ethiopians that can build Arsenals but not Artillery Foundries so this would be a way to give them access to Petards.

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all the other arsenal upgrades provide a more solid and simple buff to a single unit type’s stats or modifiers. This one would feel a bit out of place with opening up your tech tree to train units from buildings you previously couldn’t. I feel like this would be better if the effect was stronger and it was a HC card instead. It could be a card for all euro civs that in addition to the falconet thing would buff petards to make them a more viable option. Kind of like what grenade launchers does for the grenadier.

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I think that a buff is the last thing that those civs need…

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Maybe the armory should have passive configurations similar to ‘golden pavilion’ where it makes certain types of units build faster.

For example:

Bonus 1: Gunpowder will be prioritized for infantry, so infantry with guns are created 5% faster.

Bonus 2: Gunpowder will be prioritized for gunpowder cavalry, so dragons and the like are created 5 % faster.

Bonus 3: Gunpowder will be prioritized for artillery, so ships and cannons will spawn faster, and defensive buildings will have 10% more attack.

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How are forts and arsenals tangled in any way right now?

I also don’t think Japan needs petards lol.

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They dont need faster training units, europeans are fine they way they are