I’m truly fed up with Poseidon players spamming Hippeus as if they were a generalist unit effective against everything even buildings, when that was never the case. The Hippeus was always meant to be effective against ranged units and siege weapons, but never an all-purpose unit! A unit available in the Classical Age, such as the Hippeus, shouldn’t function as a generalist unit because it becomes overpowered and broken unit. The current Hippeus spam by Poseidon players is clear evidence of this.; It’s as if the hoplites had cavalry speed and their hit points regenerated every second.
Another problem is that Poseidon players no longer use any other units; they just spam Hippeus and nothing else. If you ask a Poseidon player why they spam Hippeus , they’ll say it’s because they are generalists and overpowered against everything, The Hippeus needs to be balanced so it stops being spammed by Poseidon players.
Developers need to be honest with the players. There are too many overpowered units, and nowhere does it say that these units are generalists. Stop lying to the players! If developers really plan on adding generalist units, at least have the respect to specify that in the game
At this point, I think folk are starting to wonder why even you even bother playing AOMR considering all you do is post-bash it?
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New year same resolve?
Is there anything you enjoy of the game? All your post complain.
Yes Hippeus is a generalist unit. That alone inavlitdates the whole tittle
Dunno where this logic comes from
Ahh yea hades and zeus are running around in Hippeus all games. Oh wait….
Now we are even making up interviews, this is peak content right here.
Where does it say they are only good vs archers and siege? Please stop making a post everytime you loose a game to something. Have a little look inside, find introspection and maybe realize you have room to improve.
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Show me just a single piece of evidence that says the Hippeus is a generalist unit; if you don’t, you’ll be exposed as a liar. You won’t do it because it doesn’t exist.
The Hippeus was never a generalist unit, not even in the Extended Edition. What actually happened is that the developers kept buffing the Hippeus over time until it became a broken unit. Poseidon doesn’t need the Hippeus to be a powerful unit because they have the Hetairos… It’s unfair; the developers nerf the other pantheons but never try to nerf or balance the Hippeus. For that reason, Poseidon is always at the top of the rankeds, followed by the other broken pantheons like the Japanese and Atlanteans.
WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT THE HIPPEUS IS A GENERALIST UNIT???
EXAMPLE THAT MENTIONS WHEN A UNIT IS TRULY A GENERALIST UNIT:
Ahh yes the flawed text logic back from the hoplite days. Guess you never learned. The generalist concept is community made, it just means the unit does decent vs other things, not necessarily win all the time but it will do the job to some extent.
Other terms like soft counter, hard counter depending on the units damage profile also apply. You dont see them in game, its a community term. Your image examples for instance, non say the word generalist, but you are capable of thinking and interpreting it for its role, even thou i assure you none of those units beat all other units. You can branch out and do the same with hippeus and hoplites.
Thats the whole greek design. Hoplite, hippeus and toxote are the baseline infantry/calvary/archer. They are the generalist version. Then in heroic greek unlocks the specific counter versions.
Nope, it was at that time also a generalist unit so you are wrong on that count again.
You seem very fixated on specifics in thext when you cant seem to comprehend them much. Just because a unit has a multiplier against something doesnt mean it cant do well vs other units. Sorry to burst that bubble but it never has been the case in all of AoM´s history.
Ahh yea your deep hatred for atlanteans again. Would atribute pos sucess just like Odin was before it to most of the playerbase struggling to deal with aggresion and the god is fairly easy to use. As long as thos things keep being true an aggresive god will be good.
Im sorry you need text for the game to make every decision for you. It has always been a generalist unit. It has never been dedicated to only deal with archers. Find any year, find poseidon and see how the calv fights infantry, trades poorly but makes up for it by other means. If you cant think of a possibility because the ingame text doesnt spell it out for you then RTS might no be the genre for you.
Its lucky you are not in charge of balance. You can see the pos techs and bonus for the unit have been adressed plenty of times. Because although you ignore what shows you are wrong, zeus and hades dont usually go around spamming the unit, because the units itself is not what you fear it is.
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I find it interesting that the Hippeus and Hetairos have the same 1.5x multiplier against ranged units and all their other stats are also very similar, save the hetairos splash damage. Stats wise, the units fill a very similar purpose. yet their in game descriptions make one seem like a generalist and one seem like a counter unit.
Hetairos is described as a generalist (“Cavalry of Poseidon. Deals area damage and good against most units.”)
Hippeus is described as countering ranged units (“Cavalry. Good against ranged soldiers and siege engines.”)
In my opinion, they’re both soft counter units that are benefited by a bunch of god upgrades that pushes them into generalist. Zeus hoplite and Hades toxotes have a similar relationship, a soft counter that has so many special god upgrades it gets pushed closer to a generalist role.
