Okay, so we’ve dealt with the issue of Regnitz gold income and Ritterbruder replacement for Regnitz Cathedral.
That still leaves the thorn in the side that is Burgrave Palace.
The current one trains 5 units at a time for a shorter period of time, which becomes useless when you don’t have the resources to press the button, in which case it’s best to just have multiple barracks instead.
Now, the devs did change it for the next patch to instead just train units at 400% speed which is an improvement and I think it’s the best for it to stay that way. There was a suggestion to make the landmark train 2 units at the cost of one, but that’s already the ability of the Mongols, where they need Ovoo and stone.
Still, the landmark is left barebone for the most part, so what more can be done?
Let’s address the Landsknechts at the same time.
In my original post, I made a few suggestions about making the baseline Landsknechts stronger, but with the Ritterbruder being inserted into the equation the approach needs to be changed.
This used to be my original idea, where I suggested that the Landsknechts should have the ability to switch between weapons on demand.
Why the change? One of the replies to my suggestion said that the ability to switch between weapons on demand was too much like Rus, where it is the staple for its units (its ships anyway). So I decided to compromise and make it situational.
So let’s start with the upgrades.
Poleaxe upgrade would basically trigger in presence of enemy cavalry, turning Landsknecht into a situational Spearman when standing still.
That still leaves the arquebus ability in question, which would still require the Chemistry upgrade in Age 4, but this time, it would be an ability with a duration.
So why did I decide to make Landsknechts resilience an upgrade, instead of making it baseline?
It all comes down to the choices between the two landmarks:
Either you build Regnitz Cathedral and produce the Ritterbruder, in which case you’ll be focusing on buffing your armies with a unit that can soak up a lot of damage, OR you build the Burgrave Palace to make the Landsknechts stronger and become more of a staple in the army than they usually are.
And since both units are a big gold sink, they balance each other out.