It’s either nerf scorpions, or make their counters cheaper. Currently mangonel/onagers cost 160 wood and 135 gold. So, what if they cost 120 wood, and 110 gold. That’s 40 wood cheaper, 25 gold cheaper. That would help greatly to counter scorpions.
Would onagers counter scorpions more with this change? Or would it not change much? As for onager upgrade, 600 food, and 400 gold. 200 food cheaper, and 100 gold cheaper. Siege Onager unchanged.
Granted, this would make mangonel pushes stronger in castle age. But that can be off set with buff to defenses or something else.
I think at most Khmer scorpions is broken. But for the rest are mostly fine.
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And Celts with Khmer ally. I think Khmer team bonus needs to be changed now. Extra range on scorpion is now too much of a bonus.
I want attack ground (with path-through damage) for scorpion instead of ballistics. It will brings a counter chance for mangonel.
And then, reduce BBC cost to counter mangonels?
Scorpions+1 range become civ bonus
New team bonus → villagers garrison in house
Khmer imp UT: scorpions shoot two bolts but +10% reload time
Cheap siege yay
No more problems with castles
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