I have proposed various combinations of “Indians get BE + Nerf”, many of which have been critiqued as “making Indians too weak”.
Seeing the amount of hate ImpCamels get for being “too strong”, I am quite sceptical of claims that BE is necessarily too strong for Indians.
In my perception Indians have a ‘problem’ because they are much much stronger against cav then against non-cav. Against Goths for example, what do you do? Go to Imp and then make Hand Canon + Champ?
Giving them a general-purpose unit (combined with a suitable nerf) would reduce the number of civ-wins, and also reduce their dominance in team games whilst making them more viable in 1v1.
OTOH, this might also make them more generic.
Examples of nerfs which (allegedly) over-compensate for BE
- Reduce vill discount to 5/10/15/20%
- Remove Pikes, ESkirm, Champs, Plate Barding, EBE
Note one of these posts was made by JonOli, and the other one was liked by JohOli, one of the most vocal critics of Indian BE above