Hello there!
The siege rework arrived and it removed the whole gunpowder identity from Chinese and removed all range bonuses on not only siege, but also on Ships, which cause a huge outrage among the community. Nevertheless due to our constant complains the devs decided to stop nerfing Chinese into the ground and finally buff them, so now they are in a good place. (Remember when they wanted to add +10 second IO train time?)
However, since the recent siege rework, we have noticed that Mangonels and Nest of Bees fall of heavily once age IV is reached. This is obvious given the fact that units gain more health, more upgrades and especially university upgrades to HP and damage.
Many players flood the map with Horsemen or Spearmen in Age IV because these units are cheap and efficient. But even Spearmen end up with so much HP that Mangos and NoB simply don’t deal enough damage to be worth using anymore.
Now Ottomans are released on the PUB and to my surprise the Great Bombard deals area of effect damage, something that every siege unit in Aoe3 does but for some reason Aoe4 bombards and culverins do not.
Great Bombards feel exactly like siege units are supposed to do. If not focused down, they destroy infantry. Just like siege works in Aoe 3.
Mangonels and NoB are not worth using (or rather the risk of using them is too great since a Horsemen switch can simply kill them) in Age IV anymore, therefore I propose the following changes:
- Mangonels and NoB now benefit from ranged attack upgrades, so Mangonels and NoB get +1 for each attack.
- NoB get the upgrade from Pyrotechnics to go up to 9,6 range instead of 8 range back.
What do you think? We hardly ever see Mangonels and NoB being useful apart from Age 3 against Crossbows.