Was waiting for the new update and hope they made changes.
But NO. Nothing change to the original game (Ranked)
Scorpions still way to overpowered. No new maps. No new balance change and no new civs.
WHY?
Fix the Scorpions. Its impossible to take a large army of them.
- Fixed an issue where Elite Battle Elephants had incorrect cost and speed.
I thought you were talking about the patch that came in last month and about to complain scorps are still useless. They’ve become quite useful but you can say Khmer scorps alone are a bit overpowered. Otherwise
scorps still get destroyed by onagers and canons, have poor speed and pathing issues.
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I think people are sleeping on Celts. After the 40% HP, they are almost on par with Khmer.
Scorpions at not OP make onagers or bombards. Spread formation cavalry dancing back and forth to slow down the push forward. Once enough are dead sending in your cavalry to mop up.
If I’ve been up against mass scorpion spam I’ve almost always won by just making bombards or onagers. Every time I’ve seen a team mate lose to mass scorpions they were too slow to counters or were bad at controlling the counters. Seeing Mongol losing the scorpions is not something you should see but I did. It was mildly depressing. Honestly if you see a good scorpion civ in a team game or even 1 vs 1 for that matter having siege workshop or two ready to go with bombards and onagers is the only smart thing to do. It’s painfully obviously what’s going to happen at least in team games. It’s almost depressingly predictable.
In a ranked team game, an ally was Celts and he was vs a Khmer spamming scorpions. He did the only reasonable thing and spammed his own. It’s not just that Celt siege is tougher it also attacks faster so has higher DPS. The range advantage does not compensate enough. If Celt has a Khmer ally then they get arguably the best scorpions in the game. Fast firing, durable and the extra range.
Depends on units armors once Khmer players research their UT. I think Khmer is slightly stronger if you can utilize the extra range. But Celts is stronger if you just want to spam with little to no control.
Yeah. I agree.
Ya could be against civs with bracer but without bombard canons and siege engineers. But I was talking about the free range advantage in late castle age and early imp which makes them good to use even before such upgrades.
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