As you know Set focuses on barracks units but in my opinion only 5% more speed is not enough for his barracks units.
They nerfed his animals in Retold so maybe buffing his infantry a bit can help Set players in 1v1 & team games.
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I think as Oranos demonstrates movement speed on infantry is actually really good, besides Set real bonus comes from his barracks and barrack units being cheaper, not necessarily better.
If there is a problem it is with egyptian infantry, short of electrum bullet slingers, being really bad.
spearman lose to most if not all cav units 1 vs 1,
You are better of making slingers of the sun over axeman, in fact you are probably better of making poison spearman, especially with Set.
Worse none of these are actually any good against buildings so you can not put pressure on them in the classical age, since it takes you felt minutes even just taking out a longhouse.
Like I get that Egypt is going for a quantity over quality approach , but could they at least be decent at their supposed thing.
Even their slingers are kind of ass because of how micro intensive it can be to target the backline, especially since your opponent can overwhelm you and your spear men with cavalary. The only reason Egyptian barracks appears decent right now is electrum bullet being kind of busted and even then a lot of the power seems to come from people not realising how strong your slingers suddenly are.
Set is the best when it comes to using Barracks units because of the following:
Barracks are cheaper to build.
Barracks units all have more movement speed.
Barracks units are all cheaper to train from Barracks that are near a Monument.
Set have access to all the Minor Gods that have Mythical technologies that improve Barracks units.
Set is set when it comes to the Barracks and all its units.
Set could use a improvement to his Pharaohs summoning of animals bonus somehow (I rarely if ever see someone summoning Animals of Set) maybe reducing the favor cost of them since they are now weaker in combat. Do something to try to encourage summoning animals from his Pharaohs please.
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Egyptian barrack units can lose to almost every units in game once they get out from early stages, it is the most absurd thing to me.
Even with Set, you have to waste lots of barrack units to do something can be done by multiple elephants supported with chariots, priests and maybe slingers, without losing a single one of elephant, and then priests can heal elephants back to full heal.
You can try to build a barrack-only army, and fight a stronghold-only army with it. Elephant and chariots can wipe out barrack units easily due to they have more HP and higher damage rate.
I see little points to play any Egyptian infantries once your are out from the early stage of a game.
As for Animals of Set, why the hell do you spend your precious favors to train them, while you have God Powers to use, and tons of stronghold need to build? Set’s Vision God Power costs no favors at all, making Set civs to be one of the most aggressive God Power caster.
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I don’t and I rarely if ever see someone summoning them from their Pharaohs that is why something like making Animals of Set becoming cheaper to summon from Pharaohs would be a nice buff because if they become cheap enough they can be worth summoning.
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They cost equally high or higher favors than regular myth units to train, do poor jobs in every single area, and cost pops. No good reason to summom them.
Animals of Set need to be some usage first, for example Baboon of Set has auto-scout, but that’s all currently.
Trading favors for food is too costly for Egpytians, as they have the slowest favors gathering method in the game technically.
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