hmm.
Turtle Ships are likely overpriced for what they do. They are still unseen and unused even after THREE SPECIAL TURTLE BUFFS after AoC
Buff 0. No Castle required
Buff 1. -10% Wood and Gold cost
Buff 2. Panokseon = +15% speed
Buff 3. -15% Wood cost
Poll: Why do we hardly ever see TS in serious games?
poll
The situation with TS makes it clear that a Buff 4 is absolutely necessary to balance this unit. Which is a shame considering also the Korean themes and history.
The necessary Buff 4…
SL replacing knights?
Simple thing to consider, as of now unlike Battle Elephants, SL are too similar to knights and being less cost effective, are never seen. SL civs always go plain old Knights when going cavalry.
So a proposed solution to both, the underwhelming nature of SL as well as its non-use lies maybe in removing Knights altogether from Cumans, Tatars and Mongols, BUFFING the SL in exchange.
I do think Mongols and Tatars specifically should lose knights in exchange for a buff to SL.
This is because it so…
talked about halbs being too good?
A quick poll and discussion, as I want to see if people think Halbs are too strong as well as too spammable against mounted units. Or if they think +60, +30 etc against al mounted units(including CavArchers, Unused Elephant units etc) is 100% justified.
poll
It is a fact that many mounted units never see play in the game, and it could be good if we could remedy that. And also that Standard Infantry in comparison to Halberdiers don’t see any play.
Personally, Spearman and Pikeman bonus values a…
cared about the state of militia/longswords?
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/longswordsmen-balance-poll/84926
buffing of Arson?
Infantry are still the worst unit type in the game currently.
And despite Arson and the building HP nerfs, buildings still stand up a bit too well against the slow Infantry units, with heavy cavalry actually doing a better job of reaching and damaging them.
Arson should be +4 vs standard buildings, and at least +3, rather than just +2. You can have it 50% blockable by masonry if you’re concerned it is a big change for Post-Imp.
Because it comes in the Castle Age, Doubling its effect is only g…
buffing “unused units”?
Simple question here on units like War Elephants, Shotel Warriors, Condottiero, Teutonic Knights, Turtle Ships, Steppe Lancers and Siege Towers which are almost never used in ranked 1v1 play.
Considering that this game is supposed to be balanced around ranked play, and it is built to be played mainly that way, and that we also have these 7 units which are basically never seen, there is a responsibility to make these units viable for serious use in ranked play.
TOPIC OF THE THREAD:
So the ques…
buffing monk build time?
As in the title, there is a big issue with monks that has gone under the radar the whole time.
Monks train too slowly and this has been one of the biggest reasons why many a times Knight Rushes have not been soundly countered by supposedly the perfect counter to Knights, and players just give up and go for the Trash.
Of all units in Castle/Imperial age, only the Bombard Cannon takes more time than Monks, that too just 5 more seconds.
The only map where they contribute millitarily is Arena. As…
and when have we seen pros complain about knights/xbows meta?
An important issue in the current metagame.
I have felt that in DE(and same tendency in HD), crossbowmen and knights are two specific units that are being spammed by close to every civilization in the game regardless of that civ’s supposed area of mastery, strengths and weaknesses. The only exceptions I can see are the Meso/Indians/Saracens for knights and Spanish/Bulgarians/Burmese for the crossbows.
I believe that this leads to a very stale metagame and can easily become boring to watch even…
If you’re going to “Argue from Authority” i’m going to require you to source each and every claim and thread you make.
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