On the start you have sheep, plants and hunt. You don’t build farms since the other options are better. So the economy bonus is kinda useless until Castle Age. That makes it maybe the worst eco bonus.
And the gold bonus is only at imperial…
And the only good landmark is the first one.
Yeah, English need a buff
It’s true it’s pretty useless until castle, but England are already really strong in Feudal, they need buffs for post-feudal age since their gameplay is currently already England has to win in Feudal or they lose, they don’t need to double down on that. They need some sort of buff for castle or imp units since they basically have generic post-Feudal armies with only a passable castle age and solid Imp eco bonus.
Not just Mangonel, their damage against Knight and MAA are pitiful, a bit better than regular Archer but still pitiful until they are fullly upgraded in Imperial, which at that stage is just not bad but not great either.
Exactly, the current buff makes perfect sense
Have you compared berkshire to French red palace?
Berkshire has extra arrows which are completely useless late game
French shoots arbalests and adds an arbalest for every garrison
Not explicitly but I know Red Palace is generally considered the best of the keep landmarks. I wouldn’t call extra arrows useless late game though, combined with the increased rate of fire and +50% range - the range alone is amazing.
Those arrows don’t do anything against late game armies at all
The red palace on the other hand immediately shreds rams within a second or two (try it out if you don’t believe me)
Berkshire sucks.
Berkshire is probably better than the HRE or Rus keeps. The French one is just clearly the best.
it seems that trebs are meant to be an English strength, but currently trees are just trash.
Fixing/buffing trebs, and then giving the English a truly unique treb would work wonders to buff them right at the time they need it.
Fix trebs, maybe help fix English.
The range is the whole reason it’s pretty good even when bombards are being played, because it sounds your network of castles early if someone tries to push it.
They are also useful for shooting over hills/trees/walls which bombards cant do. They really should buff geometry though or at least make it apply to the bonus damage too. A 1000 resource tech gives trebs a whopping 45 damage or 3.6 dps.