Replace the 1 hit wolf bonus with villager +10hp: this replaces a useless bonus with an eco bonus but a more indirect one. It makes their villagers more resistant to rush / pressure and I think thematically it kind of replaces the wolf one which was also a survivability bonus. This to me is an ok eco bonus and not at all on the level of something like the Lithuanian +150 food or Mayans / Aztecs / Teutons, etc. I also think giving every civ an early, strong eco bonus is bland so would prefer this which is much more indirect
Cavalry attack 10-15% faster: This is a direct military buff that should bring the cavalry up a bit particularly in the Feudal / Castle Age where Magyars are the weakest. I think this allows them to keep up with other cav civs while retaining the weakness to pikes / halberds and is weaker than the +33% attack bonus that the Bulgarians get which as a trade off comes later and is tech locked. It would also help their scout rush which is still predictable and relatively easily countered by spears
I think both of these changes together should bring their performance to acceptable levels without an overbuff and allows them to retain a non-eco focused civ bonus list
i think this is too big. bulgarians specifically lack paladin because of their boost, and you are giving magyar paladins one for free, on top of affecting their discounted scout, and their absolutely amazing huszarā¦
maybe make it scouts only? then there will be a reason for hussars over huszars (situationally but still)
doesnt this apply already to the mongols and their superior hunt + scout LOS then if it were true?
thats true as wellā¦ it means a magyar could theoretically rush scouts stronger/sooner in the right conditionsā¦ so it might situationally be a snow ball problem, so they might need a buff that doesnt directly impact scouts? others have recommended cheaper archery rangesā¦ or something along those lines
I would have to do the math / run tests but my guess is that it would bring them to around the level of Lithuanian with a relic or two / Teuton Paladins. I would also guess that they would still be worse than the Berbers knight rush
In a weird way I think removing Paladin but getting the extra strong Cavaliers might have been a buff to the Bulgarians since the Paladin upgrade is so expensive in 1v1 though it was definitely a nerf in team games
The reason I think it should apply beyond scouts is that they are really only relevant in Feudal Age and Late Imperial where the Magyars donāt need much help. I just think when I play as the Magyars / play against them, the scout rush is so easy to counter with a couple spears that helping it without significant changes to quick walling is a bit pointless. You could give them some sort of archer buff to pair with the scout rush but Iām a bit loathe to see more archers on the field as it is
I hear your concern though so would need to monitored to make sure itās not too oppressive if it ever got implemented. My guess is that it would make them a Teuton level civ though trading infantry and siege for good archer range
it would give them an incredibly powerful imperial age with FU buffed paladins, as well as FU buffed CAā¦ i dont think there is any civ like that atm? either one or the other is buffed and FUā¦? that was my concern.
Yep I hear you - how about extending the scout savings bonus to the Magyar Huszars? You would still use the scouts in the Feudal Age if you want to rush but in the Castle Age you would get cheaper Huszars where the food cost matters the most. You would still have to research the Corvinian Army to remove the gold cost and they would still be practically limited by Castle production in early / mid Castle Age until you get a second Castle up
i stand to be corrected but its already built in, theoretically for what youāre getting a huszar should cost more, but instead of making it cost more and have the scout discount apply to it they just made it cost less allowing the scout to be managed independentlyā¦ but of course i could be wrong , and its just coincidental that the magyar is literally one of the most cost efficient for stats units in the game
this also doesnt help them in the early game, where if they cant scout rush they are at their weakest sicne they already have an amazing late game
Imho, magyars are pretty balanced and only may need a tiny, small eco bonus, besided buffingcav archers.
Giving them a higher buff could cause a snowball effect after a scout rush or even a m@a rush.
So, to give them a minor eco buff, i have 2 ideas
Villagers can drop resources in every eco building. This could help to save some wood in some stages of the game. Useful for a feudal rush only if you have a gold near your berries or woodline. Useful for deer pushing too.
Villagers regenerate their HP with a very slowly regeneration rate. Useful after surviving a rush, but not so useful for doing tower rush (to avoid another noboru rush civ). Fits with their wolf bonus (the damaged villager could regain their hp early). Useful also after boar luring.
Thatās fair - it would really just be a direct change to the food cost practically. I guess then I still go back to the +10% or 15% attack speed for cavalry and see if that is too OP. If so, then remove it for the knight line or make it only apply 50% of the effect so either +5% or 7.5% or something. Thereās some value where it is a reasonable buff but doesnāt make them too oppressive. In any case, I think they are still countered pretty hard by spear / skirm line given the cavalry / archer focus with mediocre infantry and some of the worst siege
Again, they have had some of the worst winning percentages for the past several patches and have one of if not the worst sets of civ bonuses. But I suppose some may feel differently on this one
Hmmm i see. I use to play civs with even worse winrates, so I didnt have a problem with their current stateā¦
In that case, i would exploit their sneaky villsgers potential (thanks to wolf bonus) to make them flexible to control maps or dropping buildings, like what happened with goths after they received their free loom bonus.
For instance, they could have regenerating villagers and teleport the deer meat like khmer farmers.
That is because pre-patch Arabia was wallable and it is not good for Magyar scout opening.
The new Arabia for non-wallable is definitely buff for Magyars. Letās just see how change of map affect the performance of Magyars.
Also, as earlier one pointed out that magyars are really good on the map hard to wall. Magyars are strong pick at last Red bull Wololo2 tournament on the map like Haboob (completely open map). Not all civ have to be top-tier on Arabia. Instead, they can be shine on the other map which is also commonly shown on Tournament. It is fine.
Thatās fine but there has been no change in the win rates so far for this patch. They are identical to the prior patches. They arenāt even close to top tier on Arabia - they are awful on the map at 42.6% win rate
For Red Bull they won 2 times out of 5 and 3 times out of 7 for both the tournaments. Hardly a strong pick at all
I think they shoud buff cav archers at first. At least the castle age cav archer, or the upgrade cost
This way, lots of low tier civs would be buffed, and only mongols within high tiers. Turks, koreans, vietnamese, tatars, portuguese: all of them have bonus in cav archers, like magiars.
And the only high tier one affected would be mongols, which just still would use mangudais, imho.
Youāre missing the Huns which would be way overbuffed and are currently at ~53% win rate. Also this would affect the Indians and Japanese who have fully upgraded cavalry archers and are doing very well in terms of performance
Again, if there are material cavalry archer buffs then there would almost certainly have to be significant nerfs to a several civs to offset
Personally I donāt feel like there should be major changes considering how many side effects there are. Additionally, cav archers are particularly challenging to balance and can be fairly toxic to play against when they are strong
My bad, I forgot about huns. That is indeed a problem.
Indians dont use the current CA a lot right now and I dont think a little CA buff would push the civ to use them more often instead of other options.
Maybe japanese, or spanish, could make more use of them because of their wood bonus.
At least, i think they could try to reduce the cost of the upgrade. It is the least aggresive change, and would benefit more the civs without partian tactics (because they dont use HCA at all because it is so expensive for what they do without that tech), like byzantines, than civs thst already invest in hca (in that case it would be a nice help for them).
Imo even if they simply FIXED CA they would even be used more. Its not even a buff. Itās just fixing something thatās broken.
Of course it would be great if they had an actual buff like a minor attack delay buff. But if they even just fixed this garbage attack stuttering CA would already be a ton more viableā¦
I like this idea as well. But any direct eco buff will directly improve their m@a or scout rush. As res saved can be spent to get a stable sooner or any food gathered faster can go to another scout
Only indirect eco buffs (like building discounts or the such arenāt part of the scout rush build order) that canāt be linked to rax or range will not affect their rush potential
What i just said applies here as well. Tatars have no bonus in feudal. Herding is slower than hunting. Magyar have THREE bonuses starting feudal.
Mayans are OP so i wouldnāt necessarily use them as a measure of balanceā¦ But more importantly the hunt buff would stack too well with their scout rush in certain conditions. So either keep it low or have people laugh off the idea.
