I hope they change the Viking Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart bonus into:
Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart cost no resource, research time halved.
Hope there is more then that. Last patch was late July.
Poor vikings, they are are too kind.
Agree. I tried portos for second time in TG, as pocket. I managed to set up a three feitoria eco and hold the center for long time. It was a lot of fun, but my only complain was the slowness of their halbs (It is hard to use them as meatshield).
Buffing their tankiness would give them a similar feeling to teutons ones, which feel amazing. Better an unic bonus instead of one of these:
- extra HP (vikings)
- extra melee armor (teutons)
- extra pierce armor (malians, lithuans)
- extra speed (celts, lithuans)
- faster speed creation (goths)
- faster attack rate (japanese)
- extra attack (burmese, aztecs)
- trample attack (slavs)
- discounted price (byzantines, goths, koreans)
- damage bonus: goths (buildings) vikings (cavalry)
- conversion resistance: teutons
Possible unic bonuses:
- HP Regeneration (more tanky against slow pressure, not against high damage like)
- Extra range (like steppe lancer… it would be OP)
- Unic upgrade: imperial halberdier (a bit better in everything). Based on royal guards: Royal Guard of the Archers - Wikipedia
ps: I know some of these civs don’t have halberdiers, but I want to remark bonuses to the spearman line.
HP regen is not very useful on a low hp - low armor unit like halb, unless it’s crazy high. Extra range would probably be OP. Unique upgrade could work, but I wouldn’t increase their bonus damage. Perhaps extra hp and extra base damage, or even better a bit of armor.
Portuguese don’t need better lategame. So no boosted Halbs.
Honestly halbs are one of the last things that come to mind when I think “needs an imp upgrade”
It’s just something to make the civ more “unique”, like the imp skirms. It wouldn’t really help until late game anyway, where portoguese do ok. Some earlier bonus would be preferable, of course.
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I think Portuguese just need squires.
Your proposal could be applied to some other civ to maintain diversity.
Squireless +1 range pikes and halbs might be interesting for Koreans, already lacking blast furnace?
Cysion said FE don’t wan’t halbs to defend Organs Guns too easily
I mean, they will still get destroyed by onagers, so I don’t really see the point of their statement…
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I like this idea, but the only compatible civs are, imo, turks (just spearman) and Italians (the only civ missing heavy camel, halb, buffed pike).
Everything else would be too good imo…
True.
Best way is to buff gun organs, as I hope they will
This is not a prediction, but I felt like Lithuanians could get a tiny tiny nerf to elite leitis so that it’s not as worth it to sell for gold at a market to make leitis and still be better than trash units.
Also, Cumans can get a tiny tiny buff.
I changed my mind about leitis rate of fire, probably 1.9 -> 2.0 is enough. Spears are kind of slow anyways, not that it’s the best reason…
A wish of mine rather than prediction for Lithuanian is: Cavalry +1 attack starting castle age AND relic attack bonus but capped at +3 (first +1 guaranteed, next three has to work for them)
Take a look
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Well, it doesn’t have to be redemption, it could be fervor, or another useful tech.
It won’t replace all the Celts bonuses he loves so much 11
I think it will be on the 14th since it’s the anniversay update.
Pretty sure there will be a khmer nerf with a bulgarian and turk buff
Italians and Koreans buff??
Judging the video, it clearly shows a nerf on khmer eles and a buff to turks, idk if that was the purpose of displaying those specific civs when talking about reduce things and buffing others.
Anyways they said a humongous balance changes, for months of seeing pick ratio from ranked and tournaments, then i would be happy if they finally nerf imperial camel, khmer ele speed, briton team bonus.
And Portuguese… yeah… three civs in huge need…