The condottiero seems pretty weak at the moment considering you don’t have access to it until the imperial age. Would a good buff be to have it available in castle age?
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That would be crazy. Infantry unit with 80 HP and not even being made in a castle. You have essentially a more costly version of a champion. Imagine a Goths’ ally being able to flood out these units in the early game. Or civilization that has a really good eco like the Persians just going all in castle age with Condottiero unit from their ally. You have a militia line unit that does not need any upgrades. As in from militia to champion.
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It could be that only Italians can get it in Castle Age and it becomes a team unit for players who reach Imperial. That’s assuming that letting it be a Castle Age unit is a good idea, I’m just saying how it could be balanced for team play.
Yeah that seems like a decent idea. It would be way to strong like bomber said if all teammates got access to it in castle age. It might be too strong in castle age for italians but I’m not really sure how you can make it any stronger as it is supposed to counter a niche unit (gunpowder) which it doesn’t even do that well.
Sure, but give it a castle age version with less HP and attack, and free instant upgrade once you reach imp. Kind of like feudal → castle serjant.
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- It doesnt make sense conceptually, the unit is designed to counter gun-powder units, there are none in Castle Age. (4 UUs/match ups are not enough to justify it)
- Italians have a civ bonus that encourages them to go earlier to Imperial Age, the reason we dont see much Condo’s is because meta doesnt allow Fast-ish Imp any more, Arabia is way too empty than it was 2 years ago.
- Condo core identity is being an instant Elite unit, which means, no scale, pure power-spike, an instant version of Champion, stronger than all non-Elite (Castle Age) Infantry Unique Units.
- Italians have pretty much every single unit besides Camels, full tech tree, in the Castle Age, buffing them this way is just buffing either for the sake of clownry or for the sake of buffing, there must be a reasonable arguement for every change.
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This makes Italians more like an infantry civs? I agree Condos seems weak in imp currently. But Condos in Castle age is too strong.
Condos with weaker stats in Castle age seems lame as Italian knight-line is very solid. And it may be abused by infantry civ allies(malians condoskarl, goths, vikings and japanese)
Maybe +2 attack for only Italian Condos and therefore more useful in Early imperial.
The unit is bad but buffing it does not make Italians a good civ since they miss other things earlier and may overbuff other civs like goths…
Imo, Condos is bad as it can’t counter gunpowder when the opponent has a good mass of gunpowder units. Condos have positive bonus damage (+10 vs gunpowder). But thats not enough to fight gunpowder unit. Condos is just counter on paper(or in small scale battle). If gunpowder units do negative bonus damage (eg. -8 vs Condos), that will be enough but this requies change in mechanics?
Maybe just rework the whole unit then? There’s not even any historical reason as to why it counters gunpowder, in fact it’s the opposite as wiki says that their downfall was primarily due to gunpowder rendering their fighting style useless. They were mercenaries so maybe they could serve as an expensive alternative to the militia line? e.g. they only cost gold to make but when they kill a unit they return a certain amount of gold? Obviously more thought and considerations needed than that but just something I thought of.
Their shield and armor do really work against early musket bullet as they are ball-shaped and difficult to penetrate armor.
I just want them to be viable because they look cool but you barely seem them
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Seems fine to allow Condos in Castle Age IMO. Italians could use a moderate power spike on land maps in the mid game. It’s important to remember that these will not be Imperial Age condos, they will be lacking Plate Armor and Blast Furnace. They are a fairly gold heavy unit, and lose in combat to Berserks or Obuchs, as well as the obvious Samurai and Jaguars. Stat-wise they are not far from Woad Raiders, same attack and 1/0 armor instead of 0/1. Just the WR has more speed and the condo has more HP. They don’t get an elite upgrade, so the investment loses some momentum in the late game. This is similar to Inca slingers, a unique counter unit that is available from a standard military building starting in Castle Age.
If an opponent like Bohemians or Turks is massing gunpowder in Castle Age it would be nice to have a single response, instead of starting with Skirmishers then transitioning to infantry in Imp. It wouldn’t be great against Conquistadors given their speed.
It may be necessary to remove a water bonus in exchange for this land buff. I wouldn’t want every islands game to become Italians winning water early, then sneaking a barracks and spamming condos for the rest of the game.
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Italians isn’t weak in castle age so they don’t need condottiero in castle age
Condottiero is weak so just give it a buff, + attack or + armor
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I thought Condos have anti-gunpowder armor?
And because of that I don’t think it makes any sense to put an anti-gunpowder unit in castle age, really.
Hand canonneer has +10 bonus dmg against infantry. Condos negate this bonus damage only. They still receive 17 atk from HC and same amount of damage as other infantry from other gunpowder units.
Does someone know the current stats of condottiero?
Maybe there is a good way to calculate a good stat mix for castle age condos and maybe buff their imp version a bit or adjust its
aoe2 fandom is a good website that you can check unit stats and civ tech tree
Buffing condos of infantry civs may become risky.
You could simply add some sort of italian bonus to make it special just for them. The idea of replacing the militia line is good imo as an alternative upgrade for Italians (similarly to winged hussar).
This might work because Italians are weak on land, but for other good infantry civs would be a mess.
Also this is not the real need of the civ…
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