Please don‘t increase the pop of desert outlaws!

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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i dont think that is a viable option, the pop reduction from 2 to 1 results in a 100% increase in damage per pop since you can build 2 now for 1 before.

If you want to balance by reducing stats, their stats would have to be reduced by by about 40-50% which means the desert archer is actually worse then alot of existing units out of the gate and make massing them very difficult since they will just get sniped off

edit: it would also make the outlaws completely unviable for hausa since they dont even get the pop reduction and just a 10% combat card, so the current stats of the units are very important for them

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It may be more reasonable to regard reducing 1 population as -10 wood cost

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Not necessarily. There’s still a shipment of them that you can send and overpop with them. I’m more disappointed in not having the Loyal Warriors card to discount the shipment.

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Desert units are OUTLAWS. It’s proper that they cost more pop but has better stats. I’d prefer keep sand archer/sand warrior 3 pop, while buff their stat a bit.