Farimba Camels not cutting it (again)

Nah, not every civ combination needs to be equally good on every map. That would be impossible to achieve. Mongolia is just a map, which is pretty likely to go into post imp. That was the main problem here. Not that there is generally no room for Berbers/Malians to make use of their power spikes. Both team knew about this map before the game. Vietnam choose their civs anyway (probably overestimating their lategame strength).
It’s not even that the matchup was completely unfair. It’s probably something like 60/40 for Brazil civs. But Vietnam could have won and youn saw that in the game when they were about to kill Huns early Imp. You saw one (!!!) game of that matchup. Doesn’t mean if they play 10 more they all go the same way.

Yeah, let’s heavily screw the balance of the game because one game on one map in one civ matchup didn’t go the way you wanted it to go. That totally sounds like a good plan.

Camels are supposed to be a counter unit to cavalry - which they are. They are not supposed to be good against everything. Paladins are supposed to be the better allrounder - which they are. That’s why they’re more expensive to upgrade and more expensive to produce. Paladin is even so expensive that in a lot of situations it’s a mistake to get that upgrade in 1v1.
In teamgames they’re good, but they’re not overwhelmingly good. You saw how fine the line of balancing camels compared to that was with Indian camels before the latest patch. +1 pierce armour, +20 HP, +2 attack made camels so dominant that it was mandatory in teamgames to have that civ. +1 pierce armour +3 attack (+3 bonus damage isn’t that huge for teamgames, just like Farimba didn’t change a lot in the game we’re talking about) is very close to the strength of Imperial Camels, while not needing to get the upgrade. All while Paladins are getting weaker. Civs with camel bonus would become pre patch Indians on steroids, while every Camel civ would be good enough to make a paladin player useless. That doesn’t sound like a good idea, especially because you’re trying to fix a problem which does not exist (see my first statements in this post).

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