By the way, I personally think the Card name “Tirailleurs Sénégalais” could have been kept. Many Upgrades and Home City Cards have unique names in each Civ’s native language. Moreover, since most of the French vocabulary is similar to English, there seems to be little need to change it, and in fact, “Tirailleurs Sénégalais” should not be such a difficult word even for English speakers.
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Probably because it overlaps with the TWC card “Tirailleurs” (transform Crossbowmen into Skirmishers).
OTOH the standard Skirmisher is called “Belliciste” (“warmonger”) in the French localization? I know that’s probably a legacy translation from 2005, and if nothing else it pre-emptively avoided any confusion arising from using the word “tirailleur” (literal translation of “skirmisher”, used for the AoE2 unit), but I still don’t know why localizers chose this word.
Im sure the devs know that Plumed spearmen can perform better than jannisaries. Thats why they are almost the same price now! I (dont) love it!
Yep, that’s a sensible change.
The house name change upon shipping that card should be ‘Townhouse’ (as in Georgian/Victorian Townhouse - one word).
Thematically it would be more fun if the ‘Terraced Houses’ shipment embraced the terraced side by having some benefit for houses being built close to one another (i.e. tiny incremental speeding up of their unlocked settler training), otherwise thematically the shipment name doesn’t really make sense (another suggestion would be to call the shipmenet itself ‘Victorian Housing’ (as it’s arguably available at the in-game age covering the Victorian Era) to broaden it and not specifically Row/Terraced houses.)
Coming back to the Unique Unit/Building and the Brit Manor, Swedes get their unique building look for their house, so it makes sense to add Unique Building artwork for others (also looking at Port’s Feitoria shipment here too!) I’d personally veer towards calling it the Manor (historically a massive house and estate that were not ‘common’) a Cottage instead, as that was the house of the majority of rural British (especially the work force who attended their employer’s Manor). @TheSquidEmpire made an excellent concept mockup British Cottage concept art.
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Really? Plumed at the price of a jannisary clearly is a steal for the plumed, afterall the jannisary has basically no homecity cards available at all. / S.
Also lol Armored pistoleer still at 4 pops, when will you realise that he isn’t nearly in the same ballpark as a mamluck.
So as I understand this, British Grenadiers are getting a slight nerf but are now able to reach their maximum stats using one less card?
Do you guys think that a unique skin should be given to British Grenadiers after this new card is sent?
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Oddly enough, Italy’s is that the team gets 10% attack and Italian players get 5% hp (per the tooltip).
It’ll probably just say “Germany players gain an additional 5% attack.” “Italy cavalry also gains 5% hp.”
I see, maybe that’s the case.
It is certainly so. I’m not very good at French, but I think “Belliciste” is clearly a mistranslation. Even the French players criticized that. Someone said that if the developers wanted to avoid a conflict with a card named “Tirailleurs”, it should be translated as “Escarmoucheur”, although this is a direct and crude translation.
There is also a similar type of troop called “Chasseur”, but in that case it would not be appropriate as it overlaps with “hunter”, which is used in the names of various Units and Cards in the English version.
But Deccan will shadow buff Ottoman, and they had to keep Ottoman on top…
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In Spanish its called Guerrillero (like in AoE2) instead of Escaramuzador
This is a joke. Right?
Ottoman has a +20% attack/Hp in age 3, a +15% attack and HP in age 4, and a -20% cost in age 4.
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It’s a bit of both really - a nerf of the Grenadier combat by 5% but increased ranged one age earlier.
I also love the bonus ‘buff’ - ‘British Grenadiers’ tune plays upon shipping it!
A unique skin upon shipping would be a great ‘nice to have’ 
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I think its sarcasm haha
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light cannons already get bonus vs infantry? so they already counter siege units.
siege eles idk, maybe they just dont view them as being anti siege? the anti art bonus seems rather small.
This may be off-topic, but speaking of overlap names, there is also the issue of two Cards named “Lakota Support” in Lakota Civ’s Home City.
Both Cards have different contents, and it is not a bug where the same card is duplicated. One of them was originally named “Hunkpapa Support”, but when it became DE, it was renamed to “Lakota Support”, the same name as another existing Card.
I don’t know why, but the developers seemed to want to avoid using the word “Hunkpapa” at all costs (the name of Lakota’s Home City was also changed from “Hunkpapa” to “Great Council”).
It’s OK to change the name depending on the circumstances, but I wish the Devs would have avoided overlapping terms. This issue hasn’t been fixed since the release of DE, so it’s possible that I’ll create a separate topic someday to discuss it maybe.
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Not ever siege unit is an infantry one, like opris or flail eles
Personally, I think being able to have more room for one Card is a great buff, even considering the nerfs.
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the / S stands for SARCASM. Obviously a melee unit that is as pricy as a jannisary is basically either expected to perform decently (which honestly plumed don’t) or simply put not worth it.
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Yes, but you try a rudimentary google search on anything regarding Lakota and alcohol and you’ll see that it was and is a massive problem - as someone who lives on a completely different continent, from my distanced point of view it’s still poor taste.
I also get the need to give them a boost with this card. Might I suggest we call it Buffalo Robe Trade for Lakota? It can still do the exact same thing but points toward material wealth from trade rather than Coin, plus as a TEAM card it further ties with it alluding to a fur trade between civs.