Dravidians are terrible

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@Nerathion

The problem comes from your theorycrafting being limited to your skill, so you’re not going to have accurate results.

This really depends. In some cases, yes. In some other cases, no.

So, here is an example. I am not that great at microing archers in a live game, because of my limited APM. However, I can slow down the game in scenario editor to nail it down to a great degree.

I can do this well enough to take down a mangonel with a single archer, take down multiple skirms with an archer, and other similarly ridiculous things.

If you want to make such an argument, make a specific one. If you want to disparage my general theorycrafting, put a bet on it. I will back up my words, if I am confident enough.

@Nerathion

I’m waiting for your ‘Chinese are terrible’ theorycrafting thread, btw.

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If you want my opinion, here it is:

@filtercoffee488

Here is my hot take on chinese. We should all just leave this civ and its balance to the pros. Hera once asked, “can’t we (the pros) have this one civ?”. Let them have it. It feels like Chinese have a weird balance to them which doesn’t work at lower Elos. That’s fine for just one civ.

@DemiserofD

My general testing setup is to set up 4-8 identical copies of an engagement in the editor and run them all multiple times to see how they work out.

I usually do this as well. However, it is pretty hard to get results this way, unless you have an AI setup that can micro both sides. I can micro one side, can’t do both at once.

@DemiserofD

IMO if dravidians need a buff anywhere, it’s to their unique unit. It feels like it SHOULD be really good, but in practice, it doesn’t seem to quite work out that way.

Urumis could use 1 pierce armour. But Dravidians in general require further buff imo. Their late game should be stronger, consider how weak their castle age is.