PUP - May

[benithisrael]

@yuksely1992

Is that the only buff you want for the Dravidians?

Or do they need more to be “competitive”?

I want the dsign to be optimal with enough options to play Arabia and water.
The last chieftans civ designs are the closest to Dravidians design if you ignore elephants. Now that we know how pathetic they are. Dark age and feudal age are getting buffed. Similarly Dravidians need some tempo advantage in dark age hence my suggestion.

@Pulikesi25

Barrack techs cost 50% cheaper and arson, Squires, gambersons available an age earlier.

Woots steel is a bloodly expensive tech which benefits a late game composition dravidians largely can’t go for. To incentivise more infantry play, medial corps should apply to infantry too. U can also buff urumi this way by moving away to heal. Makes a castle useful as well. Then the civ can play like death ball.

@KHANATTILA

It’s interesting how competitive players, on the other hand, have actually praised the balance team. Perhaps you don’t follow the scene closely. That’s mainly useful in the early catle age. Since you don’t have Knights to clear out a mass of skirmishers.

Why couldn’t it have replaced the useless ‘team bonus’? Bengal was pretty fertile. They did not need to trade for food.

@KHANATTILA

That is actually true of the Dravidians. Remember that at launch, they didn’t have either the BBC or the Siege discount. And since Redemption isn’t available, I’m still trying to work out what on earth the team had been smoking.

They are still smoking the same.

@casusincorrabil

infantry + skirm civ.

Mapuche also comes into this bracket.