How Native American civs COULD be balanced and realistic

American Tech Tree

Barracks

American Spearman

  • Less Armour, Hitpoints and Attack than Eurasian Equivalent
  • Only costs a half population
  • Faster than Eurasian Infantry

Warrior

  • Armour and Hitpoints of an Eurasian Spearman but more attack
  • Takes the role of the Man at Arms
  • Faster than Eurasian Infantry

Shock Infantry

  • A bit weaker than Warrior
  • Even faster but slower than Cavalry
  • Like AoE2 Eagle Warrior of AoE3 Coyote Runner

Archery Range

American Bowman

  • Less Armour, Hitpoints, Attack and Range than Eurasian Bowman
  • Only costs a half population

Javelin Thrower

  • Short range ranged unit
  • Stronger attack than Bowman
  • Attack bonus against cavalry in Melee

Slinger

  • Lower damage and range than American Bowman
  • Ignores Armour
  • Only costs a half population

Siege Workshop

Light Ram

  • Cheaper, weaker but faster then European Ram
  • Less resistant against arrows

Siege ladder

  • Not sure how they could work well in the AoE4 system

Mantlet

  • High range resistance
  • High fire damage

Captured Bombard

  • Same as Eurasian bombard but more expensive and slower rate of fire

Navy

Raft

  • Low capacity transport
  • Stationed Archers can shoot from it

Buildings and Technologies

We don’t know enough about how the other Civilisations work yet to judge this.
They shouldn’t have a blacksmith like in AoE2, that doesn’t fit in.

Aztecs

Unique Units

Jaguar Warrior

  • Replaces regular Warrior
  • Higher Attack than Warrior but weaker to ranged damage

Eagle Warrior

  • Replaces Javelin Thrower
  • Faster and stronger than Javelin thrower
  • Has small ranged attack bonus against cavalry

Unique features

Batch training

  • Can train up to 5 Foot Soldiers at once
  • Base train time is 2x as long so effective train time is 2.5x as fast
  • Castle or Imperial Age only

Inca

Unique units

Bolas Warrior

  • Doesn’t replace any unit
  • Ranged unit with attack bonus against cavalry
  • Slows down cavalry and temporarily disables their charge

Jungle Bowman

  • Replaces American Bowman
  • Deals poison damage
  • Costs a full population

Chasqui

  • Replaces scout

Unique features

Tambos

  • Unique building that can be build on top of Gold and Stone mines
  • Can station villagers to mine the resources
  • Can station military for defence
  • Can train Chasqui

Garrison

  • Garrison infantry can shoot too
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