The Rome, Huns and Goths are much more older than othe civs, so they have dromon. I wonder why byz do the same thing too? We all know the byz had last to 1453ad, nearly 1000 year after Rome fall. It’s ridiculous to have the ancient warship, especially byz have the elite cannon galleon, vs buildings are much better than dromon,and it’s like a kind of nerf to byz.
Also the Centurion are much better in stats than Cataphract. I understand that maybe sort of balance, but it’s really confused the Rome have much better tech, weapon and armor than the Byz, which lasted longer than 1000 years.
A dromon (from Greek δρόμων, dromōn , “runner”) was a type of galley and the most important warship of the Byzantine navy from the 5th to 12th centuries AD, when they were succeeded by Italian-style galleys. It was developed from the ancient liburnian, which was the mainstay of the Roman navy during the Empire.
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The Byzantine navy was in a very bad state in the late stages of their empire and around 1453 AD so they barely if ever used cannons on their ships.
It makes a lot more sense to give them a more early ship reflecting more on the time when their navy was actually strong.
The Dromon is better against other ships, and on top of that the Byzantine Dromons will have a faster rate of fire, making them even more effective against ships effectively getting close to the DPS of Elite Cannon Galleons against buildings again.
Of course, in addition to the fact that the dromon is still a catapult on a ship not more…
its sad to see that dromon is better unit than cannon galleon.
Make cannon galley projectile much faster like spanish and make spanish somehow better…
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But the cannon galleon is stronger and has a longer range than the dromon…
it has bigger range, but both out range the castle which is the most important and dromon is also useful vs ships and land units, where cannon galleon isn’t…
Yes, let’s say that a dromon is like the missing link that separates the triremes of AoE 1 with the frigates of AoE 3…
It is truely awkard they cannot only introduce a very achronistic civ in romans, but also alter the old classic civs of aok that never needed that refinement. Huns with Dromons wtf ?? where would they have gotten these.
They gave them dromons, couse huns should’t have gunpowder units
Indeed,especially byz dont have the Siege Engineer, the dromon only have 12 range, the elite cannon galleon have 15.
They never had gunpowder, so why do they need dromons?
probably for game balance to couter castles on shores
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In your words, the byz seems to be poor in navy. However it has full tech in dock. So it’s really confuse. On one hand the byz have full-dock-tech, it means byz’s navy strong. On the other byz have the ancient dromon instead of the cannon galleon.
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So it’s a kind of nerf to byz. I think it’s unfair to make Rome popular but nerf the EASTEN ROME, especially in the modern tech cannon galleon（compared to the Rome) .
thats quite weird, cause then why arent meso civs and cumans affected ? instead of adding dromons to huns could also given all cg less civs some measure to deal with shore castles, like heavy transports to land siege under castles
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Byzantine having Dromons makes more sense than Western Romans and Huns having a capable navy like at all. Also, Byzantine by the later of 14th century were so poor that they are unable to field gunpowder armies.
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I agree the history of dromon. I just wonder if huns, goths get the dromon, that means somehow it belong to an ancient warship. But as history byz had these ships when rome, huns and goths were disappear in history. It’s paradox.
BTW thanks for the historic information.
That’s true. It makes a paradox of history/ time that rome,huns and goths have the ship with byz in the same time.
Also the Centurion are much better than Cataphract. I understand that maybe sort of balance, but it’s really confused the Rome have much better tech, weapon and armor than the Byz, which lasted longer than 1000 years.
