I find this ability realy use in combat and most time it like pay additonal price to own ability but useless
I also think one of the pros said this is a useless ability.
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Honastly all it needs is a much faster animation so the ability is used near instant without such a long windup. It will be perfect for harrasing
change them to full archer cav and let them be available in classical to have the role similar to norse raiding cav but with a slightly higher bonus to infantry than archer.
Tuma was not even half of what you are describing and it was quite overwhelming so it got nerfed, this would be insane.
A range unit that is faster than its counter is quite problematic.
Some civs have no way to deal with this type of units in classic age.
If you want to have it as RC keep it melee, if you want to make it an archer keep it in Heroic.
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Hey thanks for the grounded thoughtful comment!
Yeah I agree either fully range and heroic or fully melee and classic age. I think this sums it up pretty nicely!
So now we need a poll and send it to the devs!
I’ve always found this unit’s design a bit clunky. Having to trigger its ranged attack via a charged attack isn’t very intuitive.
To find more accessible approaches, we can take a look at Age of Empires III, where the transition of units from ranged to melee mode is more varied and better thought out.
Here are a few examples:
- Range unit, but uses a melee weapon when enemies are close.
- Range unit, but with a charge button that temporarily switches all White Horse units to melee mode (like the Carolean charge in AoE3).
- Melee unit, but with a charge button that temporarily switches all White Horse units to range mode.
- Melee unit, but with a simple button to switch them to archer, via a formation or transformation option (like Atlantean heroes, Lykaon or the AoE3 dismount feature) with the ability to switch back to the melee unit.
The last option seems best to me. And since both games share the same engine, it shouldn’t be complicated to code.