The mere existance of Teirco, pikemen that scale into late game are significant enough even if they never connect since they effectively discourage cavalry, musketeers can’t do that since they’re slow and hand cav have range resist.
Pikemen are not useless just very specialised , Not to mention hand infantry have cover mode, musks don’t have that.
Admittedly Rodeleros aren’t as good as pikes late game unless you’re up against a dutch player massing halbs or fighting aztec , inca, russia, or china with thier numerous \shock infantry and cheap cavalry since resist would matter more than damage.
The rods and the pikes overlap, it’s a shame, I wish the rods acted like mini jaguar knights vs heavy inf (it would be more useful and historical), the “thirds” pikes would be much more necessary.
They could also add a card that gives them a shooting attack like the Mexican insurgents to the pikes.
The new cards would have more synergy if the rush was more viable, I’ll explain better later.
Regarding the “Reconquest” card, if it is not improved or reworked to make it viable, it could be changed for a simple shipment of 8 conquerors for 250f/250w in age II.
" Allow us use our damn conquerors"
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I think the 2 falc card should be replaced with the unlimited 1 falc card, like Dutch and Germany have. Most games I watch it seems that 2 falconets come out too early and tend to crush other civs when combined with the spam from spains other cards.
Yea they overlap but rods have a whole 40% melee resist and are slightly more generalist not as much as musks but they have combat, hp and damage cards (that they share with pikemen) spanish musketeers don’t have any unless you count advanced arsenal.
Rods aren’t a straight upgrade from pikemen like halberdiers are, or that skirmishers are for crossbowmen. More of a diagonal grade, They give spainish players options, just like lancers do.
The 2 falc are the key to Spain having a good ff, if you remove the two falc, bye
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Surely you do not play Spain because you prefer another civ that has good ranged infantry that are the majority…
I don’t main any civ but I generally prefer the use of cavalry, and the tactics I use make me more wary of pikemen than I am of musketeers.
And spain’s one of the civs with good cavalry but also the most anti-cav options.
The 2 falcs card with spain is really abusive, but right now its the only really viable strat, train musks and get falcs, i wouldn’t mind if they removed it if they improved all the other changes we’re proposing, because if not spain would be dead.
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