Sengoku overpowered, thoughts for potential nerfs

Age of Empires IV IV - Discussion
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I think, that civilization of Sengoku daimyo is overpowered with their buffs, potential nerfes includes:

  1. Reducing maximal buff from matsuri to 20%
  2. reducing health of yatai to 100-150 hp
  3. ability to build matsuri - starting from age 2 as many civilization can
  4. Reduce matsuri radius of effect - to 5-6 tiles
  5. more price increase in mounted units ( +10 gold)
2

What in addition of that, the Matsuri is available starting at Feudal Age
And Survival Techniques with a little discount to compensate?

3

The most OP aspect of Sengoku is definitely the Sword Hunt Statue.

Simply nerfing Matsuri won’t change the fact that the Mounted Samurai remain OP in team games; it’ll just delay the inevitable.

Correspondingly, the Tanegashima Ashigaru is worth a cost reduction.

4

If what they want is for archers not to destroy them in some shots, they could do what the battering rams do: “Make them receive 40% more melee damage”*.

The patch says it will increase the cost of the mounted samurai by +10, so CHECK.

As I understand it, this is OP because it has a bug that makes the attack boost larger than intended.

According to the patch notes, they’re going to fix it, so CHECK.

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So let’s see. As far as I know, the Sengoku Mounted Samurai can already crush a value-equivalent combo of Spearmen and Crossbowmen. Yeah, that means it can straight-up cut down an army with a 2.4x numerical advantage that is supposed to be its hard counter.