I reflected about this whole concept of making a power Infantry unit.
And I came to the conclusion that it would be good to have also one new trash counter to infantry.
Like the other power units also have one.
The idea is that the main counter should still remain the militia line and the new trash counter counters both (but the militia line harder). This would (hopefully) lead to interesting continueation of the game with a lot of different comps that play out differently against each other.
This could be achieved by making a ranged infantry counter with bonus damage and the new power Infantry unit gets a little bit of Infantry Armor, just enough so that new unit doesn’t completely annihilate them. The current infantry counters have already way higher amounts of Damage output so a little bit of infantry armor wouldn’t influence them as much.
The best concept for that I already had in my Songhai Concept with the Lightbowman. But there the idea was more to make a unit that fits better in the current game and pairs perfectly with Camels.
The new concept is to make it fit better to the idea of making a new Power Infantry unit.
| Name | Lightbowman | Elite Lightbowman |
|---|---|---|
| Armor Class | Archer | Archer |
| Produced at | Archery Range | Archery Range |
| Production Time | 20 s | 20 s |
| Production Cost | 30 F, 30 W | 30 F, 30 W |
| HP | 25 | 30 |
| Speed | 1.05 | 1.05 |
| ROF | 2 | 2 |
| Attack | 3 Pierce | 3 Pierce |
| Atk Bonus | 5 vs Infantry | 7 vs Infantry |
| Atk Bonus | 5 vs Condottiero | 7 vs Condottiero |
| Range | 4 | 4 |
| Accuracy | 70% | 80% |
| Melee Armor | 0 | 0 |
| Pierce Armor | 0 | 0 |
| Benefits from | Archer Upgrades | Archer Upgrades |
| Upgrade Cost | 180 s | 600 G, 400 F |
The new Power Infantry unit could get 2 Infantry Armor in Castle Age and 3 Infantry Armor in Imperial. That would be just enough to ensure they aren’t totally countered by the new Lightbowmen, but harder than by the current Arbs or CA.
Then ofc there’s the valid Question what to do with the Slinger. And I would just give that Unit an Imp upgrade, giving it +10 HP and + 1 Base Pierce Attack. As the Slinger is a gold unit, you should expect from it to be a bit more of a “generalist” Unit than currently. It would then basically be a mix between the current Archers and the Lightbowman, also indicated by the Slingers Cost.
I know some people will state that’s another Change to the game to make the one initially proposed viable.
But it’s not essential, it’s just to have that pure trash counter element for the Infantry there aswell as we have already against Cavalry and Archery. It would be sufficient already to just leave the Militia line as counter against the new Power Infantry unit. I just think with this extra trash counter we have one more column to build our Palace upon, allowing to individually adjust each Unit rather than have to look at every single interaction that may be influenced with just a small individual change.
It would already allow to make some changes to the Militia line as then the Militias would lose their “Trash Counter” proficiency. Allowing to make the whols line more appealing in the midgame as there is a way to deal with it in the lategame - even if Gold is already running out.