I predict a surprise African DLC release for next week. It will arrive with a patch of course.
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That would be a dumb move (but not an unheard of move) Why not create hype like in lords or the West of the dawn of the dukes?
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Don’t try to put words in my mouth I never said. Do this again and I will stop replying to you. The discussion was never about who agrees with whom, so you will seize this useless argument at once.
There is nothign wrong with using your own experience to judge the situation. Thats perfectly normal obviously. But what we are talking about is what the community as a whole has experienced. And together, we come to the conclusion that Sweden is too powerful. Its too powerful on any skill level. Doesn’t matter if its being played in the tournament finals or if its being played by someone who just started the game. This doesn’t change the way the civ works, only how well a player can use the tools they are given. In the end, its the developers who build these tools for us to use. And as a community we have deduced that the tools given to us by pickign Sweden makes it much easier to win the game and much harder for our opponent to defeat Sweden players. Thats an issue and we want this to be changed. Otherwise we have to ban Sweden from tournaments ourselves and agree to not play it anymore. This cannot be what the developers intended.
Yeah, they created a big hype before the Lords of the West and it arrived with tons of game breaking bugs. The game was a complete joke after release. Age of Empires 3 civs have much more chance to have game breaking bugs. It happened because of exact pre-announced release dates.
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May you be right.
I want new information about the African DLC (official info, of course) and a new event with a lot of challenges. It would be nice if the possibility of customizing Home City for Japanese, Indian, Aztec and Inca civs was added. Iroquois and Lakota civs could also receive some visual additions.
That’s why I want to at least find out what civs will appear in this DLC. A few screenshots are always welcome.
They could solemnly announce this DLC, add a card on Steam, and simply write that this DLC will be released soon.
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Sweden will almost certainly get a nerf, svea needs changing and 6 mamelukes needs to be a 1 time card.
I can’t see portugal getting nerfed, they’ve been a weak civ for like 10 years and as soon as they become viable on a few maps everyone wants a nerf, same with spain they finally get a viable age 2 strat with logistician and now they need a nerf, so logistician becomes actually a good age up for 1 month and needs nerfing, but pro players aging with only exiled prince for 10 years and no other age up but that’s fine as it is, if anything exiled prince needs to take longer to age and other age ups slightly less time so they are viable options.
Brit is a difficult one because it’s always been a strong civ, and they get to over 40 vills at 8 minutes. This is also a bit harder to punish, it’s not the case of japan/sweden where you just burn down their houses, vs a brit vc boom you need to rush them and pressure constantly so they are forced to make units and not houses.
I see many players vs brit just do their usual build and then they get destroyed by a huge mass of musk/huss age 2, whatever civ you’re playing you need to pressure brit (unless your doing a huge water boom). Most civs can ship 700 coin and put all vills on food and spam some musks, you should out mass because brit will ship 700 and 600 wood to make manors, longbow are also quite bad vs musk and unable to kite like regular skirms.
You cant be serious about this… Like are you actually saying that Sweden/Japan is easier to deal with than Brits?
Bro, just one question… what the hell are you on?! 
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I think most people that are decent at the game know that longbow have only a 1.25 multiplier vs heavy infantry compared to the 2x multiplier of a typical skirm and that due to their setup animation cannot kite effectively like a regular skirm.
I wasn’t saying brits are stronger than sweden or japan, it’s just with those civs you can destroy the shrines and torps and constantly reduce their eco, the same cannot be done with brit manors as they can safely place them wherever they wish and have all built before 8 minutes, your only option is to go early aggression whilst vs swe/japan you can do your preferred strat you just need to groups of 5 pike/musk off in different directions sieging.
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After Otto old age 3 Jan got nerfed. used to have 300+ health with upgrading in the 3rd era. In this way, he did not die with a single hit of the artillery. Now has 294 health and dies on 1 hit. Abusler decreased from 0.75 to 0.50 against artillery. Mamluks dropped from 5 to 4 and are still 1000 gold. This way its classic gameplay has been weakened and is weaker against artillery. villager training rate research cheapness works after 10+ minutes. This relieved the rotten otto economy. Don’t mess this up. But otto doesn’t have any op units. Abus(2 pop) has a lot of weaknesses and the need for separate armory is a challenge. The Jans were a distinctive infantryman with high health. Pls fixed. Or lower his attack and make his health higher as before. Also, 15% artillery health in age 2 can be carried over to age 3 as 15% health + attack. For the long game, a solution to the abuses must be found. 4th age card or 3rd mosque card improvement may come. 1 area attack can come. Or 1 pop can be dropped. Finally, cavarchers villagers can upgrade 2x cards. It doesn’t work this way. 10% speed can be added. It is really bad as it stands because there is no op unit. Hazza and almost most top 50 say that. Please watch the twich and check the comments. Thanks
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In my opinion, that´s not a problem, in fact, it is an advantage, if it wouldn´t heavy on food it would be normal between food and coin or heavy on coin so only the fact that they are heavy on food is an advantage because food is gathered faster than any other resource, for example, cassador is cheaper than skirmisher because of same resources but heavy on food, and cassador is better in general than the skirimisher… British for example is kind of heavy on food as well because of musketeers and grenadiers and don´t recieve any bonus. Just my opinion.
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