sigh… as others keep pointing out, there are other factors besides win rate… byz has an incredibly small sample size compared to britons, aztecs, goths, mayans (notice a pattern here?) so any changes to byz win rate will fluctuate much mroe wildly, and therefore is more influenced by who actually played them and on what maps… check the lower elos where the sample size increases dramatically (x10)
same applies to the low play count on burma (ROFL “top race”) and mali… low play counts with high win rate doesnt mean that much…
im not saying byz is broken weak, but i agree with the guys that say they could do with a buff… definitely reduce price on cata/logistica upgrade for start
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if we compare this to china… with its cool civ bonuses coupled to its wide tech tree… the game has and always will favour offense over defense, unsurprisingly defensive civs like teutons(pre OP buff), koreans, incas all fall into the lower tier in comparison to their more aggressive counterparts
byz could definitely do with either an eco or aggressive buff
That is this month, but I posted from last month (no longer available as far as I know), and they did break into top 5 regularly.
Byzantines are definitely underpowered in teamgames esp. landmaps.
1v1 they are better as the counter units are more effective. Especially good in Arena with fast imp.
Fast imp is their strongest strat as it saved 600 resources.
Castle age camel play is quite a good strat as they can make 8 camels vs normally 6 camels/5 knights.
However it doesn’t work too well vs mass archers as lacking bloodlines and pierce armor makes them so much inferior to knights.
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Is necroing threads your hobby or what?
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