Do the Cumans need Bracer? I think as cavalry archer civ they should at least have this tech. It seems rather ridiculous that they do not have it. Granted, the Huns, don’t get the last armor tech for their cavalry archers.
If somehow it makes them OP. Just do some kind of nerf. Or buff them in some other way if they can’t get Bracer.
I don’t think bracer is what holds cumans back.
It’s a complicated thing and it seems, devs also don’t really know what to do with cumans right now.
Looks like you can’t go too far away from the meta line with civs in the current design of aoe2. There are far too many strats to be considered for development of new civs.
I personally think something like a “half” town center in feudal could somehow be balanced, but a whole one is just either insta win or lose.
The damage is the same tho and it makes no difference in castle age where the kipchak is the most powerful and makes they’re HCA usable in imp but still bellow average
The way I see it, their problem is their second TC in feudal. That’s the only thing that’s holding them back, not late game bracer.
I just hope devs could find a way to fix that TC without making it OP. When that happens, I bet cumans will be a top 10 -or even top 5- solid civ.
There isn’t any way to do that, the Feudal TC reduced building time holds them from being broken on closed mapswhere they can pull that sick eco.
The only option is removing the second TC but then It will do more damage than good.
Also remember, they have feudal rams and castle age capped rams, any way to fix it=making that bonuses broken on Arena.
I think the best way to start is increasing the Kipchak training time to 27 seconds but then Steppe Husbandry affects Kipchaks, elite kipchak also could see its ROF reduced to 2.0
One option could be making the feudal TC (and only that one) a little bit cheaper. Just enough saved wood so Cumans could train 2 extra archers in feudal might be nice.