I’m not very good at this game nor do I play it enough to be. I play 1v1 and usually sit between high bronze and low gold. Still, I have opinions:
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Battering spam is weird and obnoxious. Would be neat if battering rams and towers actually needed to be crewed to move (Move speed depends on how many crew). In exchange they can be made even tankier or something. I’d like to see a battering ram at the centre of a formation, not 8 battering rams just rolling around.
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Artillery cost 2 pop, cannons cost 3. Again, they can be buffed accordingly to make them stand out more as support units, rather than rolling out in mass.
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I rarely if ever see people put archers on walls. Have towers and gates spawn ally AI controlled archers that cost no pop and patrol your walls (die with the walls). Archer type match your civ / tech and can be upgraded to crossbows / guns as you upgrade the tower’s weapon type. Goal here is to make the sieges better looking rather than to really buff, I doubt a few free archers stuck on walls would be a huge balance changer.
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give stone towers, stone wall towers, stone gates, and keeps, resistance to non-artillery damage, just like walls. We might actually see people using siege towers?
I’m aware a lot of people I’m sure do not want too stray too far from the old school AoE formula, but people still play AoE2 and as someone who grew up on AoE1 and Age of Kings I just want something that feels a little more modern. I’m not even putting it in my list because I know its a little too much, but I’d even love to see all artillery pieces given a crew, and either taking artillery damage that destroys it, or regular damage that kills its crew and can then be re-crewed / stolen by peasants (i.e: CoH).
That’s my rant, don’t be mean <3